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Title: Maximum Warp Book Two: Forever Dark (Star Trek The Next Generation, No 63) by Dave Galanter, Greg Brodeur ISBN: 0-671-04757-4 Publisher: Star Trek Pub. Date: 27 February, 2001 Format: Mass Market Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.93 (14 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Just Couldn't Put It Down...
Comment: Maximum Warp Book 1 is by far one of the best TNG novels I have read , that is just my opinion. I really loved the story line. It was great to see Ambassador Spock turned back to Captain Spock working with Picard in this story. While you are reading it gets you thinking about who or what is behind what is happening the galaxy. My opinion of T'sart is he is a pain in the backside, but what do you expect from a Romulan. After finishing read book 1 recently I had to to start book 2 [not finished yet with book 2] to see how it ends up. I highly recommend both books 1 and 2 to any die hard Star Trek fan or if someone is looking for a good story to sink their teeth into.
Rating: 3
Summary: A weak premise leads to an unremarkable story
Comment: book I: Dead Zone
The first half of the "Maximum Warp" duology is a minor dissapointment.
The story is based around an unoriginal concept about spatial disruptions that suddenly appear out of nowhere, causing ships to go wrecked as energy can't get transformed from one form into another in the disruption field to enable any kind of mechanical function. Curiously (and unexplainedly) enough, the phenomenon doesn't appear to effect any non-mechanical transformation of energy.
This causes strain between the Romulans and the federation, as they both suspect the disruptions as a new and powerfull weapon.
The book highly resembels Dave Galanter and Greg Brodeur's earlier Voyager novel Battle Lines in it's concentration on action instead of plot and characterization, wich ultimately leadst to rendering the book unrealistic.
This can be seen especially in the field of characterization. The characters feel familiar enough, and the duo writes them talentedly, but there are times in the plot that would absolutely require heavy and deep exploration of one or more characters, but don't contain any. And speaking of characters, Spocs inclusion in the story is as unjustified as it can get, as he has absolutely nothing to do and appears to be there only to fill the pages with his presence and comments that any other characters could have expressed. This I call a true waste of potential, wich appears to be the only real theme of the story.
The book succeeds in offering good science and sufficiently interesting original characters, though, and works at least somehow as a baggage of entertainment.
After all this the book still feels mediocore and cheap, and it leaves the reader with a feeling of being underestimated.
book II: Forever Dark
After the first "Maximum Warp" book, the second half of the duology starts off really promisingly.
The story holds together much better than in the forst book, there are more interesting siuations and even some sufficciently deepened character moments with both new and familiar characters.
But soon starts the downhill as plot gives it all away to action as long and uneventfull space battles and other action-packed scenes take over the story, the plot gets predictable and characterization is forgotten.
The ambitious but messy ending of the book ruins it all, as it stumbles on sci-fi clichés and overly melodramatic climax.
Leave the "Maximum Warp" duology to the bookstore and maybe borrow it from the library. It's not worth your money.
Rating: 4
Summary: 5 stars for book 1, 4 for book 2
Comment: Maximum Warp was an excellent Star Trek duology because of its classic Star Trek adventure and ultimately Picard's near-impossible decision. Plus, there was cool sci-fi stuff with space/time, etc. The setup in the first book was very good, but the second book could have been shorter (and/or combined with the first book) because there's a part in it that is only loosely connected to the main plotline. But overall, the filler can be forgiven because it's really exciting at the end!
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Title: A Time to Die (Star Trek The Next Generation) by John Vornholt ISBN: 0743467663 Publisher: Star Trek Pub. Date: 01 March, 2004 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: A Time to Be Born (Star Trek The Next Generation) by John Vornholt ISBN: 0743467655 Publisher: Star Trek Pub. Date: 01 February, 2004 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: A Time to Harvest (Star Trek The Next Generation) by Dayton Ward, Kevin Dilmore ISBN: 0743482980 Publisher: Star Trek Pub. Date: 01 May, 2004 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Do Comets Dream? (Star Trek: The Next Generation) by S.P. Somtow ISBN: 0743411307 Publisher: Star Trek Pub. Date: 01 July, 2003 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Tooth and Claw (Star Trek The Next Generation, No 60) by Doranna Durgin ISBN: 0671042114 Publisher: Star Trek Pub. Date: February, 2001 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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