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Summary: Another novelization by Diane Carey.
Review: Diane Carey is a multiply-published author of Star Trek novels, and is frequently the one called upon to write novelizations of popular episodes. This is unfortunate, because her strengths as a writer (and yes, she has some) lie in her ability to create interesting plots and characters, her pacing, and other details of the creative craft, all mostly already done in a novelization of someone else's story; granted, her ability to create tension comes into play, as does her pacing (a related skill) and her ability to make her characters come to life is not without use, although it doesn't get as much use as it would if she were free to characterize without the frame provided by the pre-digested story.Her weakness, unfortunately, is in the nuts-and-bolts use of the language; she tries desperately to make creative and original use of words; all she manages in most cases, unfortunately, is to make incorrect and distracting use of the language. This isn't ALWAYS the case; there were very few examples of this in "Ship Of The Line" and "Day of Honor, Part 1". Other books, such as her novelizations of "The Search" and "Descent", were virtually unreadable due to the frequency with which she butchered the language unmercifully. This book isn't quite as bad as those (in spite of the fact that it starts poorly, with THREE silly word choices on the first page) but it is much closer to that level than to the level of her better work. (To give examples of what I'm referring to, I'll cite the three from the first page: she uses the non-word "unassuring" where she intends "not reassuring", as in "Phaser rifles. Lightweight, efficient, somehow unassuring at the moment." Later, she describes Sisko's skin as "resined" with sweat, presumably trying to capture the visual effect of resin beading (rather than simply saying the traditional and therefore "uncreative" "beaded"). Unfortunately, the property of resin that comes immediately to the reader's mind is not that it beads, but that it makes things sticky; if Sisko's sweat makes his face sticky, he is, shall we say, somewhat unusual. Then, in the same sentence, she refers to his attitude as "charred"; I'm not entirely certain WHAT she means by that, but I assume it has something to do with his patience being burned away by the frustration he's been experiencing. In any case, descriptive words that leave the reader more puzzled as to what was described than they would have been without them are poorly chosen words, and further, words that are SO creatively used as to jolt the reader's attention away from the story that he's attempting to immerse himself in are likewise poor writing. The story itself is a fine one, one of the best of the DS9 stories; it's the one in which Worf moves from the Enterprise to DS9. It's unfortunate that the writing of it was given to someone who did it so little credit.
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Summary: Comander Worf report to DS9
Review: For many fans, Mr Worf is one of the few characters that has taken a life of his own. Now the newly promoted Captain Benjamin Sisko of Deep Space Nine has another problem: a massive fleet of Klingon warships has arrived at DS9 on a secret mission. Unable to learn anything from an elusive Klingon general, Sisko turns to Lt. Commander Worf, formerly of the Starship Enterprise. Being the only Klingon in Starfleet, he is asked to try and uncover the truth. What will happen next will be yours to find out.
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Summary: Comander Worf report to DS9
Review: For many fans, Mr Worf is one of the few characters that has taken a life of his own. Now the newly promoted Captain Benjamin Sisko of Deep Space Nine has another problem: a massive fleet of Klingon warships has arrived at DS9 on a secret mission. Unable to learn anything from an elusive Klingon general, Sisko turns to Lt. Commander Worf, formerly of the Starship Enterprise. Being the only Klingon in Starfleet, he is asked to try and uncover the truth. What will happen next will be yours to find out.
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Summary: DS9 The Way of the Warrior - A great novelization!
Review: Some where between the third and fourth seasons of this incredible series, Paramount told the shows producers to come up with a new character that would add greatly to the series. In an incredible move, the shows producers were able to come up with Michael Dorn and the venerable character of Lieutenant Commander Worf. Now that they had this absolutely great character they had to come up with a very credible way to bring him into the fold, hence the magnificent fourth season opener, "The Way of the Warrior." Author, Diane Carey, given the task of novelizing Ira Steven Behr and Robert Hewitt Wolfe's manuscript for "The Way of the Warrior," does an outstanding job of doing exactly what novelizations are designed to do; she quite laudably writes the scenes that we saw on the screen, throws in some great "between the scenes" scenes and captures the characters feelings extraordinarily well, all wrapped up in a well paced novelization that was a true joy to read! The cover art for "The Way of the Warrior" is a slight cut above the rest of the novels that were being published at that time. While it still relies upon placing character images on the cover, the addition of the Klingon battle cruiser and the Defiant is pretty good. Overall, it lets the casual reader know that Worf is now involved with Deep Space Nine. The premise: Captain Sisko finds himself dealing with Gowron, Chancellor of the Klingon Council and General Martok, both leading a large force of Klingon ships and hanging around Deep Space Nine for reasons unknown to him. Faced with this force and unable to get any answers, he calls for Lieutenant Commander Worf in order to discover what the Klingons are there for. Not unlike Captain Sisko when he first came to Deep Space Nine, Worf is facing the dilemma of having lost the Enterprise and his faith and he's thinking of leaving Starfleet, but he accepts Captain Sisko's mission and sets out to find out why the Klingons are there... What follows from there is one of Diane Carey's best novelizations of one of the best episodes in the Star Trek canon. I highly recommend this novel to any and all fans of Star Trek fiction! {ssintrepid}
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Summary: DS9 The Way of the Warrior - A great novelization!
Review: Some where between the third and fourth seasons of this incredible series, Paramount told the shows producers to come up with a new character that would add greatly to the series. In an incredible move, the shows producers were able to come up with Michael Dorn and the venerable character of Lieutenant Commander Worf. Now that they had this absolutely great character they had to come up with a very credible way to bring him into the fold, hence the magnificent fourth season opener, "The Way of the Warrior." Author, Diane Carey, given the task of novelizing Ira Steven Behr and Robert Hewitt Wolfe's manuscript for "The Way of the Warrior," does an outstanding job of doing exactly what novelizations are designed to do; she quite laudably writes the scenes that we saw on the screen, throws in some great "between the scenes" scenes and captures the characters feelings extraordinarily well, all wrapped up in a well paced novelization that was a true joy to read! The cover art for "The Way of the Warrior" is a slight cut above the rest of the novels that were being published at that time. While it still relies upon placing character images on the cover, the addition of the Klingon battle cruiser and the Defiant is pretty good. Overall, it lets the casual reader know that Worf is now involved with Deep Space Nine. The premise: Captain Sisko finds himself dealing with Gowron, Chancellor of the Klingon Council and General Martok, both leading a large force of Klingon ships and hanging around Deep Space Nine for reasons unknown to him. Faced with this force and unable to get any answers, he calls for Lieutenant Commander Worf in order to discover what the Klingons are there for. Not unlike Captain Sisko when he first came to Deep Space Nine, Worf is facing the dilemma of having lost the Enterprise and his faith and he's thinking of leaving Starfleet, but he accepts Captain Sisko's mission and sets out to find out why the Klingons are there... What follows from there is one of Diane Carey's best novelizations of one of the best episodes in the Star Trek canon. I highly recommend this novel to any and all fans of Star Trek fiction! {ssintrepid}
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Summary: The book is ok, but......
Review: There are few extras that went into this book, so if you've sen the episode your not going to miss much by reading this book, save you money from not buying the book and put towards buying the VHS of the episode.
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Summary: A Very Well Done Story!
Review: This book faces the same problems as so many others like it...it tries to stretch a 90 minute television show to fill 275 pages of text. Diane Carey, DS9's resident TV-book adapter, was called in once again to work on Way of the Warrior, with mixed results. While she can competently flesh out the dialogue portions of a script, often the conversations, having been designed for a TV audience, aren't very exciting. This episode required a lot of visual aids to work, and the book can't really provide. None of the characters are satisfactorily represented, instead, the obvious is simply stretched out with details to fill the pages. Granted, there are a few scenes thrown into the book that didn't make the episode, but they aren't really necessary and seemed kind of boring. And when we got to the highlight of Way of the Warrior, where all of DS9's new weapon's systems are revealed, the book really skimps out and spends all of about 3 pages describing the grand battle. This book is about as good as can be expected, but it doesn't really stand up to the standards set even by other, original, Star Trek novels.
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