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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
Oh Please, if you're going to write about Star Trek..., November 9, 2002
Do some research first. While I'm not a major hardcore trekker, I do at least expect the books I read about the Star Trek universe to be accurate with technical information and charachter accuracy. This book was neither, by far. I also expect at least some realism when it comes to diplomacy. In this, the book also lacked....atrociously. It seems Janeway is constantly annoyed at something. It's like Janeway's PMS week through the whole book. Then she can't find any coffee...yah, sure. She's rude to dignitaries sent aboard the ship, makes stupid mistakes throughout the book that just would not be possible. The technical mistakes are so glaring that anyone who has actually watched the show on a regular basis would notice it. I'd expect an author writing about this ship to consult the technical manuals which are out on the ship to at least be consistent with the show. The diolouge is choppy, unnatural, and it seems like the the crew members alternate between complete dopy, stupid decision making, and getting annoyed at something or someone. I barely made it through the book....at every chapter I just kept thinking "It can't get any worse"...but it only got worse with each following chapter. I started off thinking this book might get three stars, but it quickly dropped....by chapter eight it was such a rediculous bore I wished I could give it no stars. This was the first of the Voyager books I've read, I think I need to find some others, they can't be this bad.
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
Good plot, bad book, October 17, 2003
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I'm a big Voyager fan, and I've read many of their books. This book doesn't even compare to the other ones. The auther doesn't seem to know the characters, their moral values, or even the Prime Directive! In this book the part of the delimna is thaat this whole Pre-warp clvilization that they've come in contact with is suffering with this sickness, and Janeway won't help them because it's against the Prime Directive. I have at least two things against that: 1: It is not against the Directive, because they've already come into contact with this civilazation, they know that they exist. From that point on, the Prime Directive doen't say anything about curing an entire planet from a horrible deasise that anyone has. and 2. Even if it actully was against the Prime Directive, Janyway would still help them. I'm sure that every Trekkie reading this would know that. And about the character personalties: They make the Captain mean, they make Neelix manipulative, and they make the Doctor stupid. This book has an interesting plot, but for a while it doesn't go anywhere. Plus, near the end, when they're debating wether thay should give the planet the medicine for this plague, the arguemeant is that if the crew doesn't provide the cure, then these slightly sentient animals called the Darra will be hunted more (they provide a postponement of pain for the victoms of the sickness). Not that I'm against not hunting animals, espically if their setinent, but that was practically the only arguement: "what about the Darra?" "If we don't provide the medicine, the darra will become exctinct". What about the millions of people who need the cure? Also, the auther over exagarates in this book and writes immaturely: I noticed at the first line. If you're a big Star Trek fan, you should read this book, but please don't expect Christie Golden material. P.S.: I'm not really 12, this form was just easier to fill out.
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6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
has the author seen Voyager (ever)?, May 20, 1999
I was taken by surprise when on the first page of this book, Kathryn Janeway managed to swing her command chair around. If the author had ever seen a Star Trek Voyager episode, she might have noticed that Janeway's chair is attached to Chakotay's, with a small "computer table" (also attached) in the middle. So, if Janeway against all odds, had managed to swing the chair around, Chakotay would have been swung over Tom Paris's head until he bounced back against the viewscreen. Not a bright start. The storyline in the book was tolerable. But the Voyager crew was not necessary for it to unroll. They could have easily been replaced by some local heroes. The crew's characters weren't explored very deeply eighter. All in all these three things give the impression that the writer has rewriten an old story to fit as a Voyager book, on the basis of some brief character descriptions. Three stars nevertheless, because with all this said, it wasn't too bad a plot, and a nicely written story.
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