No Man's Land

I don't know what to say about this book. For a Star Trek story, it was good, not the greatest thing but a good book. For a Voyager story it was even better, Janeway's ability to lead and conquer impossible situations shines though in this book. For the Gateways series... this book was useless.I'm a huge Voyager fan, so this was the very first Gateways book I read. After reading it I thought it was phenominal, Janeway, all alone in the Delta Quadrant, happens upon SEVERAL other ships now also lost with her. Some of them friendly, some of them hostile, some of them at war back on their home planets, and some of them (the Hirogen) who are supposed to be enemies but don't seem to be. And then the end (in book 7) was "WOW." But, now I've read three other Gateways books (TNG, DS9, and NF), and I have found that the Voyager installation in the Gateways series really had absolutely nothing to do with the Gateways in the other books. The only link is that you find out where the Iconians got the Gateways to begin with. But the Gateways in Voyager were not of the same sort as those in the other series, making this a useless read if you want to follow the Gateways series specifically.My recommendation here is if you like Voyager and want to see some typical Janeway diplomacy and tough-as-nails leadership read this book. But if you are only getting this book for the Gateways' series skip it.

This is a very good book. It has Captain Janeway in a very sticky stitution. She must lead a fleet of alien ships through a dangerous sector of space and most don't trust or even like her! This book is good on how it has Janeway and the crew deal with slavery, greed and just plain rotten people. Seven has some interesting sceens in this book which makes it even better. The books first two chapters are a little slow but it picks up. An all around good Star Trek adventure.

I am usually wary of anything that deals with the Voyager series. The few Voyager novels that I have read though have been superior to the TV series. This is one of those novels. The author captures what was really the best qualities of the series and the characters. Here all the characters have something to do not like the TV series where it became the 7 of 9 show. Nothing wrong with that but variety would have been nice. Here we get to see Janeway as a strong leader. Not someone that sometime became irrational as shown on the show at times. Janeway and Chakotay have a strong bond here which I approve but differed from the series finale. This is more appropriate and logical not the crazy pairing they did at the end. I also liked the fact the author show us all these different alien species and some of the older ones of the TV series. The book has good action and has some cute, light moments. It is not perfect but the Gateway series has definately picked up from book 2 and has done well after that. Hopefully book 6 will be good too.

I thought this was a great read. As a recently converted Star Trek fan, I really enjoyed it. I was a little unsure of whether or not to buy it, but I'm glad I did! I thought the plot was good, and some of the descriptions were excellent. Well Done to Christie Golden.

Christie Golden can now be called the "Official Voyager Novelist" as most Voyager books coming out are under her moniker. This stood out as one of the better novels in the Gateways series, but the reason I did not give it a 5 star rating was that this book could have been a stand-alone novel. This book was about Voyager leading a fleet of miss-matched vessels through some hazards in the Delta Quadrant. As it was in the Gateways series, the tagline was: "Voyager leads a fleet of mismatched vessels through some hazards while trying to avoid the Iconian Gateways in the Delta Quadrant."It could have been:"Voyager leads a fleet of mismatched vessels through some hazards while trying to avoid the [insert random space/time distortions] in the Delta Quadrant."Very good book, though.