Star Trek: The Next Generation: A Fury Scorned [Kindle Edition]

George Zebrowski (Author), Pamela Sargent (Author)

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With their sun about to go nova, the people of Epictetus III face annihilation. Although the U.S.S. Enterprise™ has come to lead the rescue operation, there is no way to evacuate a population of over twenty million, leaving Captain Picard to make an agonizing decision. Should he try to salvage the planet's children, its greatest leaders and thinkers, or its irreplaceable archeological treasures? No matter what he decides, millions must be sacrificed -- unless another solution can be found.

With time running out, Data proposes a revolutionary scientific experiment that could save all of Epictetus III, or doom both the planet and the Enterprise as well.

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With their sun about to go nova, the people of Epictetus III face utter annihilation. Although the U.S.S. Enterprise^TM has come to lead the rescue operation, there is no way to evacuate a population of over one hundred million, leaving Captain Picard to make an agonizing decision. Should he try to salvage the planet's children, its greatest leaders and thinkers, or its irreplaceable archeological treasures? No matter what he decides, millions must be sacrificed -- unless another solution can be found.

With time running out, Data proposes a revolutionary scientific experiment that could save all of Epictetus III, or doom both the planet and the Enterprise as well.END

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Product Details

• Format: Kindle Edition
• File Size: 417 KB
• Print Length: 275 pages
• Page Numbers Source ISBN: 0671527037
• Publisher: Pocket Books/Star Trek; Reprint edition (September 22, 2000)
• Sold by: Simon and Schuster Digital Sales Inc
• Language: English
• ASIN: B000FC0OWW
• Text-to-Speech: Not enabled
• Average Customer Review: 2.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #344,075 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Star Trek fans have good imaginations.......but......., January 21, 2007

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Four Pips (Port Macquarie, NSW, Australia) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Star Trek: The Next Generation: A Fury Scorned (Mass Market Paperback)

I, like other Star Trek fans, have a sound ability to suspend reality and enjoy fantasy. If the plot isn't that exciting, you can usually get into the character development. My problem with this book is that I was faced with a ridiculous plot: Enterprise creates a worm hole through syphoning off power from a soon-to-go Nova sun, to allow the nearby doomed planet, with its 20 million residents, to then move through (yes, the entire planet!) to safety several light years away and a new, more stable sun. And yes, all this is an experiment that Data pulled out of his positronic rear end. There are then 'teaser' plots that don't go anywhere: ancient civilisation that had abandoned the planet previously, despite having some clever stabilisation control in the middle of the sun; writings of the ancients (that disappointingly are never interpreted through a failure of its archeologists to locate a Rosetta Stone equivalent); dolphin-like creatures who 'might' be ancients, studied by a cult-like group dwelling under the ocean; a completely unconvincing child hostage scene that is resolved in a poorly described narrative 'blip'; and a strange reference to Federation politics overtaking the traditional 'doing the right thing'. From a character-development perspective, the only point of recall was Worf admiring the scenery of the planet - snooze. My kingdom for a Batleth swinging, Daktagh wielding warrior!

This novel really didn't gel at all with me, and truly seemed like Star Trek pulp. Would only recommend people read this, if they want to fill "Novel No# 43" to complete a gap on their bookshelf.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars How did they make that wormhole again?, April 16, 2000

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Alaria (England) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Star Trek: The Next Generation: A Fury Scorned (Mass Market Paperback)

Ok, lets not kid ourselves. This is a good, solid Star Trek story, but it isn't brilliant, nor is it original. This book is just another Enterprise-saves-the-planet affair, only this time (wait for it...) the planet gets sent through a wormhole. That's right.

If this were possible, wouldn't it be mentioned before in Star Trek? As it is Data's 'revolutionary scientific experiment' seems a little farfetched and ridiculous. It does manage to keep your interest though, and it didn't take me too long to read. I think the best bits were the part where that piece of the planet breaks off and the actual crossing through the wormhole.

I will admit that once I managed to forget about the absurdity of the whole wormhole thing, I did enjoy this book, although I still think there are a lot of better save-a-planet books (Death of the Princes, Last Stand, Double Helix #1...)

I think people who like that kind of pioneering/scientific Star Trek book will probably go for this. I give it 'average' - three stars.

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2.0 out of 5 stars This is not an original book., October 15, 1997

By A Customer

This review is from: Star Trek: The Next Generation: A Fury Scorned (Mass Market Paperback)

This type of story has come up before. There is at least one novel that I know of the Classic Trek series that is pretty much the same as this novel. This Novel is pretty much predictable in all senses, and you know, as well as I do, that none of the main characters ever die. Just the ones that are extras. Deana could have died, but she was saved. I don't recommend this novel if you want to read something that keeps you on the edge of your seat. Yet, this novel does keep you slightly intrigued if you let it.