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Cadet Kathyrn Janeway, the ambitious daughter of Vice Admiral Edward Janeway, is determined to prove herself at Starfleet Academy. Her tough commander, Etienne Mallet, demands perfection, but Kathyrn is ready for the challenge. It isn't easy, especially with two "two" roommates: a pair of identical Diasoman twins named ThrumPol. Kathyrn thinks she can face the pressure alone, but when she and Pol fail their second dorm drill and Mallet assigns them to a holodeck test, Kathyrn panics. Suddenly, she's out of control!
It's time to call on her secret weapon to help her through the crisis...until Mallet discovers her weakness and issues the ultimate challenge....
It's time to call on her secret weapon to help her through the crisis...until Mallet discovers her weakness and issues the ultimate challenge....
116 pages, Paperback
First published August 1, 1997
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David Cody Weiss
108 books11 followersDavid Cody Weiss is a published adapter, author, and an editor of children's books and young adult books. Some of the published credits of David Cody Weiss include Sabrina, the Teenage Witch, Phonics Comics: Hiro Dragon Warrior - Battle at Mount Kamado (Phonics Comics), Groovy Tube Books: Monsters (Groovy Tube Books), and Phonics Comics: Hiro - Level 2: Dragon Warrior (Phonics Comics).
He was a Writer and letterer who worked for DC and Marvel during the 80s. Weiss is credited in 248 issues for DC Comics.
He was a Writer and letterer who worked for DC and Marvel during the 80s. Weiss is credited in 248 issues for DC Comics.
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October 19, 2015
Janeway starts starfleet academy, she is very driven, and puts work before everything. She learns that, perhaps, that is not the way to live. I could really imagine Janeway being like that as a young woman, and thought it was well written. It's nice to read an academy book that is actually all about student life and passing, rather than life and death situations. A good read.
June 18, 2019
I can't think of another STAR TREK tale in which the stakes were this low. Will Janeway finally pass room inspection? Will she figure out how her rival is able to respond to Red Alerts so quickly? Will she adjust to life with roommates? Will she ever pass the Kobayashi Maru-like training scenario she's been assigned? Will she figure out that the exasperating boy in her class doesn't just like her, but, like, LIKES likes her?
Gee, what could be more exciting? Not to mention the fact that Janeway is portrayed as a completely unsympathetic overachiever, someone who's always trying to earn daddy's love by getting perfect grades all the time. Plus, the military-style way in which her dorm is run seems way over the top, like when she is faced with a surprise room inspection mere moments after first stepping through the door.
One thing I'll say for this book is that it demonstrates STAR TREK's inclusiveness. There's a STAR TREK novel, comic, show, movie, or game for everyone. This book, in particular, seems aimed at young female readers of stuff like SWEET VALLEY HIGH and THE BABY-SITTERS CLUB. It's not aimed at the sort of people you'd normally think of as STAR TREK fans. For me, these STARFLEET ACADEMY novels need to be about something more than just going to classes and adjusting to school life. I know they're intended as strictly YA fare, but still.
Gee, what could be more exciting? Not to mention the fact that Janeway is portrayed as a completely unsympathetic overachiever, someone who's always trying to earn daddy's love by getting perfect grades all the time. Plus, the military-style way in which her dorm is run seems way over the top, like when she is faced with a surprise room inspection mere moments after first stepping through the door.
One thing I'll say for this book is that it demonstrates STAR TREK's inclusiveness. There's a STAR TREK novel, comic, show, movie, or game for everyone. This book, in particular, seems aimed at young female readers of stuff like SWEET VALLEY HIGH and THE BABY-SITTERS CLUB. It's not aimed at the sort of people you'd normally think of as STAR TREK fans. For me, these STARFLEET ACADEMY novels need to be about something more than just going to classes and adjusting to school life. I know they're intended as strictly YA fare, but still.
June 6, 2007
"what I learned from this book"?
How about, If you want a book, it would be better to buy it, than to try and type it all up from your library copy.
Seriously, I got through the first chapter before my mom took pity on me.
I never watched Star Trek: Voyager, but I liked this book. What especially stands out now is the anecdote about the cadet who slept in his uniform so as not to fail dorm inspection. Sweet.
How about, If you want a book, it would be better to buy it, than to try and type it all up from your library copy.
Seriously, I got through the first chapter before my mom took pity on me.
I never watched Star Trek: Voyager, but I liked this book. What especially stands out now is the anecdote about the cadet who slept in his uniform so as not to fail dorm inspection. Sweet.
April 19, 2019
If I could do halves I'd rate this 3 1/2. It's definitely closer to 3.5 than 3.
This was entertaining, and it had a bit if the Star Trek feel, but it mostly felt like a sitcom about college. But not necessarily in a bad way.
My wife read some of the Star Trek: TOS book from this set, and she said there were little nods to things and/or people you'd know from watching the show. But I've only watched 1 or 2 episodes of Voyager, just enough to know Janeway is pretty cool, so I don't know if any inside jokes or whatever were in this. I'm more of a Next Gen & Deep Space Nine guy.
This is kind of your standard "trying to conquer college while being stubborn" story. It's not boring, but not really exciting either.
My biggest complaint is that when they're doing technical science type stuff, it just becomes boring nonsense. In a Star Trek show, when they're doing that, you have great visuals to help out. In here it's just confusing, boring, nonsense that you have to wade through in order to get to the rest of the story.
I'll read more in this series. It's not bad, and it's short.
This was entertaining, and it had a bit if the Star Trek feel, but it mostly felt like a sitcom about college. But not necessarily in a bad way.
My wife read some of the Star Trek: TOS book from this set, and she said there were little nods to things and/or people you'd know from watching the show. But I've only watched 1 or 2 episodes of Voyager, just enough to know Janeway is pretty cool, so I don't know if any inside jokes or whatever were in this. I'm more of a Next Gen & Deep Space Nine guy.
This is kind of your standard "trying to conquer college while being stubborn" story. It's not boring, but not really exciting either.
My biggest complaint is that when they're doing technical science type stuff, it just becomes boring nonsense. In a Star Trek show, when they're doing that, you have great visuals to help out. In here it's just confusing, boring, nonsense that you have to wade through in order to get to the rest of the story.
I'll read more in this series. It's not bad, and it's short.
June 25, 2020
I like it... even if sometimes stupid...for sure is a light reading book. A bit of unofficial Capt. Janeway background. The plot is weak but funny. The young Kathryn is sometines different from the adult one...same stubbornness but less friedly (at the biginning). Anyway the story is based on her life in the first weeks at Starfleet Academy. All information is based non-canon event e sometimes there is some canon thing. Anyway a good little summer book for a Trekkers.
September 19, 2020
New alien species are always fun to read about and if you couldn't tell from the cover we get to meet some here.
Janeway is such a superstar when we meet her in Voyager that this story of her finding her way in Starfleet offers a very fresh perspective to her character.
Janeway is such a superstar when we meet her in Voyager that this story of her finding her way in Starfleet offers a very fresh perspective to her character.
November 4, 2023
One of the best I've read so far. They captured Janeway very well.
The only thing that bugged me was they seemed to take away all of Janeway ability to get help, which is a bad message to send to people, that you need to stand on your own without any counsel.
The only thing that bugged me was they seemed to take away all of Janeway ability to get help, which is a bad message to send to people, that you need to stand on your own without any counsel.
February 10, 2018
definitely made for A VERY young kid around 10. good lesson though.
January 4, 2022
This is a quick read, perfect for teens or slow readers. I'm a huge Star Trek fan so will be giving the rest of the series a go.
September 12, 2015
It was just okay, not really much to write home about. It's quite possible that I expected too much from a children's book. I don't feel like much, if any, plot was resolved. I don't feel that much of any literary structure was present here. This will probably be much better if read back to back with the other two in the series, making three novels as one.
"It was standard practice for roommates to meet upon arrival at the Academy. But Kathryn had never heard of a cadet getting two roommates, and she said so." This doesn't seem like a shock in my opinion, I would think that four to a dorm would be more realistic.
"But Thrum and Pol were Diasoman, and everyone on their home world of Diaos 11 were born twins who lived their young lives together, every minute of every day. As one of the put it, pointing at the other one, 'She ate, I belched.' " I hate when twins are portrayed this way, when twins are basically one person in two bodies. I always think of it as lack of creativity on the authors part. I also wish that Thrum and Pol were fraternal twins, I couldn't help but picture Thrum as male.
"It was standard practice for roommates to meet upon arrival at the Academy. But Kathryn had never heard of a cadet getting two roommates, and she said so." This doesn't seem like a shock in my opinion, I would think that four to a dorm would be more realistic.
"But Thrum and Pol were Diasoman, and everyone on their home world of Diaos 11 were born twins who lived their young lives together, every minute of every day. As one of the put it, pointing at the other one, 'She ate, I belched.' " I hate when twins are portrayed this way, when twins are basically one person in two bodies. I always think of it as lack of creativity on the authors part. I also wish that Thrum and Pol were fraternal twins, I couldn't help but picture Thrum as male.
July 9, 2012
The characterization is good, but there is virtually no story in this one. It is too much of a description of the life of a student in the 24th century with serious storytelling missing.
It's worth a read, especially if you like Janeway. After all, it gives us some background information about her first days in the academy, but it's nothing nearly as good as it might have been.
It's worth a read, especially if you like Janeway. After all, it gives us some background information about her first days in the academy, but it's nothing nearly as good as it might have been.
June 16, 2014
Not sure what # book this is for my summer reading, but I'm cruisings along. This one fed my Star Trek fettish. I liked the young Kathryn Janeway just starting out. Her gotta-do-it-better-than-anyone personality was spot-on, as I imagined her to be as a young adult. I loved the Thrum-Pol Diasoman twins as her roomies and their challenges. This was a fun, fast read.
August 24, 2013
Further stories may appeal more, but hairclipsand teenage tantrums aren't the Janeway I want to read about. I suppose were I younger and female... still. Interesting, but not overly so.
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