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Title: Prime Directive (Star Trek) by Judith Reeves-Stevens, Garfield Reeves-Stevens ISBN: 0-671-74466-6 Publisher: Star Trek Pub. Date: 01 September, 1991 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.42 (19 reviews)
Rating: 2
Summary: All's well that ends well - or so it seems
Comment: Okay, so that's not a bad one. I've read Star Trek novels that were far worse (read "Vulcan" and you'll know what I mean). This one's nice - MUCH TOO NICE, actually. I really loved the beginning, the idea of Kirk being a fugitive, his shattered crew, the totally non-heroic situation (though this one advantage was destroyed in the middle of chapter one). The story was entertaining, though it suffered from a bit too little focus on Spock, in my opinion at least. It had its funny bits, though. But then there came the typical Star Trek syndrome, meaning that suddenly all was well again, and that spoilt pretty much everything. The terrible disaster Kirk was responsible for - suddenly disappeared, more or less. The fact that everyone in the whole universe considered our wacky captain a "world killer" - oh, just a little mistake, nothing to worry about. And so on .. I don't mean to say that I would have enjoyed to read about lots of aliens dying and about Kirk being hunted till the end of time, but I do think that Star Trek writers shouldn't introduce topics like these into the books if they can't deal with them in a manner that's at least A BIT realistic. So if you are into light entertainment, you'll like this one. Otherwise, you'll be disappointed, like me.
Rating: 4
Summary: Excellent Trek novel
Comment: Captain Kirk of the Starship Enterprise stands accused of violating one of the single most central tenets in Star Fleet procedure - the sacrosanct Prime Directive prohibiting Star Fleet personnel from manipulating the course of history on other planets. The Enterprise had been monitoring a world whose saurian inhabitants stood on the edge of thermonuclear war...when something happened. When "Directive" begins, the Enterprise is adrift, battered and gutted - practically derelict and dead in space - because it got to close to the planet when war broke out. In an apparent attempt to prevent the war, the Enterprise may have caused its outbreak. Now the crew has been driven into hiding, the population of the federation roundly holding them responsible for the nuclear holocaust that had engulfed the promising population of that alien world. (Except for Chief Engineer Scott, whose presence is needed to bring the Enterprise back to life). Now Kirk and his crew work their way across space in disguise, trying to get back to the Enterprise, to reclaim their ship, find out what really happened, prove their innocence and perhaps even save the remnant of the battle-scarred world.
"Prime Directive" is probably one of the best "Trek" novels I've read. Apart from Trek stories written for war-gamers (in which detail is paid to ship class, weapon specs and rank), "Directive" focuses on space exploration, and manages to toss in both alien anthropology and even a sci-fi mystery into the plot. The story develops well, and the author wisely builds up the characters without worshipping them like in most Trek stories. The technobabble is light (the author has a gift with the pseudo-science of the 23rd century and manages to craft his Enterprise in a way that makes it look sophisticated, the creation of brilliant engineers). Forget those novels that rehash old episodes, boldly read this instead.
Rating: 5
Summary: One of the best Star Trek novels ever written
Comment: Epic sweep. Giant story. Real science fiction. The very best of the "original series". This one will keep you up late and make you think, and remember.
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Title:Star Trek: The Original Series: The Lost Years by J. M. Dillard ASIN: B00008S0G7 Publisher: Pocket Books List Price(USD): $2.99 Comparison N/A, buy it from Amazon for $2.99 |
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Title: Federation (Star Trek) by Judith Reeves-Stevens, Garfield Reeves-Stevens ISBN: 0671894234 Publisher: Star Trek Pub. Date: 01 October, 1995 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: The Ashes of Eden (Star Trek) by William Shatner, Judith Reeves-Stevens, Garfield Reeves-Stevens ISBN: 0671520369 Publisher: Star Trek Pub. Date: 01 March, 1996 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Captain's Blood (Star Trek) by William Shatner, Judith Reeves-Stevens, Garfield Reeves-Stevens ISBN: 067102129X Publisher: Star Trek Pub. Date: 01 December, 2003 List Price(USD): $23.95 |
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Title: Sarek (Star Trek) by A.C. Crispin ISBN: 0743403746 Publisher: Star Trek Pub. Date: 01 August, 2000 List Price(USD): $3.99 |
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