Spoilers TOS: Legacies: Book 1: Captain to Captain by Greg Cox Review Thread

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Blurb:
An epic new trilogy begins—a tie-in for the milestone fiftieth anniversary of Star Trek: The Original Series—that stretches from the earliest voyages of the Starship Enterprise to Captain Kirk’s historic five-year-mission…and from one universe to another!

Hidden aboard the U.S.S. Enterprise is a secret that has been passed from captain to captain, from Robert April to Christopher Pike to James T. Kirk. Now the return of the enigmatic woman once known as Number One has brought that secret to light, and Kirk and his crew must risk everything to finish a mission that began with April so many years ago…

Nearly two decades earlier, April and his crew first visited the planet Usilde, where they found both tragedy and a thorny moral dilemma. Today, the legacy of that fateful occasion will compel Kirk to embark on a risky voyage back to that forbidden world—which is now deep in territory claimed by the Klingon Empire!

About the Author:
Greg Cox is the New York Times bestselling author of numerous Star Trek novels and short stories. He has also written the official movie novelizations of Godzilla, Man of Steel, The Dark Knight Rises, Daredevil, Ghost Rider, and the first three Underworld movies, as well as books and stories based on such popular series as Alias, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, CSI, Farscape, The 4400, Leverage, The Green Hornet, The Phantom, Roswell, Star Trek, Terminator, Warehouse 13, Xena: Warrior Princess, and Zorro. He has received two Scribe Awards from the International Association of Media Tie-In Writers. He lives in Oxford, Pennsylvania. Visit him at GregCox-Author.com.

http://books.simonandschuster.biz/L...x/Star-Trek-The-Original-Series/9781501125294
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Since this one is showing up in the wild now, I thought I'd go ahead and set up a review thread. Any issues with the format, please let me know!

 

[indianatrekker26]

i really hope my local Barnes and Noble put this book out early, this weekend.

 

[Greg Cox]

Just got my author copies! Hooray!

 

[Leto_II]

My local bookstores have mostly all had copies out on the shelf for the past week-and-a-half or thereabouts.

 

[Ronald Held]

Good news, Greg. Waiting for my copy to ship next week, maybe have it by the 4th of July weekend?

 

[John Clark]

Mine's on order to arrive on Tuesday morning

 

[Dave Scarpa]

waiting for my audiobook copy on the 28th

 

[indianatrekker26]

My wife is on her way home from the zoo with the kids, and she stopped by Barnes and Noble on her way home. She grabbed a copy for me! I can't wait to start diving in on this trilogy tonight!

 

[JD]

The e-book version is released on Tuesday.

 

[Paris]

Just started it. Liking it so far!

 

[Ronald Held]

No ebooks for TOS novels.

 

[Reanok]

I can't wait for my copy of this book to come in the mail so I can finally read Captain to Captain .I've been looking forward to reading this miniseries for months now!

 

[David Mack]

No ebooks for TOS novels.

This is not correct. There will be eBook versions of the STAR TREK LEGACIES trilogy available from Amazon, iBooks, B&N, Google Play, Kobo, BAM, and Blio.

 

[DarrenTR1970]

Unexpectedly found a copy at Barnes and Noble this afternoon. Plan to start it as soon as I finish 'A Pocket Full of Lies'.

 

[indianatrekker26]

I'm about halfway through the book, Mr cox. Story is great but unfortunately your prose has been littered with typos. Such as miss spelled words and copied words. For instance page 135 "please speak to me to me in Usildar". The page before the word alarm was spelled alarum.

 

[Christopher]

The page before the word alarm was spelled alarum.

Is that a typo, or just an archaic usage? Shakespeare's stage directions often refer to "alarums and excursions."

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

^ I wasn't aware Shakespeare wrote this novel...

 

[Jinn]

^ I wasn't aware Shakespeare wrote this novel...

Clearly Greg Cox is Shakespeare reincarnated

 

[Greg Cox]

^ I wasn't aware Shakespeare wrote this novel...

Don't be silly. Everyone knows Christopher Marlowe really wrote it.

Can't explain any typos. I swear to God that the ms. was thoroughly copyedited, and that I later went through the uncorrected page proofs line-by-line. By my count, the book went past at least six pairs of eyes before going to press . . ..

 

[Christopher]

No matter how many copyedits there are, no matter how many pairs of eyes are involved, some errors will always get through. Sometimes an editing pass will even introduce new errors.