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farawayeyes4's review
5.0
The cover hides how good this one was. The cover made me giggle with glee, but the story really delivered in this one. (Although the team that Kirk took with him in this story were all red shirts, which might be its one flaw). Recommend this one.
hemlockreads's review
2.0
I wan't to preface this by saying that even though I'm giving 2 stars this isn't a bad book. It's well written and the pacing is good. It's just kind of a bummer for me personally just emotionally.
First off this is a book that seeks to tie up some loose ends left by the episode "A Private Little War". The characters in the episode make a reappearance, and Kirk learns that things have in fact become worse since he made the decision to supply Tyree and his people with flintlock rifles. Kirk is now an admiral and he has to essentially sneak away on a secret mission to be able to do a followup on the situation. Personally I found that very strange. I know if they didn't allow him he would have gone anyway because he's Kirk and hot dogging around the galaxy is what he does, but it seemed like such an unnecessary risk to take with his life and that of his little away team. In fact none of the party besides Kirk survives the mission.
This book is kind of brutal in its violence and depictions of Kirk getting taken into slavery. Narratively the being enslaved thing had to happen, I think, but I really REALLY do not like reading that kind of stuff so I probably wouldn't have picked this as my book to read at work had I known that was in there. Honestly the Red Shirt effect was so strong I felt discouraged from liking any of the new characters or returning ones from the TOS episode because I was afraid they were going to die. Scotty, Uhura, and Chekov make a small appearance, but mostly this is just a story about Kirk. I just like stories with the whole or most of the bridge crew in them better I guess.
I don't know. I feel like I've just used a bunch of words to say essentially: this book isn't bad but it's not to my tastes personally.
First off this is a book that seeks to tie up some loose ends left by the episode "A Private Little War". The characters in the episode make a reappearance, and Kirk learns that things have in fact become worse since he made the decision to supply Tyree and his people with flintlock rifles. Kirk is now an admiral and he has to essentially sneak away on a secret mission to be able to do a followup on the situation. Personally I found that very strange. I know if they didn't allow him he would have gone anyway because he's Kirk and hot dogging around the galaxy is what he does, but it seemed like such an unnecessary risk to take with his life and that of his little away team. In fact none of the party besides Kirk survives the mission.
This book is kind of brutal in its violence and depictions of Kirk getting taken into slavery. Narratively the being enslaved thing had to happen, I think, but I really REALLY do not like reading that kind of stuff so I probably wouldn't have picked this as my book to read at work had I known that was in there. Honestly the Red Shirt effect was so strong I felt discouraged from liking any of the new characters or returning ones from the TOS episode because I was afraid they were going to die. Scotty, Uhura, and Chekov make a small appearance, but mostly this is just a story about Kirk. I just like stories with the whole or most of the bridge crew in them better I guess.
I don't know. I feel like I've just used a bunch of words to say essentially: this book isn't bad but it's not to my tastes personally.
birdmanseven's review
3.0
The writing was good, and the characterization of Kirk was just right. The original episode this was based on was not a favorite of mine, so revisiting those characters and setting wasn't high on my list. The story was solid, just not interesting to me.
senjus's review
2.0
I'm sure Jeff Mariotte is a nice person, but i don't think he should be allowed to write Star Trek Books.
hemlocket's review
2.0
I wan't to preface this by saying that even though I'm giving 2 stars this isn't a bad book. It's well written and the pacing is good. It's just kind of a bummer for me personally just emotionally.
First off this is a book that seeks to tie up some loose ends left by the episode "A Private Little War". The characters in the episode make a reappearance, and Kirk learns that things have in fact become worse since he made the decision to supply Tyree and his people with flintlock rifles. Kirk is now an admiral and he has to essentially sneak away on a secret mission to be able to do a followup on the situation. Personally I found that very strange. I know if they didn't allow him he would have gone anyway because he's Kirk and hot dogging around the galaxy is what he does, but it seemed like such an unnecessary risk to take with his life and that of his little away team. In fact none of the party besides Kirk survives the mission.
This book is kind of brutal in its violence and depictions of Kirk getting taken into slavery. Narratively the being enslaved thing had to happen, I think, but I really REALLY do not like reading that kind of stuff so I probably wouldn't have picked this as my book to read at work had I known that was in there. Honestly the Red Shirt effect was so strong I felt discouraged from liking any of the new characters or returning ones from the TOS episode because I was afraid they were going to die. Scotty, Uhura, and Chekov make a small appearance, but mostly this is just a story about Kirk. I just like stories with the whole or most of the bridge crew in them better I guess.
I don't know. I feel like I've just used a bunch of words to say essentially: this book isn't bad but it's not to my tastes personally.
First off this is a book that seeks to tie up some loose ends left by the episode "A Private Little War". The characters in the episode make a reappearance, and Kirk learns that things have in fact become worse since he made the decision to supply Tyree and his people with flintlock rifles. Kirk is now an admiral and he has to essentially sneak away on a secret mission to be able to do a followup on the situation. Personally I found that very strange. I know if they didn't allow him he would have gone anyway because he's Kirk and hot dogging around the galaxy is what he does, but it seemed like such an unnecessary risk to take with his life and that of his little away team. In fact none of the party besides Kirk survives the mission.
This book is kind of brutal in its violence and depictions of Kirk getting taken into slavery. Narratively the being enslaved thing had to happen, I think, but I really REALLY do not like reading that kind of stuff so I probably wouldn't have picked this as my book to read at work had I known that was in there. Honestly the Red Shirt effect was so strong I felt discouraged from liking any of the new characters or returning ones from the TOS episode because I was afraid they were going to die. Scotty, Uhura, and Chekov make a small appearance, but mostly this is just a story about Kirk. I just like stories with the whole or most of the bridge crew in them better I guess.
I don't know. I feel like I've just used a bunch of words to say essentially: this book isn't bad but it's not to my tastes personally.
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