Star Trek: Corps of Engineers: Creative Couplings (Star Trek: S.C.E) [Kindle Edition]

David Mack (Author)

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Product Description

These are the voyages of the U.S.S. da Vinci. Their mission: to solve the problems of the galaxy, one disaster at a time. Starfleet veteran Captain David Gold, along with his crack Starfleet Corps of Engineers team led by former Starship Enterprise™ engineer Commander Sonya Gomez, travel throughout the Federation and beyond to fix the unfixable, repair the irreparable, and solve the unsolvable.

The S.C.E.'s missions don't always go as planned -- repairing the weather grid on the resort planet Risa turns into a deadly first contact, constructing an industrial complex on a nonaligned world leads to some startling revelations about the financier behind it, diverting a runaway ship could spell death for the crew the da Vinci didn't even know was there, and a planet in a box proves a more valuable prize than anyone could have imagined -- but their greatest challenge comes much closer to home...

Captain Gold's granddaughter Esther is marrying Khor, son of Lantar, a Klingon politician. Now Gold faces what may be the greatest challenge of his career: officiating the first-ever Klingon-Jewish wedding!

About the Author

David Mack is the national bestselling author of more than twenty novels and novellas, including Wildfire, Harbinger, Reap the Whirlwind, Precipice, Road of Bones, Promises Broken, Rise Like Lions, and the Star Trek Destiny trilogy: Gods of Night, Mere Mortals, and Lost Souls. He developed the Star Trek Vanguard series concept with editor Marco Palmieri. His first work of original fiction is the critically acclaimed supernatural thriller The Calling. In addition to novels, Mack’s writing credits span several media, including television (for episodes of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine), film, short fiction, magazines, newspapers, comic books, computer games, radio, and the Internet. His upcoming works include the new Star Trek Vanguard novel Storming Heaven, an epic 24th-century Star Trek: The Next Generation trilogy, and a new original supernatural thriller. Mack resides in New York City with his wife, Kara.

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Product Details

• Format: Kindle Edition
• File Size: 907 KB
• Publisher: Pocket Books/Star Trek (December 11, 2007)
• Sold by: Simon and Schuster Digital Sales Inc
• Language: English
• ASIN: B000WJSA3I
• Text-to-Speech: Enabled
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #265,118 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars doubleplus good., December 20, 2008

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L. Goldstein "geeklinda" (Chicago) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Star Trek: Corps of Engineers: Creative Couplings (Star Trek: S.C.E) (Paperback)

I read this a few months ago, but some memories remain- it was complex, included characters that weren't really familiar to me and weren't introduced thoroughly enough that they became familiar to me... and it was on the whole so well-written (word choice, plot points) that I didn't care about its shortcomings.

It made me- as a Trekkie and as a reader- happy. It's a good continuation of the series. (I've read all of the other books in the SCE series, and was delighted to find this on the shelf.)

The trend in the ST universe of publishing what is essentially very well-written fanfiction disturbs me. This book has a more canonical feel to it than do many others that I've read, and it's pleasant.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars looking forward, May 1, 2008

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JohnA37 "Tuva or Bust" (Brisbane, Australia) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Star Trek: Corps of Engineers: Creative Couplings (Star Trek: S.C.E) (Kindle Edition)

This book doesn't have the Ooomph of the other SCE series; I am waiting to see how other readers find "Creative Couplings".

2.0 out of 5 stars Disappointed with Creative Couplings Packaging, December 14, 2010

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Randy L. Bennett (Bakersfield, CA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Star Trek: Corps of Engineers: Creative Couplings (Star Trek: S.C.E) (Paperback)

I have really enjoyed reading the SCE series of books. For the most part I have considered the price to be fair. The two part series Creative Couplings was a real disappointment. They divided the story into two parts charging $5.99 per part. Each book was extremely short compared to other SCE books. Creative Couplings should have been packaged into one book for only $5.99 or less. It was certainly not worth $12.00 for the two.

The story was fine but not exceptional.

I did have a new idea for the whole Star Trek world. If you can have a hologram doctor (introduced in Voyager and used in the SCE series), why not a hologram engineer to deal with all the various life threatening situations in engineering and let the humanoids get out and seal off engineering?