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Title: Challenger (Star Trek, New Earth, Book 6) by Diane Carey ISBN: 0-671-04298-X Publisher: Star Trek Pub. Date: 01 August, 2000 Format: Mass Market Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.18 (11 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: ST #94 Challenger - An extremely well told Star Trek tale!
Comment: After more or less trudging my way through the first novel in the New Earth series, "Wagon Train to the Stars" where, quite uncharacteristically, Diane Carey's writing just didn't mesh and had nothing but pacing problems, "Challenger" brought about a quite welcome relief. Back in form with her usual style of writing, "Challenger" is a true joy to read as the pacing is "dead on" and the story just flows. I particularly enjoyed the fact that she carried the main plot and two sub plots in this story and brought all three of them together for a somewhat anticlimactic, but highly intriguing conclusion.
The cover art for "Challenger" is perfect, as was the cover art for the entire series.
The premise:
Shaking off the events of the previous novel "Thin Air," Captain Kirk and crew are quite expectant as their relief is on its way in the form of the USS Peleliu, who are expected to stand as the Starfleet authority in the Occult system for the next two years.
As the USS Peleliu is headed for Belle Terre though, she is suddenly attacked by the All Kauld, during gamma night, and her captain, Roger Lake starts showing signs of mentally cracking after he'd been exposed to an undetectable virus, some time before this mission began. Weakened but not destroyed, the Peleliu comes limping into the Occult system. The first officer was also killed, leaving the second officer, Lieutenant Nick Keller, to deal with the problems set before him; a nearly destroyed Starship and a mentally unstable captain.
At Belle Terre, Captain Kirk and Spock are dealing with a whole new issue; mysterious, inter-dimensional probes that are impervious to phaser fire are taking the quantum olivium and stuffing it back into the Quake moon.
Billy Maidenshore, originally imprisoned earlier in the series has now freed himself and he's taken over an olivium runner known as the Pandora's Box, which had also been converted into a prison ship. Along with his control of the ship and olivium mining, he's taken Uhura and McCoy captive.
Diane Carey beautifully rolls all of these events into a solid, well told, fast paced novel in which Captain Kirk must find a way of stopping these mysterious probes from stealing the olivium, Lt. Commander Nick Keller has to deal with the destruction of his ship and his crazed captain and Uhura and McCoy must find a way to stop Billy Maidenshore.
I highly recommend this novel to any and all fans of Star Trek fiction! Even if you find it difficult or impossible to make it through the first few books of the New Earth series, I believe "Challenger" can be read on its own. {ssintrepid}
Rating: 4
Summary: A Rousing Finish
Comment: I forced myself through the middle four novels in this series ("New Earth"), and I can't really say I'm sorry I did, though it was a struggle. Book One, which introduced us to a literal "wagon train to the stars," was a clear winner, but the books in between had me thinking "Oh, no! Not AGAIN!"
Nevertheless, I fell in love with those poor, beleaguered colonists on Belle Terre, and I'm sincerely glad I made it through to this last novel. Not only does it help tie up loose ends from the previous novels, it's a rousing story in its own right, introducing us to a whole new band of misfits, not unlike Peter David's "New Frontier" bunch. Once again, I applaud Diane Carey's writing style, most especially her portrayal of non-regulation-boot wearin' OTC Nick Keller and his cobbled-together ship, the U.F.P.F. *Challenger.*
She speaks well, too, of the starship *Enterprise* in one of the finest paragraphs in the whole book: "Holding her much-reduced family in the petal of her cupped hand, the starship that had protected them for years, extrinsic proof of their high-priced wins, streaked through space pretending there wasn't a strain on her bones at this (warp nine) speed. *Enterprise* gracefully turned her shoulder to the insult, proving herself once more not just a jumper but a workhorse." You just can't get any better than that.
But wait, you can! *Challenger* has bled into yet another series of novels, "Gateways." You'll find the reluctant OTC (NOT captain) Keller and his intrepid crew in Book Two, "Chainmail," written by My Girl, Diane Carey.
Rating: 5
Summary: Challenger, ushers in a new era
Comment: This was perhaps the best book of the series aside form the first book, The detail and description was excelent, also the new crew of the Challenger would be a great new series of books, as the auther implied that it might happen, I felt a connection with the new crew and see it as some thing fresh, I can't get enough of the Original series( as long as the auther gets the charchters right), but this book does what a lot of other star trek books fail to do, It inspires the imagination, something I've been missing since childhood, it also gets me fired up, reading endlessly untill I absolutly have to set the book down, to then be driven to madness from waiting untill I can read again. Great book, well writen, a must read for all star trek fans.
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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: Star Trek Pub. Date: 01 June, 2000 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Across the Universe (Star Trek, No 88) by Pamela Sargent, George Zebrowski ISBN: 0671019899 Publisher: Star Trek Pub. Date: October, 1999 List Price(USD): $6.50 |
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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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