Star Trek Log Seven [Hardcover]

Alan Dean Foster (Author)

Product Details

• Hardcover
• Publisher: Amereon Limited (December 1976)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0884110877
• ISBN-13: 978-0884110873
• Product Dimensions: 8.6 x 5.7 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 14.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 2.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,678,749 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Rather disappointing., May 17, 2000

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James Yanni (Bellefontaine Neighbors, Mo. USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Star Trek Log Seven (Hardcover)

The "Star Trek Log..." series is a series of adaptations of the animated Star Trek TV series; this one doesn't come close to living up to the majority of the first six volumes. For one thing, there seems to be only one story, whereas the previous six volumes each contained three stories; perhaps this was a multi-episode story originally; there are more or less three parts to it, but no clear break between them, and only one title listed ("The Counter-Clock Incident"). But the story is not particularly good; an alternate-universe story even more implausible than most is the first part of it, followed by a running conflict with a Klingon ship captained by someone Kirk allegedly knew well because as cadets they'd been involved in a cultural exchange program (which just never happened, or we'd have heard about it the first time Kirk ran afoul of Klingons in the series), followed by an encounter with a world just as implausible as the alternate universe, all tied together with the deus ex machina of a race of super-powered, Q-style beings who were responsible for both the implausible alternate-universe and the impossible planet, neither of which really existed.

What may be worse, in several places Foster seems to lose track of who is speaking when writing Spock's dialogue. "Anyhow" is a word that should never cross Spock's lips; neither should the phrase "the transporter went crazy". (The transporter, being an inanimate object with no sentience, can malfunction, but cannot "go crazy", and it would be highly illogical to refer to a malfunction as doing so...)

All in all, unless you're absolutely determined to read all the Star Trek adaptations, I wouldn't recommend this one. It has some minor amusement value, but there are certainly better Star Trek books available.

0 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Illogical to the core, March 14, 2001

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Mikael Kuoppala (Helsinki, Finland) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Star Trek Log Seven (Hardcover)

Here we see three stories tied into one novel, each story more implausible than the other.

The whole story is based on a completely not credible idea and that is even admitted in the end. This is due to the TV series wich, by the way, I have watched.

The physics are completely flawed, and if I've been given accurate information, this episode was one of the ones that made Gene Roddenberry declare the animated series non-canon, wich I wasn't surprised to learn at all.

And although Alan Dean Foster's writing is adequate, it doesn't get near to being good enough to even slightly saving the book. Don't bother to read this.