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Title: Deny Thy Father (Star Trek: The Lost Era 2355-2357) by Jeff Mariotte ISBN: 0-7434-6409-5 Publisher: Star Trek Pub. Date: 01 December, 2003 Format: Mass Market Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.3 (10 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Surprisingly entertaining.
Comment: My expectations for this book, after reading the reviews here and with the Lost Era series being 2 for 4, were not high. I found this to be good reading, though not spectacular. Obviously the book follows two stories, Kyle's and Will's. Will's story is a personal drama, without the dramatic Academy tests or conspiracies that Original Series books set there have. Still, I found it to be a well written, interesting, and entertaining depiction of Will Riker at that time. I don't really like Will Riker all that much as a TNG character, so making him interesting for me was a good achievement on the author's part. The cadets are rather clichéd, but apart from the eternally patient girlfriend I've known people just like them, and they work well as part of Will's story. Kyle's story has much more action in its beginning and end. The descriptions there and overall are very well done. This author understands how to make long descriptive passages interesting. The middle of Kyle's story was essentially filler, as Kyle himself puts it, to prepare him for the end of the story. It was entertaining and well done, but it had almost nothing to do with the central plot of Kyle's story. I would have preferred more time on the conspiracy. I did quite enjoy the resolution of that. It's refreshing, after "Serpents Among the Ruins", to see a murderous conspiracy be viewed by Starfleet Command as something to stop. All in all, I found this to be an enjoyable read. Nothing was spectacularly good, but lately just enjoyable has been too much for some Trek authors.
Rating: 3
Summary: Surprisingly average
Comment: DENY THY FATHER had the potential to really explore the conflict between Kyle and Will Riker, but it unfortunately winds up as empty as the chasm between father and son. Jeff Marriotte has a capable reign of the characters, but this book comes off reading like two separate novels fused together into one, in which neither character interacts with each other, alternating back and forth between father and son chapters. The end result is less than what it could have been. Of the five books in the six-book LOST ERA series I've read to date, this is the weakest entry of them all.
Rating: 4
Summary: ST - The Lost Era: Deny Thy Father 2355-2357
Comment: Star Trek - The Lost Era "Deny Thy Father" 2355-2357 written by Jeff Mariotte is a two main character book, Kyle Riker and William T. Riker. This is the fifth book of a six book series and starts in 2355, sixty-one years after the presumed death of Captain James T. Kirk aboard the U.S.S. Enterprise-B in Star Trek "Generations." The book concludes in 2357, seven years before the launch of the Enterprise-D in "Encounter at Farpoint."
"Deny Thy Father" is a three part book and takes us through William T. Rikers Starfleet Academy days to his first assignment on the U.S.S. Pegasus. As we read on in theis book we get to see what a cadet has to go through to become and officer in Starfleet. The other main character is Will Riker's father Kyle Riker.
"Deny Thy Father" is a look into a failed father son relationship. Where both father and son are too stubborned to realize that working together things would work well but they let their maleness take over and the relationship fails.
"Deny THy Father" is essentially two stories one about Will and the other about Kyle as he trys to cope with someone trying to kill him for something that he might have done. "Deny Thy Father" is a fast read and you'll finish it quickly. The book has some mystery and intrigue as Kyle Riker is trying to figure out who is trying to kill him. And we get to see him try to cope with his situation making for an intresting read.
Will Riker, on the other hand, is making his way through Starfleet Academy in the course of the book and his first years are not really that good and he struggles. We get to read about his friends which aren't the best people in the world as they need to grow-up as well.
The rift between the Rikers never really gets resolved, but the father realizes his error and saves his son in a circumspect sort of way, making for some interesting reading.
I gave this book a solid 4 star rating as it gives the reader a glimpse of Will Riker's early Starfleet career and a glimpse into Kyle Riker as a man with problems and his estranged relationship with his son.
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Title: The Art of the Impossible (Star Trek: The Lost Era, 2328-2346) by Keith R.A. DeCandido ISBN: 0743464052 Publisher: Star Trek Pub. Date: 01 October, 2003 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Serpents Among the Ruins (Star Trek: The Lost Era, 2311) by David R. George III ISBN: 0743464036 Publisher: Star Trek Pub. Date: 01 September, 2003 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Honor Bound (Star Trek: I.K.S. Gorkon, Book 2) by Keith R.A. DeCandido ISBN: 0743457161 Publisher: Star Trek Pub. Date: 01 December, 2003 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Daedalus: Part One of Two (Star Trek: Enterprise) by Dave Stern ISBN: 0743471180 Publisher: Star Trek Pub. Date: 01 October, 2003 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: A Good Day to Die (Star Trek: I.K.S. Gorkon, Book 1) by Keith R.A. DeCandido ISBN: 0743457145 Publisher: Star Trek Pub. Date: 01 November, 2003 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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