Enterprise: What Price Honor?

By Dave Stern

PP 300

1st Printing, November 2002

Description

The Starship Enterprise NX-01 is humanity's flagship -- the first vessel to begin a systematic exploration of what lies beyond the fringes of known space. Led by Captain Jonathan Archer, eighty of Starfleet's best and brightest set forth to pave humanity's way among the stars. Tempered by a year's worth of exploration, they are a disciplined, cohesive unit. But now one of their number has fallen.

Bad enough that Ensign Alana Hart is dead. Worse still that she died while attempting to sabotage the Enterprise -- and at the hands of Lieutenant Malcolm Reed, the ship's armory officer and her nominal superior. Even as questions swirl around Hart's death, Archer, Reed, and the rest of the Enterprise crew find themselves caught squarely in the middle of another tense situation- a brutal war of terror between two civilizations.

But in the Eris Alpha system, nothing -- and no one -- are what they seem. And before the secret behind Ensign Hart's demise is exposed, Reed will be forced to confront death one more time.

Product Details

Star Trek, November 2002
eBook, 336 pages
ISBN-10: 0-7434-6279-3
ISBN-13: 978-0-7434-6279-2

Review by Roger D. Noriega (minor spoilers herein)

This is the second novel of Star Trek’s first warp-five starship. After a year of exploration, our intrepid explorers have become a cohesive and disciplined group of professionals – but one of their own is now dead. Ensign Hart died by an action of armory officer Lt. Reed. Apparently, she was trying to sabotage the Enterprise. A full investigation is put on hold as Enterprise finds herself caught right in the middle of two warring civilizations.

The story is told in two time-periods: the present and the past. We know that Ensign Hart is dead, but in the past time-period, we learn who she is and her involvement with Lt. Reed. Lt. Reed is her immediate supervisor and he is attracted to her. There is electricity in their contacts. Ensign Hart is attractive, yet distant. She is a tormented soul who is the survivor of a pirate raid. She didn’t do her job and crewmates perished.

While the story can be a bit confusing, the mystery does hold water all the way through and you will discover a surprise or two along the way. I rate this story a 2 out of 10

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