Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxl!houxm!houxz!vax135!cornell!uw-beaver!tektronix!hplabs!sri-unix!Gegenheimer.ES@XEROX.ARPA From: Gegenheimer.ES@XEROX.ARPA Newsgroups: net.movies Subject: Star Trek Book review - "My Enemy, My Ally" Message-ID: <12232@sri-arpa.UUCP> Date: Wed, 8-Aug-84 12:38:03 EDT Article-I.D.: sri-arpa.12232 Posted: Wed Aug 8 12:38:03 1984 Date-Received: Sat, 11-Aug-84 00:43:26 EDT Lines: 25 From: Bill GegenheimerFor those of us who read the Star Trek novels (and I think I've read them all), I'm sure that we find most of them a disappointment. I agree with the previous opinion (by Jef Poskanzer) that John Ford's "The Final Reflection" was one of the few worth reading, but that may have been because it had so little to do with the Enterprise that we had no expectations to compare it to. Anyway, the latest (as far as I know) Star Trek book is "My Enemy, My Ally" by Diane Duane. You may remember her as the author of "The Wounded Sky." However, even if you didn't like that one, this one is worth a look. It's a lot different that "TWS" and you get to see the Enterprise gang pretty much as you've come to know them from the show and movies. Lots of good cat and mouse games with the Romulans (Rihannsu, as they apparently call themselves), and some pretty good action. There are a few too many alien races around to make it feel like the normal Star Trek of the show and movies, and the book has a bit too much of the same feminist tilt as the other one she wrote, but on the whole, a decent yarn. ("Captain, why, when we are discussing a story, do you bring up knitting?") "Beam me up, Mr. Scott!" --Bill--