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3.42 AVERAGE
3.42 AVERAGE
I just have to share two quotes from this book, chosen at random: "...catching the whiff of human evolution and the spice of a half-Vulcan and going deep into its pantry for answers" and "At this moment, the lair opened and Spock's unconcealed relief rushed out of sequester into the light for an occult flap across the open sky."
Star Trek goes Jurassic! The premise is great, an original approach to the change in the timeline of the universe, followed by a great return to a core part of the Star Trek universe to fix it. The expertise of the co-author in dinosaurs is obvious and greatly appreciated. I've read a dozen or so Star Trek novels and this is one of my favorites. Highly recommended!
A good story, but the writing wasn't great. You can also tell that one of the authors is a paleontologist and definitely not a writer.
Well, it's star Trek...with Dinosaurs! Not just dinosaurs, but time travelling dinosaurs from Earth! It's also got Klingons, Romulans, the Guardian of Forever, the Enterprise blowing up, and the Preservers...so Trek fans, how can it be bad?
Well, there's a lot of BS physics at the beginning, and honestly the story isn't very compelling until close to the end. I supose I enjoyed the read, but unless you're really looking for more ST and don't have a better one left to read...
Well, there's a lot of BS physics at the beginning, and honestly the story isn't very compelling until close to the end. I supose I enjoyed the read, but unless you're really looking for more ST and don't have a better one left to read...
After a reclusive alien species attacks a Federation research team on a barren world, the U.S.S. Enterprise is caught in an anomaly that saves it from a massive fluctuation in time. When they emerge, they find themselves in an Alpha Quadrant very different from the one they knew, with Romulans and Klingons engaged in a debilitating war that has devastated the galaxy and humans an unknown species. When the ship reaches Earth, they discover why, as they find a planet utterly devoid of intelligent life. As they grapple with the scope of the changes to the universe they know, the crew undertake a desperate mission designed to discover what has transpired — one that they hopefully can reverse before the violence around them destroys them all.
On the surface, Diane Carey's novel (which she co-wrote with paleontologist James I. Kirkland) seems like an effort by the Star Trek franchise to cash in on the post-Jurassic Park popularity of dinosaurs in 1990s science fiction, an impression that the book's cover art of what looks like a velociraptor from the movie looming behind Kirk and Spock does nothing to dispel. It doesn't help, either, that the book has more than its share of gaping plotholes, starting with how an isolated species would have learned about one of the Federation's greatest secrets. Yet Carey transcends these problems by using the premise to imagine what the Star Trek universe might have looked like without humanity. The result builds nicely upon the well-established concepts of the Klingons and Romulans to envision a war-torn galaxy that consumes all before it. From this emerges a powerful argument for the virtue of restraint in building a successful civilization, one that is emphasized further in Carey's portrayal of what might have happened had dinosaurs evolved. Such a values-centered message helps elevate Carey's book to among the best written for the franchise, as she achieves nicely the balance of ideals and adventure that has won for it so many generations of fans.
On the surface, Diane Carey's novel (which she co-wrote with paleontologist James I. Kirkland) seems like an effort by the Star Trek franchise to cash in on the post-Jurassic Park popularity of dinosaurs in 1990s science fiction, an impression that the book's cover art of what looks like a velociraptor from the movie looming behind Kirk and Spock does nothing to dispel. It doesn't help, either, that the book has more than its share of gaping plotholes, starting with how an isolated species would have learned about one of the Federation's greatest secrets. Yet Carey transcends these problems by using the premise to imagine what the Star Trek universe might have looked like without humanity. The result builds nicely upon the well-established concepts of the Klingons and Romulans to envision a war-torn galaxy that consumes all before it. From this emerges a powerful argument for the virtue of restraint in building a successful civilization, one that is emphasized further in Carey's portrayal of what might have happened had dinosaurs evolved. Such a values-centered message helps elevate Carey's book to among the best written for the franchise, as she achieves nicely the balance of ideals and adventure that has won for it so many generations of fans.