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Star Trek: Discovery: Drastic Measures

By: Dayton Ward
Narrated by: Robert Petkoff
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 An all-new novel based upon the explosive tv series Star Trek: Discovery!

It is 2246, ten years prior to the Battle at the Binary Stars, and an aggressive contagion is ravaging the food supplies of the remote Federation colony Tarsus IV and the eight thousand people who call it home. Distress signals have been sent, but any meaningful assistance is weeks away. Lieutenant Commander Gabriel Lorca and a small team assigned to a Starfleet monitoring outpost are caught up in the escalating crisis, and bear witness as the colony’s governor, Adrian Kodos, employs an unimaginable solution in order to prevent mass starvation.

While awaiting transfer to her next assignment, Commander Philippa Georgiou is tasked with leading to Tarsus IV a small, hastily assembled group of first responders. It’s hoped this advance party can help stabilize the situation until more aid arrives, but Georgiou and her team discover that they‘re too late—Governor Kodos has already implemented his heinous strategy for extending the colony’s besieged food stores and safeguarding the community’s long-term survival.

In the midst of their rescue mission, Georgiou and Lorca must now hunt for the architect of this horrific tragedy and the man whom history will one day brand “Kodos the Executioner.” Adventure Fantasy Fiction First Contact Genre Fiction Military Movie, TV & Video Game Tie-Ins Science Fiction Star Trek
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obviously it was well read, it's Robert Petkoff!! But the story was long, drawn out and nothing really happens. 11 hours of dribble and could of been finished within minutes.

just. ....okay

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I would listen again to this. However, this narrative is overly filled with interesting but distracting and unnecessary back story and excessive descriptions of how people are dressed, where they were from, how they were feeling - rather too much 'telling' than 'showing'. I felt it detracted from the pace of the story, which is well constructed and thought through.
One liner 'dialogue' lines are frequent, which I find irritating and superfluous, more showing technique could be better employed. Also, people 'sigh' rather a lot!

The narrator sometimes makes it difficult to tell the characters' inner voices from the story narrative, but he does have quite a good way of varying the characters and can be quite engaging. Other times I get the feeling he was just reading outloud and sometimes was totally disengaged. Overall, not bad. But I would prefer more energy from a narrator. I like January LaVoy as a narrator, in the Voyager series btw.

Cumbersome and a bit clunky, but a good story

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this is a great story full stop really flushes out the character of Lorca. well worth Reading or even listening to just for a massive spoiler at the end after the epilogue

a very good ensemble cast

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Not as well written as the first novel but not a bad listen, better narrator this time around.

Good.

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story of cronis the excucaner but a nice little bit with a very young Jim kirk

a ok story

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