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raptorimperator's review
4.0
I was hesitant about accepting Shelby, but Peter David has done a good job with her character, and in crafting the other characters as well.
octavia_cade's review
1.0
This is awful. It's just not very well-written, not on any level. Every single character reads like a caricature, but the worst by far is the captain. Calhoun seems to be presented as an outstanding individual, but it's all tell and no show, because mostly his role seems to be to have snarky conversations (which are neither funny nor impressive) and to be proved immediately correct whenever one of his subordinates disagrees with him. As for those subordinates, his first officer, Shelby, is almost as cringe-inducing. A former lover, she's been placed in the role of babysitter to this unpleasant supposed iconoclast, which isn't entertaining in the slightest.
Really, the whole thing is just depressingly superficial. It wouldn't rise to competence on Ao3.
Really, the whole thing is just depressingly superficial. It wouldn't rise to competence on Ao3.
ir85's review
More character development in this one and a very nicely written side character's ethical dilemma. The crew is a bunch of singular individuals, just as an ST crew should be.
amysofta's review
3.0
This book was better than the last. I probably would have even given the last one a higher rating if these books weren’t in serial form. I have a feeling that is going to be my biggest complaint, the books should have been combined into larger reads.I’m starting to come around to the shorter length though by thinking of them as if they were weekly episodes from the TV series. Helps a bit. I’ll get over it.
I am starting to dig this Star Trek world though and its cast of new Trek characters. The captain is an interesting combination of several other captains and I can’t help but compare him to Picard, Kirk, and the others. I think he most closely resembles Kirk, he is a little cocky and a step or two ahead of everyone else. He is also a bit more informal which I really like.
In this book the crew has all been selected and the ship is off on its mission. I am very curious about the character Burgoyne 172 who is the first duel sexed character I’ve come across. I like the chemistry that he has with the Dr. Selar, I expect fun scenes to read between the two. I am also torn in regards to the Si Cwan character. I know what happens to him, as I’ve read the first part of the last book. So far I like him too. Really there aren’t any characters that I dislike, just the way favorites from the TV series are written. Fortunately they have all left the series in this book and we are able to focus on this crew.
The action is good, drama well done and some humor mixed in. I almost feel like the chapter breaks are commercial breaks as I picture the events of the story unfolding in my mind. Off to read the next book. One thing that is surprising/frustrating is that with these being such short reads it is still taking me a day or two to get through them. If I was really on my reading game I should be reading two of these puppies a day. Sometimes it really sucks when real life gets in the way of our hobbies…
I am starting to dig this Star Trek world though and its cast of new Trek characters. The captain is an interesting combination of several other captains and I can’t help but compare him to Picard, Kirk, and the others. I think he most closely resembles Kirk, he is a little cocky and a step or two ahead of everyone else. He is also a bit more informal which I really like.
In this book the crew has all been selected and the ship is off on its mission. I am very curious about the character Burgoyne 172 who is the first duel sexed character I’ve come across. I like the chemistry that he has with the Dr. Selar, I expect fun scenes to read between the two. I am also torn in regards to the Si Cwan character. I know what happens to him, as I’ve read the first part of the last book. So far I like him too. Really there aren’t any characters that I dislike, just the way favorites from the TV series are written. Fortunately they have all left the series in this book and we are able to focus on this crew.
The action is good, drama well done and some humor mixed in. I almost feel like the chapter breaks are commercial breaks as I picture the events of the story unfolding in my mind. Off to read the next book. One thing that is surprising/frustrating is that with these being such short reads it is still taking me a day or two to get through them. If I was really on my reading game I should be reading two of these puppies a day. Sometimes it really sucks when real life gets in the way of our hobbies…
fables630's review
3.0
Definetely more of that ST flavor though I think the third book is where the series really takes off.
eliwray's review
4.0
Upon seeing the character of Shelby on the cover, I nearly stopped reading the series. I disliked every second of her presence on TNG. But as soon as I started this book, I gobbled it up hungrily. The new characters get more and more nuanced and compelling, and even Shelby is quite tolerable (or, at times, exasperated enough by the other characters that it's worth watching her rage). The political situation in sector 221-G grows ever more complex, and Captain Calhoun grapples with the differences and similarities in his own style of leadership and the dictatorships around him. I am especially drawn to Si Cwan's earliest attempts to find a life purpose outside being deposed royalty.
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