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Title: FINAL FRONTIER (CLASSIC STAR TREK ) (Star Trek Novel) by Diane Carey ISBN: 0-671-69655-6 Publisher: Star Trek Pub. Date: 01 August, 1989 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.29 (7 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Possible Romulan first contact?
Comment: In "The City on the Edge of Forever", onee of the best-loved original Star Trek episodes, Spock and Capt. Kirk have to prevent a drug-crazed Dr. McCoy from saving a woman from being struck by a car in 1930's Earth---a woman Kirk ends up falling in love with. This novel begins by picking up where that episode leaves off.
Kirk, now seriously debating whether or not he should resign his Starfleet commission, takes shore leave on Earth where he manages to take comfort in letters from his father, Commander George Samuel Kirk Sr.
But these letters are more than just conversations between father and son. They contain clues to the mystery of one of Starfleet's most highly classified first contact missions that went horribly wrong...and at the same time made the Enterprise truly worthy of her name, twenty-five years before Kirk would assume command.
I gave this book four stars because it isn't the easiest Star Trek read in the world, since you have to wade through a lot of "background" or "historical" information to get to some of its most important points, but it is very well written; I enjoy it mostly for the great amount lot of insight given to the character of Jim's father, and what the Enterprise might have been like as an unmarked, unregistered, completely brand new Starfleet prototype. I have only one negative: George Kirk's befriending of the Romulan Field Primus t'Cael adds good drama, but it doesn't quite gel with the idea that eventually the Romulans and the Federation would go to war, which would lead to the creation of the Neutral Zone (see classic episode "Balance of Terror"), but it's still a good book.
Rating: 5
Summary: The First Enterpise
Comment: Diane Carey's "Final Frontier" has to be a must read for any fan of the original series. It tells the first story of the Enterprise before it acquired it's legendary name. Under the captaincy of Robert April; George Kirk (Jim's father) embarks on the test run of the infamous ship. The adversary in this one is the Romulans. We get a glimpse of their uncompromising world of political treachery within their own ranks. This one is everything the new prequel series should be. Alive with interesting characters that act like real humans; unlike some of the Starfleet members we've seen on TV in the show Voyager. If there is any book that needs a reprinting it's this one.
Rating: 5
Summary: Final Frontier, The First Adventure
Comment: This book was very well written. It kept me on the edge of my seat. I couldn't put it down till I read the whole thing. It was interesting to go back and forth from the past and future. I liked 'Final Frontier' alot.
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Title: STAR TREK: STRANGERS FROM THE SKY CASSETTE by Margaret Wander Bonanno ISBN: 0671647180 Publisher: Audioworks Pub. Date: 15 September, 1987 List Price(USD): $11.00 |
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Title: Probe (Star Trek) by Margeret Wander Bonanno ISBN: 067179065X Publisher: Star Trek Pub. Date: 01 January, 1993 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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Title: Enterprise, The First Adventure (Star Trek) by Vonda N. McIntyre ISBN: 0586073213 Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Pub. Date: 23 April, 1987 |
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Title: The STAR TREK THE LOST YEARS (Star Trek: The Original Series) by J.M. Dillard, Leonard Nimoy ISBN: 0671686321 Publisher: Audioworks Pub. Date: 01 October, 1989 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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Title: The Last Roundup (Star Trek) by Christie Golden ISBN: 074344910X Publisher: Star Trek Pub. Date: 01 June, 2003 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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