The Escape (Star Trek Voyager, No 2) (Paperback)

by Dean Wesley Smith (Author), Kristine Kathryn Rusch (Author)

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The U.S.S. VoyagerTM is in desperate trouble, her systems damaged, her warp engines failing. Without immediate repairs the starship and her crew will be trapped forever between the stars. Captain Kathryn Janeway must guide her ship to an ancient, deserted planet that could hold the key to their survival -- a planet that is hiding more than one deadly secret.

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The U.S.S. Voyager^TM is in desperate trouble, her systems damaged, her warp engines failing. Without immediate repairs the starship and her crew will be trapped forever between the stars. Captain Kathryn Janeway must guide her ship to an ancient, deserted planet that could hold the key to their survival -- a planet that is hiding more than one deadly secret.

Product Details

• Paperback: 244 pages
• Publisher: Star Trek; Revised edition (May 1, 1995)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0671520962
• ISBN-13: 978-0671520960
• Product Dimensions: 6.6 x 3.9 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #293,760 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Time Travel to Live, November 4, 2006

By	Roger D. Noriega (Los Angeles, California USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

The Escape

Review By Roger D. Noriega


Alcawell, planet in the Delta Quadrant along Voyager's course to Earth, that is over nine billion years old and home to a race of many a number over the age of the planet and all alive at once. Planet overcrowding is a thing of the past . . .

Watchman Drickel is called to duty once again: over ten years in Real Time since his last call. Where? A time-breach in Period 889. The time-jump-point is one hour after the planet-hoppers' incursion. Another vacuum ship in orbit and it is Drickel's job is to scare away the others - just as he has many times before. Torres, Kim, and Neelix board one of the many shuttles abandoned on this planet and accidentally activate it - they are sent to a time far away from their own. Voyager came to this planet in search of preciously needed raw materials on Neelix's advice. Now they find their away-team missing and Tuvok, Paris, and Seska discover ghosts - just as Neelix warned. Captain Janeway must solve the mystery and retrieve the lost away-team.

Real Time. Planet-hoppers. Vacuum Ships. Temporal Disturbances. 800 Violations. 600 Violations. 400 Violations. Control. Old Pointed Ears. Black Period. Red Period. No need to fret, the vocabulary will come to you as you read along. Here is a poignant example of the dilemma facing our dear captain:

"Let me explain why you found an empty planet, you already understand paradoxes, but there is a level beyond paradoxes in time travel. A level that we didn't discover for many years. About one hundred and fifty thousand years ago Real Time from here, we discovered that, for each decision point in Real Time, two or more alternate universes branch off depending on the number of solutions. Most of the time these branches simply blend back together like water running around a rock. But other times the branches form two or more distinct time lines. We discovered how to easily cross those boundaries between those time lines and in doing so discovered millions of uninhabited time lines."

By far, one of the best-told stories in Star Trek literature. This story is so simple and yet complex - you will come away with a clear understanding of time-travel that, as such, this adventure will be the standard in which you measure all other time-travel stories. The story is light on action but rife with mystery and wonder. My rating is low when compared to other adventures, but this adventure is well worth your time.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Best of all the Voyager books (so far)., August 30, 2008

By	detfrost "detfrost" (Canton, MI) - See all my reviews

This book was exciting, engaging and entertaining. Each time I have read it.
A well written, well thought out Voyager book that doesn't have Borg! Who knew!

4.0 out of 5 stars Best time travel novel so far, January 18, 2009

By	Sean Flaherty - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Star Trek is known for all it's time traveling in all the series and movies- Voyager is no exception with "Future's End", "Relativity", "Endgame", and many other episodes. This book is early- taking place in 2371 sometime during Voyager's first season. I would have to say that is was interesting to see time traveling that wasn't realted to Earth's past. After all Voyager is 70,000+ light-years away from Earth and it would be hard to do time travel with Earth's past. It was interesting to see the crew died- were brought back some millions, and thousands of years apart. Great novel!