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Summary: Diane Carey Fouls up AGAIN
Review: Alright, This Game (The Movie parts anyway) Kicked. But Once again, as with All Novelzations by Diane Carey, MESSED UP BIG TIME! The Book BARELY Follows the game, I dont know which was out first, the book or the game, but if you want to know how it Really Went, Get the game. For Example, At the End of the book, Forester is made a second lieutenant and put in command of the Enterprise for a temporary mission... this happens on the game, except he graduates as a Lieutenant Commander and later promoted to Captain by Captain Sulu. I Love the game, and I do like Books by Diane Carey, but this, as well as All her other novelzations, is VERY bad, she could start making them better by GETTING THINGS RIGHT!
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Summary: Very,very......nice
Review: I am a fan of Ms. Carey,and have found her Star Trek books very entertaining.This is no exception. It follows what we've seen of Starfleet Academy,as well as the game.The plot twists are nice,but one thing nags me.I hate David Forrester.He is the mo- del cadet,no quirks,nothing.It was him who jumped at the chance of interfering in the mock attack in the beginning of the book,and it was him who help- ed Sturek find out who was attacking the colonies. I mean,it would be believable if he just went thr- ough the Academy,nothing happening to him.But NO, he had to become friends with Captain Kirk,it was him who helped stop the Vanguard and save the Fed- eration.But besides that,the book is great,and I recommend it to everybody!
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Summary: As one who wasn't a great fan of the game
Review: Oh, this may be my favorite special ST novel EVER! Rather than focusing on Our Heroes, it features a quirky, bad-tempered cast lead by the budding commander David Forester, who is a regular guy in every sense of the word (he doesn't like mind-melds, he likes cheeseburgers, he's afraid of gorillalike bullies, and he socked Kirk and was embarrassed) After showing exceptional skills during a faked attack, he is put in command of a team: A Vulcan genius, a traumatized Andorian, his shy best friend, a bad-tempered mining girl, and a spoiled rich boy.But as David and his crew struggle to work together to defeat a difficult simulation, bombings and anti-Klingon speeches are present at the Academy. A group called the Vanguard, who seeks human supremacy, is planning to take over the Federation--and David's crew stands in their way. Fast-paced and suspenseful, Starfleet Academy features both comedic and tense moments, such as Kirk pretending to be both himself and McCoy in the simulator. The characters are believable and initially ill-matched for each other. It would be intriguing if future chronicles of this crew would be set down in books as well
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Summary: 'Star Trek: Stereotype Team 90210' confronts the bullies!!!!
Review: Take 49 per cent of those highschool series that tell plotless "stories" of succesfull, beautifull, popular young people. Add 50 per cent "Baywatch" and 1 per cent Star Trek, and Voilá!; you have the novelization of the game Star Trek: Starfleet Academy. We have the story of a young, cocky, white, human, american man named David Forrester (!), who gets to command a group of (other) disagreeing stereotypical cadets. Including the most annoying Star Trek character I've ever seen: Geoffrey Corin, the rich guy who bought his way to the academy. As if that would be possible in the world of Star Trek. Cadet Forrester is written to be perfect. His hero Captain James T. Kirk (surprise, surprise...) is written as a god. It doesn't help one bit that the other characters are portrayed too stereotypically to feel real. Furthermore the relationships of the characters progress as if in a soap opera. Things are started, but never remembered afterwards. The actual, weak and uniqually predictable, story of the book tells us the tale of a Federation-era Ku Klux Klan, and tries to make some points about racism, failing miserably. The issue is over-simplified and underestimated, without even really touching the matter, by stating only the obvious = denying the importance of the issue, with the end result of hurting the very same important point the novel was probably trying to make. The message of the book? Being a racist is not nice.
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Summary: 'Star Trek: Stereotype Team 90210' confronts the bullies!!!!
Review: Take 49 per cent of those highschool series that tell plotless "stories" of succesfull, beautifull, popular young people. Add 50 per cent "Baywatch" and 1 per cent Star Trek, and Voilá!; you have the novelization of the game Star Trek: Starfleet Academy. We have the story of a young, cocky, white, human, american man named David Forrester (!), who gets to command a group of (other) disagreeing stereotypical cadets. Including the most annoying Star Trek character I've ever seen: Geoffrey Corin, the rich guy who bought his way to the academy. As if that would be possible in the world of Star Trek. Cadet Forrester is written to be perfect. His hero Captain James T. Kirk (surprise, surprise...) is written as a god. It doesn't help one bit that the other characters are portrayed too stereotypically to feel real. Furthermore the relationships of the characters progress as if in a soap opera. Things are started, but never remembered afterwards. The actual, weak and uniqually predictable, story of the book tells us the tale of a Federation-era Ku Klux Klan, and tries to make some points about racism, failing miserably. The issue is over-simplified and underestimated, without even really touching the matter, by stating only the obvious = denying the importance of the issue, with the end result of hurting the very same important point the novel was probably trying to make. The message of the book? Being a racist is not nice.
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Summary: Totally Cool.
Review: This is the kind of the book I read very often. It shows intrigue. Only very disappointing aspect of this book is Diane Carey didn't really develop Forester's relationship with Vanda M'Giia further. This book left me to wonder what will happen to Forester and his team afterwards.
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Summary: Fascinating
Review: This is the kind of the book I read very often. It shows intrigue. Only very disappointing aspect of this book is Diane Carey didn't really develop Forester's relationship with Vanda M'Giia further. This book left me to wonder what will happen to Forester and his team afterwards.
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Summary: An excelent story. Full of adventure.
Review: Watch out future starfleet cadets! Read this book. Consider it required reading from me, Admiral James Trekker Jo. Seriously, I really loved this story. It was full of adventure, and a little mystery too. I love a good mystery. Diane, you got to keep making more stories featuring these characters, I would really enjoy reading more about them. Perhaps a story about them now as old starfleet officers in the TNG time period?
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Summary: Totally Cool.
Review: When i first read this book, I was so hooked I kept reading and rereading this splendid book. Man, i never had enough of this book. The only thing this book disappoints me is that Carey didn't explore Forester's and m'Giia's relationship further.
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