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Incident at Arbuk

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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}

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.

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.

This book was a minor dissapointment in my case, partly because it had a plot totally centered around an episode of the original series.

I like to see continuity, but since the same issue had already been adressed in the TNG novel "Vendetta" by Peter David, it seemed unnecessary.

"Incident at Arbuck" is set shortly after the first season episode "The Cloud", although (again) you get no information about this in the fashion of a historian's note, so I figured it out while reading the book.

It contains good action and characterization and is build like an episode of the show, including a totally unremarkable, if well written side-plot, wich at least is tied to the main plot in the end. The book is readable, but nothing you should ecpecially look for.

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.

This book was dull, not to mention pointless. It left me with a sense that Janeway had done something wrong, by coming to the star system. It didn't have much scientific information about the Superweapon, and the Characters didn't interact. you got the feeling that no one really liked each other... On the whole I was bored. For slower readers this might be a good book, but fast readers probaly won't enjoy it. It doesn't leave you with a feeling of completness, like most Voyager books do.

This book is probably one of the best Star Trek Voyager books. I think that the story was well told and it has everything ayou want in a voyager book!

I enjoyed Tuvok going bonkers and Neelix outsmarting the guy with the replicator. but, don't read this if you're not a Voyager fan.

Excelent book, the mind melding of vulcans is discussed in a very interesting and descriptive way, the alliens physiology is also a new flavor. I would recommend it to any trekky.

This book was VERY good and I would recommend it to ANY startrek fan. It was fantastic.