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Title: Thin Air (Star Trek: New Earth, Book 5) by Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Dean Wesley Smith ISBN: 0-671-78577-X Publisher: Star Trek Pub. Date: 01 August, 2000 Format: Mass Market Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $6.50 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.4 (5 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Star Trek #93 Thin Air - A very interesting premise!
Comment: This fifth book in the Star Trek New Earth series, "Thin Air" more or less comes as a breath of "fresh" air as it falls in line with a typical novel written by these two excellent authors, Kristine Kathryn Rusch and Dean Wesley Smith. Up to this point in the New Earth series, despite the overall premise being an extraordinarily interesting one, the execution of the premise has been plodding and just plain difficult to get through. "Thin Air," is a quick read entailing a very intriguing plot device for Captain Kirk and crew to get through.
Keeping in line with the Star Trek releases at the time of this novels release, the cover art for the novel is quite beautiful. That's the funny thing about the whole New Earth series; the cover art for all of them up to them has been quite outstanding which has been quite the opposite of what's inside most of the books.
The premise:
After dealing with the massive laser beam fired at Belle Terre in the previous novel, "The Flaming Arrow," Captain Kirk and crew now find that they must deal with an even more insidious attack upon Belle Terre by the Kauld. As the previous novel "The Flaming Arrow" opened up, The Kauld had sent a single battle barge at Belle Terre, which was headed straight for the planet and when the Enterprise attacked it, it didn't put up a fight at all. The Kauld battle barge was destroyed in the upper atmosphere of Belle Terre.
Captain Kirk and the crew of the Enterprise now find that Belle Terre will soon be completely uninhabitable if they do not come up with a way of stopping these Kauld nanoassemblers from turning Belle Terre's own soil into a siliconic gel that will suffocate every living being on the planet.
Of all of the Star Trek New Earth titles up to this point, "Thin Air" is only second to "The Flaming Arrow" in intensity and intrigue. I was especially intrigued by the plot device of the siliconic gel, which is what Science Fiction is all about. As an individual novel, I highly recommend this title. {ssintrepid}
Rating: 3
Summary: Fast paced and exciting
Comment: I'm not a regular Star Trek reader, but I decided to give this six-book summer series a try. Like the second volume, Belle Terre, Thin Air gives readers a thrilling race-against-the-clock adventure as Captain Kirk and the crew of the Enterprise race to save the planet from certain doom (just like in the second and fourth books, although each threat has managed to be fairly distinctive). What really makes this book come alive is the way authors Smith and Rusch brought the supporting characters to life. They showed that these crises were happening to real people, not faceless, nameless cardboard cut-outs. I found myself on the edge of my seat with anxiety over certain characters' fates. As a page-turning adventure, this novel definitely satisfies, and had me looking forward to the next book.
Rating: 3
Summary: 3 1/2 Stars
Comment: The concept of New Earth is, on paper, fascinating.
In execution, it's been a series that is, at times, utterly entertaining and frustrating. The frustration comes from the fact that there were a lot of potential conflicts brought up in book one that haven't yet been addressed by the series (methinks that Diane Carey will bring them up in the final leg of the series but that's honestly, not good enough).
This leg finds the Kauld attempting to get to New Earth for the olivium. Their ingenous plan this time is to destroy the atmosophere of New Earth, thus killing the colonists. Certainly the threat is a good one but it isn't as well realized as I'd hoped. Also, while we get some reactions from the colonists, none of them are really fleshed out enough. Indeed, it's the same reactions we saw in the other three books--horror and disdain at the fact they've come so far to possibly fail.
Kirk and company face a great dilemma and, as usual, must stop it. It's not that I don't like seeing Kirk and company in action. It's just that whole book as the been-there, done-that feeling to it. There's not much depth to the characters and while one of them faces a tragic loss a lot of balls are dropped in the course of the novels. (One potentially interesting plotline of Kirk and McCoy both being romantically drawn to the same woman and the possible conflicts this could bring up is simply dropped as McCoy just accepts that the woman chooses Kirk over him and moves on. There's a chance for drama here but it's not explored!)
This novel ends some of the on-going plotlines while leaving things open for Ms. Carey to finish up and then create a series of on-going adventures for the Challenger crew. I think that this series could have used one driving voice behind them--such as what happens with Peter David's New Frontier novels. For good or bad, they're all by one author and thus have a more rigid sense of continuity and character development. I'd gladly have endured a more long-term series of novels stretched out over several months or years that lived up to the promise that was set before us than this collection of disjointed novels.
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Title: Rough Trails (Star Trek: New Earth, Book 3) by L.A. Graf ISBN: 0671036009 Publisher: Star Trek Pub. Date: 01 July, 2000 List Price(USD): $6.50 |
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Title: Belle Terre (Star Trek: New Earth, Book 2) by Dean Wesley Smith, Diane Carey ISBN: 0671042971 Publisher: Star Trek Pub. Date: 01 June, 2000 List Price(USD): $6.50 |
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Title: Wagon Train to the Stars (Star Trek No 89, New Earth Book One of Six) by Diane Carey ISBN: 0671042963 Publisher: Pocket Books Pub. Date: 01 June, 2000 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Honor Blade (Star Trek, No 96/Rihannsu Book 4) by Diane Duane ISBN: 0671042106 Publisher: Star Trek Pub. Date: 03 October, 2000 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Constitution (Star Trek: My Brother's Keeper, Book 2) by Michael Jan Friedman ISBN: 0671019198 Publisher: Pocket Books Pub. Date: 01 December, 1998 List Price(USD): $6.50 |
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