Crossover [Import] [Unbound]

Michael Jan Friedman (Author)

Product Details

• Unbound
• Publisher: Pocket Books (November 1996)
• ISBN-10: 0743420667
• ISBN-13: 978-0743420662
• Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (36 customer reviews)

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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Crossover - Crossing over with Spock & MJ Friedman, February 14, 2003

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K. Wyatt "ssintrepid" (Cape Girardeau, MO United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Crossover (Star Trek The Next Generation) (Hardcover)

Crossover is definitely one of Michael Jan Friedman's best Trek stories. Given that he is the most prolific of the many Trek authors, he has attained a level in writing these stories that is both fluid and highly intriguing. Taking cues from a few different Star Trek The Next Generation episodes, where Star Trek The Original Series characters are brought into the twenty fourth century, Michael Jan Friedman carefully crafts a well told STNG story around them.

The premise:

As fans of Star Trek The Next Generation learned in "Reunification part II" Ambassador Spock decided to stay on Romulus to help teach members of the Reunification movement the ways of Vulcans. While on a trip to one of the Romulan Star Empires outlying worlds to instruct Reunificationists in the ways of Surak, Spock is captured by that world's governor. Fortunately for Spock, the governor doesn't initially know who he has in his possession.

As Starfleet learns of Ambassador Spocks capture, they dispatch the Enterprise commanded by Captain Jean Luc Picard, to negotiate the release of the Reunificationists, while hopefully not revealing that Spock is among them. To help with this effort they send along Admiral McCoy, who has become quite the stodgy old curmudgeon. Listening in on this communiqué is Scotty. Scotty, with the help of the shuttlecraft gifted to him by Captain Picard, deftly swipes a Constitution class museum starship and heads off for the Romulan neutral zone himself.

What ensues is certainly one of the best Star Trek hardbacks with a solid plot that is both intriguing and enthralling. I highly recommend this novel to any and all Star Trek fans, especially since the author cleverly blends members of the twenty third century Original Series into a Star Trek The Next Generation story.

The abridged audio tape version, read by Jonathan Frakes is exceptional and well appreciated as it helps three hours go by quite quickly on the highway. Also to be appreciated is the cover art, which is better than a lot of others in this genre. {ssintrepid}

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Crossover is the second best ST novel I have read, July 11, 2000

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Screendoor (The Prairie) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Crossover (Star Trek: The Next Generation) (Mass Market Paperback)

Croosover is one of those books that you can't put down. (I finished it in two days.) It was a page turner that kept you the edge of your pants and you never wanted it to stop. The story revoles around spock. He is working on his mission for Unifiing (sp) the Vulcans and the Romulans. He gets captured by the romulans and he find out that it was because of a spy. (I'm not going to tell you who because it would ruin the book for you.) Starfleet finds this out and sends the Enterprise-D to negotiate the Unificationist's release. They send a rep to help. That rep is Admiral Leonard H. McCoy. Meanwhile Scotty (Who is flying around in his shuttle) overhears the messege from Starfleet and he divises his own rescue plan. It is the various plotlines and characters the keep you reading. I grade it *Burns a five on to the side of a cow* A FIVE! By the way, if you were wondering what the best ST novel I have read. It is "Fallen Heroes" (ST: DS9 book no. 5)

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Excellent story, almost worth five stars., November 26, 2002

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James Yanni (Bellefontaine Neighbors, Mo. USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Crossover (Star Trek: The Next Generation) (Mass Market Paperback)

I'm very choosy about what gets a five-star rating rather than a four; if I wasn't, this book would have been rated five stars. (Admittedly, if I was rating the layout and copyediting job done on the mass-market paperback edition, it would have been lucky to get two stars; I've rarely seen such a sloppy job. NUMEROUS lines throughout the book are missing their first (or, occasionally, last) letters; page fifty alone is missing five first letters out of 30 lines, and while most of the book isn't THAT bad, it isn't the only page that has a problem, but cutting down a rating of a story for sloppy layout is unfair; still, I'm loath to give a high rating to such a sloppy book without a disclaimer. Hopefully, later editions corrected the problem, but I wouldn't count on it.)

The characters were handled marvellously, especially Scotty, who is given his due in a way that he was NOT in the episode/book that brought him into the Next Generation world, "Relics"; the plot works well and makes sense, and the writing moves well and is enjoyable to read.