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Daedalus's Children: Part Two of Two (Star Trek: Enterprise)
by Dave Stern
Product Group: Book
Publisher: Star Trek (2004-04-27)
ISBN: 0743476468
EAN: 9780743476461
Dewey Decimal #: 813.6
Binding/Media: Mass Market Paperback - 384 pages
SKU: 1002130054
Condition: Used: Very Good
Comments: Buy Pt 2, get Pt 1 FREE, clean and unmarked, light rubs, spine creasing
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Editorial Reviews
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Product Description
Crippled by a freak accident, Enterprise has crossed over into an alternate universe -- and into the middle of a civil war set off by a brutal warlord who has used technology stolen from the Daedalus to enslave his people. Forcibly removed from their ship, imprisoned and brutalized by their captors, Captain Archer and crew soon find themselves confronting an even more immediate challenge than escape -- subtle biochemical differences in this universe that make their continued survival an impossibility. Every hour they spend in this parallel continuum brings them closer to death. Yet Archer discovers that in order to recapture Enterprise, he may have to cripple his ship once again. And even if he manages to find a solution to that dilemma, one last survivor of the doomed flight of the Daedalus stands between Enterprise and her safe return home....
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Customer Reviews
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great book
Rating  (5)
Date: 2009-09-12
I really liked this book. I especially liked how Trip and T'Pol stayed true to character. I found it a very enjoyable read and I am looking forward to the next book. If you like Enterprise the series at all I think you will like this book.
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Fine Conclusion to Two-Part Series
Rating  (4)
Date: 2009-03-30
Daedalus's Children was a fine conclusion to the two-part series. Another fast paced, page-turning book, it continues a story of the Enterprise crew being drawn to the center of major political turmoil in an alien star system.
While Tucker and Hoshi continue to play an important role in the story, this book, refreshingly, broadens the plot to include the entire Enterprise crew. Additional characters - the leaders of varios factions - can be appretiated as well. I was pleased to find that Trip's romantic interest, which was barely explored in the first book, was given much more thorough treatment in this one.
As with the first book, the author's blunt, dialoug-heavy writing style is appreciated. It makes for quick reading and allows an Enterprise fan's knowledge of the show to fill in background details.
One star is missing from my review because of another poorly-done plot mechanism. Without giving too much away, there is one major predicament the crew faces (among many) which seems insurmountable. But, suddenly an easy solution is found and an entire sub-plot is retired with little fanfare.
Still, the book is a lot of fun to read. Like the first book, I recommend it to any fan of Enterprise.
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Daedalus's Children: Part Two (Enterprise)
Rating (4)
Date: 2007-04-11
A very good 2 volume series. It was the first books in the new Enterprise series, and I was not disapointed. The plot was interesting, and I think the characters were well written. I could almost hear and see them as they are on the TV series.
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Editor: Out to Lunch
Rating  (3)
Date: 2005-01-05
2 out of 2 customers found this reveiw helpful
Daedalus's Children was entertaining and was well written overall, but I found the long-winded writing and blatent mistakes frequently frustrating. And most of the main characters from the television show, which the book is based on, took a back seat to many new minor characters.
This book seemed to have been rushed to the shelves before being adequately proof-read. For example, a character named Duel is given the rank of an Ensign in the first book, but on page 7 of this book Duel is called Lieutenant, then again called Ensign on page 25. Also, on page 234, a junior Enterprise engineer named Hess is on an alien ship with Archer before Archer is reunited with Enterprise. However, Hess was present on Enterprise on pages 211-221 at the same time as he was supposed to be with Archer. This obvious mistake of one character in two places at once cannot be explained away with parallel universes.
The story itself is smart and fun, but in an effort to be an epic two-parter, it greatly overreaches. In chapter 19, Captain Archer fights a frustrating twenty-page space battle in a little scout craft, though it can't really be called a space battle because it is only between his lone craft and three enemy ships. In page after page, nothing happens, save rediculous references to maneuvers learned at the Academy. Of course, Archer's little ship is victorious. And none of this actually matters, because it makes no sense for Archer to be on the craft anyway; his small crew's presence there was poorly explained as a need for a reconnaissance vessel that somehow couldn't be manned by any of the vast Denari crew.
But the greatest damage to the plot was having Archer direct the Denari war to an outcome of his choosing. Hasn't Stern seen any of the television shows? Sure, the Prime Directive isn't around yet, but having Archer interfere so thoroughly with an alien war in another universe when he only saw one side of the conflict goes against all common sense.
While all the main characters from the television show need not be central to every Trek book, the plethora of minor characters were confusing and overshadowed almost all the main crew. I read an Enterprise book to read about the televised cast, not a whole new crew. If I was looking for that, I would be reading the New Frontier series or the Stargazer series. All the references to people Dave Stern knows were just annoying.
Any good Star Trek novel should be written as though it were a television episode or a movie. Instead, they often expand upon the show so much just to fill pages that they end up becoming almost unrecognizeable as occuring in the Trek universe. I did enjoy Daedalus, and this book almost as much, but halfway through this book I found myself longing for it to end.
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We aren�t in Kansas any more.
Rating (4)
Date: 2004-06-29
3 out of 3 customers found this reveiw helpful
While part one of this two part series seemed like a pursuit into the life and times of Charles Tucker III, this one was a little more balanced in its use of the crew of the Enterprise.I liked the way Stern delved into the histories of the character by bringing up the striking differences between this stories universe and the real one. We get to see the struggle of Archer and crew to fight the ailments of this universe and obtain their freedom from the quarreling factions in this universe. This was a very good completion to a well develop story. Having finished them both part of me would have liked to see them combined into one novel. There seemed to a little too much filler but more story then a single novel. If you enjoyed the first part, you have no choice but to pick this book up and see if the crew makes it home.
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