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Title:
The Good That Men Do
Reviewer:
Raesintoast
Review Date:
October 23, 2023
Review:
This is the first of the novels that I think the plot actually really excited me!! In the show Tucker’s death feels so worthless. Random aliens board the ship, he dies taking them down so that Archer can live. It felt very out of the blue and like it wasn’t necessary. I...
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Title:
Rosetta
Reviewer:
Raesintoast
Review Date:
September 20, 2023
Review:
I read this book with kind of a long pause in the middle so it is hard to really get my thoughts together on this one. I feel like I appreciated Hoshi's trauma from her abduction getting to be explored a little more than it did in the show. It makes sense that this would ha...
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Title:
Cadet Kirk
Reviewer:
Jayster5
Review Date:
August 23, 2023
Review:
Cadet Jimmy Kirk gets a plumb assignment to shuttle the illustrious Dr. Richard Daystrom to a scientific conference. But after a last-minute change in plans, he ends up flying a couple of newly-minted Ensigns instead - Spock and McCoy. Things really go sideways when the shu...
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Title:
Aftershock
Reviewer:
Jayster5
Review Date:
July 12, 2023
Review:
Leonard McCoy just wants to study for his metabolic stasis exam, but his dormmates talk him into a midnight game of touch football. It all goes south from there. After getting caught in a violation of Academy rules, McCoy is pushed to join the Disaster Relief Service Club....
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Title:
Academy: Collision Course
Reviewer:
Jayster5
Review Date:
July 11, 2023
Review:
Two teenagers meet when they follow separate mysteries that lead to Starfleet Academy in San Francisco. Jim Kirk is a rebellious young man with a troubled past he's trying to overcome, and Spock is a Vulcan trying to find his place. But when these two come together, they ju...
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Title:
By the Book
Reviewer:
Raesintoast
Review Date:
January 7, 2022
Review:
First of all DnD in my Star Trek???? Amazing. I didn’t mention it in the summary because it really doesn’t relate to the plot but we keep getting little bits of them playing in the mess hall. Hoshi gets pulled away to work on the planet below, and gets replaced by Ethan...
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Title:
Remnant
Reviewer:
Raesintoast
Review Date:
December 12, 2021
Review:
Eh I have some mixed thoughts about this story. Something about the ending just truly did not sit right with me. Malcolm crying at this old woman dying isn’t necessarily out of character but it didn’t feel like it fit correctly. The old woman’s xenophobia was so short...
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Title:
Hoshi's Gift
Reviewer:
Raesintoast
Review Date:
December 12, 2021
Review:
I thought this story was interesting. The first thing I did was look up Vulcan firebird to see if that was a thing in the series that I wasn't familiar with, but it looks like the author came up with it. Which is interesting to come up with something like that for a short s...
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Title:
Egg Drop Soup
Reviewer:
Raesintoast
Review Date:
December 12, 2021
Review:
The heart of this story I thought was good. It was a quintessential why doctors do what they do kind of story. I love Phlox, I think he is a top notch character. Him making these kinds of connections with someone else feels realistic to me, but it did feel very rushed even...
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Title:
Preconceptions
Reviewer:
Raesintoast
Review Date:
October 30, 2021
Review:
This story was very pleasant. Trip had a strong and believable character voice which I deeply enjoyed. My main focus in this story was actually Velik. As someone who works in education, I couldn't help but take notice of how good Velik's teaching was. He employs active lear...
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Title:
A Girl for Every Star
Reviewer:
Raesintoast
Review Date:
October 27, 2021
Review:
What a breath of fresh air after the complete duds of the last short stories in this chronological order. This story was so adorable I loved it. Baby Jon archer? Honestly I liked him better than adult Jon Archer. He has charm, genuineness, excitement, and spunk. I also quit...
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Title:
World of Strangers
Reviewer:
Raesintoast
Review Date:
October 24, 2021
Review:
It is set in an interesting new format which I appreciate, it was organized by time stamps (military time of course). This kept it flowing a bit better than her other Enterprise Logs Story "The Veil at Valcour". That is about the only nice thing I have to say about this sto...
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Title:
The Veil at Valcour
Reviewer:
Raesintoast
Review Date:
October 24, 2021
Review:
First of all this is a bit of genre that I know I disliked, I honestly like historical fiction just not the war themed ones. After reading this short story? I still dislike it. The first few pages were so much naval jargon I wanted to stop, if this had been a full length no...
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Title:
The Beginning
Reviewer:
Raesintoast
Review Date:
October 24, 2021
Review:
All in all I thought this was a quality short story. The author managed to build the Borg’s home world in a few short pages. She filled it will a society that believes in advancement and learning, and then tears it down a few pages later. I think Reed also makes the Borg...
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Title:
Crisis on Vulcan
Reviewer:
Jayster5
Review Date:
August 23, 2021
Review:
Ambassador Sarek is concluding the negotiations of a peace treaty in the Marath system. His teenaged son, Spock, is along as part of the entourage to observe and learn before his admittance to the Vulcan Science Academy. But not all parties are pleased with the terms of the...
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Title:
Drastic Measures
Reviewer:
Jayster5
Review Date:
July 21, 2021
Review:
Tarsus IV is facing a desperate situation. A viral contamination is destroying all the crops and existing food supplies in the colony and any help is thought to be weeks away. Emergency powers grant the governorship to Kodos, and he implements a terrible strategy of executi...
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Title:
By the Book
Reviewer:
profjej
Review Date:
October 25, 2020
Review:
I read most of this book on airplanes flying to and from a conference. It was a good read for that sort of trip: engaging but not too demanding. In the Star Trek timeline, this story falls in the first quarter of season 1 of Enterprise, after the events of "Strange New Worl...
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Title:
The Beginning
Reviewer:
Sailor_Sega
Review Date:
October 24, 2020
Review:
Good story that gives a backstory to the Borg and the Borg Queen. The only downside is that it was fairly obvious early on that she was being transformed into the Borg Queen and I would have liked to have seen more of the story devoted to the building of the first Borg Cub...
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Reviewer:
Jayster5
Review Date:
July 11, 2020
Review:
In the wake of the Ware crisis and its aftermath, the Federation debates policies of non-interference. But a situation of their own creation on Sauria may make non-interference an impossibility. Trip conspires with Archer and Reed to discredit Section 31 while bringing a re...
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Reviewer:
Jayster5
Review Date:
April 28, 2020
Review:
Honestly, there's a lot going on in this book! And that's actually a good thing! Principally, Bennett continues the stories from two television episodes of Enterprise ("Dead Stop" and "The Breach") and brings them to worthwhile and satisfying conclusions. Bennett has been e...
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Reviewer:
Jayster5
Review Date:
March 19, 2020
Review:
The two storylines in this book are equally entertaining and exciting. I was engaged with the whole novel and really couldn't wait for the next turn in the story. It's also intriguing that both stories pick up plot threads from the TV show and develop them beyond what we sa...
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Reviewer:
Jayster5
Review Date:
February 24, 2020
Review:
The fledgling Federation is looking to expand, and that brings the worlds of Rigel under consideration. While Archer attends a conference on the issue at the diplomatic facilities on Babel, the crew of the Pioneer is learning more about the cultures and peoples of the Rige...
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Reviewer:
Jayster5
Review Date:
December 3, 2019
Review:
It's the early days of the Federation, but still they have made other powers nervous. Nervous enough to join forces to try and dismantle this new government. Archer and the crew of the Enterprise have been promoted and moved on to other ships - T'Pol now commands the End...
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Title:
Starfleet: Year One
Reviewer:
Jayster5
Review Date:
November 20, 2019
Review:
With the founding of the Federation, a combined forces Starfleet must be designed, assembled and deployed. Humans and their alien allies must now determine how to work together and how they will face the rest of the galaxy. The first six starship Captains are assembled from...
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Reviewer:
Jayster5
Review Date:
November 20, 2019
Review:
With their coalition allies taking a neutral stance, Earth and Alpha Centauri are left to fend off the rising Romulan treat alone. Desperate battles are fought as the Romulans continue to take systems closer and closer to Earth. A final assault is massing and Earth has few...
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Reviewer:
Jayster5
Review Date:
November 20, 2019
Review:
Feeling threatened by the newly christened Coalition of Planets, the Romulan Star Empire begins a campaign to halt Coalition expansion and shatter the young alliance. Through direct attack and covertly capturing Coalition ships and turning them against their allies, the Rom...
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Title:
Kobayashi Maru
Reviewer:
Jayster5
Review Date:
November 20, 2019
Review:
With the new Coalition of Planets just beginning to find its legs, threats to the shipping lanes have got the Enterprise patrolling to prevent pirate raids. But there is so much more going on as the Romulans are using a new remote control device to take over enemy ships and...
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Title:
The Good That Men Do
Reviewer:
Jayster5
Review Date:
November 20, 2019
Review:
Mangels and Martin basically rewrite and restructure the much-maligned series finale of Enterprise with this book. They take a number of ill-conceived plot elements are either rework them or refocus them to make sense in the greater over-all Star Trek canon and provide fans...
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Title:
Rosetta
Reviewer:
Jayster5
Review Date:
November 20, 2019
Review:
The Enterprise encounters an unknown alien ship that attacks them carefully to drive them out of an area it seems to be defending. Hoshi is unable to decipher the signal being broadcast from the ship meaning the crew cannot communicate with the aliens at all. After retreati...
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Title:
Last Full Measure
Reviewer:
Jayster5
Review Date:
November 20, 2019
Review:
The Enterprise is exploring the Delphic Expanse in search of the Xindi, who have attacked Earth and killed 7 million people. In an effort to stop a second attack, Archer and his crew search desperately for the Xindi homeworld. New additions to the crew are 36 soldiers from...
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Title:
Daedalus's Children
Reviewer:
Jayster5
Review Date:
November 20, 2019
Review:
The Enterprise and her crew are trapped in an alternate universe and in the middle of a civil war. While the proteins in this reality don't agree with the crew and are threatening their lives, the ship has been captured by the ruling faction and Trip and Hoshi have been tak...
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Title:
Daedalus
Reviewer:
Jayster5
Review Date:
November 20, 2019
Review:
As Enterprise approaches an anomaly near a system that seems to be pre-warp, they are suddenly attacked by a fleet of small ships. Despite the ship being completely overrun, Trip and Hoshi manage to escape in a cloaked Suliban cell-ship. Becoming involved with the underdog...
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Title:
Surak's Soul
Reviewer:
Jayster5
Review Date:
November 20, 2019
Review:
The Enterprise crew responds to a medical emergency but are too late to save the planet's population and have almost no idea what killed them. But once Doctor Phlox falls ill himself, the crew is faced with a race against time to find the source of the illness and stop it b...
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Title:
What Price Honor?
Reviewer:
Jayster5
Review Date:
November 20, 2019
Review:
The Enterprise answers a distress call and discovers an alien outpost on a small planetoid. But the crew soon discovers that they've stumbled into the middle of a war between two alien races over the technology from similar installations across this sector of space. Reed ge...
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Title:
By the Book
Reviewer:
Jayster5
Review Date:
November 20, 2019
Review:
Archer and his crew of the NX-01 Enterprise visit a planet of humanoids with the intention of making first contact with the residents. But the indigenous population has a very structured society with rules and conventions that the Enterprise crew doesn't fully comprehend. A...
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Title:
Strange New World
Reviewer:
wolverine79936
Review Date:
October 24, 2018
Review:
This episode was a tragedy. It was long-winded and boring. The only really good part was the teaser prior to the credits. After that, it went downhill rapidly. Alien spores from plants in the hills infect the crew when the wind kicks up and next thing you know, they are tal...
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Title:
Taking Wing
Reviewer:
wolverine79936
Review Date:
October 23, 2018
Review:
I've read a number of Star Trek novels, TOS, TNG, all series, really. But ST: Titan is one of my favorite series. It's a shame Paramount never took this to the screen, big or little. CAPTAIN Riker would have made such an awesome addition to the video series of Star Trek. De...
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Reviewer:
niksteve70
Review Date:
July 18, 2018
Review:
This movie seems to be more focused on the Visual Effects (which are great by way) than the story and character, which is a shame because there is a good story here. The pacing just kind of ruins it for me. This would have worked better as the Pilot for Phase II but compare...
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Title:
The Beginning
Reviewer:
hiromiyamoto27
Review Date:
June 2, 2018
Review:
Dialogue was stilted. Narration was even worse. But it was a very well-structured story, and given that this was the first story Reed ever sold, I can't be too critical.
Overall: 3/5.
Title:
Devil in the Sky
Reviewer:
hiromiyamoto27
Review Date:
June 2, 2018
Review:
Everyone is really only nominally in character. Kira is hotheaded and yells at everyone. Miles is an Irishman saying Irish things. Odo is gruff and disinterested. And Quark is a weird sex pervert.
It's like it was written by someone who saw maybe a small handful of season...
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