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Title: Shadows on the Sun (Star Trek) by Michael Jan Friedman ISBN: 0-671-86910-8 Publisher: Pocket Books Pub. Date: 01 July, 1994 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.85 (13 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Shadows on the Stunned
Comment: I wasn't gonna write reviews today. I was just gonna read... Till I read this one. I would like to say this is my favorite Star Trek novel by my favorite author. McCoy was a trainee in a portion of this, they called him "trainee" ... so what? Some people have such strange reasons for hating novels. I agree with a previous review, the Shadows on the Sun ideal was described so perfectly. Ok, now what I thought: I love the flashback stuff, LOVED IT. The history of these characters we love so much is THE entire reason we love them. Where they came from IS who they are. This book does great in fleshing out the "trainees" (hehe) past. I love Friedman he's gutsy, would you want to take a character with a 30 year history and invent his past before the glaring eyes of millions? I wouldn't. Micheal Jan Friedmans novel is a must for McCoy fans and anyone who wants to know more about the "trainee" than they already knew. Buy it.
Rating: 5
Summary: Star Trek: Shadows on the Sun
Comment: Star Trek: Shadows on the Sun written by Michael Jaan Friedman is a flashback novel with the primary character being Dr. Leonard McCoy. McCoy confronts his past in order to save the future, also we read of McCoy's past and why he left a wife behind.
It is refreshing to read a Star Trek book that kicks the James T. Kirk character to the back burner and highlights someone else as the lead character, is the case of "Shadows on the Sun" is just such a book.
We read about the successful young doctor McCoy with a storybook family, but McCoy is in for a betrayal from the woman he loves. Now, McCoy leaves everything he had on Earth and heads for outer space and a career in Starfleet. Everything is fine for forty years as McCoy makes a career in Starfleet, now a crises has developed on the planet of Ssan.
The Ssani have a long history of being assassins and the U.S.S. Enterprise and her crew are sent to negotiate a settlement with a group of mediators aboard. As the Enterprise is on the way McCoy meets his ex-wife after forty years as she is one of the negotiaters.
Of course nothing is going right with the Ssani as a matter of course, they use assassination as a matter of fact and a way of life."Shadow of the Sun" is a Ssani saying that means Sun is the image of viewing the life cycle and Shadow is the individual life. The individual casts a shadow on the the Sun of all life.
The mediators and Captain Kirk are now taken hostage as a Civil War rages and it is upto McCoy to draw from his past to save the negotiations and save the day. The narrative moves very quickly and the prose are true to the characters and McCoy is the stand out hero of the book. If you are a Dr. Leonard McCoy fan this is your book to read as the character of McCoy get fleshed out early in McCoys career through flashbacks.
Rating: 4
Summary: All about Bones
Comment: The Starship Enterprise and it's crew are scheduled for retirement when they are sent on one last mission to a hostile planet. McCoy's past becomes the center piece to the diplomatic solution. Friedman explores a deeper understanding of McCoy and gives the reader/star trek fan a greater appreciation for the stubborn doctor. You will see Bones in a different light after reading this book.
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Title: Captain's Blood (Star Trek) by William Shatner, Judith Reeves-Stevens, Garfield Reeves-Stevens ISBN: 067102129X Publisher: Pocket Books 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: Pocket Books Pub. Date: 01 August, 2000 List Price(USD): $3.99 |
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Title: Yesterday's Son (Star Trek, No 11) by A. C. Crispin ISBN: 0671038516 Publisher: Pocket Books Pub. Date: 01 August, 1999 List Price(USD): $3.99 |
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Title: Star Trek Best Destiny by Diane L. Carey ISBN: 0517139057 Publisher: Random House Value Pub Pub. Date: 29 January, 1995 List Price(USD): $4.99 |
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Title: Star Trek: Strangers from the Sky ISBN: 0671647180 Publisher: Simon & Schuster Pub. Date: 01 September, 1987 List Price(USD): $11.00 |
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