Deep Space Spines has a review up for John Vornholt‘s “Star Trek: The Next Generation: 7 Masks“: This week, the Enterprise and Ambassador Davy Crockett explore a planet that’s all masks all the time. While Picard bunks with a new lady friend, Riker gets worried enough about the captain’s curfew to cruise the neighborhood looking […]
Deep Space Spines has a review up for “Star Trek V: The Final Frontier“, a book written in group effort by David Loughery, Harve Bennett, J.M. Dillard, and William Shatner : Yesterday marked the celebration of Thanksgiving in America, and what better way to commemorate the occasion than to review the Star Trek film that features an unexpected family reunion? […]
Deep Space Spines has a review up for “Star Trek: The Next Generation: 6 Power Hungry“: This week, the Enterprise-D catering team delivers a few cases of Rice-a-Roni to a planet that needs to take a chill pill in more ways than one. While the planet’s ruler pushes his one-world agenda and plays around with […]
Deep Space Spines has a review up for “Star Trek: 45 Double, Double“: This week, we’re sending in the clones for the sequel to one of the earliest TOS adventures. An android returning from an expedition on Exo III finds the house empty and continues Dr. Roger Korby’s work by making another Kirk android, but […]
Deep Space Spines has a review up for “Star Trek: The Next Generation: 5 Strike Zone“: This week, we meet the Kreel, who have spent over a century being the Klingons’ punching bags. But when the Kreel find an abandoned stash of powerful weapons on a backwater planet, the tables turn, and shockingly, the Klingons […]
Deep Space Spines has a review up for “Star Trek: 44 Vulcan’s Glory“: This week, we’re going all the way back to the oldest of the old-school: Captain Pike, sweaters, a number-one named Number One, the whole shebang. It’s Spock’s very first mission aboard the Enterprise, and Starfleet thinks it’s got a lead on the […]
Deep Space Spines has a review up for “Star Trek: The Next Generation: 3 The Children Of Hamlin“: This week, when the Enterprise answers a distress call, the attackers, a race called the Choraii, turn out to be the culprits behind one of the Federation’s worst massacres on record. They pick up an ambassador and […]
Deep Space Spines has a review up for “Star Trek: 42 Memory Prime“: This week, Spock is honored to host a delegation of scientists who are in the neighborhood for the Nobel/Z.Magnees Prize ceremonies. It’s not long, however, before he subsequently gets framed for their attempted murder. To clear his friend’s name, Kirk will have […]
Deep Space Spines has a review up for “Star Trek: The Next Generation: 2 The Peacekeepers“: This week, when Geordi and Data poke around a derelict station, they wind up with a one-way ticket to a zero-G peace resort halfway across the galaxy. But even though the guy running the joint destroyed the entire nuclear […]
Deep Space Spines has a review up for “Star Trek: 39 The Yesterday Saga Book 2: Time For Yesterday“: Today it’s time for Time for Yesterday, the sequel to one of only a handful of books from the earliest days of the Pocketverse that can unequivocally be called good. When stars begin prematurely going nova, an […]
Deep Space Spines has a review up for “Star Trek: 31 Fortunes Of War Book 2: Battlestations!“: Hot on the heels of Diane Carey’s debut Trek novel Dreadnought! comes its sequel, the similarly exclamation-marked Battlestations!. A hot new (well, not totally new) technology has been stolen, and Piper’s friend and crewmate Sarda is the prime suspect. Can Piper clear his […]
Deep Space Spines has a review up for “Star Trek: Enterprise: The First Adventure“: Published exactly twenty years after Star Trek made its television debut, let’s join Kirk as he learns on a particularly stressful first outing that heavy lies the wrist that wears the command stripes. Available on Amazon.com, Books-A-Million.com, or E-Bay.
Deep Space Spines has a review up for “Star Trek: 30 Demons“: This week, almost everyone on the Enterprise and most of the population of Vulcan fall prey to energy-based brain parasites that take over their minds, and it looks like the only cure is fresh air and exorcise. Will Spock, Bones, and the New […]
Deep Space Spines has a review up for “Star Trek: 29 Fortunes Of War Book 1: Dreadnought!“: Like Dwellers in the Crucible not long before it, Dreadnought! uses original characters as Kirk and Spock stand-ins to explore the yin and yang of the human/Vulcan dynamic, though this time there’s also a pinch of notice-me-senpai wish fulfillment for good measure. […]
Deep Space Spines has a review up for “Star Trek: 28 Crisis On Centaurus”: Ferguson front-loaded Crisis on Centaurus with a bunch of backstory to give the mission more personal gravitas, though ultimately most of it doesn’t matter… Available on Amazon.com , Books-A-Million.com or E-Bay
Deep Space Spines has a review up for “Star Trek: 27 Mindshadow“: Mindshadow also explores something I think is interesting yet gets glossed over a lot, which is the amount of stress a mission rapidly going south can put on a crew, especially its captain
