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Title: Double or Nothing (Star Trek The Next Generation: Double Helix, Book 5) by Peter David ISBN: 0-671-03478-2 Publisher: Pocket Books Pub. Date: August, 1999 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $6.50 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.16 (32 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: An Excalibur Adventure
Comment: This is the fifth book in the "Star Trek: Double Helix" series I'm reading about a mysterious villain who has been releasing biological agents across the Alpha Quadrant in an attempt to perfect the ultimate 100% fatal virus.
Now the journey comes to an end, as we finally learn who the mysterious villain is. And it's up to a teaming of Jean Luc Picard and Will Riker with the crew of the USS Excalibur to stop his final plans for wiping out all of the Federation in one fell swoop.
Highlights: 1) TNG cameos of two admirals and a major villain. 2) a James Bond-style spy adventure starring Captain Mackenzie Calhoun, complete with gadgets, brutish henchman, a feisty babe and mad villain. 3) Will Riker taking temporary command of the USS Excalibur and having to deal with its eccentric crew and his old nemesis, Shelby. 4) the Excalibur crew themselves shine in all of their wacky glory. 5) you learn even more about Calhoun's character and why he's one of the most unique Starfleet captains ever.
Nitpicks: 1) a glaring boo-boo about where the Bajoran wormhole goes to. 2) unless there's another one, Thaddeus Riker was supposed to be a Civil War not a Federation pioneer. 3) I still think the mysterious villain is way too big for his britches, and one look at his awe-inspiring impressive headquarters will make you agree. 5) unless the Narobi have been used before in a previous book (or in the next book), this interesting race wasn't utilized to their fullest potential.
All in all, this was my favorite book of the series. Peter David writes for fans, so it was fast-paced and fun to read. Those who haven't read Peter David's "New Frontier" books or aren't familiar with the Excalibur crew might get a little confused keeping track of all the characters. However, if you are a "New Frontier" fan, it must be pointed out that this book does stand by itself, so you can read it without bothering with the rest of the "Double Helix" books.
Last but not least, if you're wondering why a six-part series ends with a fifth book, the next book is a prequel that explains why The General hates Picard and the Federation so much.
Rating: 4
Summary: James Bond in space; and I don't mean Moonraker...
Comment: ... well, then again... The previous reviewer hinted at the Bondesque portion of this book. But he didn't tell the half of it. There is the mad-villian, typical of Bond, who matches the Moonraker villian who built a space station to house his own kind of perfect people to survive a similar distruction of all known life. There is even a Bond girl, who winds up like most other Bond girls (at least the first one 007 sleeps with--in the old ones, Calhoun even ... well, uh... gets seduced by her Bond style--in a "rescue pod" after he rescues her from sure death.) There are the contraptions and the Q character AND even an M character... matching with the new female M in the newer Bonds. There is a near perfect match for the guy with the metalic teeth, too, exept he talks. And, if you're still with me, the final scenes on The Voices space station and in the opening scenes are sooooo typically Bond it's pathetic: a normal looking guy goes through [challenges] that would kill anyone else and survives through luck, a bit of ingenuity and with the help of his toys.
Luckily, I'm a Bond fan and a Calhoun fan (stopped reading the series after they killed him off. I was peeved.) Sadly, I"m on another Calhoun adventure, one where we find out he's not really dead... and Peter David has him in a typical Coyboy movie a la "Shane"... I know David writes a lot, but Damn! Could he be less inventive? I allowed for the fact he patterned Calhoun after Alexander the Great in the first part of the series, and even enjoyed it, but this is getting weird.
Good thing he writes well.
Rating: 5
Summary: Peter David does it again!
Comment: This is another great installment to the New Frontier and the Double Helix series. Not having read the last of the Double Helix books yet, it seems that this one pretty much finishes the Double Helix???? A favorite quote from the book, Riker - "I've got to get off this ship." Peter David did an excellent job of integrating Picard and Riker into the New Frontier. It's really interesting and well done how he brought Riker and Shelby together again. That portion was done very well and even better than I'd expected another meeting of those two. Overall another great book by Peter David.
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Title: The First Virtue (Star Trek The Next Generation: Double Helix, Book 56) by Michael Jan Friedman, Christie Golden ISBN: 0671032585 Publisher: Pocket Books Pub. Date: August, 1999 List Price(USD): $6.50 |
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Title: Double Helix: Vectors (Star Trek: The Next Generation, No 52) by Dean Wesley Smith, Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Dean Wesley-Smith ISBN: 0671032569 Publisher: Star Trek Pub. Date: 01 June, 1999 List Price(USD): $6.50 |
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Title: Quarantine (Star Trek The Next Generation: Double Helix, Book 4) by John Vornholt ISBN: 0671034774 Publisher: Star Trek Pub. Date: July, 1999 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Red Sector (Star Trek The Next Generation: Double Helix, Book 3) by Diane Carey ISBN: 0671032577 Publisher: Star Trek Pub. Date: 01 July, 1999 List Price(USD): $6.50 |
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Title: Infection (Star Trek The Next Generation: Double Helix, Book 1) by John Gregory Betancourt ISBN: 0671032550 Publisher: Star Trek Pub. Date: June, 1999 List Price(USD): $6.50 |
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