Product Description

When the "Enterprise" discovers a colony ship launched from Earth in the 22nd century, Captain Kirk decides to help the settlers on to their intended destination. But their new planet may not be the haven they hoped for.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #559393 in Books
• Published on: 1999-11-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• 221 pages

Customer Reviews

Not too high on the list!
Starfleet has discovered an early model ship from earth's past. The Enterprise is dispatched to intercept the ship and meet with its crew. Once Captain Kirk meets with the ships captain, he has some initial doubts. Despite his doubts, he finds himself liking the captain and his crew. The inhabitants of the ship were originally on course to a distant planet to start a new colony. Once they meet up with Captain Kirk and the Enterprise, they discover the planet they were heading to is no longer existence. Left without a place to go, Starfleet finds them a colony world to go to. When they arrive at the colony world though, they find that they may have gone to a planet that is on the verge of destroying the colony and all of it's inhabitants.

At it's core, this story has an interesting premise, unfortunately, the author's do not in my opinion, bring it to fruition. "Across the Universe" is one of the few Star Trek books that I found to be hardly captivating. At only 217 pages, this is an extremely short trek book. Hopefully any future trek books I read by these authors will be a lot better than this one. {ssintrepid}

terrible -- avoid like the plague
This is one of the worst Star Trek novels I have ever read. There is next to no characterisation in the book -- not even of the established characters! Some authors, like Peter David, have an authentic Star Trek "voice" in many senses, not least of which is the ability to make (say) Scotty sound like Scotty. Not here. The plot is feeble and sections of it are reiterated enough to make you think that you've misread a previous section because you can't believe it is being revisited again so soon. I cannot stress this enough -- don't waste money on this. If I could have given this zero crowns, I would have.

A Good read with a typical Star Trek ending
This book is welcome return to single novel story lines. It is an improvement on the authors previous novel Dyson Sphere. They obviously know the characters a bit better. The first half gets you going and still keeps going until the resolution of the threat to the colonists is resolved in typical star trek style. If you have enjoyed this range of books to date buy this one it will reward you with a good yarn.