Scan barcode
jamesm90's review against another edition
adventurous
mysterious
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
3.75
crankyoldnerd's review against another edition
4.0
An interesting romp through favorite stories from TOS series but different timelines.
djwudi's review
adventurous
3.0
Cox again indulges in an adventure heavily reliant on references to past canon, but it works better here due to focusing primarily on three distinct TOS episodes, rather than peppering “remember when…” moments throughout.
mattpoll's review against another edition
4.0
Not a terrible time travel story
To be honest, I haven’t always liked this particular order. Great story ideas that just seem slightly less than what they should be. Enjoyable, readable, but missing something. This book gets it mostly right. Well done!
To be honest, I haven’t always liked this particular order. Great story ideas that just seem slightly less than what they should be. Enjoyable, readable, but missing something. This book gets it mostly right. Well done!
libraryofrick180107's review
5.0
Review 4. Star Trek The Original Series - No Time Like The Past by Greg Cox
I really enjoyed this book.
I love time travel stories and this is right up there amongst the best. It's a crossover with Kirk and the crew of the original Enterprise with Seven of Nine from Voyager.
I have read quite a few of Greg Cox's Star Trek books over the years and they are all fantastic. This book has joined them amongst my favourite books.
I will be looking for more books by Greg Cox and will definitely be reading this book again the future.
*****
I really enjoyed this book.
I love time travel stories and this is right up there amongst the best. It's a crossover with Kirk and the crew of the original Enterprise with Seven of Nine from Voyager.
I have read quite a few of Greg Cox's Star Trek books over the years and they are all fantastic. This book has joined them amongst my favourite books.
I will be looking for more books by Greg Cox and will definitely be reading this book again the future.
*****
gdarrow's review against another edition
4.0
What a romp! Easy to read, easy to follow as a fan of both series (even with some mentions of TNG in there!) and over all just a joy to read. I have always loved Seven of Nine, and I have a love for Kirk and his ilk. Definitely might reread it again in the future. My only complaint (a con, if you will) is that it does rely heavily on the reader's knowledge of episodes in both series. Just something to keep in mind for anyone who might want to read it.
olegx's review against another edition
adventurous
funny
lighthearted
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
3.0
brettt's review against another edition
1.0
One of the problems that Star Trek fiction had during its glut years was that a large amount of the books being written weren't much better than the fan fiction that had circulated via photocopy and fanzine in the years before the show became a big hit on the big screen. In fact, some of the fan-written work was better than the "official" stories coming out under Paramount and Pocket Books' approval. The recent scaling back of the production line might have helped stem this problem, but if Greg Cox's No Time Like the Past is any indicator, it's an issue that will be sticking around.
The Enterprise is carrying an ambassador to negotiate with a planet that has been giving aid to Orion pirates and smugglers. He's offering Federation help to them if they'll kick the Orions to the curb, but the Orions themselves have a couple of tricks up their piratical sleeves. In the midst of a sneak attack by the raiders, Captain Kirk and company are aided by a mysterious blonde woman whose cybernetic implants and no-nonsense demeanor make her stand out as much as her shooting accuracy. With good reason, because the woman who calls herself "Annika Seven" is actually former Borg drone Seven of Nine, thrown back in time from her own journey with the lost Voyager. She's trying to re-assemble a time-displacement disk that has thrown her back from her own time to Kirk's, and do it before her need for her Borg regeneration tube causes her to collapse and shut down.
The rest of the story is a quest among the Enterprise's earlier missions to find the other pieces of the disk, pursued by the Orions and attempting to ferret out the identity of a possible spy. Cox clears at least one high bar; he manages to make the ham-handed message of the broadcast episode "Let That Be Your Last Battlefield" even more ham-handed with his revisit to the planet involved. Dead red-shirted characters, a womanizing Kirk, clueless ambassadors -- if there's a Star Trek cliché that Cox misses, it's not for lack of trying. He even ends his story with a "Well, whaddaya know?" kind of time-travel paradox that, not twenty pages earlier, he used in the exact opposite way.
There's nothing offensive about Time, although the sad thing is that there's probably a really interesting story somewhere in the mixing of the former Borg drone Seven of Nine with the original series crew. But now that Cox has written this book, that story won't be told.
Original available here.
The Enterprise is carrying an ambassador to negotiate with a planet that has been giving aid to Orion pirates and smugglers. He's offering Federation help to them if they'll kick the Orions to the curb, but the Orions themselves have a couple of tricks up their piratical sleeves. In the midst of a sneak attack by the raiders, Captain Kirk and company are aided by a mysterious blonde woman whose cybernetic implants and no-nonsense demeanor make her stand out as much as her shooting accuracy. With good reason, because the woman who calls herself "Annika Seven" is actually former Borg drone Seven of Nine, thrown back in time from her own journey with the lost Voyager. She's trying to re-assemble a time-displacement disk that has thrown her back from her own time to Kirk's, and do it before her need for her Borg regeneration tube causes her to collapse and shut down.
The rest of the story is a quest among the Enterprise's earlier missions to find the other pieces of the disk, pursued by the Orions and attempting to ferret out the identity of a possible spy. Cox clears at least one high bar; he manages to make the ham-handed message of the broadcast episode "Let That Be Your Last Battlefield" even more ham-handed with his revisit to the planet involved. Dead red-shirted characters, a womanizing Kirk, clueless ambassadors -- if there's a Star Trek cliché that Cox misses, it's not for lack of trying. He even ends his story with a "Well, whaddaya know?" kind of time-travel paradox that, not twenty pages earlier, he used in the exact opposite way.
There's nothing offensive about Time, although the sad thing is that there's probably a really interesting story somewhere in the mixing of the former Borg drone Seven of Nine with the original series crew. But now that Cox has written this book, that story won't be told.
Original available here.
esperata's review against another edition
4.0
Its really interesting to read a time travel story where it's the crew of the Enterprise being visited by a traveller from the future instead of the other way around. The mechanics of how that happens is less important than the chance it provides to delve into some familiar episodes as well as look at the crew through 24th century eyes. Greg Cox takes the opportunity to suggest answers to some fan questions like why were there exploding rocks on Gamma Trianguli VI and are Tuvok and Neelix Voyager's answer to Spock and McCoy?
More...