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Title: A Call to Darkness (Star Trek The Next Generation, No 9) by Michael Jan Friedman ISBN: 0-671-74141-1 Publisher: Star Trek Pub. Date: 01 May, 1991 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $5.50 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.4 (10 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: STNG #9 - A Call to Darkness - An excellent early STNG story
Comment: "A Call to Darkness" is Michael Jan Friedman's second Star Trek novel and first Star Trek The Next Generation novel which has lead to him being Star Trek's most prolific author altogether. This was the first of his novels that I'd read and from this very beginning I found his writing to be quite compelling and a true joy to read. If you've read any of his later novels and not read this one yet, I suggest that you go back and check this one out for you will not be disappointed in the least.
The premise:
Captain Picard and the Enterprise discover a lifeless Federation research vessel in orbit of a planet that his hidden behind a mysterious energy shield. Despite the strong and ever present objections of his first officer, Commander Riker, Captain Picard leads an away team to the abandoned vessel to search for the crew; then they disappear. Commander Riker now finds himself in the position of having to find his missing Captain and crew and at the same time a mysterious disease strikes the crew of the starship...
Of the many early Star Trek The Next Generation novels, this one stands a cut above the rest due to Michael Jan Friedman's captivating and intriguing writing style. I would definitely recommend this early STNG novel to any and all fans. {ssintrepid}
Rating: 3
Summary: ST-TNG: A Call to Darkness
Comment: Star Trek-The Next Generation: A Call to Darkness written by Michael Jan Friedman is a book where Captain Jean-Luc Picard of the U.S.S. Enterprise is taken and Commander William Riker has to figure out how to get him back book.
This book is early TNG and the rolls of Worf and Data still need direction and real purpose. This book pays more attention to the rolls of Riker, Dr. Pulaski, and Geordi LaForge as they try to find a way to get Captain Picard back after he is trapped on a brutal world. A world that for entertainment of the masses they have war games for real... made for TV. Of course, the combatants are all kidnapped from spacefaring races that happen to come close to the planet.
War being the only entertainment for these people they require more and more players(combatants), as such, more and more crews become MIA's. At least 18,000 people are alive and doing combat war games for entertainment. But, that is not the only plot in this book. Soon after Picard's disappearance, Commander Riker has a strange mysterious disease begins to ravage the crew of the Enterprise.
I found this book to be a fast read, engaging till the ending. What I liked about this book in particular, was Riker working independent from Picard as it shows Riker's character and fleshes him out. Friedman tells a good tale and you will be throughly entertained
Rating: 3
Summary: Good Trek
Comment: Micheal Jan Friedman shows why he is one of the better Trek writers in Call to Darkness. It is standard Trek fare, not likely to linger in the memory for very long, but written in an engaging way. There are some flaws, of course, including a holodeck scene with Homer reciting the story of Cassandra (absent from the Odyssey; Virgil or Aeschylus would have been more accurate). However, it was good to see Pulaski again. Unlike every other character in Trek, we all know and have worked with a Pulaski-type; she was the most "real" of all Trek characters, and Friedman does a fine job of capturing her orneriness. Overall, A Call to Darkness is worth any Trek fan's time.
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Title: A Rock and a Hard Place (Star Trek The Next Generation, No 10) by Peter David ISBN: 067174142X Publisher: Star Trek Pub. Date: 01 May, 1991 List Price(USD): $5.50 |
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Title: Fortune's Light (Star Trek The Next Generation, No 15) by Michael Jan Friedman ISBN: 0671708368 Publisher: Star Trek Pub. Date: 01 January, 1991 List Price(USD): $5.50 |
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Title: Strike Zone (Star Trek: The Next Generation, Book 5) by Peter David ISBN: 0671735160 Publisher: Star Trek Pub. Date: 01 November, 1990 List Price(USD): $4.50 |
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Title: Power Hungry (Star Trek The Next Generation, No 6) by Howard Weinstein ISBN: 0671746480 Publisher: Star Trek Pub. Date: 01 August, 1991 List Price(USD): $5.50 |
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Title: The Children of Hamlin (Star Trek The Next Generation, No 3) by Carmen Carter ISBN: 0671735551 Publisher: Star Trek Pub. Date: 01 December, 1990 List Price(USD): $5.50 |
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