It may be hard to remember thanks to how long the previous book was and all the sick leaves, but there was a time when I was trying to decide between three books, all of them based on a popular series. The first was a Doctor Who novel that won the poll because my time lord-loving friend was the only one who voted. (This is what I mean about polls being a waste of time for me to put up.) The second we just finished, based on the BattleTech franchise. Thus it is time for the third and final book, and it’s a Star Trek book. Because I have a lot of Star Trek novels. It’s probably the longest series of novels in my prose collection, and I don’t even own close to all of them.
The last time I reviewed a Star Trek novel it was slightly disappointing. Enterprise: The First Adventure told a possible story of Kirk’s first mission as Captain of the USS Enterprise and every character who got a back story was a sad, depressing one. Nobody joined Starfleet because they always dreamed of going into space or had skills that would be useful elsewhere. Everybody had some bad event or grew up someplace they wanted to escape as their primary motivation. The story itself was imaginative but just felt kind of weird I guess. I did a book review for The Clutter Reports and it links back to that series of Chapter By Chapter reviews. Will this one be better? Honestly going by the back cover description I have concerns, and only the fact that our co-authors are very familiar with this series gives me any hope. I’ll explain as we discuss our next Chapter By Chapter book review….
