What is This Book About? Taking place after the events of Star Trek: Generations, the Enterprise D is destroyed and Picard is without a ship. Commanding the newly commissioned Enterprise E for a shakedown cruise is Captain Bateson, a time-stranded Starfleet officer from the twenty-third century. Upon his arrival in the twenty-fourth century, Bateson was able to secure his rank as a starfleet captain, with the affirmation and support of Captain Picard. Bateson and his crew has had years to acquaint themselves with the twenty-fourth century, but as they’re given a chance to reassert their careers as part the Enterprise E’s shakedown crew, an old rivel from the twenty-third century is going to rear its face and threaten the shaky peace that still exists in the alpha quadrant.

My Review: This was an intriguing book that offered a brilliant story taking place between the Star Trek films Generations and First Contact. I also loved that this book delved into the life of Captain Bateson as his legacy was mostly dropped after he was first introduced in a Star Trek: The Next Generation episode. I mean, he was played by Kelsie Grammer, the premise and acting surely deserved its own series. Regardless, this is a fun read that follows two different missions that converge unto each other before the crew of the new Enterprise E and the Bozeman set sail to engage the Borg.

Three Words that Describe this Book: sci-fi, action, adventure

Give This A Try if You Like… The Articles of the Federation, Thrawn ( )

A really fun story that takes place between the movies Generations and First Contact. It was a lot of fun to follow the story of Captain Bateson after the episode "Cause and Effect" of TNG. Carey makes the characters and crew of the Bozeman every bit as interesting as the TNG characters. ( )

What a mess. Some interesting ideas, but it reads like Carey just typed away a bit at a time until she was done, and nobody edited it or checked it for clarity, typos, redundancy, internal consistency, plausible science, or even fitness for the TNG characters.

She even changed the name of a ship once - I was all 'ok, so the Klingons got the name of the (NN) wrong, when do we find out what other information from their agent is wrong?' Answer, never, because that's just a mistake not caught by the proofreader. Assuming there was a proofreader.

If Carey is resting on her laurels she should retire. ( )

This story takes place just after Star Trek Generations ends and just before Star Trek First Contact begins. It tells the tale of Morgan Bateson and the starship Bozeman and what happened after they the crew of the Enterprise D helmed by Jean Luc Picard came out of a temporal causality loop. Diane Carey does a splendid job of fleshing out the characters their motivations and flaws. While not a major contribution to the Star Trek Universe, the story is woth reading for the story itself. ( )

Star Trek novel; influenced by Forester's Hornblower story of the same title; entertaining, but unmoving; continues story of Capt Bateson & the U.S.S Bozeman from the Typhon Time Rift