Enterprise: What Price Honor? by Dave Stern
01/01/2003 . Source: Donna Jones 
pub: Pocket Books/Simon and Schuster. 300 page paperback. Price: £ 5.99 (UK), $ 6.99 (US) and $10.50 (CAN). ISBN: 0-7434-6278-5. Buy from Amazon US - Buy from Amazon UK
nb: US titles may only be available from Amazon US, and UK titles from Amazon UK. Check out website: www.startrek.com and www.simonsays.co.uk
In answering what appears to be a distress signal, the crew of the Starship Enterprise NX-01 is thrown into what seems to be the middle of a war between two alien races, the Sarkassians and the Ta'alaat.
As a result of first contact with the aliens, one of Lieutenant Malcolm Reed's staff loses her life in very strange and mysterious circumstances.
All of a sudden, Reed is thrown into a situation where he feels, as her superior officer, that he must find out why Ensign Alana Hart died and how. As the second tie-in book for the new 'Enterprise' series, the initial chapters of this were slow-paced and very hard to read.
Characters were bland and at times didn't resemble the ones you know from the TV series. They could be any member of the crew, with indistinctive dialogue fans could be mislead and lose interest.
Unfortunately, this could stop many readers from continuing further and it would be a great shame because as the author carries the story on, he seems to finally get comfortable writing about the scenarios aboard the Enterprise.
In turn, the story starts to unfold and the reasoning behind the style of writing is explained.
Slipping from past to present to extrapolate the truth of the events also caused problems with the actual telling of the story but generally the story is a very clever one. Perhaps for that reason it suffers a little at the beginning because it is too clever in its conception.
The book finishes being quite close to the 'feel' of Enterprise and you do go away from it feeling as though you have just watched an episode. You also get more of an insight to the character of Malcolm Reed, which is probably the main reason for 'Star Trek' fans to read a tie-in.
This book does what good tie-ins do and expands on the depth and intricacies of the Star Trek Universe. This novel would appeal to the followers of the show, and perhaps even followers of the previous Roddenberry inspired genre without having seen this chapter of the Enterprise's life.
For those souls who have been living in a cave for over twenty-five years and don't know of 'Star Trek' it would be like water-skiing with loofas!
Donna Jones |
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