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Title: Ghost Ship (Star Trek The Next Generation, No 1) by Diane Carey ISBN: 0-671-74608-1 Publisher: Star Trek Pub. Date: 01 June, 1991 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $5.50 |
Average Customer Rating: 2.81 (16 reviews)
Rating: 1
Summary: Weak but good to see
Comment: I bought this book when it first came out years ago. I read it, but honestly was not impressed. The characters seem wrong somehow. The story is lame. The overall plot wasn't something I cared about. However, it was a fine first attempt of a novel. I am glad it happened, so we can have more and better novels to enjoy.
Rating: 3
Summary: STNG #1 Ghost Ship - It's a beginning...
Comment: Given that this was the very first of the original Star Trek The Next Generation novels and that the author didn't even have the benefit of a full season of the show to work with, she did a worthwhile job in her characterizations based on her limited knowledge of them. Despite the television episodes having later disproved her suppositions about the characters, except for the strong bond between Data and Geordi LaForge, the author came up with a fairly decent concept for the plot. Given the outstanding newer Star Trek stories she has published since this one, I'm certain had she had more time to watch the episodes and learn these outstanding characters, her plot and the characterizations within the pages of this story would've been much better.
The premise:
Conceptually, the premise for this story is a sound one, well based in science fiction as we're introduced to a Russian aircraft carrier in the year 1995. We soon learn that there is an entity that will destroy the crew of this ship. We're then brought to the twenty fourth century and the Captain and crew of the USS Enterprise NCC-1701-D must deal with this same threat or be left a "Ghost Ship" as well.
Would I recommend this first STNG novel, yes! Why you say, from a fans and a collector's point of view, it was the first TNG novel that will lead the reader along the line of all of the STNG novels published to date and it is quite interesting to read through them, seeing how they've improved, along with the series. If you've never read a Star Trek novel written by this fine Star Trek author before, whatever you do, do not dismiss her as a bad Trek author, for this was but the first of her STNG efforts and she has so many others that are well worth the time to read them! {ssintrepid}
Rating: 2
Summary: Weaker Trek
Comment: Ghost Ship suffers from a problem that too many of the Pocket Trek books share - too much effort devoted to character interaction and too little effort to plot. Authors of media tie-ins - like Star Trek and Buffy - run great risks when they focus too much on the characters. Because the readers are already intimately familiar with the "real" characters, the interactions may seem fake or untrue. Conflicts or backgrounds created by the writers may be superceded by later television or movie episodes. And, ultimately, all the effort spent by the writer to make us care about the characters is wasted. We *already* care about the characters, or else we wouldn't be reading the book!
So very much of Ghost Ship is wasted space. Riker insults Data. Geordi throws a tantrum about it. Riker and Deanna wonder if they can maintain a friendship. Geordi whines about his VISOR. Riker wonders if Tasha likes to wear comfortable shoes (yes, that's right). None of it is particularly moving or interesting. True, Carey was tasked with writing a Next Generation novel very early on in the series - perhaps before she was able to see any of the episodes? But that should have been all the more reason to *avoid* character introspection, and focus instead on what could have been an interesting plotline. The occasionally grossly overdone prose ("[Deanna's] eyes, extra large with their touch of alienness, obisidan as eyes that looked out of a Greco-Roman fresco . . . .") further keeps Ghost Ship from reaching the three-star plateau that most Trek books earn.
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Title: The Children of Hamlin (Star Trek The Next Generation, No 3) by Carmen Carter ISBN: 0671735551 Publisher: Star Trek Pub. Date: 01 December, 1990 List Price(USD): $5.50 |
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Title: Survivors (Star Trek The Next Generation, No 4) by Jean Lorrah ISBN: 0671742906 Publisher: Star Trek Pub. Date: 15 March, 1991 List Price(USD): $5.50 |
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Title: Strike Zone (Star Trek: The Next Generation, Book 5) by Peter David ISBN: 0671735160 Publisher: Star Trek Pub. Date: 01 November, 1990 List Price(USD): $4.50 |
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Title: Power Hungry (Star Trek The Next Generation, No 6) by Howard Weinstein ISBN: 0671746480 Publisher: Star Trek Pub. Date: 01 August, 1991 List Price(USD): $5.50 |
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Title: A Call to Darkness (Star Trek The Next Generation, No 9) by Michael Jan Friedman ISBN: 0671741411 Publisher: Star Trek Pub. Date: 01 May, 1991 List Price(USD): $5.50 |
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