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Every year, Starfleet Academy in San Francisco attracts many of the most talented and ambitious young people in the Federation. They come from all over the Alpha Quadrant, from hundreds of worlds and species, to prepare themselves for the challenges of the final frontier.
Meet a new generation of cadets: a newly joined Trill just beginning the first of many lives; a Bajoran Vedek who finds himself torn between his vows and an unspoken love; a reckless young man fond of pushing the limits; a feline alien raised among humans; a brilliant but immature young woman with a lot to learn; and a native-born Earth woman with a talent for engineering.
Together they will learn about courage, life, teamwork, and themselves. Their future is just beginning -- but one of them will not survive!
ASIN : B000FBJG5E
Publisher : Pocket Books/Star Trek (September 22, 2000)
Publication date : September 22, 2000
Language : English
File size : 1652 KB
Text-to-Speech : Enabled
Screen Reader : Supported
Enhanced typesetting : Enabled
X-Ray : Not Enabled
Word Wise : Enabled
Print length : 308 pages
Reviewer: vera beaton
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Fantastic Fan Fiction
Review: Amazing concept, wonderfully crafted. Great job (as always) Susan Wright!
Reviewer: carlaf
Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars
Title: A fun, breezy book!
Review: I don't know anyone who reads a Star Trek novel for its literary content and deep philosophies; however, that being said it is an interesting book which I still remember after more than ten years after reading it because: a) I am a Star Trek afficanado;b) it dealth with life at Star Fleet Academy;c) it introduced two new species, which I always find great and d) it actually incorporated the concept of IDIC (infinite diversity in infinite combinations) by introducing a romance between two women.I was a bit upset to read that some reviwers trashed this book because of item (d) because I would imagine that anyone who reads Star Trek would embrace its ideals of tolerance and acceptance.There are no overt sex scenes but I have no idea at what age teenagers should read this. I would leave that up to the parents, although I personally think there is nothing in this realationship that would shock and offend. It was a very sweet and loving relationship between two different species of the same gender.
Reviewer: Kindle Customer
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: A new set of Cadets for StarFleet Academy
Review: Author Susan Wright brings us a tale of new cadets that have begun their starfleet adventure at StarFleet Academy in the year 2368. This new cast of characters is taken through four years at the Academy and along the way they learn to work together. Jayme Miranda who begins as an engineering student finds out that her special built tricorder has been taken by her room mate to the San Francisco radio observatory for reasons unknown. But Jayme and the rest of her quad find out in the Admiral's office that her room mate wants to give up the starfleet life and return to her colony world. As this is going on the Wesley Crusher and his team where held back a year due to a stunt that got one of them killed (TNG Season 5). And during their second year at the Academy the Bajorian system is freed while the wormhole is found and DS9 takes its stance near its mouth. During their third year Jayme decides that engineering isn't for her even though she's from a line of engineers that go back to the time of the Enterprise-B. Her parents don't want her to waist what she's already learned but she makes the choice for her. During the summer of 2371 three of her former quad mates who had been assigned to the Enterprise-D had gone through the events of Star Trek: Generations and only two of them survived the crash and returned to Earth. At this time the Romulans and the Cardassians attack the founders homeworld (DS9 Season 3) while the Starship Voyager disappears in the badlands (Voyager Season 1). As darkness befalls the Alpha Quadrant these cadets both former and in their last year continue on to make a difference. I highly recommend this book to all science fiction fans.
Reviewer: Michael ([email protected])
Rating: 2.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Sweet Valley High in space
Review: Pocket Books attempt to cash in on the popularity of their Starfleet Acadamy line of novels with this cross-over of the more adult-oriented novels and the youth-oriented novels. What results is an unbalanced mess of a book that chooses to focus on the events that our young characters go through rather than really taking advantage of the change to showcase some new, interesting characters in the Trek universe. Unlike the extremely entertaining and succesful New Frontier line by Peter David, where character development is an absolute must, this book fails to deliver on the goods. Instead, we get lots of cliched storylines that play out in cliched ways. A group of mismatched cadets in stuck together and must find ways to work together with their own stregths and weaknesses. Along the way, some will fails, others will fall in love, and one will discover that she is gay. (Yes, you read that correctly). The main problem is stitled dialogue, a prose style that gets jarring after a few pages, and the need to throw every character from Next Gen or DS9 or Voyager in just to show you can do it. Not recommened.
Reviewer: Christopher Deel
Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars
Title: I enjoyed this book as it details adventures that are sometimes ...
Review: I enjoyed this book as it details adventures that are sometimes hinted at in the shows about when someone was a cadet at the Academy, and stuff like that. I would love to see a sequel to this, though.
Reviewer: Four Pips
Rating: 3.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Trek Novel for P-Platers
Review: The Best and the Brightest lets you experience the lives and times of Starfleet Academy students. Although this novel would naturally appeal to 18-21 year olds, who wish to read about shared experiences of young love and university jealousies, it was also pleasing to see that heteronormativity isn't the only option acceptable as 'the norm' in the future. Susan Wright does include a same-sex relationship between to female classmates - bravo to her for being prepared to 'Go Boldly where no other Star Trek episode has gone before', although there were episodes that danced around the fringes. An enjoyable, light read that could have benefited more from not trying to include to many protagonists and plots. Would still recommend it happily.
Reviewer: TC137
Rating: 3.0 out of 5 stars
Title:
Review: I think I may have been reading something different to that the other reviewers were. Although the book was well written and some thought had clearly gone into it, it all seemed a bit too forced. I realise that much of the book was set between years but this is where I think it detracted from the story. I was looking for more about what it was like to attend the academy. Did they ever attend class? I find it hard to believe that one group of cadets could have had all those adventures/mishaps!And for three of them to conveniently end up on the Enterprise was the last straw for me.I thought that was far too unrealistic to be honest.I also think that the book would have been much better if Ms Wright had left out the use of familiar characters.Overall not bad but not at all what I was expecting.This had the potential to be such a good story but I feel the opportunity was wasted.