Shell Game

by Melissa Crandall

Book Overview

While the crew of the U.S.S. Enterprise explores a Romulan space station adrift within Federation borders, a Romulan warship arrives, and the Romulan commander accuses Captain Kirk of treachery. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0671795724
• ISBN13: 9780671795726
• Release Date: February 1993
• Publisher: Star Trek
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 4.2" x 6.8"

Customer Reviews

Favorite Trek book

I have to admit...this is my favorite Star Trek book, and Ive read a lot in my time, believe me. Im not going to give you a detailed summary of the book because, frankly, you can read that in the summary above. A lot of this book is told in McCoy-perspecitive, which makes for a very amusing time. Lots of the Spock-McCoy banter that we've all come to love. Id definatly suggest this novel to McCoy fans, like myself. Also, Chekov actually gets a part in this story, a part beyond his usual "Keptin, unidentified wessel approaching!" Poor Spock takes a bit of a beating in this one, as well. With an alien life-form draining his energy, and hypothermia setting in, he eventually collapses on the alien bridge, just as the Romulans are about to.... Ah, but I wont give away the story. You'll have to find out for yourself. Basically, if you're a Trekkie, and you havent read this one, what are you waiting for?

A good Trek ghost story

In this, an Enterprise landing party explores a lifeless space station and experiences eerie, seemingly ghostly phenomena, while the Enterprise itself slowly loses power. The author does an excellent job of maintaining the spooky, tense atmosphere throughout the story. The writing is generally quite good. The descriptions are excellent and the action scenes as various people get into trouble very well done. The characterisation and dialogue is great, McCoy in particular having some classic commentary and wit. The writing in general does have some oddities. In particular, the author uses the occasional tautology, and at least one description (Kirk in a falling turbolift) is not as clear as it should be. Every so often the author gets a little long-winded with the descriptions. Those little quirks aside, this is a generally well written and entertaining story.

Star Trek- TOS: Shell Game

Star Trek The Original Series: Shell Game written by Melissa Crandall is a story filled with mystry and intrigue as Kirk and crew try to solve the enigma as to why a Romulan space station is a drift in Federation space.The Enterprise and crew are again on a routine mission like most of the Trek books start, but this time Kirk has to stay behind on the away mission. For Kirk to stay behind chewing at the bit is a hard swallow, but this time it is Spock and McCoy that go on the away mission and find the station and its personell in decay.Of course, if you have a Romulan spacecraft in your backyard, so to speak, you want to visit it and determine if it can be of use. With a space station, along come the Romulans wanting to know what happened to their station and accuse the Federation of debauchery. Spock and McCoy are wonderfully portrayed in this book and their dilog is spot-on and you feel like they are arguing right in front of you. Kirk is not up to his ininate arrogrance, but is close and you feel the tension build.Romulans intrigue, mystery, and strange apparitions, the Enterprise falling under the same situation as the space station with no power... whoa Nellie! Romulan accusations, treachery, and suspense, will the Enterprise be destroyed by the Romulans?This book has ghostly apparitions along with everything else mentioned, but remember this there never is a routine mission for the Flagship of the fleet and her crew... not with James T. Kirk in the Captain's seat. This is one of the better TREK novels and is worth the money if you can find it.

suspense, science, courage, discovery and romulans

This is one of the better books of the TOS series. It has a definite tension, mixed with suspense. And it also features a extraordinary landing party, in which Spock and McKoy are the senior officers, while Kirk remains on board the Enterprise, dealing with his own set of trouble. The interaction between the three of them is engaging as ever.The landing party boards a deserted gigantic Romulan space station, that is adrift in Federation space. Well, deserted... There are thousands of Romulans on board, but they appear to be in a definite state of decay. What happened to them? And is that happening to the landing party as well? How come that even Kirk and the Enterprise seems affected?A good read.