Captains Honor Star Trek the Next Generation #8

by Daniel Dvorkin and David Dvorkin

Book Overview

A series of vicious attacks by the enigmatic M'Dok Empire has devastated the planet Tenara -- bringing the U.S.S Enterprise(TM) and another Federation starship, the Centurion, to the planet's aid. The... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0671684876
• ISBN13: 9780671684877
• Release Date: September 1989
• Publisher: Pocket Books
• Length: 255 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Great Book

If you like the Star Trek the next generation then you will love this book cause it takes place aboard the Enterprise-D and yes I have an long ways to go before I have every single book of this series. Rondall Banks

Honorable effort

The return of the Romans from "Bread and Circuses" is unexpected and appreciated, though the use of a Constitution-class vessel is anachronistic, in my opinion. The plot with the cat-like aliens is secondary to the real thrust of the novel: that cultural differences spawn different ways of doing things. The dress of the ship, the holodeck sequences, what foods the Neo-Romans eat, and, most of all, their attempts to assimilate a culture into their own, are NOT Federation standard... but they do make sense in the Roman ethos. An excellent contrast with everything Star Trek has shown us before. Hail Ceasar!

A follow-on novel involving those Romans in Bread & Circuses

This novel told about how 2 StarFleet captains, Picard and an officer from the Magna Romans (from the TOS episode "Bread and Circuses") squared off against each other in helping a planet deal with 6 ft tall cat-like critters who invade the planet and eat the people. Picard wants to negotiate and help the cats feed themselves (the cats invade the planet because their race is starving). The Romans want to get rid of them (they don't like cats). There's a subplot involving a Roman officer romancing one of Picard's crew, but who gets killed by the Roman captain. The only good thing about this book is that it follows up on the Bread and Circuses episode into STTNG's 24th century.