Smith tries desperately to introduce this new series with an incredibly simplistic story with almost no real motivation or character drive. In fact, the characters introduced in this story seem almost cardboard. If this were the pilot for a Trek TV series, it would rank as the worst of the lot. There are now a number of these Trek SCE stories available. Hopefully, it gets better with age. I'll let you know.

This was a very decent Star Trek Review albet a little bit short.

It is interesting to see the Behind the scenes team at work. The team that goes and makes use of everthing that is discovered in the show. This book was a very quick read and it was alot more shotting then I expected but I still enjoyed it.

The Enterprise defends a peaceful planet from an unknown and powerful alien Star ship. The Enterprise finally is successful in overcoming the enemy and temporarily rendering it vulnerable. It is now up to a team of engineers to find out if the enemy ship is truly vulnerable and crippled or is the enemy playing dead Trojan style. LaForge (chief engineer of Enterprise) stays behind with another crew member to help the engineers. While the Enterprise goes to its next mission.

This is a great book. I bought it in Adobe E-book format. The book is well done and in the tradition and form of Star Trek. Once I started reading I couldn't stop. I couldn't get enough of it. Luckily I put it on my laptop to start with. This story is suspenseful, intriguing, provocative, everything Star Trek is.

There was a problem with downloading. Whatever you do don't interrupt the process, don't even change windows or try doing other computer tasks. I tried to do some work while I waited and that interrupted the process. Then they consider it that I downloaded successfully and I didn't get the complete book. Amazon was helpful and allowed me to Re-download the e-book.

One bad thing about Adobe e-books, you cannot transfer the book from computer to computer. I could see how copying an e-book to another computer is copyright infringement, but they should still allow a complete e-book transfer.

I plan on continuing to buy e-books in this Star Trek series.