By the Book

An original adventure starring Captain Jonathan Archer and the crew of the very first USS Enterprise Chief Engineer Trip Tucker III, Chief Medical Officer Dr Phlox, Science Officer T Pol, Communications Officer Hoshi Sato, Tactical Officer Malcolm Reed and Helmsman Travis Mayweather.In their first few weeks in space, Captain Archer and his crew have already discovered several new species and explored strange new worlds Each new planet brings new discoveries and new dangers none so than the curious planet half of which is inhabited by the Fazi, with their highly regulated culture in which strict protocols govern everything from their conversation to the design of their buildings After a disastrous first contact with the Fazi, Archer must depend on the diplomatic skills of Vulcan science officer T Pol and the linguistic talents of communications officer Ensign Hoshi Sato to help him mend relations with the people of this planet and unravel the mystery of the other beings with which they share their world. Best Read By the Book by Dean Wesley Smith For Kindle ePUB or eBook – kino-fada.fr 3.5 stars.My new Star Trek reading plan is to get thru all the Enterprise novels in tandem with my rewatch of the show, since there s relatively few of them The relaunch novels starting with The Goid That Men Do get generally favorable press reviews while the 6 original novels get less positive reviews.This book is a fair but not great start to the series it has a decent premise, and is definitely readable, but ultimately fails to truly deliver.The two plots, while impacting each other 3.5 stars.My new Star Trek reading plan is to get thru all the Enterprise novels in tandem with my rewatch of the show, since there s relatively few of them The relaunch novels starting with The Goid That Men...The book is split into two parts the first part is a first contact with an alien species that goes sideways The second, and seeminglyimportant part to the authors, is a role playing game played between five of the crewman that in minor ways affect the first contact plotline I have to applaud the authors for trying this It is a really fresh take on a Star Trek novel By the time this book came out there were literally hundreds of other books giving us straight ahead Star Trek stories The book is split into two parts the first part is a first contact with an alien species that goes sideways The second, and seeminglyimportant part to the authors, is a role playing game played between five of the crewman that in minor ways affect the first contact plotline I have to applaud the authors for trying this It is a really fresh take on a Star Trek ...A strong effort for the first original Enterprise novel It s clear that there were a few things that weren t set in stone about the series at the time the novel was written, but the story ends up looking a lotlike the actual series than the first original Star Trek The Next Generation novel resembled that series Some of the characterizations are a bit off, and a b plot seems fairly unconnected to the main narrative, but By the Book was still an enjoyable read for the most part.Full A strong effort for the first original Enterprise novel It s clear that there were a few things that weren t set in stone about the series at the time ...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 And why don t the residents acknowledge the southern continent of their world While this really could have been a story for just about any Star Trek crew, what makes this one so unique as an Enterprise Era story is that it s 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 And why don t the residents acknowledge the southern continent of their world While this really could have been a story for just about any Star Trek crew, what makes this one so unique as an Enterprise Era story is that it s the first time a human crew has attempted a first contact Archer himself is biased by how the Vulcans treated their relationship with humanity and he...This is the very first Enterprise original novel and there are a few things that feel slightly off to me I don t remember Porthos sleeping on the bridge before and here Archer routinely calls his crew members by their surnames instead of the first names he favored on the series And the relationship between him and T Pol is completely without warmth Or respect, frankly Still, it s not so far off the mark from the earlier episodes of Season One for this series I really didn t care for the This is the very first Enterprise original novel and there are a few things that feel slightly off to me I don t remember Porthos sleeping on the bridge before and here Archer routinely calls his crew members by their surnames instead of the first names he favored on the series And the relationship between him and T Pol is completely without warmth Or respect, frankly Still, it s not so far off the mark from the earlier episodes of Season One for this series I really didn t care for the role playing game subplot which never tied in with the main plot of the novel as directly as I thought it would, but the real challenge confronting the Enterprise crew here is making First Contact on a planet with two very different sentient races who happen to share the same planet Having this mission take place in novel format rather than a 45 minute long television episode allows for anuanced exploration of the issues involved and the unusual focus on secondary ship characters gives this one a Low...Ugh This book Don t bother There are two story lines in this book that have pretty much nothing to do with each other aside from the few times the authors manage to tie them together in the most cliche ways One is about an RPG that some of the crew are playing Reading these chapters is about as interesting aswatching someone else play an RPGThese chapters were painfully boring, and pointless The other story was about first contact with a world that has two sentient species Ugh This book Don t bother There are two story lines in this book that have pretty much nothing to do with each other aside from the few times the authors manage to tie them together in the mo...That was an interesting concept I would have liked to see it from authors with some affection for the characters, or the concept of characterization, or the concept of showing as opposed to telling, or the construction of a compelling plot, or the show bible, or the Star Trek universe.Quick easy read Enjoyable adventure The characters were portrayed pretty well exactly as you ll remember them from the early TV series episodes Except that Porthos finds himself lazily snoozing on the bridge at one point An interesting mission that involves fumbled first contacts and unexpected new alien relationships Hoshi has a lot of work cut out for her, trying to nut out an alien language where sentence structure isimportant than specific words The aliens are interesting and Quick easy read Enjoyable adventure The characters were portrayed pretty we...A good series begins hereArcher and his crew arrive above a strange planet containing a race that is very structured in what they do He messes up first contact with the race Will be ever make a good first c...Really great read I had a great time with this book, there were humorous parts of this book that actually made me laugh out loud and when the story got tense, I couldn t stop reading This book will not change the world but its not trying to It s definitely worth your time.

• English
• 07 August 2019
Dean Wesley Smith
• Mass Market Paperback
• 252 pages
• 0743448715
• Dean Wesley Smith
• By the Book