Poll TNG-SA #6 Mystery Of The Missing Crew by Michael Jan Friedman Review Thread

[tomswift2002]

Published: February 1995

Plot: On his way to enter Starfleet Academy, Data must discover what happened to the adult crewmembers of the USS Yosemite.

 

[Kilana2]

I voted above average, but honestly I don't remember the story. It wasn't the best Starfleet Academy book and not the worst. Most of the SA books I liked. It's a shame that some of the books were never translated into German as @Jinn will confirm. I guess it was when Heyne (the former German publisher) reduced their Trek program before ceasing it completely.

 

[Jinn]

I voted above average, but honestly I don't remember the story. It wasn't the best Starfleet Academy book and not the worst. Most of the SA books I liked. It's a shame that some of the books were never translated into German as @Jinn will confirm. I guess it was when Heyne (the former German publisher) reduced their Trek program before ceasing it completely.

Yep, some of the later ones weren't translated, but we got translated titles for some of them, if I recall correctly. Kinda like when CrossCult stopped publishing CoE novellas but already had covers for the next six or so ones.

That being said I never read the old Starfleet Academy novels and only half of the first of the Kelvin series.

 

[Stevil2001]

This is the first Star Trek book I ever read! A kid on my school bus loaned it to me. We used to read it together. A year later, I was reading "real" Star Trek books and he was too cool for Star Trek.

One version of the blurb (maybe the "next volume" one in Atlantis Station, because it's not the back cover one according to MA) confused me as a child because it called Data and his fellow cadets a "skeleton crew"... but it was the alien cadets who looked liked skeletons! Not sure when I finally learned the phrase "skeleton crew."

 

[JD]

I loved the old Starfleet Academy as a kid, but I don't remember the specific books well enough to vote in the poll.
I was actually to young to read them myself when the first ones came out, so one of my parents would read them to me at bed time very night. I think I was old enough to read them on my own by the time the last few came out,

 

[tomswift2002]

In “Voyages Of Imagination” MJF calls his two SA books has attempt to cross Trek with the Hardy Boys.

 

[tomswift2002]

It’s interesting but the cover artist got the robot attacker right but the internal artist obviously didn’t read that the robots have 3 arms and 3 legs.