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Summary: Friedman Diappoints
Review: The plot of this story is very, very good: Ambassador Spock is captured while breaking the laws of the Romulan Empire on Constanthus. Bringing in McCoy and Scottie, I thought, was brilliant and tying them into the Enterprise-D was a great idea. My problem with the book (and the reaon it didn't get a five) is that Friedman seems to be off in this book. I've read his works before and was very pleased with them, but in Crossover he seems to be lacking, almost if he didn't want to write this book but was pressured into doing so. I gave the book four stars because I'm a Trekkie and love pretty much everything Star Trek and because I enjoyed the story even though I was disappointed.
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Summary: Should've been made into a two-part episode!
Review: This audio novel is once again read by Jonathan Frakes. (I seem to be reviewing a lot of his readings lately and I don't know why.)When Ambassador Spock and a small party of his Unificationist followers are taken into custody by the Romulan government, Starfleet requests the assistance of Capt. Picard and the Enterprise-D, along with Admiral Leonard McCoy, one of the few people still in Starfleet who know Spock the best. Unbeknownst to anyone else, our favorite engineer, Montgomery Scott, last seen in this time period exploring the quadrant at his leisure in a borrowed shuttlecraft, receives word of Spock's capture, steals a Constitution class starship which had been stored in a musem, and heads for Romulan space to rescue Spock himself. The biggest reason I enjoy this story, apart from the plot itself, Frakes's excellent reading and the almost-authentic sound effects (they get everything but the original Enterprise bridge and transporter sounds exactly right), is the gaping generation gap it presents. I'm referring in particular to the tension-filled relationship which develops between McCoy and Picard. Picard realizes the importance of retrieving Spock, but ideally wants to examine the problem from all angles and avoid endangering the Enterprise or the Federation. McCoy, surprised (and outraged) that Picard isn't simply organizing a rescue mission to "get Spock outta there" the way good old Jim Kirk would, actually relieves Picard of command and tries to negotiate with the Romulans himself. After those efforts fail, it is as if both generations, in the persons of McCoy and Picard, learn a great many things from one another. And I think that's a sensible conclusion.
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Summary: Star Trek:TNG: Crossover (audio)
Review: This is among my favorite books on tape. It is one of the few stories that successfully brings TOS and TNG together. It's read by Jonathon Frakes who, like John DeLancie, really gets into each role. He does a [great] Scotty, a great Spock, a pretty good Data, and his Riker ain't bad. "Crossover" brings together McCoy, Scott, and Spock with the crew of the Enterprise-D in a tale that combines bits from the old series (the USS Yorktown & the captured Romulan cloaking device), the movies (the Bones/Spock mindmeld)and from TNG (unificationists & the Picard/Spock mindmeld). This is the story that should have been made into the movie "Star Trek Generations". It's fast paced and each character is true to form. I place this among my three favorite Star Trek books on tape along with "Imzadi" and "Q Squared". This is three hours of exciting, funny, and dramatic Star Trek. It will not disappoint.
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