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Title: Flashback (Star Trek: Voyager) by Diane Carey, Brannon Braga ISBN: 0-671-00383-6 Publisher: Star Trek Pub. Date: 01 October, 1996 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.29 (7 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: STV Flashback - A good novelization!
Comment: As part of the thirtieth anniversary of Star Trek, the producers of Star Trek decided to honor and make tribute to the Original Series through the two series that were currently airing, Star Trek Deep Space Nine and Star Trek Voyager. "Flashback" is Voyagers entry in that tributary role and plays well as such, with a story that centers on the USS Excelsior and its leader, Captain Sulu.
I'm quite certain that George Takei was ecstatic to get an opportunity to don the Starfleet uniform one more time as Captain Sulu and take the bridge of the Excelsior. The show was a great show in so many ways, yet for me, the story seemed a little forced or least not as fluidic a story as it should've been. It is with that memory of the episode in mind that I picked up the novelization.
As most novelizations in Star Trek are done, Diane Carey received the nod for this novel and as usual, she does an outstanding job of greatly enhancing the original story. In this case it's the story of one of Star Trek Voyager's executive producers and most prominent writers, Brannon Braga. With "Flashback," Diane Carey's usual good pacing and between the scenes on the screen scenes, make for another good novelization.
The cover art for "Flashback," isn't all that imaginative but it does do the casual reader some good as far as letting them know that if they pick this one up, they're going to see something very rare in a Star Trek novel, Captain's Janeway and Sulu in the same story.
The premise:
Lieutenant Tuvok, while appearing to be a young officer, in fact has lived long enough to have served aboard the USS Excelsior with Captain Sulu as her captain. When Voyager enters a strange nebula, he starts to have "problems." Before long, these "problems" become life threatening and soon Captain Janeway, who considers Tuvok to be her closest friend, is there to help him...
What follows from there is a highly intriguing story in the Star Trek Voyager canon and I highly recommend this novelization if you wish to further your knowledge of the events that occurred during that episode. {ssintrepid}
Rating: 4
Summary: One of Diane Carey's better efforts.
Comment: As in "The Search" and "Descent" (novelizations of a DS9 episode and a Next Generation episode respectively) Diane Carey does an excellent job of faithfully telling the story presented her. Unlike in both of those books, to say nothing of many of her other original Star Trek novels, in this book she (mostly) contains her tendancy to get carried away in her attempts to use the language in "original" (read "WRONG") ways. There are a few places where her word choice is questionable (referring to Neelix as a "thermometer" of the crew's morale, rather than the more standard "barometer", for example, and in at least two places using the phrase "s/he bridged" to convey the concept "s/he said to bridge the gap") but none that are just clearly wrong and ridiculous, as has been the case in so much of her other writing. Which allows the reader to enjoy her writing without distraction, and to see just what she's capable of when she doesn't try to invent new words or find new uses for old words. And the answer is, "quite a bit".
Rating: 5
Summary: If you like the episode, you'll love the book!!!!!!!
Comment: I never really got into the Voyager series so I had no idea that the Sulu cross over episode had aired.
I saw the novel and being a great "Captain Sulu of the Exelcior" fan I had to read it.
Before I read a page I discovered the VHS tape of the episode.
I watched the episode, read the book and wow!
The book is far more fleshed out!
If you are a fan of such cross over book/episode fun as "Unification", "Relics" or "Trial & Tribble-ations", you will love this book.
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Title: Homecoming, Book 1 (Star Trek: Voyager) by Christie Golden ISBN: 074346754X Publisher: Star Trek Pub. Date: 01 June, 2003 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: The Escape (Star Trek Voyager, No 2) by Dean Wesley Smith, Kristine Kathryn Rusch ISBN: 0671520962 Publisher: Star Trek Pub. Date: 01 May, 1995 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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Title:Star Trek Voyager - The Complete First Season ASIN: B000127LW2 Publisher: Paramount Home Video Pub. Date: 24 February, 2004 List Price(USD): $129.99 Comparison N/A, buy it from Amazon for $106.59 |
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Title: Bless the Beasts (Star Trek Voyager, No 10) by Karen Haber ISBN: 0671567802 Publisher: Star Trek Pub. Date: 01 November, 1996 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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Title: Caretaker (Star Trek Voyager, No 1) by L.A. Graf, Michael Piller, Jeri Taylor, Rick Berman ISBN: 067151914X Publisher: Star Trek Pub. Date: 01 February, 1995 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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