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A review by vingilot
Have Tech Will Travel: Star Trek S.c.e. by Keith R.A. DeCandido
5.0
Ah, the Starfleet Core of Engineers, I feel like I am home again.
i just love these stories, I just love this crew. I have read through the series twice before, and loved it more each time. Seriously anyone reading this, if you have not read these books and are the slightest bit interested in Star Trek you need to read these.
This is what I describe as a Star Trek show published in the form of books. Unlike most trek books these stories are the same length and scope as your average star trek episode. No longer do we need universe defying stakes in every other books, this is episodic story telling at its finest. yet it still has a definitive overarching story arc for the characters, and reading this first one in the series was great because you can see them all being set up. In particular I would recommend new readers pay attention to the Bynar characters...
If I had to point out a problem with this omnibus it would be this, La forge sticks around too long... He is the crossover charcter like Mcoy appearing in the pilot of TNG, Picard in the pilot of DS9, Quark on the pilot of Voyager, and Cochrane in Enterprise. However these were little more than cameos, La Forge sticks around for 3 episodes. This is not necessarily bad, but the tension between him and the main engineer character of these new books is also repeated thrice, a side effect of the different authors I suppose. Other than that there are just a few inconsistencies with the later books, but that is true of all the shows to some extent. Nothing that truly breaks the immersion.
This will be my first time reading the series on paper, and I am proud to have the books adorning my shelves. I look forward to the emotional rollercoaster that is the SCE, especially Wildfire which I simultaneously want to read right away, but also want to delay as long as possible. ANyone who has read it will understand.
i just love these stories, I just love this crew. I have read through the series twice before, and loved it more each time. Seriously anyone reading this, if you have not read these books and are the slightest bit interested in Star Trek you need to read these.
This is what I describe as a Star Trek show published in the form of books. Unlike most trek books these stories are the same length and scope as your average star trek episode. No longer do we need universe defying stakes in every other books, this is episodic story telling at its finest. yet it still has a definitive overarching story arc for the characters, and reading this first one in the series was great because you can see them all being set up. In particular I would recommend new readers pay attention to the Bynar characters...
If I had to point out a problem with this omnibus it would be this, La forge sticks around too long... He is the crossover charcter like Mcoy appearing in the pilot of TNG, Picard in the pilot of DS9, Quark on the pilot of Voyager, and Cochrane in Enterprise. However these were little more than cameos, La Forge sticks around for 3 episodes. This is not necessarily bad, but the tension between him and the main engineer character of these new books is also repeated thrice, a side effect of the different authors I suppose. Other than that there are just a few inconsistencies with the later books, but that is true of all the shows to some extent. Nothing that truly breaks the immersion.
This will be my first time reading the series on paper, and I am proud to have the books adorning my shelves. I look forward to the emotional rollercoaster that is the SCE, especially Wildfire which I simultaneously want to read right away, but also want to delay as long as possible. ANyone who has read it will understand.