The Romulan War: Beneath the Raptor's Wing - Discuss (SPOILERS)

[Captain59]

I'm on Chapter Four right now an thoroughly enjoying this book. I like the conflict Archer is under...much different than the Xindi because he has heavy on his heart what happened with the Kobayashi Maru.

I was very surprised to read in Chapter Two that Hoshi and Mayweather have requested to be transfered from Enterprise. In Chapter Four when they individually talk with Archer, I was half expecting one of the reasons from one of them might be the lack of a promotion...especially after the Xindi war. One of these days the lack of promotions probably will come up. I was surprised at why Hoshi felt she needed to leave the ship, but not at all with Travis. He obviously has a hard time even being in the same room with Archer. I like this darker side of him.

[CaptainDonovin]

^ I kind of saw that coming after Mayweather's reaction after the Maru incident. One thing that did suprise me other than Hoshi was the apparent age of the Daedalus class.

[Kchunda]

^ I didn't really understand that - was that class new as of 2155 and as a result of the war? Or were there already there like the Intrepid class but in the background?

BTW, I'm on Chapter 23. . .

[CaptainDonovin]

^ From the wording it does look like they are older than the NX class since they lack the warp 5 engine. They were never mentioned on ENT but I figured they were to be the warp 7 ships launched after Enterprise was retired. I know that both the year they came into the fleet & the name were never official but I thought somewhere it said they were launched after the war.

Regardless I'm liking the book & hope the rest of the war is covered someday.

[MvRojo]

DarkHorizon wrote:

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I haven't had a chance to start it just yet, but my initial impression on receiving it was "wow! That's a hefty book!". It's bigger than previous Trek trade paperbacks from Pocket, and at 450-odd pages, it's reasonably heavy, too:

Yeah, it's almost comically large.

[David Brennon]

I have a digital copy on my Sony PRS 505 eBook Reader... it turns out at 1047 pages. I am looking forward to diving into this one. I'm thinking a Romulan War Era Sim may be in order after I finish this book up... hmm... anyone interested in crewing up the NX-03 Challenger or A Daedalus class ship?

[JD]

WW1 Flying Ace wrote:

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^ From the wording it does look like they are older than the NX class since they lack the warp 5 engine. They were never mentioned on ENT but I figured they were to be the warp 7 ships launched after Enterprise was retired. I know that both the year they came into the fleet & the name were never official but I thought somewhere it said they were launched after the war.

Regardless I'm liking the book & hope the rest of the war is covered someday.

What makes you think it wouldn't be?

[Reanok]

I like the fact you have alot of discussion about the Romulans attacks the fact they talk about it taking too long to build the NX class of ships and the fact they'll have to find a way to protect Starfleet ships from enemy attcks from ther teleprescence units.Nice to see soval and T'Pau discuss the situation that Soval thought Vulcan should help earth and it's allies and T'Pau disagrees that Earth should stand on it's on. The vulcans are afraid about their reaction if others knew they and the Romulans are related.

I really like what I've read in this book so far.This book really explores alot of diffrent impacts the Romulan war is taking on all the charactersine one way or another.

[Sci]

34 pages into it so far and I have two thoughts:

1. Someone's going to complain about the idea of the United Earth Starfleet having an orbital space dock named after President Obama, but I think it's completely reasonable of Mister Martin to include that detail. Barack Obama is a historic President -- the first African-American President of the United States. Whatever else he does, that's something he'll always be remembered for, and it certainly ranks up there with accomplishments that we've seen ships and stations named for in Star Trek in the past.

2. On page 34, T'Pau is referred to by the title of "Administrator," implying that she holds the same office that V'Las held, yet Kobayashi Maru had established that she held the office of First Minister of the Confederacy of Vulcan. Further, the Vulcan High Command is referenced earlier in the book, yet "Awakening" had established that the Vulcan High Command had been dissolved, something confirmed when Kobayashi Maru established that the Vulcan head of government was now First Minister rather than Administrator. What's up with this apparent continuity glitch?

[Ronald Held]

Well, it is a hefty tome.....

[Reanok]

It certainly is a hefty book with alot going on with the events of the Romulan war and nice character moments we get to see certain events are unfolding on several different worlds.This story is taking alot of unexpected twists and turns.

[CaptainDonovin]

JD wrote:

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What makes you think it wouldn't be?

I thought I read here somewhere that the Romulan War was to be a trilogy but was cut to BTRW instead. That & I can't remember if ENT is on the schedual for next year either, the big thing in '10 is the Typhon Pact & Post Trek XI books I think.

Someone refresh my memory circuits please.

[ialfan]

I just finished the book today and it was awesome. I find very little to fault with it besides Hoshi not getting a promotion and being a little confused as to Valdore's status at the end. I loved the length and it really feels like at best we go the first part of a trilogy. I hate that there isn't an Enterprise book for next year because it will really suck to go two years before the continuation. The Daedelus class being older than the NX shocked me but I can go with it. It was nice to finally see some crew change also. I feel pity for the NX class though. So tragic.

[Turtletrekker]

Actually, the fact that the Daedalus pre-dates the NX was established in Last Full Measure.

[Mr. Laser Beam]

JD wrote:

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What makes you think it wouldn't be?

Because this one doesn't, and no future ones have been announced. They may one day be, but until they *are*, it's meaningless.