Flashback (Star Trek: Voyager)

by Diane Carey

Book Overview

Before the Voyager was transported to the Delta Quadrant, 100 years ago Lieutenant Tuvok served under one of Starfleet's most famous officers, Captain Sulu of the Starship Excelsior. Now these days... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0671003836
• Release Date: October 1996
• Publisher: Pocket Books
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.32 lbs.
• Dimensions: 7.0" x 0.8" x 4.3"

Customer Reviews

What You Saw on TV and What You Didn't --- Amazing!

"Flasback," by Diane Carey, is a top-flight adaptation of the "Star Trek: Voyager" episode of the same name, teleplay by Brannon Braga. This novelization gives you everything in the episode and so much more. You'll be able to hear in your head all the familiar lines, such as "Neelix, I would prefer not to hear the life's story of my breakfast." But you'll also get the full version you could never quite get from the TV show --- "And then each and every one of them had to be parboiled inside the shell with a---" "Neelix," Tuvok interrupted, wondering how each and every egg was somehow different in the vernacular from each egg or every egg, "I would prefer not to hear the life's story of my breakfast." The "Flashback" novelization gives you all this and more. You'll get a detailed look into the thoughts of each character in surprising and believable detail. Here, without going into too much spoiler detail, is some of the bonus stuff you'll find in this book: - Additional scenes involving Lieutenant Uhura, Captain Kirk and other characters - Janeway coming to terms with her decision not to push Amelia Earhart to remain on Voyager in "The '37s" - Much more character development for Tuvok, including some touching scenes at the end - Some additional material with Paris and Torres that would prove revealing later - Much more development for Kes, Neelix, The Doctor and Chakotay This is the version of the story that probably should have aired on TV, but I know can't, due to the limitations of the format. If you know the the "Star Trek: Voyager" episode "Flashback," get ready to know it in a whole new way.

If you like the episode, you'll love the book!!!!!!!

I never really got into the Voyager series so I had no idea that the Sulu cross over episode had aired.I saw the novel and being a great "Captain Sulu of the Exelcior" fan I had to read it. Before I read a page I discovered the VHS tape of the episode.I watched the episode, read the book and wow!The book is far more fleshed out!If you are a fan of such cross over book/episode fun as "Unification", "Relics" or "Trial & Tribble-ations", you will love this book.

A GREAT STAR TREK CROSSOVER NOVEL!

I SUGGEST READING THE NOVEL 'FLASHBACK' *BEFORE* WATCHING THE VOYAGER TELEVISION EPISODE VERSION. THE NOVEL VERSION IS MUCH MORE RICH IN CHARACTER DEVELOPEMENT AND DETAIL. ALSO, IN THE IN THE NOVEL VERSION, YOU GET TO ENCOUNTER CHARACTERS AND MATERIAL THAT WERE NOT INCLUDED IN THE TELEVISION EPISODE (SPOCK, UHURA, JANEWAY BEING SHOWED WHY IT WAS WISE THAT AMELIA EARHART [FROM THE VOYAGER EPISODE 'THE 37'S'] CHOSE NOT TO STAY ON BOARD VOYAGER WHEN SHE WAS RESCUED BY JANEWAY FROM THE BRIORI CRYOGENICS TANK, ETC.). A GREAT READ FOR ANY STAR TREK FAN!

LOVED IT

I love Tuvok, he is my absolut favorit... That is part of the reason I enjoyed reliving this episode fleshed out in a book. But I thought I got much more out of the book than I did from the episode. A book always gives you more insight into the person you are reading about than tv ever could. So if you love Tuvok there is noway around it, you have to read this book. If you liked the episode Flashback, you will enjoy this book... But don't take my word for it, pick it up and see for youself. Happy reading...

Fleshes out the TV episode

There's one good thing about novelizations of television shows -- they help to add a bit more dimension to things. Such is the case with this novelization of the VOYAGER episode FLASHBACK. The story, which deals with Tuvok's recollection of his career in Starfleet before his friendship with Janeway, helps showcase the enigmatic Vulcan (played to perfection by Tim Russ) and his experiences on another famous Starfleet vessel -- the EXCELSIOR, captained by one Hikaru Sulu. The novel follows the episode very well (Tuvok's memories of the EXCELSIOR, coupled with a intriguing mystery for the Voyager crew that hinges on those same memories) but adds that depth to the characters which only a novelization can do, not to mention allowing other scenes to be shown that might not be readily done by the show. For a writer, it's pretty easy to take a script and flesh it out to what the episode writer's written, but the author here has gone one better and given the scenes a depth that compliments the on-screen action. If you enjoyed the television episode, then why not go one step farther yourself and read the novelization? It's a read well worth your time.