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Enterprise:
What Price Honor? by Dave Stern 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. Check out website: www.startrek.com and www.simonsays.co.uk
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.
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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OTHER REVIEWS - January 2003
Other reviews: January 2003 Mermaids And Magic Shows: The Paintings Of David Delamare with text by Nigel Suckling Engine City (Engines Of Light Book 3) by Ken MacLeod Enterprise: Shockwave - novelisation by Paul Ruditis Tales From Earthsea by Ursula LeGuin Restoration (book 2 of The Rai-Kirah) by Carol Berg Star Wars II: Attack Of The Clones Exile's Honor by Mercedes Lackey Smallville: Strange Visitors by Roger Stern Smallville: Dragon by Alan Grant Star Trek: Gateways: What Lay Beyond (book 7 of 7) Enterprise: What Price Honor? by Dave Stern The House On The Borderland And Other Novels by William Hope Hodgson In Search Of Forever by Rodney Mathews with text by Nigel Suckling Splintered Light: Logos And Language In Tolkien's World (Revised Edition) by Verlyn Flieger Buffy The Vampire Slayer: The Script Book Season 2 Volume 3
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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.
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. 
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