Reviews for Star Trek: Deep Space Nine #1: Emissary

The average rating for Star Trek: Deep Space Nine #1: Emissary based on 2 reviews is 4 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2018-04-24 00:00:00 GEORGE ESTES As massive of a Star Trek fan as I was when DS9 premiered, you'd think I would have seen the debut episode. You'd think I would have videotaped every episode and watched all the time when I felt like it. Nope. I did start watching the show, several episodes into the series, but hadn't seen the premier episode yet. Not for a long time, actually. I received this along with three other DS9 books for Christmas in 1994--almost two years after the series premiered! I still hadn't seen the episode, so this was it for me. Finally, I could see how it all came together! Meh. It was an okay story, but more focused on introducing all the characters, and low on the all too convenient plot. The writing wasn't the greatest, and this took me a lot longer to get through than I had hoped. At the time, I was plowing through two books a week. This took almost 10 days. I did finally see the episode, many years later--2014, when I finally got into my Netflix queue. It had me on the edge of my seat, so I didn't regret passing this off to a used book store when I was finished reading it.

Review # 2 was written on 2018-09-21 00:00:00 Philippe Gagnon This book easily ranks among the best Star Trek novels I've read or listened to. It is the novel adaptation of Deep Space Nine's pilot episode, "The Emissary." I usually find novel adaptations to be worse than the original film or show, but I was really surprised by this book. I listened to the audio version, originally released on cassette (someone has uploaded it to YouTube). Nana Visitor, the actress who played Major Kira in the show, narrates. She does a fantastic job. Listening to her portray Quark, Sisko, and the others was really fun. But more than that, the actual story of "The Emissary" is rich. I recently re-watched the episode (it's a 2-hour pilot) and found that this book stayed faithful while adding in additional background details. Many TV spin-off novels just aren't that good. But this one gets a solid 5-star rating. Recommended.