World Famous Comics: Aftermath (Star Trek) (Starfleet Corps of Engineers #29)
Aftermath (Star Trek) (Starfleet Corps of Engineers #29)
From: Star Trek / Simon Says Publisher: Star Trek / Simon Says Average Rating: Binding: Paperback Label: Star Trek / Simon Says Number of Items: 1 Number of Pages: 640 Publication Date: November 21, 2006
Product Description: Having recovered from the catastrophic events of Wildfire, the Starfleet Corps of Engineers team on the U.S.S. da Vinci meets its new second officer: Mor glasch Tev, an arrogant Tellarite who's the best there is -- and he knows it.
Even as Captain Gold and Commander Gomez get used to their acerbic new officer, the S.C.E. team faces crises in its own solar system. A strange vessel appears in the middle of San Francisco that the S.C.E. must deal with -- aided by engineers extraordinaire Montgomery Scott and Miles O'Brien. Then they have to help the Venus terraforming team -- a mission that brings Bynar computer expert Soloman to a difficult crossroads.
That's only the beginning of the challenges for the Corps as it faces a Ferengi with a time machine, a prison colony in a black hole -- and a mission from the Dominion War that comes back to haunt the da Vinci crew in more ways than one. . . .
Enjoyable read, good stories. I'd have preferred if they had simply stepped up the pace at which they put out mass-market paperbacks, rather than going to the Trade Paperback format in order to fit in more stories; I find trade paperbacks to have all of the worst characteristics of both mass-market paperbacks & hardcovers: they're awkward & bulky, inconvenient to carry around, like hardcovers, and they wear out quickly, like trade paperbacks. In fact, they wear out MORE quickly, because it's harder to find convenient ways of carrying them so they tend to get crammed into spaces that a regular paperback would fit into nicely. But the stories themselves are about par for the course for this series, which is to say above-average science fiction, if not outstanding enough to rate five stars.
Good, But Could Have Been Better After the events of Wildfire and Breakdowns, I was looking forward to seeing the crew move on to new adventures with new crewmates. Some of the stories here are good--"Collective Hindsight", I think, is the best---but some are disappointing, particularly, for me, "Buying Time". Too much time is spent telling us that the character Tev is brusque and hard to deal with, but no one ever sits him down and explains to him the need to adjust his interactions with humans, or, for that matter, explains to the humans the similar need on their parts. Also, in some stories, much time is spent setting up the problem to be solved and too little time is spent on the resolution of the problem. It's just "Poof! Problem solved!" with little sense of the details. I hope to see better in the future.
Series Eight Captain Gold and the crew of the U.S.S. da Vinci are back in S.C.E. series eight to save the Universe from invasions from subspace, terraforming gone awry, runaway spaceships and a Ferengi with a time machine !!! Worth reading if you have enjoyed the other SCE books.
Of the hundreds of Star Trek books I've read... I give it 3 out of 5 stars. A nice read and the characters are fairly interesting but I'm spoiled by all the other Star Trek books I've read over the past 10 to 12 years. Not the best but worth a pleasant read.
These are the further voyages... If any book title was any more apt... This book is, of course, a continuation of the Star Trek SCE/Corps Of Engineers ebook series in paperback form. Ebooks are, from what I understand, the equivalent of books as PDF files (using PDF as a generic idea of a document in image form), using a specialized PDA. I've only ever read the paperback versions. The main theme for this edition is not the technical problem solving, although you'll be surprise by some of the solutions: Playing 'hide-and-seek' by deliberately parking an alien spaceship in the middle of a sun? The theme is... beginning to deal with the 'aftermath' of losing so many familiar crew members from the previous episodes/chapters. As such, while I personally found it to be somewhat slow- Can you say "sequel"?- it's a good start to the next stage.
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