Michael A. MartinRecensioni

Overall not bad. But it did not grip me the way I had thought it would. I finished the Enterprise series a few weeks before starting and had heard this provides a better conclusion which I guess it does. It just seemed a little longer than I anticipated.

Nice beginning to the journeys of the USS Titan. After listening to Fortunes of War, I needed to rewind to the beginning of the Titan's journeys.

Interesting from a franchise POV because it tells the story of one of the crewmen killed in the second TNG film. It also follows up with characters we met in earlier episodes about Picard's past. I f:thought it was a very interesting book, especially in how it dealt with Section 31's ethics and the Prime Directive (in a non-obvious way).

I enjoyed the storytelling in this book. I felt like I was reading another Star Trek TNG episode. The best part of the novel was the dialogue between character Hawk and Zweller over the purposeful rule-breaking of Section 31 compared to the seat of the pants decision making that Riker and Picard do. Although this is part of a series this book does a good job of standing on its own. I will probably read the other books in this series if they are available in my local library.

Michael A. Martin’s Star Trek: Enterprise: The Romulan War – To Brave the Storm picks up shortly after the events of his first Romulan War novel, Beneath the Raptor’s Wing. With Earth and the human colonies standing alone following the Coalition of Planets’ collapse due to the Romulan ability to overwhelm Vulcan, Andorian, and Tellarite ships, Captain Jonathan Archer and the crew of the Enterprise NX-01 find themselves representing a diminished Starfleet that now seeks primarily to hold Earth as the Romulans advance. Looking for new allies, Archer and his crew begin a goodwill campaign to help demonstrate the Romulan threat while courting potential allies. Martin clips along as a steadier pace than his previous novel, covering several years in half the length as the Beneath the Raptor’s Wing. That book felt more like prologue for this one, the climax of the war ultimately culminating in the formation of the United Federation of Planets. This event, briefly shown on-screen during Star Trek: Enterprise and referenced in other Trek shows, gets its due in these novels that offer a glimpse of what could have been had Enterprise been renewed for a fifth season.½

Michael A. Martin’s Star Trek: Enterprise: The Romulan War – Beneath the Raptor’s Wing takes place shortly following the events of the fourth season of Star Trek: Enterprise, in which Romulan aggression caused the Humans, Vulcans, Andorians, and Tellarites to band together for mutual protection. Martin’s novel picks up following further Romulan conquests, including the destruction of the Kobayashi Maru in a battle where Captain Jonathan Archer of the Enterprise NX-01 discovered that the Romulans have the ability to remotely seize control of opposing ships and use them against the crews. Vulcan further complicates matters as they withdraw from the Coalition in order to safeguard the secret of their common heritage with the Romulans and the fact that the Romulans can easily control Vulcan ships due to this heritage. Unknown to the Andorians and Tellarities, they share this weakness as they developed some of their technology from reverse-engineering Vulcan technology. Starfleet struggles on, trying to counter Romulan hostilities both to protect Earth and the human colonies as well as to maintain the Coalition.

Martin includes various references to Trek characters from throughout the early continuity, with some characters appearing or being mentioned previously on Enterprise, others in prior Pocket Star Trek novels, and even Tobin Dax, an early host for the Dax symbiont on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. He creates an epic scale worthy of Game of Thrones by moving throughout the galaxy, with scenes playing on on Romulus, Vulcan, Andor, Tellar, Earth, various colonies, and behind the closed doors of political briefings as well as on the frontlines with war correspondents. At times, the regular use of alien words phrases from several different fictional cultures can disorient the reader, but it also adds a certain verisimilitude. My only complaint is that the promotional description of the novel did not adequately make clear that it takes place in a story already underway. Though Beneath the Raptor’s Wing is the second in the Romulan War duology, it draws extensively upon Martin and Andy Mangels’s three previous Enterprise novels, Last Full Measure, The Good That Men Do, and Kobayashi Maru. Other than this, the story is a worth continuation of Star Trek: Enterprise and gives readers a glimpse of the fifth season the show foreshadowed.

This story borrows heavily from knowledge of what went on in the television show, which is actually a really good thing because I was happy to read something that really captured the feeling of the show. In this story the body of Michael's deceased abusive foster father is uncovered while Max and Isabel track down Tess' gene donor. Everyone here is totally in character and I could picture the actors doing their thing while reading the book. It was much like an episode which I would say is set between seasons two and three. One thing I will say is Liz is a lot less irritating in this book than she was in the show which was really very nice. It showed a little of her inner conflict in a much more understandable way than the crazy, angry person she was in the show during that time.

This is an enjoyable tie-in for the television show and I would highly recommend it to any fan who wants to read a bit more of these characters' stories.

Pretty good.

The format of "interviewer/interviewee" is new, especially in the realm of Star Trek books.
But having Jake Sisko as the "author" was wonderfully enjoyable.

This is a hard book to say much about, because it's just boring. Like, little happens, so what is there to discuss? There's two main strands, so I'll take them in turn.

The first is a by-now-typical Titan exploration story. Continuing its mission into the Gum Nebula, Titan has come across a huge pulsar, but despite the lethal radiation it spills out, it has a life-supporting planet in orbit. You might think this could be exciting, but it is far from so. First off, the beginning of the book alternates what's happening on Titan with what the aliens on the planet are doing, and the planetside chapters read like a parody of bad science fiction. Nonsense words just piled on top of each other interminably, lots of names with apostrophes, an alien race that is divided into two factions, one literally devoted to destroying things and the other to not destroying things. There's no nuance or worldbuilding here. The entire planet is a two-dimensional cipher.

Meanwhile on Titan... not much is happening, either. Like in Seize the Fire, there are an inordinate amount of meetings. It feels like these characters are never doing things, they're just being told things. There's a fifteen-page chapter where Melora Pazlar tells Captain Riker that there's life on the planet, something that we already know, and something that doesn't require this level of justification. When Titan sends a shuttle to the planet, it's hard to care about what it's trying to accomplish, because Michael Martin has done no work to make this planet or species interesting enough to be worth saving. In light of the Titan series's original mission of bringing a sense of wonder back to Star Trek, this book is a dismal failure.

The other plot line continues a thread begun in my previous read, the Typhon Pact novel Paths of Disharmony. Now than Andor has left the Federation, Starfleet has decided it doesn't trust the Andorians still serving, and wants them out of sensitive positions, moved into positions where they can't do any harm. Titan has seven Andorians serving aboard, and so a starship is coming to pick them up and take them back to Federation space. This paranoia is unbecoming the Federation, and hard to believe in. The Federation isn't even in a state of hostility with Andor! These particular Andorians haven't even given up their Federation citizenship! In Deep Space Nine, Worf was never treated in such a way and the Federation was at war with his people. The book tries to justify it with the statement that "during the months since Typhon Pact–allied Breen agents made off with Federation slipstream technology, Starfleet Command has been more concerned about internal security than at any time since the parasite infestation eighteen years ago." But in Martin's eagerness to cram in a gratuitous reference to "Conspiracy," he seems to have missed that surely Starfleet was much more concerned about internal security during the time it carried on a two-year war with shapeshifters! Compared to that, Andorexit is nothing.

This thread develops when an Andorian vessel appears to lay claim to Titan's Andorians itself. The commander of this ship is a cackling, evil caricature. Andor leaving the Federation didn't convince me in Paths of Disharmony, and if this is the kind of stories the writers are telling about it, it's still not convincing me. A lot of this story is dependent on you caring about what happens to Titan's most prominent Andorian crewmember, Pava Ek'noor sh'Aqabaa. I don't, because Martin does little to make me, and I even read the old Starfleet Academy comics from which she derives. (I did find the last chapter with her in it very existentially spooky, though; that was well done.)

The legalistic manner the forced transfer plotline resolved in felt very contrived. And then Riker and another captain smirk about how two of their officers are going to get some. Lol sexy Deltans, amirite?

Also what's weird is that the two halves of the story feel like they were written by different people, because they barely even interact. Warp drive, even warp-capable ships, are a big threat to the planet by the pulsar, but no one even mentions this when the Andorian ships comes warping in.

The big problem is that Michael Martin can't write characters as far as I can tell. No one here has a personality, each has a job and a species, and that's their entirety. They exist to deliver exposition and do whatever it is their species does. But how can I care about such poorly written characters? And thus, how can I care about anything in this book? Thankfully, this seems to be Michael Martin's last contribution to Destiny-era fiction.

Continuity Notes:

• There's an unresolved thread that the Tholian-allied Andorians created transporter duplicates of Andorian Starfleet officers who refused to come over. I've no doubt this will be of huge significance to the Typhon Pact story going forward. Certainly, something like no one ever mentioning this ever again would never happen.

Other Notes:

• The novel analogizes the Federation attitude toward its Andorian citizens to the United States's attitude toward Japanese-Americans during World War II. Alyssa Ogawa tells Pava about it. Yet for some reason, we don't get this scene; instead we get this painful scene where Pava tells Tuvok about the Japanese internment, so each character is constantly explaining American history to the other, smothering what could be a potent analogy.
• A prime example of Martin's over-explaining: after two paragraphs about turbulence the shuttle is going through, we're told, "Bralik and Eviku sat in grave silence. The Ferengi geologist and Arkenite xenobiologist both seemed to have turned slightly green, no doubt because of the turbulence the shuttlecraft's approach pattern was generating." Like, why is everything after that comma even there? If it's so obvious you have to work "no doubt" into the narration, maybe you don't need to say it at all!
• It's official, I'm totally over the novels' style of Andorian name. Take a look at the load of nonsense letters on p. 212 when the full names of all seven Andorians on Titan are given. It's unreadable. The way Martin uses them doesn't even make sense; the retcon that established this naming practice in Avatar makes it clear that Andorians went by the abbreviated version of their forenames even in formal situations: Shras, Erib, and so on. No one on screen calls Shran "Commander th'Zoarhi." Yet in this book, it's a profusion of apostrophes as Andorians are always calling each other by their surnames... something they literally never do in the canon!
• There's also this really dumb bit where Pava can't remember that she saw Tholians on the Andorian ship because she has memory loss, until she sees Ogawa, who is wearing a scarf of Tholian silk, which triggers her memory. This makes no sense, because as the novel points out, it's a uniform code violation. It's also an improbably enormous coincidence: Ogawa just happens to wear her Tholian silk scarf for the first time on the day where Pava meets Tholians and loses her memory of them? It's also completely unnecessary, as there's no plot function for Pava's memory loss to begin with, given it lasts all of two pages.
• I feel like Martin has completely squandered WhiteBlue's potential as a member of the Titan crew. Poor guy. :(
• The trade dress on this installment is subpar. The spine and back cover don't match the previous books, even though they have the same designer, Alan Dingman! Couldn't he just open up his old Photoshop template and reuse it? The "A VOYAGE OF THE STARSHIP TITAN" on the back cover, which I always liked, is gone. The vertical "TITAN" on the front cover, which used to be done with a very subtle embossing, is now just part of the image. Plus the cover image itself is dead boring, beginning what will be a trend (at least Riker makes it onto this one, I guess, given all of the future installments are just ship images), after the first several books had excellent covers. Bring back Cliff Nielsen! And worst of all, we've gone from matte finish to glossy!

The previous Typhon Pact novels thus far haven't been moored to an ongoing series; each featured a Deep Space Nine character, but neither was really a Deep Space Nine novel. Seize the Fire is, however, a Titan novel, despite the lack of subtitle, as well as a Typhon Pact novel, so I'll be considering it from both angles.

The Typhon Pact was promoted as giving readers insight into underseen Star Trek aliens, and thus Seize the Fire promises us insight into the Gorn. Well, unfortunately, anything interesting or insightful is a long time coming. Michael A. Martin focuses on the Gorn caste system, and it basically comes out to a monotonous tech caste good, military caste bad. There are two different military caste leaders, and both are depicted as barbaric belligerents without subtlety, even though they're on a mission to save their people from extinction. The Gorn captain in "Arena" was way more canny and principled than these guys even though he was primarily committing war crimes. Like, there's a basis for sympathy here that goes completely unused. We gain no real insight into the Gorn.

Occasionally the novel raises sort of interesting ideas, but it tramples over them. The Gorn scientist who spends a lot of time on Titan is a very adept mimic, imitating Riker's voice enough to get into the shuttlebay; Martin here is picking up on how the Gorn in "Arena" sent multiple messages to the Enterprise to bait it to Cestus III, including mimicking the base commander's voice. You could do something with this, presenting the Gorn as canny and adaptive but in Seize the Fire it's really jarring with how they're otherwise characterized. S'syrixx can't even get Federation names right in his internal dialogue, calling them things like "Rry'kurr" and "Troi-mammal" and "Tie-tan," but you're telling me he can imitate Riker's voice enough to fool his crew? The idea of genetic castes also seems interesting (and potentially ethically dubious; at the novel's end the "good" Gorn are just going to re-engineer the warrior caste to be more pliable!), but trust me, by the end of this novel you'll hope no one ever says "caste" ever again.

What really dampens any potential insight into the Gorn is that the Gorn-only scenes are just painful to read, not only because of the sledgehammer characterization, but because the poor characterization means all you have to hang onto are these terrible space names. When discussing the two Gorn commanders, Riker says at one point, "Krassrr isn't Gog'ressh," and I was like, He isn't? because I literally could not tell those guys apart the whole book. Plus there's some dopey space religion stuff, which flattens the Gorn, not expands them.

As a Titan novel, it's not much cop either. Riker and Titan are curiously inactive, spending much of the book just watching the Gorn while the reptiles prepare to "ecosculpt" an inhabited planet. When done right, Titan is my favorite novel series, back-to-basic Star Trek with a modern update, but the characters have no life here. There are so many ineffectual staff meetings it's like you're reading a caricature of The Next Generation. Which is weird, because it was a scene in a novel co-written by Martin that made Titan come alive to me, and that scene was about a meeting! (The Blue Table just chatting away in Taking Wing or The Red King, I forget which.) None of the characters pop, and they don't really have any kind of character threads, except that Vale goes from prejudiced against Gorn to still prejudiced against Gorn.

There are also times the book is just clunkily written, such as times a character does a thing that obviously indicates an emotion, and then the narration tells us that this emotion is obviously indicated. There are also a few times where it seems like the interesting things happen "off-screen" while we follow less interesting things, and then someone gets filled in on the interesting things. Why? Martin tries to cram exposition into dialogue, too, which weird given that this is not a tv show, such as this mellifluous exchange:

PAZLAR: Eviku and Chamish were the first to notice the pattern [...]
VALE: If anybody aboard Titan was going to find that sort of pattern, it would be our resident xenobiology and ecology experts.
PAZLAR: Apparently. Unfortunately, my expertise in those fields doesn't overlap all that much with that of the biospheric scientists. My specialties are cosmology and big-bore physics.

Like, there had to be a less clunky way of getting everyone's science specialties into the book. Surely Vale knows this! Though I'm not sure why it matters at all.

Between these factors, Seize the Fire makes for a dull read, and the weakest Typhon Pact novel yet. A poor exploration of the Gorn, and a dull novel otherwise.

Continuity Notes:

• Seize the Fire reconciles the different appearance of the Gorn in "Arena" and "In a Mirror Darkly" by indicating that the "Arena" Gorn was warrior caste, while the "In a Mirror Darkly" one was technological caste. Though this is compared to the various Xindi species, which doesn't really seem analogous at all.
• Riker thinks about a story that he heard that O'Herlihy and Lang, the two tactical officers who weren't Kelowitz that went to Cestus III with Kirk, weren't killed by the Gorn, but were tortured for years or decades for information. This is not mentioned again. I can only assume it's a reference to something, because it's totally irrelevant, and Michael Martin novels reference irrelevant things like it's his job, but if so, I don't know to what.
• A number of characters are skeptical that the ancient ecosculptor can be sentient. This makes little sense given the whole previous Titan novel was about artificial intelligence... and one of those artificial intelligences is standing right with the characters while they argue about this!
• Titan, since the events of Destiny, Over a Torrent Sea, and Synthesis, has returned to the Vela OB2 Association, the star cluster in the Gum Nebula that was the setting for the earlier Titan novel Orion's Hounds, though none of that novel's worldbuilding seemed to be in play here.
• Vale mentions that she learned to be an XO by watching Riker on two different Enterprises. This is wrong, as Vale came aboard the E-E after the Dominion War, replacing Daniels as chief of security. She did not serve on the E-D.
• The Prime Directive is said to explicitly invoke warp drive as a criterion for first contact-- thus causing a difficulty for Titan when the crew discovers a planet where the inhabitants have warp technology but not warp propulsion. This jarred me, as I never had the impression that warp qua warp was mentioned in the Prime Directive. We've seen Starfleet interact openly with pre-warp societies, and also the Prime Directive applies to species with warp technology (even the Klingons!). My personal impression of the Prime Directive is that it's probably a relative short rule with two centuries of accumulated judicial rulings because the idea of "natural development" is impossibly complicated. Warp drive is definitely an important criterion, but I never had the impression from the show that it was written into the actual Directive as the criterion.
• Also there's a joke about how even in-universe, "These Are the Voyages" is considered to be terrible. (Did Riker tell Troi that was how he felt about it?)

Other Notes:

• This one is a little long, and a little personal, but I feel it's worth mentioning in case it's influencing my judgement here. In Fall 2008, following a conversation at Shore Leave, Michael Schuster and I sent a couple pitches to editor Marco Palmieri at S&S. One of them was eventually accepted, and became the Myriad Universes story The Tears of Eridanus. The other was for a Titan novel where (in a subplot) the ship ran into a Gorn exploratory vessel charting the same planet as it. Marco responded that this fortuitously aligned with his plans for the Typhon Pact series. He said that fitting Titan in was a challenge, but our proposal showed a way with its depiction of Gorn exploration, which could be tweaked to incorporate the Typhon Pact. (He also said it wasn't very good!) On December 1 he e-mailed us to say some Destiny reading materials were coming to us to give us the background we needed; on December 4 we heard that he was fired, and his editorial replacement on the Typhon Pact project never answered any of our e-mails about it... and then the next year a Gorn/Titan novel by a completely different person was announced! So it goes. At the time I was upset, I think, but finally reading the book almost a whole ten years later it's like it's from another life.
• Deanna has really powerful empathy in this novel, reading the emotional intentions of distant fleets of Gorn in precise detail!
• I guess it's a thing that Typhon Pact novels will include extended irrelevant flashbacks; this one has a gratuitous chapter about mission from Tuvok's Excelsior days to do with the Genesis Project.
• A couple threads are set up (Tuvok's ecosculpting knowledge, something bad with White-Blue) which I guess will be picked up in future Titan novels; I see the next one is by Michael Martin again.

The "all alien all the time" was a bit exasperating, and smacked of TAS shenanigans, but the underlying story and universe development worked for me.

Bringing plot threads from various Star Trek book series and television shows, readers are provided a thrilling treat as they discover that Sulu's eventual captaincy of the Federation starship Excelsior was not an easy to achieve.

I though I was going to rate this 1 star because by god was it slow and poorly written. Here is an example, in a context of Titan officers eating gagh on a Klingon ship:

"Keru seemed far less affected. Although he wasn't a joined Trill, she imagined that any species physiologically capable of allowing a symbiotic life-form to join with them via a belly pouch could ingest just about anything."

What? This extremely typical passage is just so pointless, and not true, and .....I mean what? They don't eat the symbiont, this just makes no sense.

I only upped it to 2 stars because the last 3rd (thankfully) moves a bit more quickly. I only slogged through this because I want to read the Titan story line, hopefully some of the later ones will make this worth it!

I really want to find a toe-hold into this series but they are so poorly written aahhhh! I finished a Terry Pratchett novel then went to pick this back up midway, read three paragraphs and then said "Argh I can't read this!!" The contrast in quality was too stark to handle. Melora hops like a desert bird?!? Someone got paid to write this?

I really love Riker captaining the Titan, which is a cool ship and interesting crew. I will chug along a few more in this series because some of the later ones have different authors. But I only recommend this to a die hard Trek fan who isn't in a mood to be troubled by poor quality prose.

I tried to think of a concise way to relate the initial plot of this book. The problem is, (besides my lack of writing skills) is that this novel is half a story that takes place after one or two other novels. (Not to mention four seasons of television episodes.) Although Mr. Martin does bring the reader up to speed, I'm a bit stymied as to how to pull off a similar feat here. So let me simply put it this way: The crew of the Earth ship Enterprise (NX-01) fight against Romulans. Mr. Martin tells the tale in a way I liked from Harry Turtledove's Timeline-191 series, capturing the events of the larger conflict from the viewpoints of different characters. However, I didn't find many of the characters very compelling and would much rather have read a tale that only featured the Enterprise crew.
--J.

Liked this "new to me" crew and the plot set-up was interesting, but I had a lot of trouble getting into the story and found myself wishing for a better resolution at the end. Enjoyed the use of some obscure TOS episode references along with the use of the Tholians as a major antagonist.

I am not sure if it was the author or what but I really find it hard to care about the USS Titan and her crew...

Like the last book in this series there are two separate stories by two separate authors. Also like the last book one is really good and one is not. The first story takes place on Trill and focuses on the aftermath of the parasites attack from Unity and political and civil turmoil that resulted. It was incredibly entertaining, and like Left Hand of Destiny there is some great back story with one entirely unbelievable scene.

The second story focusestakes place on Bajor and focuses in the Sisko family in their new home. The author tries really hard to be creative but in the end its nearly 300 pages to tell us that Jake Sisko has a new love interest, and she tries to give us a surprise ending. I am looking forward to see how other Start Tek authors take the story, but on its own it wouldn't be worth reading.

The final battles of the Earth -Romulan war. The creation of the Neutral Zone. The final fates of Charles Trip Tucker. All these and other plot elements come to their conclusion in this final volume.
The series of books is worth reading if you are into Star Trek lore, and if you loved the TV series. This is direction the series should have gone. If it had the series would not have been canceled so abruptly.

I suggest that you get all 4 volumes at the same and read them straight through. Each work can stand independently, but it definitely more fun to read them in the order they were meant to be read.

Did you ever wonder how and why the Kobayashi Maru test became the make or break test for Star Fleet officers? Then this book is for you. In it you meet the crew of the Koayashi Maru and see how their fate was tied into the larger tapestry of looming Earth Romulan War.

This book is the 1st of 4 books that reveal how Enterprise the TV series should have ended. The other books in the series ae Star Trek Enterprise (STE) Kobayashi Maru, STE The Romulan War Beneath the Rapots Wing, and STE The Roomulan War To Brave the Storm. These books tell the story Captian Archer's crew from the end of Xindi War to the beginning of the Federation of Planets. The writer does not cheat his readers with time travel or magic aliens but tells a great tale.

The Good that men do focuses on the early adventures of Charles Trip Tucker. His story will be woven through the fabric of the next three books. This book looks at his recruitment into Section 31 and his infiltration into the Romulan Star Empire.

The book is a great read and by the end of it you will want to read the next 3 books.

While there was no formal declaration of war between the Earth Coalition forces and the Romulan Star Emprire, they are at war. Learn why the Vulcans were reluctant to enter the war on Earth's side. Yet learn how their spies wreaked havok on the Romulans See how the Enterprise and Captain Archer earned redemption after the Koyashi Maru affair. Learn how Politics inside of the Romulan Empire influenced decisions in the war.

Erst einmal zu den negativen Dingen: Das Hörbuch war unglaublich schlecht und langweilig gesprochen und offenbar hat niemand Detlef Bierstedt gesagt, wie die Namen der Personen ausgesprochen werden, mit denen er nicht bei der Synchronisation von Star Trek: Next Generation zu tun hatte. Das war überaus enttäuschend, da ich ihn bisher als guten Sprecher kenne (z.B. kürzlich von "Metro 2033"). Doch selbst die schlechteste Lesung kann nicht den Inhalt kaputt machen, und den fand ich tatsächlich großartig.

Die Handlung hat sich zwar etwas zäh aufgebaut, Aufzählung und Einführung der ganzen neuen Besatzungsmitglieder waren am Anfang zu viel und verwirrend. Doch als sie im späteren Verlauf immer wieder vorkamen, mir durch ihre Hintergrundgeschichten und ihre Interaktion untereinander immer näher gebracht wurden, sind sie mir vollkommen vertraut geworden. Teilweise habe ich mich wie ein Teil der Besatzung gefühlt, der diesen Personen täglich begegnet. Wunderbar umgesetzt und die absolute Stärke des Buches, die mir länger im Bewusstsein bleiben wird als die eigentliche Handlung. Jeder einzelne Charakter war faszinierend und vielschichtig umgesetzt.

Die Handlung an sich: Nun ja, ich konnte nie so viel mit den Romulanern anfangen und den Film "Nemesis", dessen Fortsetzung hier erzählt wird, halte ich für das Schlechteste, was mir je in Sachen Star Trek vorgesetzt wurde. Vielleicht sollte ich jetzt einfach mal das Buch zum Film lesen, denn viele der Rückblicke auf die Handlung haben doch mein Interesse geweckt. Oder ich überwinde mich, und schaue sogar noch einmal den Film.

Alles in allem hat mich der Auftakt der Titan-Reihe so begeistert, dass ich mir die Serie auf jeden Fall komplett zulegen werde. Meine bisherige Einschränkung "Ich lese nur Star-Trek-Classic-Romane" wurde mit diesem Roman beendet.

Es hat unfassbar lange gedauert und einen Lesemarathon auf Lovelybooks, an dem ich gestern/heute teilgenommen habe, benötigt, bis ich dieses Buch geschafft habe. Was einerseits an einem Arbeitswechsel genau zu der Zeit, als ich damit in der Hörbuchversion begonnen hatte, gelegen hat (bei der neuen Arbeit war bzw. ist 8h tägliches Hörbuch hören nicht mehr möglich), andererseits aber auch daran, dass es sich unglaublich langweilig hingezogen hat. Aber nun bin ich durch und mehr als ein "Es war okay" hat es wirklich nicht verdient. Da mir der erste Teil der Serie aber so gut gefallen hat und ich die Charaktere wirklich gerne mag, werde ich natürlich der "Titan" treu bleiben und auch die weiteren Bücher lesen.

Best of the newer SNG novels by far. I usually don't venture into the post-Star Trek universe anymore.The plot is interesting and the dialog is better than most novels written by the hack writers delegated to making more money for the Paramount people.