Hearts and Minds

The long journey to the Final Frontier! This is the third book in the “new era” of “Star Trek: The Next Generation”, in the literary expanding universe (Relaunch Universe), but you didn’t need per se having read any of the previous books if you wish to engage right away into this novel. CAPTAI......more

A good book made worse by unnecessary plot tie-ins This is about 90% of a good book, a great Star Trek tale about first contact with a civilization that had a tragic contact with Earth before the Federation existed. I really like the TNG focus on new crew members, instead of only focusing on the rema......more

When I was a kid the original Star Trek series was among my favorite shows. Though dated today in many respects (I'm sure somewhere on the Internet there's an essay about those minidresses that the female crewmembers wore), it was an exciting and fun series that offered an optimistic picture of the......more

This made for a super-fast holiday read, but a bleak and depressing one...especially for a Trek novel. As a conclusion to the Dayton Ward trilogy that starts with "From History's Shadow", it does a fine job, but it doesn't quite match the thrills & time-bending adventure of his previous novel, "Elus......more