Timetrap (Star Trek, No 40) [Mass Market Paperback]

David Dvorkin (Author)

Book Description

Series: Star Trek | Publication Date: June 1, 1988

In a remote area of Federation space, the Enerprise picks up an urgent distress signal -- from a Klingon vessel! Tracing the S.O.S., the crew finds the Klingon cruiser Mauler, trapped in a dimensional storm of unprecedented power. Yet paradoxically, the ship refuses both the Enterprise's call and the offers of help.

Determined to discover what the Klingons are doing in Federation space, Kirk beams aboard their ship with a security team, just as the storm flares to its highest intensity. As the bridge crew watches in horror, Mauler vanishes from the Enterprise's viewscreen...

And James T. Kirk awakens...one hundred years in the future.

Product Details

• Mass Market Paperback: 221 pages
• Publisher: Star Trek; First Edition edition (June 1, 1988)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0671648705
• ISBN-13: 978-0671648701
• Product Dimensions: 6.7 x 3.8 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 11.2 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,510,567 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Decent Trek, February 18, 2003

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jrmspnc (Maryland, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Timetrap (Star Trek, No 40) (Mass Market Paperback)

Timetrap is a traditional Trek novel, decently written and with a story that holds the interest but does not excite. Captain Kirk is a little too maudlin here, but nevertheless gets plenty of alien female action (and would we expect anything less?) as he finds himself isolated from the Enterprise and surrounded by "New Klingons." There is some good McCoy/Spock banter here, but the rest of the crew is limited to cameos (and Chekov, although mentioned, never appears at all). Bottom line is that Timetrap is a good, quality Trek read, not as outstanding as The Captain's Table's Fire Ship, but by no means a dud.

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3.0 out of 5 stars How do you like your Klingons?, June 25, 2002

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James Yanni (Bellefontaine Neighbors, Mo. USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Timetrap (Star Trek, No 40) (Mass Market Paperback)

Do you prefer your Klingons devious, underhanded, implacable enemies of the Federation, as they are in "Trouble With Tribbles" and "Friday's Child"? Or do you prefer the honorable and rather straightforward, if harsh, warriors we saw glimpses of in "Errand of Mercy" and "Day of the Dove", and which we've seen regularly ever since Worf debuted on "Next Generation"? If your idea of Klingons is the former, you'll doubtless enjoy this book tremendously. If the latter, I suspect that you'll find this book untenable; these are definitely not the modern idea of what Klingons are like.

The story itself is a reasonably good one, if not quite as subtle as it seems to think it is. The writing is fine, the characterizations good, the plot interesting if not entirely plausible, and not just because of devious Klingons. Worth a read, but not the best "Trek" story out there by a long shot.

4.0 out of 5 stars Time traveling Klingons and Organians...oh my!, April 20, 2008

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Jeanne Tassotto (Trapped in the Midwest) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Timetrap (Star Trek, No 40) (Mass Market Paperback)

As a weary Enterprise crew is nearing a much needed R & R leave they are diverted by a Klingon distress call. In an attempt to rescue at least a few of the Klingon bridge crew Kirk and a security team beam over with transponders but all are lost when the ship explodes. Or are they? Spock has his suspicions - why were the Klingons in that particular area anyway. It is an area that is controlled by the Tholians who are hostile to both the Klingons and Federation. Meanwhile Kirk awakens after the explosion to discover that he is not one hundred years in the future, a future that was predicted by the Organians where Klingons are members of the Federation and serve proudly in Star Fleet. Even though widely separated both Kirk and Spock once again reach the same conclusion and wonder if all is really as it seems.

This is one of the better of the tie-in series of novels. The 'New Klingons' foreshadow the Klingons that will appear in the Federation of the Next Generation and DS9. It also refers to incidents of some of the classic episodes (which will not be mentioned here to avoid spoilers). There are a few sour notes though, especially the level of hostility between Spock and McCoy which goes far beyond the sparring from the classic shows. Also junior crew members openly question and show hostility towards Spock, hardly the sort of behavior one would expect from the Fleet's best and brightest to a superior officer.