Star Trek: Voyage to Adventure

Which Way Books #15

by Michael J. Dodge, John M. Ford, Gordon Tomei (Illustrator)

The reader's decisions determine the adventures of the crew of the Enterprise on a trip into outer space

Genres: Star Trek, Science Fiction, Gamebooks, Fiction, Choose Your Own Adventure, Childrens, Star Trek Original Series

128 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1984

Reviews

[Bev · Rating 4 out of 5]

Loved this fun book when I found it. Now my son is enjoying it too. He loves the choose your own adventure type books and has come to love Star Trek as much as his mom & dad.

Review 1/22/22:
Mystery...Adventure...Time Travel...all this and more await the reader of this Which Way Book (a choose-your-own-adventure-type) who finds herself assigned as an Ensign aboard the legendary U.S.S. Enterprise with Captain Kirk, Mr. Spock and the rest of the crew. Solve the mystery of the Klingon spy. Travel through time with Mr. Spock. Investigate the mysterious messages from an alien race. And try to avoid slip-ups that will result in your own destruction.

I loved the Choose Your Own Adventure Books from the time I ordered my first one (The Mystery of Chimney Rock) through the Scholastic Book Club order form in elementary school. Being a Trek fan, I immediately scooped this one up when it came out in 1984. And enjoyed it immensely. It was just as much fun revisiting this story now. I love the way Dodge has packed this small book with so many coherent adventures. Short and to the point, but full of mystery adventure to make reading fun for kids--and adults.

First posted on my blog My Reader's Block.

[Reesha · Rating 4 out of 5]

A truly interesting use of oatmeal...

There are some very fun adventures in here! I would have loved this book as a kid.

The most important bit of every choose-your-own-adventure book, in my mind, is that every story actually works. That there are no mistakes in page numbers, no accidental dropping of an important transitional scene between one plot point and the next. A cursed Virgo, I keep a pile of bookmarks next to me to methodically follow every single path in these types of books, and I can tell you that this one is perfectly done in that respect.

There are several plots to explore, with enough ending in tragic deaths to make you certain your character is dressed in red. There are also heroics, battles, and a promotion available if you make the right choices.

If I had one complaint it's probably that Spock is smiling at me too much. Why is he smiling at all? He's a Vulcan and I, a lowly just-arrived human Ensign, am not that interesting.

It's a solid 4-star choose your own adventure book for kids. I'm ancient and I still liked it.

[Erythor Silvertip · Rating 3 out of 5]

Pack your "space bag" and head to the Enterprise, where you get to pick your duty assignment (lol) and can track down a robot "mouse", get electrocuted by an oatmeal replicator, visit the Mirror Universe, do some time-travel shenanigans, and otherwise goof off. Quite silly, but then, the Original Series *is* a bit silly if we're honest. Good clean fun.

[Robert Schneider · Rating 3 out of 5]

Standard 'Choose your own adventure ' type book. Quite interesting that they decided to try a Star Trek book in their series instead of just sticking with the regular novels that they were published at the time.

[Amanda · Rating 3 out of 5]

A fun read that brings back childhood memories. Definitely worth a read and a trip down memory lane.

[Rob Cook · Rating 4 out of 5]

A fun choose your own adventure style book. There are so many different storylines in one little book, it will keep you entertained for a while.

[Jeremy · Rating 3 out of 5]

This is a Star Trek "Which Way" (one of several Choose Your Own Adventure ripoff series, along with Twistaplot) book. I don't care about Star Trek now and I cared even less about it when I was 8, so I don't know how this book found its way into my young life, but I clearly remember lazily flipping my way through a few bland voyages to ostensible adventure. I seem to recall that no matter "which way" you decided to go, Dr. McCoy was still going to yell at you (example: turn to page 11: "You steered us directly into a meteor shower! Whaddaya got, moon rocks for brains?". turn to page 12: "You turned to page 12! Fuck you!"), so there was very little suspense. Just more unpleasant old men glowering at blinking consoles.

[Surreysmum · Rating 2 out of 5]

[These notes were made in 1985:]. This is silly, but fun. Not a continuous story, but a sort of ever-branching flow chart, where the decision "you" - the reader, the imaginary space cadet - make determines on what page you continue the story. There are actually about half-a-dozen main story-lines available, about Klingon spies, a mad computer, an alien race, time travel, etc. The prose is rudimentary, and the situations cadged shamelessly from various ST episodes. They are often ended abruptly and unsatisfactorily, although not necessarily catastrophically. The chief fun, then, lies in hunting down all possible branches and variations of the story, and this I did with great gusto for about an hour one boring afternoon.

[Michael Hanscom · Rating 3 out of 5]

It is what it is: a choose-your-own-adventure style kid's book set in the Star Trek universe. First contact with alien races, battles with Klingons, time travel, or the Mirror universe, depending on your choices as an ensign on the Enterprise. Spock is oddly prone to smiling at the end of many of the storylines, though.

[Kristopher · Rating 4 out of 5]

I got this in 1984 and still read it now and then. It was a lot of fun to read. It's one of those choose your own adventure type books where you make the decisions for the main character, who in this book is an ensign on the USS Enterprise.

[Luke · Rating 5 out of 5]

So awesome for Star Trek fans. You can create your own Star Trek adventure on the star ship Enterprise!!!

[Chad]

Fun reading from my childhood. Nothing here is going to challenge you, necessarily. But if you’re of my rough age and grew up with this cast, you’ll probably find this one to be a good choice.