- Paperback: 544 pages
- Publisher: Pocket Books/Star Trek; Original edition (Dec 11 2007)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 141654898X
- ISBN-13: 978-1416548980
- Product Dimensions: 21.6 x 14 x 3.3 cm
- Shipping Weight: 458 g
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #376,183 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Book Description
These are the voyages of the U.S.S. da Vinci. Their mission: to solve the problems of the galaxy, one disaster at a time. Starfleet veteran Captain David Gold, along with his crack Starfleet Corps of Engineers team led by former Starship Enterprise™ engineer Commander Sonya Gomez, travel throughout the Federation and beyond to fix the unfixable, repair the irreparable, and solve the unsolvable.
The S.C.E.'s missions don't always go as planned -- repairing the weather grid on the resort planet Risa turns into a deadly first contact, constructing an industrial complex on a nonaligned world leads to some startling revelations about the financier behind it, diverting a runaway ship could spell death for the crew the da Vinci didn't even know was there, and a planet in a box proves a more valuable prize than anyone could have imagined -- but their greatest challenge comes much closer to home...
Captain Gold's granddaughter Esther is marrying Khor, son of Lantar, a Klingon politician. Now Gold faces what may be the greatest challenge of his career: officiating the first-ever Klingon-Jewish wedding!
About the Author
David Mack is the national bestselling author of more than a dozen books, including Wildfire, Harbinger, Reap the Whirlwind, Road of Bones, and the Star Trek Destiny trilogy—Gods of Night, Mere Mortals, and Lost Souls. His first original novel, the supernatural thriller The Calling, debuted in July 2009 to critical acclaim. In addition to novels, Mack’s diverse writing credits span several media, including television, film, short fiction, magazines, newspapers, comic books, computer games, radio, and the Internet. He currently resides in New York City.
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4.0 out of 5 stars
looking forward, May 1 2008
By JohnA37 "Tuva or Bust" - Published on Amazon.com
This book doesn't have the Ooomph of the other SCE series; I am waiting to see how other readers find "Creative Couplings".
2.0 out of 5 stars
Disappointed with Creative Couplings Packaging, Dec 14 2010
By Randy L. Bennett - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Star Trek: Corps of Engineers: Creative Couplings (Paperback)
I have really enjoyed reading the SCE series of books. For the most part I have considered the price to be fair. The two part series Creative Couplings was a real disappointment. They divided the story into two parts charging $5.99 per part. Each book was extremely short compared to other SCE books. Creative Couplings should have been packaged into one book for only $5.99 or less. It was certainly not worth $12.00 for the two.The story was fine but not exceptional.
I did have a new idea for the whole Star Trek world. If you can have a hologram doctor (introduced in Voyager and used in the SCE series), why not a hologram engineer to deal with all the various life threatening situations in engineering and let the humanoids get out and seal off engineering?
4.0 out of 5 stars
A Klingon-Jewish wedding -- Oy vey!, Jun 4 2009
By Rabbi Yonassan Gershom - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Star Trek: Corps of Engineers: Creative Couplings (Paperback)
Captain David Gold and his wife Rachel are the first continuing Jewish characters in the Star Trek universe. (Yes, there have been a few other Jews in the novels -- see my own book, Jewish Themes in Star Trek -- but the Golds are the first major Jewish characters in an ongoing series.) In "Creative Couplings," Captain Gold's granddaughter, Esther, is marrying Khor, the son of a Klingon ambassador, and Gold is going to perform the wedding. (Which gets around the sticky question about intermarriage between a Jew and a non-Jew. It isn't stated in the book, but I imagine this is why Rachel -- who is a rabbi -- does not officiate. Although, since membership in the Jewish community is passed down through the mother, and the bride in this case is Jewish, that means their children will be Jews. Imagine -- Jewish Klingon kids! Perhaps future stories will deal with these issues in more depth?) Trying to bridge these two cultures in a mutually-acceptable ceremony is a challenge for both the Golds and the Klingons, but they succeed -- how, I'm not going to tell you.This book is actually an anthology, with 5 other S.C.E. stories as well. I liked some better than others, but on the whole it was a good read. Although these other novellas don't have overtly Jewish themes, Captain Gold does use Yiddish expressions occasionally. I was most impressed that he does NOT degenerate into the "comic relief" role that is so often assigned to Jews in popular literature. Gold is a highly competent Starfleet captain who just happens to be Jewish. Very well done!
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