Rules of Engagement question

[ryan123450]

What's the Excelsior class ship on the cover of Rules of Engagement? Doesn't this book take place before Wrath of Kahn? So shouldn't the Excelsior (and presumably her sister ships) not have launched yet?

Would this book work instead as a post STV story on the Enterprise-A? Also, what did everyone think of this story? Any good?

Wow, that was a lot of questions strung in a row.

 

[Christopher]

^It's hardly the first anachronism on a Trek novel cover. Lots of early TOS books had the cast in TMP or even TWOK uniforms while the stories were set during the TV era. Some covers mix and match, like Dreams of the Raven -- McCoy in TV uniform, but movie-era Enterprise and Klingon Bird of Prey. The artists used what photo references they had available, and they didn't have the ST Encyclopedia or Memory Alpha for handy reference. And they weren't hired for their encyclopedic knowledge of ST history.

 

[T'Ressa Dax]

I remember the book as being pretty good.

 

[DEWLine]

The book itself was indeed pretty darn good readin'. Part of the same timeframe - to my mind at least - as the rest of Diane Duane and Peter Morwood's stuff, kicked off by Ex Machina.

Good stuff. And coincidentally, one of the supporting cast starships was also named...Vanguard.

 

[Mysterion]

I remember the book as being pretty good.

Same here.

Seems to be a somewhat under-rated and over-looked book, though.

 

[Timo]

A fun little coincidence: the FASA RPG universe features a ship that rather nicely "explains away" that book cover.

Namely, the Vanguard and Sir Galahad in the book could very plausibly be of the Makin class, a starship designed for planetary assault transport. Here's what the Makin looks like:

http://home.comcast.net/~ststcsolda/federation/makin/makin_blueprint.jpg

From the forward angles, that's a dead ringer for Excelsior!

Timo Saloniemi

 

[John Clark]

I certainly enjoyed this book

 

[T'Girl]

I remember the book as being pretty good.

I agree, well written. I first read this book in the late '90, shortly after reading 'The Hunt for Red October' by Tom Clancy.

Especially in the first half of 'Rules,' There seem to be a lot of parallels between the two books. The russian captain Marko Ramaius immediately jump to my mind when Kasak sutai-Khornezh declared to Kirk that they (the klingons) wanted to defect.

Has any one else read both novels?