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FREE STAR TREK: THE ORIGINAL SERIES: ALLEGIANCE IN EXILE PDF David R. George | 384 pages | 14 Feb 2013 | SIMON & SCHUSTER | 9781476700229 | English | New York, United States Allegiance in Exile | Memory Beta, non-canon Star Trek Wiki | Fandom Goodreads helps you keep track of books you want to read. Want to Read saving…. Want to Read Currently Reading Read. Other editions. Enlarge cover. Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Open Preview See a Problem? George III. Details if other :. Thanks for telling us about the problem. Return to Book Page. Preview — Allegiance in Exile by David R. A beautiful green world, rich in fertile soil and temperate climate. Scans show no life-signs, but there are refined metals, including those associated with a space-faring race. But where are all of the inhabitants? Captain James T. Kirk leads a landing party from the U. EnterpriseA beautiful green world, rich in fertile soil and temperate climate. Enterprisehoping to get some answers. The away team discovers a city in ruins, covered by dust, utterly bereft of life. Tricorder readings indicate that this is no ancient metropolis—it has been deserted only for a year. And just beyond the citadel lies what appears to be an ancient spaceport. With these ruins too far from either the Klingon or the Romulan Empires, the Enterprise crew can only wonder: Who could have done this? And could this unnamed threat now pose an imminent danger to the Federation? Get A Copy. More Details Star Trek: The Original Series. Other Editions 4. Friend Reviews. To see what your friends thought of this book, please sign up. To ask other readers questions about Allegiance in Exileplease sign up. Lists with This Book. This book is not yet featured on Listopia. Community Reviews. Showing Average rating 3. Rating details. More filters. Sort order. Start your review of Allegiance in Exile. Jan 05, Michael rated it it was ok Shelves: read-inpbrc-tower-challengetower-team-challenge- bstar-trektie-in-novel. All of that, plus reading a few heavier books both in terms of content and page count put me in the mood for a light, fun palate cleanser tie-in novel. And so it was that after a year of languishing on my to-be-read pile, I finally decided it was time to give David R. Set in the final year of the original five year mission, the novel finds Kirk and the crew of the Enterprise discovering an apparently deserted planet that holds a deadly cache of self- defense weapons. After the ship and landing party are attacked including the destruction of a shuttle or twoKirk and company discover a way to detect and disable the installations. While Kirk struggles with what the future could hold and the next step in his career he's not ready to leave the bridge of the Enterprise just yetSulu meets and falls for a member of the crew, who was part of the landing party with him. Of course, this can only mean one thing -- the crew member in question's life span is reduced to about twenty or so minute or in this case about pages. Before you know it, Star Trek: The Original Series: Allegiance in Exile crew stumbles across another planet with a similar weapon system in place and Kirk decides to beam down a landing party, including Sulu's new squeeze. The landing party is attacked and the only person injured is, of course, Sulu's new main squeeze. Sulu's reaction Star Trek: The Original Series: Allegiance in Exile this is one of anger at Kirk, including throwing a hissy fit in the turbolift and requesting a transfer because Kirk was the one who made the fateful decision, after being counseling by Dr. McCoy that maybe beaming down isn't such a hot idea. This might be interesting if the romance between Sulu and his fellow female crewman felt in any way authentic and if it just didn't all feel like an excuse to try and insert some off-screen conflict among the original series crew as well as show Sulu that making command decisions somethings has unintended consequences. All of that would be bad enough, but for some reason George uses the final third of the novel to tie events here into the larger Trek canon. I won't give away exactly what the big-time revelation is, but I can say it had my rolling my eyes and muttering, "You've got to be kidding" under my breath. This is exactly the kind of novel I didn't expect from George. He's written some enjoyable, novels that tie together various continuity threads from the TV series and other novels. But it Star Trek: The Original Series: Allegiance in Exile like he was trying too hard to bridge too many gaps and, unfortunately, things come up a bit short. He does a solid job of recreating most of the original series characters on Star Trek: The Original Series: Allegiance in Exile printed page, but his Star Trek: The Original Series: Allegiance in Exile cast is a bit lacking at times. I also got the feeling that for a stand alone novel, this one was meant to tie-into other classic series novels as well. Star Trek: The Original Series: Allegiance in Exile example, Kirk meets the assistant of Admiral Komack and the two have a couple of flirtatious conversations and then it goes absolutely nowhere. I'm going to assume that George is attempting to make us understand why Kirk might accept getting to know her better as a perk of accepting his promotion and leaving the bridge of the Enterprisebut honestly it feels more like a dangling plot thread for another novel than anything else. All of it adds up to a less than satisfying overall experience for Allegiance in Exile. I'm tempted Star Trek: The Original Series: Allegiance in Exile say I've outgrown tie-in novels, but then I'll come across one that really pushes all the right buttons like Doctor Who: The Harvest of Time or any Trek tie-in novel by Peter David and see that they can be both a welcome change of pace and a well done, entertaining story. I don't expect great literature, but I do expect not to want to fling the novel at the wall in frustration when I'm done reading it or at several points as I did here. Somewhere along the way David R. George III's "Allegiance in Exile" is a story that wants to be far more than it is instead of the absolute debacle that develops. The Star Trek: The Original Series: Allegiance in Exile pattern repeats itself on yet another world in a different sect Somewhere along the way David R. Here's an unusually dark TOS novel. Set during the final year of the Enterprise's original five-year mission, veteran Star Trek writer David George attempts to push his characters into psychologically more difficult terrain, pitting Sulu against Kirk and forcing both characters to make hard decisions. The story begins when the Enterprise discovers a lone settlement on a class M planet that has been abandoned for less than a year. The city has been deliberately destroyed, so Kirk and his crew inve Here's an unusually dark TOS novel. The city has been deliberately destroyed, so Kirk and his crew investigate. They find automatic defense mechanisms under the planet's surface; banks of missiles that have now targeted the Federation explorers. The mystery deepens when the pattern repeats several months later on another planet in the same sector. But life in the service can be dangerous, and eventually their romance is threatened by the perils of exploration. Sulu begins to question Star Trek: The Original Series: Allegiance in Exile Kirk's command capabilities. At the same time, Kirk contemplates what he will do after the five-year mission is up. Conversations with Commodore Robert Wesley and Vice Admiral Lori Ciana make him question where his allegiance lies and what would be the best use of his gifts. By the end, both Sulu and Kirk must make challenging decisions about their futures. David George certainly knows his way around the Star Trek universe and the canon characters. Nonetheless, I found a few things in this book a bit disappointing. Star Trek: The Original Series: Allegiance in Exile one, the love story between Trinh and Sulu didn't work for me. The writing in the romantic scenes feels stilted and melodramatic; it's just not as natural as I would have hoped. True confession: I may also be struggling with thinking of Sulu as a straight character. Given the importance of this relationship to the plot of the novel, the relative weakness of these parts makes it feel like the book is built on a shaky foundation. In addition, the solution to the missile crisis feels a bit too direct for Kirk and company. I expected a more clever or elegant answer to the problem. There are things to admire here too, though. For one, George explores a lesser-known part of the timeline, and his willingness to look at the last stages of the five-year mission merits praise. Kirk has begun to have more serious doubts about command and the weight of many challenging missions and decisions have clearly taken their toll. We also see George attempting to tie in other storylines and characters, going backward in time and forward. The finale of this book even hints at plot points that won't be fully realized until the Deep Space Nine series.

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