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Oblivion (Star Trek: Stargazer, Book 4) [Mass Market Paperback]

Michael Jan Friedman
3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)

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5.0 out of 5 stars More than a flashback , a very creative vision Jan 28 2013
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A product that has more inforbases than I can even keep up with, from what I acess on internet and follow even on The Space Channel really am happy and encouraged with todays issues as well as past etc,Amazon delivers, Quality 120 percent.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Star Trek-Stargazer: Oblivion Jan 4 2004
Format:Mass Market Paperback
Star Trek-Stargazer: Oblivion written by Michael Jan Friedman is the latest installment in the Stargazer series featuring a young Captain Jean-Luc Picard. As with most of Friedman's work this story has both an A and B plotline. So, hopping from one story to the next is what you'll have to do to finish this story.

Jean-Luc Picard is on a mission to find a long lost friend, Demmix, who has vital information on the Ubarrak about a defensive system to be installed on all of their spacefaring vessels. Demmix will only offer this information to his friend Picard, but the Federation isn't the only organization that is trying to cull this information, so are the Cardassians. Now, with the Cardassians in the picture, things get rather heated as Picard trys to avoid capture. Picard is young in this adventure, but he is developing his instincts as he runs into Guinan the El-Aurian who will become, much later, the master of Ten Forward on the U.S.S. Enterprise.

This book brings the reader into a tumultuous adveturous relationship between Guinan and Picard... as Guinan a long-lived El-Aurian still remembers Picard, who at the time of their first meeting was much older in San Francisco back in 1893. Now, she must work with Picard to find Demmix and all of his secrets.

As we read on in the book, we find a very different more vunerable Guinan... a person who experiences pain and longing, but with budding qualities that we've come to expect. There is some real soul searching going on on Guinan's part. As she yearns of the Cosmic String and it's promissed peace and oblivion. The story between Picard and Guinan gets filled in as to their relationship and brings the reader into a personal relationship.

So much for storyline A, storyline B is the crew on the Starship Stargazer. We get to see more of the personal relationships between the crew members in Picard's absence. Nikolas is still not over with his encounter with Gerda Idum from the other universe... that story is found in the book Stargazer: Three. The purpose of this storyline is to give the reader insight into the lives and thinking of the Stargazer's crew. Yes, it can be views as filler, but more importantly it gives us a view of the crew's fragilness.

I gave this book a solid 4 stars, for the good story between Picard and Guinan that sheds some light on their long relationship. The character development between Picard and Guinan may have been written stronger, but this is an early encounter between them and their relationship only grows strong with time. All in all, we begin to know what makes Picard tick and how Guinan draws her strenght from the man called Captain Jean-Luc Picard.

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2.0 out of 5 stars A mediocre Trek book Nov 21 2003
Format:Mass Market Paperback
There are two main plotlines, one following Picard and one on Stargazer. Picard's story is a reasonable if not very good action story. The scenes with him and Guinan could have had used more depth. Using a familiar Cardassian character was a good and unexpected touch. However, this story has little more content, depth and length than a good but not great Starfleet Corps of Engineers e-book.

The Stargazer plotline is filler. In the other books the crew on the ship went off and had adventures while Picard was off the ship. Not this time. Almost all of this story is about Ensign Nikolas. He lost a woman he was infatuated in the last book, so he spends this book miserable. Misery loving company, he does his best to make everyone around him miserable. That included me. This half of the book was a waste of time. The author either should have concentrated almost everything on the Picard story, or made this half actually be a story, instead of one long sulk.

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