I really enjoyed reading this story of the adventures of the inhabitants of a small mountain town in New York State after World War III was fought in 1962. One of the best Alternate Universe/History stories around.

Star Trek-The Next Generation: The Last Stand written by Brad Ferguson is a Picard stops a war book between two warring parties the Lethanta am emerging warp culture and a prewarp culture the Krann.

This book has suspense, mystery, intrigue, and humor all rolled up into an engaging action-adventure. On a routine mission to map out a section of space, Captain Jean-Luc Picard and the U.S.S. Enterpise crew encounter a culture on the edge of developing warp drive technology, the Lethanta. Picard sends Data and Ro down to the planet as observers.

While mapping the planet, the Enterprise and her crew come into contact with thousand of prewarp vessils... the Krann and Picard sends Riker and Troi as observers to the space faring fleet.

Picard has only days to resolve a conflict that has been ongoing for millennia, otherwise billions of beings will die. If Picard succeeds a powerful new threat to the Federation will be released. This book moves right along as the action-adventure increases to a fever pitch... and the resolution that Picard seeks seems to be just out of his reach.

There are plot twists and turns that will keep you busy reading as the book works toward a resolution. You'll start reading this book and you will not want to put it down as the writing is well thought out and Picard's dilemma reachs a fever pitch. This is one of the better-written ST-TNG books with a storyline that is believeable and the resolution will surprise you.

I have just finished reading The Last Stand, and it is the first time I've ever read a Star Trek book. To be honest, I don't even know much about Star Trek, and the only Star Trek TV show I've seen is a handful of The Next Generation episodes. I have read over 300 fantasy novels, and wanted to try something different. In the end, I give this book 5 out of 5 stars, and would give it 6 out of 5 if I could. The fact that I don't even read books of this genre, and I don't even know anything about Star Trek and gave this book 5 out of 5 stars means it is obviously an awesome book. I took it on a vacation with me to read while traveling, and ended up finishing the entire book on my flight before I even got to my destination, that is how good this book is.

The Last Stand has an awesome plot, and is written in a very smooth and appropriate flowing writing style that anybody can appreciate. The storyline in this book is amazing, and captivates you immensely. The book starts with an amazing story that captivates you through the entire book because not only do you want to know what happens in the crisis, but you also want to find out more about how the crisis began. I've been dissapointed with alot of books that started out with a great storyline, and then fizzled with a poor ending. However, this book was definately not one of them. The start, middle, and ending of this book were all amazing. The book had a touch of mystery, technological wonder, battle, plot twisting, humor, the whole nine yards. A salute to Brad Ferguson in providing a great reading experience on my first Star Trek novel adventure.

I am not a professional reviewer, and to be honest this is the first time I even bothered to review a book, but I was so impressed with it it motivated me to write a review and even order two more Star Trek books. Great job Mr. Ferguson!

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The Last Stand is a really excellent book. The characters are written perfectly, there's lots of suspense and intrigue, there's action, there's humor... there's everything. The Enterprise is charting star systems when they're attracted to one system because of warp drive "blips". They find that a people known as the Lethanta are about to be attacked from space by thousands of non-warp Krann ships. Picard must try to stop the Lethanta and the Krann from murdering each other and still preserve the Prime Directive. The story, while seeming rather black and white, is actually very complex, and becomes even more so as you read on. There are lots of interesting plot twists and turns. One of the storylines has to do with Riker and Troi being "undercover observers" on a Krann ship. It's very, very funny. Another good storyline is about Data and Ro on the Lethanta planet. The end of the book is excellent and ties up all the loose ends... but not *quite*... it's very well done. The Last Stand is a book that has a little bit of everything, and is written really well. Definitely read this one!

This book is a part of The Lost Years-saga, and although puplished as the third of the four books, chronologically it takes place after the thirdly puplished "Traitor Winds".

"A Flag Full of Stars" doesn't live up to the expectations of "Traitor Winds", wich is, without a doubt, the best of the four.

"A Flag Full of Stars" comes second, though, due to the boringness and not-beliavability of "The Lost Years", and the simple meaninglessness of "Recovery".

The Biggest strenght of "A Flagg Full of Stars" is that it's an unconventional Trek novel.

Taking place mostly on Earth, the novel centeres around original, and more-or-less succesfully constructed characters. We have a story of a Klingon scientist, living on Earth, teaching, and a tale of one of his students.

As so often, the youngsters act at least five years younger than expected, are shallow and underestimated as characters.

The Klingon scientist on the other hand is written extremely well, but even he can't measure up to his pet kitten, who is clearly the best character of the entire spectrum of the characters introduced in this novel.

The setting is exellent, the writing good, characterization decent, but the plot leaves something to be desired for.

It's bases are ridiculously devoid of credibility, introducing a machine that can create energy out of nothing. And most ludicrous is the fact that it's created not in some top secret research lab, but at the inventors home, vithout the inventor even knowing what's being created. Whatever happened to the laws of physics and common sence?

All in all the kitten, the writing, and the use of good characters elevate this book into a decent one, that might have been exellent, if it had had at least a slightly intelligent plot.

Far above your typical Star Trek novel. In this book Kirk is an admiral and as usual has to solve an intergalactic conspricy with nothing(except the resources of an entire galaxy). I remember reading this book and the reason why I rmember it is because of the unique inovation of putting impluse engines on the (by then) old space shuttles. A must for any Star Trek fan.

One of the biggest questions that every Star Trek fan asks is this: what happened between the end of the original series and the first movie? How did Kirk become an admiral, why was Spock trying to finally divulge himself of his human heritage, and what happened to McCoy? The Lost Years Trilogy answers all these questions. The first instalment from 1989, 'The Lost Years', by now-veteran Trek author J. M. Dillard was a Star Trek classic. It has been on my bookshelf for almost 10 years, and I have read it many times. Brad Ferguson's 1991 novel 'A Flag Full of Stars' is a worthy sequel, examining the blossoming relationship between Kirk and fellow-admiral Lori Ciana and the continuing adventures of Spock and McCoy. The Klingon co-star of the book provides Ferguson with a way to delve into the still-relevant issue of racism, and how even the bad guys sometimes produce a hero. The whole issue of the exploitation of altruistic scientists and their ideas is also examined here, providing a neat allegory for the emergence of nuclear power. The ending, a direct, and nail-biting cliff-hanger, shows that Kirk, ever the swashbuckler, was never intended to pilot a bureaucrat's desk through uncharted frontiers of paperwork, a theme that runs through this book, reflecting and explaining events and attitudes from the first two Star Trek films. It is an absorbing and exciting novel, and while it is not as well-written as 'The Lost Years' it is still of admirable quality compared to many other Trek authors, comparable to the work of long-time fan-favourite Michael Jan Friedman. It is also a vital piece of Trek continuity (and a thoroughly enjoyable one at that) that no fan should be without. The greatest tragedy is that, as yet, I have been unable to track down the third and final instalment that would take the trilogy up to the events of 'Star Trek: The Motion Picture'. It was slated to be 'The War Virus' by Irene Kress, but it still eludes all my attempts to pin it down. Nonethesless, this sad fact cannot detract from the value of the first two parts to the trilogy. 'A Flag Full of Stars' is a worthy addition to the Star Trek mythos, and not only is this good Star Trek, this is good science fiction in its own right.

This is neither an especially bad Star Trek novel, nor an especially good one. The characters were handled, for the most part, with a deft touch, and the main plot was interesting enough, if not spectacular. But unfortunately, the author set up a situation that would have been too easily solved if the Enterprise were working properly, so he felt the need to fall back on the trite old standby "the Enterprise is malfunctioning, but needs to complete a difficult and dangerous mission anyway" routine, a badly overused plot device. Further, his eventual explanation of what caused the malfunction was so comletely implausible as to challenge the abilities of even the most forgiving fans of the unlikely to suspend disbelief. Further, he flubs rather badly in one of his attempts to reference original television episodes as history for the story; at one point, Kirk is reminiscing about the events in the episode "The Galileo Seven", and "remembers" that only some of Scotty's best transporter work saved the crew of the shuttle. Only problem is, Scotty was one of those on the shuttle being beamed to safety. A trivial point, I know, but if you're going to refer back to the show in the first place, you should be careful to do it ACCURATELY.

One of the early "Kirk must save the planet" novels, with Mccaoy's daughter thrown in for good measure.

Medium quality Star Trek novel.
"A Science Fiction Book Club Alternate Selection"

The crew of the enterprise is really challenged in this adventure. First they get up only to find that the Enterprise is got something wrong, then they get a message that something really bad has happened.

How bad, really bad. This is another book that shows what humans can really do when push comes to shove. Even Spock is impressed. All the while try to help save more then one life. If not, many more will die without knowing what happened.

Even the Enterprise comes to the rescue when the Captian needs here the most.

All in all I enjoy reading these novellas set in the characters' past.

They have some problems, still. First of all, they are way too short.

Secondly: the characters are teenagers. I am 15 myself and that's probably the biggest reason I don't like young characters (in anything).

Why?

Because they act about 3 to 5 years younger than they should (in Wesley Crusher's case: about 10).

The starfleet academy books, in general, have been fairly believable in this field, although the characters still sometimes feel a bit immature.

This particular book uses characters that behave, in my opinion, like people behave when they are about 12 years old. Plus they are complete stereotypes.

For example the teamleader is a young male human who has joined starfleet because of his father. (Has anyone ever joined becase of his/her mother, brother, sister cousin...?)

I bought this book in hopes of a view to the character of Geordi LaForge, but to my dissapointment he was characterized poorly, and didn't even feel like the main character.

The plot was weak, the storytelling predictable... It's barely readable, but dont waist your money on it.

Maybe I'm just too old for this series, but this one seemed worse than normal. The whole ghost idea was pretty dumb in the first place. Don't buy unless you're trying to get all the books like I am.

I thought is was a little bit dissapointing considering what the plot was in general but for the most part it was good and I really enjoyed the twists that it took in a few places.