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4.0 out of 5 stars STV #5 Incident at Arbuk - A quick and interesting read!, Nov 30 2003

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K. Wyatt "ssintrepid" (Cape Girardeau, MO United States) - See all my reviews
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I found this first solo novel of John G. Betancourt's to be a quick and interesting read. Although there might have been some grammatical errors in the novel, they were minor and inconsequential. One of the first things you'll notice in this story is the authors writing style, which is very good, lending heavily to a well paced novel. I did find his characterizations to be a bit off, but that is to be expected given the time in which this novel was written and published, with approximately only a years worth of episodes to work off of.

In good keeping with Voyager novels of the time, the cover art is a slight cut above the other titles being published at that time.

The premise:

Voyager stumbles upon a distress signal from a shuttle and follows it to a nearly deserted system known as Arbuk. Once there they discover what is essentially a doomsday machine that is considerably more powerful than a starship. They also soon discover a rather interesting alien who is a Sperian. Captain Janeway and the crew of Voyager soon find themselves under attack by an alien fleet bent on taking possession of the weapon and they must find a way to keep it out of their hands...

What follows from there is, as stated above, a quick and interesting early Star Trek Voyager novel that is well worth the time to read. I recommend this title to any and all fans of Star Trek fiction. {ssintrepid}

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4.0 out of 5 stars Incident At Arbuk, Nov 18 2001

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Incident At Arbuk is a good book.It started out slow, but picked up at the end. It's about the voyager crew finding a deadly weapon, more powerful than any starfleet vessel. Inside a shuttle, they find a Sperian unconcious. Could the Sperian be a link to the weapon? Can they make him concious again? If you want to find out more, I suggest you to read it.

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3.0 out of 5 stars A Quick Read, July 5 2001

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Incident at Arbuk was an average book. The plot: Crew finds weird sensor readings. Crew finds big superweapon. Crew finds an alien. Crew finds trouble. Crew finds more trouble. Crew finds solution. It's mostly one big cliché. But it was fairly interesting, just not engrossing. The Sperians were pretty cool aliens, but that's about all that caught my attention. Just a quick, slightly amusing read.

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3.0 out of 5 stars Could have been better.
This book was a minor dissapointment in my case, partly because it had a plot totally centered around an episode of the original series. Read more

Published on Mar 15 2001 by Mikael Kuoppala

4.0 out of 5 stars Okay book
This book was not one of my favorites it took me longer to read it than any other one. I guess it just really didnt catch my attention.

Published on Jun 13 2000 by Kellie J. Burk