The Good That Men Do (Star Trek: Enterprise)
by Andy Mangels, Michael A. Martin
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Author: Andy Mangels, Michael A. MartinEdition: Mass Market Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2007-02-01
ISBN: 0743440013
Number of pages: 464
Publisher: Star Trek
Book Reviews of The Good That Men Do (Star Trek: Enterprise)
Book Review: The First Relaunch Novel Of Star Trek Enterprise.
Summary: 4 Stars
This book has the destinction of being the first of the relaunch novels of Star Trek Enterprise. The idea behind this stems from the fans general dissatisfaction with the final episode on TV, which effectively was a Next Generation episode that relegated the Enterprise crew members to being holodeck characters in a program being run by Commander Riker.
The major bone of contention was the death of Commander Tucker, which served no purpose whatsoever and seemed to have been put there just to beef the episode up a bit.
This novel sets the groundwork for a 'conspiracy-type' coverup that states that Tucker's death was faked in order for him to engage in clandestine operations against the Romulans.
Pocket Books are very good at providing continuations to all the Star Trek series, books such as Star Trek Titan for instance continue the adventures of Captain Riker, Star Trek Vanguard is a series of novels set during Captain Kirk's time, the Deep Space Nine 'season 8' books are some of the very best stories ever published under the Star Trek imprint.
These relaunch or continuation novels are much more interesting than the standard novels that take place within the narrative of the various series, the writers are given freedom to develop their own characters and can take liberties with the regular characters because there are no further episodes to contradict what has seen print. A novel taking place within a series must always press the reset button and leave the situation as it was at the start of the book. In these continuation books Captain Picard or any other major character could theoretically be killed off and that is the pulling power of these novels, the fact that anything can happen and it is not played safe.
I don't want to go into plot details of this book for fear of spoilers, but it is a very fine and intelligent read and sets up the future of Star Trek Enterprise stories which should go some way to answering some of the questions that fans have about Star Trek before Kirk's time, such as the Earth/Romulan war, the founding of the Federation etc etc, all the events what would have been covered by the TV show had those idiots at Paramount Pictures not cancelled it, this is effectively season 5 of Enterprise.
The novel also has the selling point of being written by two of the very best authors of recent Star Trek novels and is a worthy continuation to Enterprise.
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