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Title: Progenitor (Star Trek: Stargazer, Book 2) by Michael Jan Friedman ISBN: 0-7434-2794-7 Publisher: Star Trek Pub. Date: 01 May, 2002 Format: Mass Market Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.75 (8 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Great Continuation
Comment: Book #1 of the Stargazer series was very well done even though it required so much time to be spent on exposition of all the new players and their responsibilities. This is only the second book with Captain Jean Luc Picard in command, yet he is already demonstrating character traits and leadership style that would be familiar to those fans of the TNG television series and films. As many of the more successful stories have done in the past, "Stargazer Book #2 Progenitor", includes two solid story lines that are linked yet distinct, and includes other more minor themes from the first book encompassing the machinations of one Admiral McAteer. A name that will be familiar to many fans is mentioned only in passing, but when the name is Zefram Cochrane many memories and Star Trek History are recalled.
Ensign Jiterica whose species I found so interesting in the first book plays a major role in this second book, which also introduces the now familiar space-time rifts that are explored and endured by so many Trek crews. There are also some crew changes that were made known at the end of book one, and further development within the crew, both as a team and as individuals who make great positive strides. The introductions were handled in book #1, and many personality issues identified as well. In this second book that are largely rectified one way or another.
Captain Picard takes an away team off in support of his chief engineer much in the same way he will support Whorf some 3 decades later. None of the players on this crew are common to the TNG crew, but they are all just as interesting in their diversity, and some resemble the first Enterprise crew in their good-natured bickering. Also, as in the first book politics plays a large role, and like they often are in day to day life they are distasteful.
I used the Microsoft E-Reader for this book although I have used the Adobe Reader as well. Purely from an ease of use, and from an easy on the eyes perspective, both readers are perfectly acceptable. The Microsoft version offers a text reader option which I have not used. I am running these on Windows XP although I don't know that this makes any difference.
Rating: 5
Summary: Progenitor
Comment: Young Captain Jean Luc Picard and the crew of the Stargazer race to help engineer Phigus Simenon reach the planet Gnalish, where his lizard-like race is locked in a battle for the very survival of their kind.
Rating: 5
Summary: Picard on his way up the Starfleet Chain of Command
Comment: This is a great series and it shows a young Jon Luc before the officers aboard the Enterprise followed him without question. It shows an untested captain and makes for much more interesting stories.. there is a scene in this novel where the characters are surrounded by intergalactic wolves. Greyhorse is another one of those Friedman characters that always surprise the reader.
This series is going to rival that of Peter David's Excalibur series. I just wish they would do more than two a year. At that pace no one is going to get into this series without having to wait a very long time for the next installment.
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Title: Three (Star Trek: Stargazer, Book 3) by Michael Jan Friedman, Michael Friedman ISBN: 0743448529 Publisher: Star Trek Pub. Date: 01 August, 2003 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Oblivion (Star Trek: Stargazer, Book 4) by Michael Jan Friedman ISBN: 0743448545 Publisher: Star Trek Pub. Date: 01 September, 2003 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: The Valiant (Star Trek The Next Generation) by Michael Jan Friedman ISBN: 0671775235 Publisher: Star Trek Pub. Date: 01 December, 2001 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Do Comets Dream? (Star Trek: The Next Generation) by S.P. Somtow ISBN: 0743411307 Publisher: Star Trek Pub. Date: 01 July, 2003 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: A Time to Be Born (Star Trek The Next Generation) by John Vornholt ISBN: 0743467655 Publisher: Star Trek Pub. Date: 01 February, 2004 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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