An Indepth Look Into A Geek's Soul

Here is the first review of a book that I finished about a week ago.  It is the tale of a newly promoted Captain WIlliam T. Riker, taking command of his first starship, the U.S.S. Titan.  The first book in my quest to read twenty six books this year is Star Trek Titan:  Taking Wing.

I actually enjoyed this book (a huge surprise, I know).  I was expecting something, different I suppose.  Definitely expecting of less enjoyablity than that.  The Titan is a new deep space exploration ship with a crew that has a lot more aliens than one would expect to have.  In fact, humans only make up some twenty odd percent of the ship.  The aliens on the ship include beings that live underwater, beings that grew up on a planet with a lot less gravity than Earth, even a dinosaur that is the ships Cheif Medical Officer.  It is pretty awesome stuff overall.

The most enjoyable thing about the book is that it takes everything that I liked about the Next Generation films and shows at buts it into a well crafted novel.  It did have its slow parts, but it also had its page turning ones too.  It wasn't action all the time, like Deep Space Nine or Voyager tended to be, but it wasn't all diplomacy either, though there is a good bit of political wrangling in this one.  It was well written, with no glaring mistakes that I saw in grammatic, which is a pet peeve of mine when it comes to published items (yes, am completely aware tha this site has numerous mistakes of all kinds).  The only kind of let down that I had was the Voyageresque twist that the book had at the end.  Seemed like a been there, done that kind of thing.  However, I will certainly keep reading this fine series.

Peace Out.