Star Trek: The Original Series: New Earth #5: Thin Air

by Kristine Kathryn Rusch and Dean Wesley Smith

Book Overview

Many light-years away from the safety of the Federation, the Starship Enterprise(tm) stands guard over an alien world whose unique natural resources could change the balance of power throughout the... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 067178577X
• ISBN13: 9780671785772
• Release Date: August 2000
• Publisher: Star Trek
• Length: 219 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 4.2" x 6.8"

Customer Reviews

Reasonably good.

Not great, but a better-than-passable read. The characters are handled pretty well, the story is okay, and the writing isn't too bad, although there were a few more typos that slipped past the editing than I care for, and it manages to be just barely not too predictable; it caught me off-guard in a couple of places. But definitely closer to three stars than to five.

Love To Read

I love to read and i really do enjoy the Star Trek books and now i'm trying to get them all so wish me luck. Rondall Banks

this is a great series

I have really enjoyed reading this series. This particular book was enjoyable, though I was dissapointed with the outcome of Kirk's relationship with the woman from the colonists, but then I guess you can't really have Kirk be happy with a woman for very long. I suggest you read this, though do what I did and get the whole series at once, that way you dont have to wait for the next installment

Star Trek #93 Thin Air - A very interesting premise!

This fifth book in the Star Trek New Earth series, "Thin Air" more or less comes as a breath of "fresh" air as it falls in line with a typical novel written by these two excellent authors, Kristine Kathryn Rusch and Dean Wesley Smith. Up to this point in the New Earth series, despite the overall premise being an extraordinarily interesting one, the execution of the premise has been plodding and just plain difficult to get through. "Thin Air," is a quick read entailing a very intriguing plot device for Captain Kirk and crew to get through.Keeping in line with the Star Trek releases at the time of this novels release, the cover art for the novel is quite beautiful. That's the funny thing about the whole New Earth series; the cover art for all of them up to them has been quite outstanding which has been quite the opposite of what's inside most of the books.The premise:After dealing with the massive laser beam fired at Belle Terre in the previous novel, "The Flaming Arrow," Captain Kirk and crew now find that they must deal with an even more insidious attack upon Belle Terre by the Kauld. As the previous novel "The Flaming Arrow" opened up, The Kauld had sent a single battle barge at Belle Terre, which was headed straight for the planet and when the Enterprise attacked it, it didn't put up a fight at all. The Kauld battle barge was destroyed in the upper atmosphere of Belle Terre.Captain Kirk and the crew of the Enterprise now find that Belle Terre will soon be completely uninhabitable if they do not come up with a way of stopping these Kauld nanoassemblers from turning Belle Terre's own soil into a siliconic gel that will suffocate every living being on the planet.Of all of the Star Trek New Earth titles up to this point, "Thin Air" is only second to "The Flaming Arrow" in intensity and intrigue. I was especially intrigued by the plot device of the siliconic gel, which is what Science Fiction is all about. As an individual novel, I highly recommend this title. {ssintrepid}

another good one in the series

This is the 5th book of set of 6. It is better than a few of the previous books, particularly the third which was weak. As the other books, this book will stand alone but it is good to have read them all in sequence. The stories thread together and manage to keep coming up with new and different problems to be solved.In this book, through a sneaky suicide run, the Kauld contaminated the planet's soil early on in the fourth book unknown to everyone on the settler's planet, which Kirk has heroically saved from total destruction twice before. After a few monthes as the damage is exponentially worsening, Spock detects the problem and the planet needs saving again without much time to accomplish it.This is another good read for Star Trek fans with the famous chemistry between the Enterprise's crew, plus a few other interesting character.