The Romulan War: Beneath the Raptor's Wing...Review

About the book:
At the start of the twenty-first century unconditional war swept across the Earth. A war that engulfed the great and the small, the rich and the poor, giving no quarter. Each side strove for unconditional victory, and as battle built upon battle the living began to envy the dead.

Chastised by the cataclysm that they had unleashed, the governments of Earth banded together. Humanity vowed to put an end to war, and to strive for the betterment of every living creature. A united Earth created Starfleet, an interstellar agency, whose mission was to explore the cosmos, to come in peace for all mankind. A naïve wish, yet man persists in the belief that peace is the way. Banding together with other powers to form a Coalition of Planets, humanity hopes that the strength each can offer the other, will allow for peaceful exploration.

The rise of the Coalition strikes dread within the Romulan Star Empire. They feel the growing reach will cut them off from what is rightfully theirs. But, the Romulans know that the alliance is fragile, that the correct strategy could turn allies into foes. Perfecting a way of remotely controlling Coalition ships and using them as weapons against each other, the Romulans hope to driving a wedge of suspicion and mistrust between these new allies.

One ship, one Starfleet captain uncovers this insidious plot, Jonathan Archer of the Enterprise. Determined not to lose what they have gained, out manned and out gunned, the captains of Starfleet stand tall vowing to defend every inch of Coalition space. The tide begins to turn. The Romulans now plan to strike at what they see as the heart of their problem. With nothing left to lose the Romulan Star Empire engages in all out war against humanity, determined once and for all to stop the human menace from spreading across the galaxy.

Picking up after Kobayashi Maru, the Romulan War continues and with the help of Commander Trip Tucker, still undercover in Romulus and Vulcan, Jonathan Archer learns of the Romulans plans to destroy the fledging Coalition of Planets.  T'Pol must return to Vulcan in hopes of persuading Minister T'Pau to enter the war.

Like the first two books in the series, this continues the adventures of Trip Tucker, once a Starfleet commander, now a Romulan spy.  There are a lot of foreign Romulan and Vulcan words and no glossary which gets annoying, but is easily overlooked.

Being a Trip and T'Pol fan, I loved their interactions. The story is rather fascinating, but it was sometimes difficult to keep track of all the non-Enterprise crew characters.  The fall out from Captain Archer's decision regarding the Kobayashi Maru resonates through out the story.

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3/5 Stars

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  1. My husband loves Star Trek - I wonder if he'd enjoy one of these books.

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