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Summary: Good Book
Review: 50 minutes. This CD takes you into the role of Pok, a young Klingon man. You hear Klingons around you on the ship and learn how Klingons interact with other races and with each other. A very good production narrated by Michael Dorn (Worf), and directed by Jonathan Frakes (Riker).
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Summary: This is the BEST Star Trek book I have read.
Review: A novelized version of the CD:ROM game of the same name, this is an intimate insider's view of the Klingons, and of Gowron, their(previously confined to the role of two-dimensional Trickster only) leader. A wonderful tale of a male, adolescent initiation into society, with the story continuing forward, with action in the last third of the story to complete to tale. Sound confusing? Once you begin reading it you won't be able to put it down. Interesting presentation of a three-dimensional Gowron and "Reggie" interacting.
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Summary: An Unjustified Crossover
Review: Crossovers rarely work. Period.That is one of the constants with working with a spinn-off series consept. Star Trek: Klingon is a novelization of the CD-ROM with the same title, wich, I should note, I've never played. In the novelization Gowron tells the story of the CD-ROM at Quark's bar. He happens to be on DS9 because a Federation-Klingon peace negotiation just happens to take place there, and it also just happens that the crew of the Enterprise-D are present. The novel doesn't offer any insight to the characters. Old or-Universe forbit-new. And- most dissapointingly- we learn absolutely nothing new about Klingons. In fact the story could as easily have been told without involving DS9 as the setting of the storytelling sessions or the Enterprise crew as additional and useles characters, and those aspects of the novel seem to hold no purpose whatsoever. So in the end it became apparent that they were only includet to show DS9 and TNG cast work together, wich they really don't even do. I have nothing against crossovers between the series. On the contrary. But there must be some logical reason to unite the different series. Star Trek: Klingon doesn't offer any. For example; one of the few things the makers of Voyager did right was to show what happened in the alpha Quadrant conserning Voyager after they found out about it being whole and relatively well in the Delta Quadrant. They needet a boost in ratings, and they managet to make a succesfullm crossover, because the characters involved with Voyager on Earth were Lt. Reginald Barclay, and through him, Commander Troi. It wasn't forced crossover. It was continuity. I admit that as far as the stories went, the characters needen't have been our familiar TNG friends, but it was much less obvious than that horribly written appearence of Scotty in- analytically- one of the worst episodes of TNG: "Relics", the best example of desparately pathetic attemts of continuity and grounding a weak story completely in the appearance of a familiar face. Star Trek: Klingon was even worse. There wasn't even a forced reason to unite the crews. Backed with an entertaining, but short and aimless story containing no real insight on the Klingon mind and culture, missing characterization, and endless clichés, we get a Star Trek books that hasn't got anything to do with the potential in creating a Klingon based story.
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Summary: Star Trek Klingon
Review: Star Trek Klingon is a wonderful audio experience. It is narrated by Michael Dorn (Lt. Cmdr Worf) and Robert O'Reilly (Chancellor Gowron). The main character is a young Klingon named Pok. He is thrust into the center of Klingon politics, when on the day of his Rite of Ascension his father is murdered in his own home. Chancellor Gowron immediately takes young Pok under his wing and sets out for revenge. The entire plot and the way it plays out is very, very good. This tape is a wonderful way to spend an hour and a half on the highway. The book makes it even better, giving you the full details of the entire story. If you're a fan of Klingons and you've not picked this one up yet, you're wrong.
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Summary: Star Trek Klingon
Review: Star Trek Klingon is a wonderful audio experience. It is narrated by Michael Dorn (Lt. Cmdr Worf) and Robert O'Reilly (Chancellor Gowron). The main character is a young Klingon named Pok. He is thrust into the center of Klingon politics, when on the day of his Rite of Ascension his father is murdered in his own home. Chancellor Gowron immediately takes young Pok under his wing and sets out for revenge. The entire plot and the way it plays out is very, very good. This tape is a wonderful way to spend an hour and a half on the highway. The book makes it even better, giving you the full details of the entire story. If you're a fan of Klingons and you've not picked this one up yet, you're wrong.
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Summary: An interesting frame story.
Review: There are really two stories here, artfully interwoven: the story of young Pok's coming of age, an interesting look into Klingon culture, as told by Gowron while he is taking part in Klingon-Federation negotiations on Deep Space Nine, and the story of those negotiations themselves, and the attempts to sabotage them and assassinate Gowron. The stories are interesting, the characters artfully handled, and the writing good (with the exception of a couple of what I'm willing to assume, given the quality of the rest of the writing, to be typographical and copy-editing errors rather than flaws on the part of the writing itself). This book is not identified on its cover with a specific generation of Star Trek; this usually indicates that it is set in the original series. Don't be fooled; it is something of a hybrid between Next Generation and DS9, which is why it is not identified as either. There is nothing of the original series in it.
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Summary: A fine book
Review: There is no reason why this book shouldn't deserve 5 stars I loved reading how Gowron narrating the story of a young Klingon's quest for vengeance. Kudos to Messrs. Smith and Rusch.
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Summary: This book deserves six stars!
Review: This book is about a young boy named Pok. His father is killed by a Romulan Assasin Probe, or R.A.P. for short. Pok starts out on a quest filled with danger, betrayal, and honor. His quest is all about avenging his father's death. He took the blood oath. Now he has to live it out, or die trying. The other thing that I liked about this book is the fact that it portrayed a lot about Klingon tradition, culture, and values. I think that you won't be able to put this book down- I couldn't and I loved it. If you are a Trekkie like me, this is the book for you.
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