Rating: 
Summary: Average Star Trek Book
Review: This book has a little of the STTOS episode, "Naked Time", and a ST:TNG episode with a Picard archeological story thrown in. The storyline stays on track. There is no real character development because everyone is under some kind of mental influences and acting out of the ordinary. Kirk is to pacifist - McCoy hates machines -Scotty wants the ideal top-notch engines. So, there is not the character developments and relationships we usually see in the ST Universe. But, I liked that unusual differences. Who else is acting differently? Read and find out! Some of the new on-board ship characters I didn't like. The aliens are the Andorians and Klingons. What will they do? The Andorians are not the military aggressors as shown in a recent "Enterprise" TV episode. Read on...
Rating:
Summary: Average Star Trek Book
Review: This book has a little of the STTOS episode, "Naked Time", and a ST:TNG episode with a Picard archeological story thrown in. The storyline stays on track. There is no real character development because everyone is under some kind of mental influences and acting out of the ordinary. Kirk is to pacifist - McCoy hates machines -Scotty wants the ideal top-notch engines. So, there is not the character developments and relationships we usually see in the ST Universe. But, I liked that unusual differences. Who else is acting differently? Read and find out! Some of the new on-board ship characters I didn't like. The aliens are the Andorians and Klingons. What will they do? The Andorians are not the military aggressors as shown in a recent "Enterprise" TV episode. Read on...
Rating: 
Summary: Terrible! I mean come on!
Review: This book not only manages to waste your time, but also drags the good name of Star Trek through dirt and grime as it misrepresents the characters of Kirk, McCoy, and Spock by a disturbing longshot. Since when does the Federation attack Klingons simply because they are in the area when something goes wrong? No proof? That's ok, blame the Klingons and open a full-scale war based on the fact that they are a warlike race so they must be guilty (even if the evidence says otherwise). Horrible attempt to get action jump-started, I didn't even finish the book. Don't waste your time on this garbage.
Rating: 
Summary: Beem this book up!
Review: What can I say? I'm a Trek fan and can't get enough of it. While this book will not win a Pulitzer or Nobel prize, its a worthwhile edition to the Trek world.
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Summary: Klingon Gambit
Review: While mapping a new planet, the Enterprise receives a top-priority message from Starfleet Command, directing them to a nearby star system, where all life signs aboard the Vulcan science ship T'pau have ceased. The science vessel was ferrying a group of Andorian scientists to the site of an archaeological dig, on a planet where a large pyramid had been found, but no other structures or signs of artifacts. There is also a Klingon dreadnought, a powerful new warship, orbiting the planet. Kirk must investigate the Vulcans' deaths, engage the Klingons without beginning a war, and protect the scientists on the planet. To make matters worse, the crew begins to act oddly; crew members leave their posts, Spock is alternately irrational and coldly logical, McCoy begins to distrust all machines. Fights break out all over the ship, over the smallest provocations. And Scotty scavenges the other ship systems, in attempts to improve the performance of the warp engines. Did the Klingons kill the Vulcans? There is no obvious cause of death. A wrong step will mean a galactic war. This novel is more of the length of a Bantam series book, about 150 pages. It is difficult to fault Vardeman for his characterizations, because the crew is supposed to be out of character here. Actually, they are supposed to be of heightened character, which doesn't always work. There are elements of the episodes "The Naked Time" and "Shore Leave" here, although this story is not as well handled as those. Vardeman makes one large error when Kirk leaves the conn, not once but twice, to Chekov, when higher-ranking officers, specifically Uhura, remain on the bridge. It is important to his story, but the story could have been changed to a more sensible progression without harming the plotline. McCoy's back-to-nature kick has been seen before, although it is taken a bit farther here. Other crew members have relatively uninteresting pursuits, and there is little science development. There isn't a lot to recommend this volume, it is merely another book, of interest for series fans but not a strong entry.
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