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hyliansidekick's review against another edition
adventurous
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
3.0
ren0901's review against another edition
4.0
Good read but some time consuming grind...
...good plots (though flashbacks & flashforwards can be confusing) and characters. Don't expect a linear read...this time travel story has plenty of twists, turns, and loops. Bennett did a good job tying in previous ST characters & events. For me, the effort was worth it...
...good plots (though flashbacks & flashforwards can be confusing) and characters. Don't expect a linear read...this time travel story has plenty of twists, turns, and loops. Bennett did a good job tying in previous ST characters & events. For me, the effort was worth it...
kgagne's review against another edition
3.0
I like that this book tied into almost every instance of time travel that ever occurred in the television series, but it had a bit much going on. The narrative itself leapt through time, telling the backstory of each major character, making it a bit challenging to remember when each event happened. I think the story should've focused on one major plot, instead of the two simultaneous threats to the timeline that it addressed without ever tying them into each other.
blkmymorris's review against another edition
3.0
It was aslog, but I finally finished this book. I don't think I could read another book about several types of time travel. This is 3 books in one - the story of Lucsley and Dulmur's partnership, the Temporal Cold War, and Ranjea and Garcia. Not to mention almost every Star Trek property is mentioned : books, TV shows, movies, and so on.
It's a 2.5.
It's a 2.5.
dreamwanderer's review against another edition
1.0
I hate giving this book such a low rating but the truth is, I started it several months ago and got lost in the temporal technobabble and returned it. I decided to give it another chance, got a little further along and realized that nothing about this book was appealing to me and I returned it, again.
The reason I hate to give it such a low rating is I like almost everything else Christopher Bennett has written. The mechanics are done well and it is a good idea. Something about it just fell flat to me and didn't give me enough cause to care about what was happening or the characters.
I will not continue with this series. Chris Bennet has written plenty of other things that I DO like and I look forward to his future contributions to the Trek tie-in universe.
The reason I hate to give it such a low rating is I like almost everything else Christopher Bennett has written. The mechanics are done well and it is a good idea. Something about it just fell flat to me and didn't give me enough cause to care about what was happening or the characters.
I will not continue with this series. Chris Bennet has written plenty of other things that I DO like and I look forward to his future contributions to the Trek tie-in universe.
dorward's review against another edition
2.0
There are some good ideas in here, but the book suffers from being terribly unfocused.
It has a B-plot that is entirely disconnected from the A-plot, but which has stronger ideas (and deserves a book of its own).
The A-plot combines the origin story of one of the main characters (who has had about 5 minutes of screen time previously, so we don't care enough about him to worry about his backstory that much) with an attempt to reference every time travel episode of TNG and DS9 with the odd dip into Voyager, the original series and Enterprise for not so good measure. Again, there is a good story in there, but it needs flesh of its own and not one pieced together with references to old Star Trek episodes, of which there are far too many.
On the upside, it does manage to answer some questions about The Temporal Cold War and makes a lot of Enterprise make more sense in doing so.
It has a B-plot that is entirely disconnected from the A-plot, but which has stronger ideas (and deserves a book of its own).
The A-plot combines the origin story of one of the main characters (who has had about 5 minutes of screen time previously, so we don't care enough about him to worry about his backstory that much) with an attempt to reference every time travel episode of TNG and DS9 with the odd dip into Voyager, the original series and Enterprise for not so good measure. Again, there is a good story in there, but it needs flesh of its own and not one pieced together with references to old Star Trek episodes, of which there are far too many.
On the upside, it does manage to answer some questions about The Temporal Cold War and makes a lot of Enterprise make more sense in doing so.
phasedchirp's review against another edition
3.0
Fun, although much more serious than I'd been expecting.
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