Her Klingon Soul (Star Trek Voyager: Day of Honor, Book 3) (Mass Market Paperback)

~ (Author) "HER SHIFT OVER BY A GOOD TWENTY MINUTES, CHIEF Engineer B'Elanna Torres exited engineering and headed for the ship's mess hall..." (more)
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Even light-years from the Klingon Empire, the Day of Honor remains an occasion of great importance. And sometimes honor is found in the most unexpected places... B'Elanna Torres has never cared for the Day of Honor. Ashamed of her Klingon heritage, she regards the holiday as an unwanted reminder of all she has struggled to repress. Besides, something awful always seems to happen to her then. Her bad luck seems to be running true to form when she and Harry Kim are captured by alien slavers. Imprisoned by the enigmatic Risatti, force to mine for deadly radioactive ore, Torres will need all of her strength and cunning to survive -- and her honor as well.

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Even light-years from the Klingon Empire, the Day of Honor remains an occasion of great importance. And sometimes honor is found in the most unexpected places... B'Elanna Torres has never cared for the Day of Honor. Ashamed of her Klingon heritage, she regards the holiday as an unwanted reminder of all she has struggled to repress. Besides, something awful always seems to happen to her then. Her bad luck seems to be running true to form when she and Harry Kim are captured by alien slavers. Imprisoned by the enigmatic Risatti, force to mine for deadly radioactive ore, Torres will need all of her strength and cunning to survive -- and her honor as well.

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Product Details

• Mass Market Paperback: 275 pages
• Publisher: Star Trek; 1st THUS edition (October 1, 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0671002406
• ISBN-13: 978-0671002404
• Product Dimensions: 6.7 x 4.1 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 7.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #1,165,700 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars This Book is a Misnomer, June 8, 2000

By	Elanna (San Antonio, Texas) - See all my reviews

When I bought this book, I was looking forward to a tale focusing on B'Elanna Torres and an explanation of her conflicted emotions and past. I was disappointed. The first few chapters discussed the Day of Honor, but once they land on the planet it is forgotten and the story becomes a typical episode of the show! In fact, the show handled Day of Honor better in its episode dedicated to the topic! There were scenes that stood out in my mind. Torres holding her own and earning the respect of her fellow prisoners then leading them on a grand escape was worth the buy and well-written. I also liked seeing Torres and Kim together. Their friendship is rarely explored in these books. The plot was interesting and the characters had potential. I think this book is good, but it should stand on its own and not be part of the Day of Honor series.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars It just wasn't what I expected..., August 13, 1999

By A Customer

I don't really think I'll be able to give this book a fair review - If I read it again I may be able to not go on my gut instinct - but, at this point in time I have no desire to read it again.

The plot plods a long at a slow pace. We have Torres and Kim stuck on an alien world, Torres and Kim have very nasty captors who hit them a bit, Torres and Kim earn the respect of the other captives and then well you fill in the rest. Anybody who's even vaguely familiar with Star Trek or Tv Sci fi in general could easily plot this book.

Then we have the very strange B plot. At turns its integral to the "kidnap" A plot but at others its totally useless and just distracting. I'm never a fan of the writers of Trek books fleshing out who would be the "guest stars" on the show at the expense of the regulars. Here, in a book that I am led to believe by the blurb on the back is a book about B'elanna Torres and HER Klingon soul I learnt more about the now long-gone Kes than I did B'elanna. That's not the reason I spent my hard earned cash to buy the book.

So, mainly I was dissappointed. I expected it to be an insight into one of my favourite characters and I just got the surface of something that has been more successfully looked at in the show.

Maybe it was just the fact that it had the Kazon in it that irked me. But then I am a Post - Scorpian Voyager fan so reading this book out of context may have been my real problem. If I'd have read the book when it first came out without the benefit of hindsight then possibly I'd have enjoyed it more.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars This is why I love B'Elanna., March 11, 2002

By	"ladychakotay" (USA) - See all my reviews

While I agree that this book was probably not the soul searching story it was proclaimed to be, I must say that I thoroughly enjoyed it.

The interaction between B'Elanna and Harry was wonderful all the way through. Their friendship has always been one of my favorite aspects of the show, and I think it was never given the attention it deserved. That's not the case in this book. They behave as the close friends they seemed destined to be after Caretaker.

I also really enjoyed the way Torres was portrayed in this book. She was courageous, formidable, and still very feminine. Those are the qualities that drew me to her in the first place. (Compounded by Roxann Dawson's outstanding acting.)

Perhaps it should have been a stand alone book, and not part of the Day of Honor series, but it was well written and memorable regardless. If you like B'Elanna Torres, you'll enjoy this book.