Reviews

The Antares Maelstrom by Greg Cox

billt2172's review against another edition

3.0

There are 3 plots in this book:
1) Captain Kirk & the Enterprise crew assist a planet during a mining boon / disaster
2) Lt. Sulu & detached officers assist @ a space station leading to the planet
3) Spock & Chekov are sent to another planet to solve an issue related to item 1

The book tries to fit an A, B, & C plot into this one novel & it just doesn't work for me.

yoshi83's review against another edition

4.0

The book does a good job with all of the characters from the series. The theme of helping people being more important than material gains is a good message. Spock and Chekov get a nice subplot about investigating smugglers who are breaking the Prime Directive. I recommend The Antares Maelstrom.

dreamwanderer's review

4.0

A fun adventure story, set during the original Five-Year timeline. A rush of prospectors wishing to get rich quick flock to a non federation planet, overtaxing the locals. The Enterprise comes to help, but Kirk splits the crew up. Sulu has to remain on an overwhelmed Space Station, the last stop before said planet, Spock and Chekov are off to stop some smugglers and preserve the Prime Directive, and McCoy and Scotty are on the planet surface working with limited resources. The story switches back and forth quite a lot, so if you're not a fan of that, give it a miss, but I like seeing different points of view and I always like reading about Spock and young Chekov interacting.

It's fun, well written and everything an original Star Trek story should be.

One star off for the romance. Not needed, but the good thing is, it's barely there.

adamdavidcollings's review

4.0

A fun adventure that takes the crew members of the Enterprise on a number of interconnected missions. I liked the premise of a space gold rush. It lead to a lot of interesting plot ideas.