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Summary: A Return to Simpler Days
Review: By the time DS9 went off the air, it had become a veritable soap opera, and if you missed one or two episodes you were hopelessly out of the loop. Valhalla reminds of the show's first season, before the Dominion Wars, when nosy Cardassians and angry Bajorans were the worst problems Sisko and the gang had to deal with.Kevin Flythe makes several good points in his review, almost all of which I agree with. The novel is extremely tedious in the beginning, and recalls all too accurately how annoying Kira was in the beginning with her mindless jingoism. However, it picks up and entertains. It never rises to the level of an outstanding book, but it holds its own against the plethora of Trek books that are out there. Not a *must* read, but a worthwhile one.
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Summary: A Return to Simpler Days
Review: By the time DS9 went off the air, it had become a veritable soap opera, and if you missed one or two episodes you were hopelessly out of the loop. Valhalla reminds of the show's first season, before the Dominion Wars, when nosy Cardassians and angry Bajorans were the worst problems Sisko and the gang had to deal with. Kevin Flythe makes several good points in his review, almost all of which I agree with. The novel is extremely tedious in the beginning, and recalls all too accurately how annoying Kira was in the beginning with her mindless jingoism. However, it picks up and entertains. It never rises to the level of an outstanding book, but it holds its own against the plethora of Trek books that are out there. Not a *must* read, but a worthwhile one.
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Summary: It was good
Review: I agree with the previous reviewer, this is indeed a hackening back to better days. This book is set before the Dominion Wars and before the show became mired in the Sisko myth. Overall-Basically a simple story of Cardie invasion of the station and how the cast mainly Odo leads the efforts to get them off agian. So, not exactly a wonderful book but it is still of worthwile one.
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Summary: Pretty good...
Review: Pretty good "Ghost in the Machine" (think Hal 2000 from 2001: A Space Odyssey) story from the early pre-Worf/War days of Deep Space Nine. Major Kira is definitely her "old" self as she is frequently at odds with Commander Sisko - as was the case in the beginning of the series. There is a complex Cardassian conspiracy B-Story (involving Gul Dukat among others) that comes to be interwoven with the A-Story. All-in-all a good read from the early days.
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Summary: ST:DS-9 Valhalla
Review: Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Valhalla written by Nathan Archer is a book abouthow Sisko can keep a strange alien ship with the potential to destroy Deep Space Nine out of the Cardassian hands. A strange ship comes through the worm hole next to Deep Space Nine with its crew dead from the Gamma Quadrant. But this ship isn't your ordinary ship, but has a sentience about it as it takes over Deep Space Nine. Now Commander Benjamin Sisko has to keep this alien technology out of the Cardassian hands. This book harkens back to an early Deep Space Nine time when the storylines were simpler. Here Sisko has Major Kira's jingoism, the Bajorians, and the Cardassians paying visits to Deep Space Nine with the threat of reoccupation. The book was rather slow to start with, keeping the read mildly occupied. But, as you read on the book, gets more intersting and hammers home Sisko's will to have order. The storyline was simple but well executed and well-written. I was a fast and enjoyable read with out all of the Sisko myth that is found in the subsequent books.
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Summary: ST:DS-9 Valhalla
Review: Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Valhalla written by Nathan Archer is a book abouthow Sisko can keep a strange alien ship with the potential to destroy Deep Space Nine out of the Cardassian hands. A strange ship comes through the worm hole next to Deep Space Nine with its crew dead from the Gamma Quadrant. But this ship isn't your ordinary ship, but has a sentience about it as it takes over Deep Space Nine. Now Commander Benjamin Sisko has to keep this alien technology out of the Cardassian hands. This book harkens back to an early Deep Space Nine time when the storylines were simpler. Here Sisko has Major Kira's jingoism, the Bajorians, and the Cardassians paying visits to Deep Space Nine with the threat of reoccupation. The book was rather slow to start with, keeping the read mildly occupied. But, as you read on the book, gets more intersting and hammers home Sisko's will to have order. The storyline was simple but well executed and well-written. I was a fast and enjoyable read with out all of the Sisko myth that is found in the subsequent books.
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Summary: DS9 #10 Valhalla - A very well told early DS9 tale!
Review: Surprisingly enough, "Valhalla" was only the first of two Star Trek novels for this outstanding author. I found his writing style to be fairly well paced and he had a thorough grasp of the characters and the overall theme of the series at the time in which this novel was published. This type of Star Trek Deep Space Nine novel is truly what DS9 was about at that time; a mystery from the Gamma Quadrant floating through the wormhole and the good old Cardassians from right next door, coming to waive their flag and make threats. It would certainly be nice to see this author make a return to the Star Trek universe after so many years away. The cover art for this novel is pretty much standard fair for the time in which it was published and can even be considered lower than that considering the extremely poor rendition of Major Kira Nerys (Nana Visitor), which I find it surprising that she checked off on it. The premise: The Cardassians are raising the tension levels on the station and Bajor once again due to speculation that they may attempt to reoccupy Bajor, but things become complicated even further when a mysterious ship comes through the wormhole from the Gamma Quadrant. The crew of this ship is found dead and some very valuable technology from the Gamma Quadrant is found. Sisko soon finds that he must deal both with the Cardassians who are attempting to seize control of this ship and Kira who believes it to be Bajoran property. When the alien ship suddenly seizes control of Deep Space Nine, Sisko finds he must now face this alien entity controlling the station and the Cardassians who are attempting to seize control of it. Here is where a very special player comes into play that came from the first season episode "The Forsaken." I highly recommend this early Deep Space Nine novel to any and all fans of the series and Star Trek fiction in general. {ssintrepid}
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Summary: Good book, not the best
Review: The idea that DS9 would be caught up in Cardassian politics is very intruiging, and the idea of the strange ship is excellent. The story does get a bit boring, but does pick up near the end. The only flaw I really noticed was Kira's hatred was way to played out, and she'd have known better than to argue about who owned what.
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Summary: Same plot, different twists
Review: There was a theme for awhile in the books series about the Cardassians always beign behidn some nefrious plot, kind of like 1940's films constantly casting Nazi's as the enemy. Because they had been the enemy but looked at as a whole, it did tend to wear after a while. This one in particular did not advance further, staying within the static bubble of a mission that changes nothing. The stauts quo must be maintained at the end. Also the introduction of the Defiant ship did open up the tv series and the books as well.
This book is fun but only passable.
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Summary: Not bad, not great.
Review: This is not a bad book, and if you're in need of a fix for your DS9 addiction, there are plenty of worse choices out there. The writing itself is actually pretty good, and the concept isn't bad. (Of course, it's also not all that original; I was very strongly reminded of "2001: A Space Odyssey" and Hal the computer saying "I'm sorry, Dave, but I can't do that." The idea of artificial intelligence, particularly accidentally created artificial sentience, becoming a threat and/or insane is hardly new, but this WAS a fairly interesting look at it.) The biggest problem I have with this story is that the main characters actually DO very little; mostly, the solutions to their problems just sort of drop into their laps after they've struggled to find a solution and failed. They are presented with very thorny problems, including ethical dillemmas, but never actually required to solve them. Thus, while the story was engaging enough, the ending felt rather cheap. OK if what you're looking for is a fast-moving plot with some excitement (although on that score, the book starts rather slowly) but not recommended if you're actually looking for a book with more meat to it.
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