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Title: The Devil's Heart (Star Trek: The Next Generation) by Carmen Carter ISBN: 0-671-79426-4 Publisher: Pocket Books Pub. Date: 01 February, 1994 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.29 (17 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: ST-TNG: The Devil's Heart
Comment: Star Trek-The Next Generation: THe Devil's Heart written by Carmen Carter is a book when read carefully gives you an impression the "Lord of the Rings" but with a Star Trek twist.
I've read this book for a second time and realize that it was one of the books used for the "Gateways" series of books that has transended to whole of the Star Trek genre. As this book tells of a Gateway chamber in the prologue, and the demise of Iconia through a nova of its sun.
Yes, Iconia was dead, but her legacy will remain as the Federation and its resources are always finding relics that relate to the once glorious Iconian culture. This book uses one of those found relics as the basis for a story of mystery, intrigue, morality, bloodlust, and truth. Could the dispairy in technologies trigger an unsettling of other races, just by the knowledge of Iconian superiority, could it foster fear and distrust?
This book fills all of these themes as Jean-Luc Picard is going to go through a true test of his own morality as "The Devil's Heart" a left over icon of the Iconian culture, a legendary object of unsurpassed power and mystery, is found.
This book moves quickly and is extremely engrossing as the Devil's Heart enables its possessor to control minds and amass countless wealth and can control the passage of time as well.
Romulans, Ferengi, and Klingons bring a spice of the TREK universe to this book as our hero Jean-Luc Picard trys to deal with the power and consequenses that are the Devil's Heart gifts. I must say I really enjoyed this book and it lays a foundation to other TREK books that will follow.
Rating: 5
Summary: Excellent novel.
Comment: This is a very powerful novel, well-written and well-plotted. At first, I thought that it was going to bear too much resemblance to Original Series Novel #30, J.M. Dillard's "Demons" (Vulcan archaologist finds relic that proves dangerous, and leads to much death and devastation) but that is the extent of the similarities between the two; this book is much better written, and has a much more evolved plot. Then I thought that it was too close in concept to "The Lord of the Rings" (mystical item possesses its bearer, making him reluctant to let anyone else touch it, or to put it down, and becoming his "precious" to the detriment of his health, both physical and mental.) But there are enough differences to pass the "original concept" test, although if the book were not so well-written, I might be less tolerant on this score.
Definitely one of the better Star Trek books, good enough to be worth a look from non-Trek fans.
Rating: 4
Summary: "...the blood never stops flowing."
Comment: This said by the last bearer of the Ko N'ya as she dies aboard the Enterprise, and just after Picard has taken possession of a stone which throughout history has played major roles, and which has had turmoil, war, and bloodshed follow this relic through the universe. And now, Picard holds it on the eve of a prophesy which brings a number of the many races and cultures who have at one time held this Devil's Heart, and each wants to reclaim it.
As the mission moves on, the senior officers become concerned with thier captain's obcession with a stone which the Captain is rarely seen without, on the times that he is even seen. Captain Picard feels it is his duty to be a warden of this stone, and as he begins to understand the importance of the stone, learning from it, he begins to be tempted by the power it promises to bring him.
This is an enjoyable TNG book, well written with few faults. I'm reminded in a way of another great story about an ancient relic which is now recieving heightened interest after the three movies have been made, Lord of the Rings...even the name "Gem-bearer" is not far removed from "Ring-bearer" and the stone seems to have similar powers of corruption on whoever holds it.
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Title: Dark Mirror (Star Trek: The Next Generation) by Diane Duane ISBN: 0671794388 Publisher: Pocket Books Pub. Date: 01 November, 1994 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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Title: Star Trek: The Lost Years (Star Trek (Unnumbered Audio)) by J. M. Dillard, Leonard Nimoy, James Doohan ISBN: 0671686321 Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio Pub. Date: 01 October, 1989 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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Title: The Entropy Effect (Star Trek, No 2) by Vonda N. McIntryre ISBN: 0671836927 Publisher: Pocket Books Pub. Date: June, 1981 List Price(USD): $2.50 |
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Title: Star Trek: Probe (Star Trek (Unnumbered Audio)) by Margaret Wander Bonanno ISBN: 0671737279 Publisher: Simon & Schuster Pub. Date: 01 June, 1992 List Price(USD): $17.00 |
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Title: Genesis Force (Star Trek: The Next Generation) by John Vornholt ISBN: 0743465024 Publisher: Pocket Books Pub. Date: 01 April, 2004 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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