Spoilers TNG: Headlong Flight by Dayton Ward Review Thread

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  1. Defcon

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    TNG: Headlong Flight by Dayton Ward (January 31st 2017)

    STAR TREK - THE NEXT GENERATION

    Headlong Flight
    Dayton Ward
    January 31st 2017


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    Blurb
    An exhilarating thriller from bestselling author Dayton Ward set in the universe of Star Trek: The Next Generation, following Captain Jean-Luc Picard and his crew as they explore the previously uncharted and dangerous Odyssean Pass.

    Surveying a nebula as part of their continuing exploration of the previously uncharted “Odyssean Pass,” Captain Jean-Luc Picard and the crew of the Starship Enterprise encounter a rogue planet. Life signs are detected on the barren world’s surface, and then a garbled message is received: a partial warning to stay away at all costs. Determined to render assistance, Picard dispatches Commander Worf and an away team to investigate, but their shuttlecraft is forced to make an emergency landing on the surface—moments before all contact is lost and the planet completely disappears.

    Worf and his team learn that this mysterious world is locked into an unending succession of random jumps between dimensions, the result of an ambitious experiment gone awry. The Enterprise crewmembers and the alien scientists who created the technology behind this astonishing feat find themselves trapped, powerless to break the cycle. Meanwhile, as the planet continues to fade in and out of various planes of existence, other parties have now taken notice….

    About the Author
    Dayton Ward is the New York Times bestselling author of the science fiction novels The Last World War, Counterstrike: The Last World War—Book II, and The Genesis Protocol, and the Star Trek novels Legacies: Purgatory’s Key, Elusive Salvation, Armageddon’s Arrow, The Fall: Peaceable Kingdom, Seekers: Point of Divergence (with Kevin Dilmore), From History’s Shadow, That Which Divides, In the Name of Honor, Open Secrets, and Paths of Disharmony. He lives in Kansas City, Missouri, with his wife and daughters. Visit him on the web at DaytonWard.com.
     
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  2. Jinn

    Jinn Mistress of the Chaotic Energies Rear Admiral

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    I dislike that this is a TNG book, because I haven't even read TF: Peaceable Kingdoms but I love the 20th century stories from Dayton Ward so I don't really know wether or not I should read it already...
     
  3. Stevil2001

    Stevil2001 Vice Admiral Admiral

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    Isn't it the summer's Hearts and Minds that picks up Dayton's 20th-century stuff, not this one?
     
  4. Shamrock Holmes

    Shamrock Holmes Commodore Commodore

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    According to the cover blurbs on Memory Alpha, that appears to be the case, yes.
     
  5. Jinn

    Jinn Mistress of the Chaotic Energies Rear Admiral

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    Whops...
    I'll just repost that in the Hearts and Minds reviwe thread when it is up im summer or so.
     
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  6. Stevil2001

    Stevil2001 Vice Admiral Admiral

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    You have six months to catch up!
     
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  7. Jinn

    Jinn Mistress of the Chaotic Energies Rear Admiral

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    Six months, well then I should start training!
    *Insert training montage (page turning)*
     
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  8. Defcon

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    Or I could post the review thread for Hearts and Minds now if you want. :rofl:
     
  9. Jinn

    Jinn Mistress of the Chaotic Energies Rear Admiral

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    Nah, it'll probably be forgotten when the book is released and then we'll end up with two rivaling threads and those who post in the second will be called copy cats by those in the first and those in the second thread will insult the first threaders as hidebound and then someone will throw a stone at the other thread and then the other side will fight back and everything will burn and maybe someone from thread 1 will hold the bloody corpse of someone from thread 2 in their hands, seeing that it was a friend and will make a "Klingon death ritual" style death cry and everybody will stop fighting and look at the burning ruins of the forum, seeing what they have done.
    I don't want to be the catalyst of that.
    But thanks for the option:)
     
  10. Ronald Held

    Ronald Held Vice Admiral Admiral

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    Too long before my copy is downloaded...
     
  11. Alwaystrekkin

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  12. TheUsualSuspect

    TheUsualSuspect Lieutenant Commander Red Shirt

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    Seems like it might be a flashback of some kind.
     
  13. Ronald Held

    Ronald Held Vice Admiral Admiral

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    About a week to release?
     
  14. JD

    JD Fleet Admiral Admiral

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    It's not that specific with books like this. The paper versions don't have a hard street date, so they often start popping up a week or two before the "release date''. E-books on the other hand aren't available until the release date.
     
  15. borgboy

    borgboy Commodore Commodore

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    The audiobook is available to pre-order with Audible now.
     
  16. Alwaystrekkin

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  17. T'Bonz

    T'Bonz Romulan Curmudgeon Administrator

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    Enjoying it so far. About 1/3 of the way through.
     
  18. borgboy

    borgboy Commodore Commodore

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  19. indianatrekker26

    indianatrekker26 Fleet Captain Fleet Captain

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    going on my local barnes and noble track record for the last few months, they usually have the Trek books out the friday before their scheduled tuesday release date.
     
  20. Ronald Held

    Ronald Held Vice Admiral Admiral

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    Waiting for the download next week?