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At last, the United Federation of Planets and the Romulan Star Empire have agreed to meet on neutral ground in order to resolve the tangle of intrigue and conspiracy that began many years ago with the hijacking of the USS Intrepid. As a show of good faith, the crew of the legendary starship USS Enterprise has been ordered to attend the talks. In their informal charge is the Romulan renegade Ael, the wanted fugitive who, along with Captain James T. Kirk, served as the catalyst of the present troubles. On the other side, the visiting Romulan party is as fractious and disunited as their own divided world. As Kirk and his crew attempt to negotiate a delicate peace and the Romulans attempt to restore their tarnished honour, it becomes increasingly apparent that their only course of action is to prepare for the war that both sides hoped to avoid...
- Sales Rank: #264551 in Books
- Brand: Brand: Star Trek
- Published on: 2006-11-28
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 4.30" h x 1.20" w x 6.70" l,
- Binding: Mass Market Paperback
- 432 pages
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13 of 13 people found the following review helpful.
Rihannsu finally concluded
By Cassie Ogle
Oh, God (Elements), how I love this series. Diane Duane is a marvelous yarnspinner when it comes to her characters.
I read "My Enemy, My Ally" probably about 12 years ago, but I never tire of reading it. When I discovered that "The Romulan Way" was a continuance of that story, I devoured the storyline (Arrhae is intriguing) that opened up the history of ch'Rihan and ch'Havran like no book had dared to before. The detailed yarn of The Declared as they left Vulcan those millennia ago and the setbacks they encountered... it explains a LOT about why the Romulans (Rihannsu) are "the way they are."
Discovery of "Swordhunt" and "Honor Blade" when they came out made life interesting until the cliffhanger, and now that I've read "The Empty Chair," I can safely say that I am going back to re-read the entire series again. When you do re-read it, you take great notice of all the intricacies of the characterisations of the original characters (Harb Tanzer, Freeman, Narhaht (a Horta), Arrhae, Ael, Aidoann, the list continues).
And I agree with the previous reviewer--that line by Ael to Kirk at the end successfully ties in this series to canon in such a way that I truly believe it is part of Trek History. The Romulans (Rihannsu) certainly did emerge in TNG quite different than we remembered from TOS... and this series explains how and why they appeared to change so drastically. *applause for Diane Duane*
10 of 10 people found the following review helpful.
Finishes a saga
By George Wood
The Star Trek universe has been enriched by another book from Diane Duane.
The author of many books based on her own fantasy worlds (like Young Wizards, which my kids love), screenplays, etc. in 1988 Diane Duane also wrote my favorite Star Trek book, "Spock's World". In it, she expanded our knowledge of Spock's home planet of Vulcan, bringing together elements from several episodes of the original Star Trek series, including "Amok Time" and "Journey to Babel". She also gave us more about the Enterprise itself, giving it a recreational deck and a computer bulletin board reflecting those early PC/pre-Web days.
In 1984 Diane Duane had already taken on the task of adding more to our knowledge of the Vulcans' long-ago sundered brethren, the Romulans (or Rihannsu as they have come to be called in their own language) with "My Enemy My Ally". She followed this up with a sequel called "The Romulan Way" in 1987 (both co-authored with her husband Peter Morwood).
Now comes a new Romulan book, finishing up this particular saga, "The Empty Chair". Unfortunately when I started reading it I soon realized I'd missed something, which turned out to be the books "Swordhunt" and "Honorblade", both published in 2000. I had to go back and read what happened there to really make sense of "The Empty Chair" and discovered that Stockholm's excellent Science Fiction Bookstore no longer had the two books in stock, presumably because all of the prequels to "The Empty Chair" have just been published together in a single volume called "Rihannsu The Bloodwing Voyages".
(All this is part of the 40th anniversary of Star Trek celebrations, apparently.)
So having read the two books I missed, I resumed reading "The Empty Chair" and it made a lot more sense, although rereading the first two books probably would have helped a bit too. When I got to the end of "The Empty Chair" and Kirk receives something he has obviously been looking for, I had no idea what the thing was. It is possible the reader is not meant to know, but the answer might be in one of those earlier volumes. And I really had no idea what was happening in the last scene. I guess it is based on one of the first two books, which after twenty years, I've forgotten.
So there is a problem having a series with respectively three, thirteen, and six years between its components, although this will not be a problem for a new reader who picks up the books now.
Before I bought the anthology volume I read a negative review of "Swordhunt" on Amazon. The reviewer didn't think enough happened, and was somewhat upset because it apparently doesn't really have an ending and just flows into "Honorblade". In the new anthology the two are combined as "Swordhunt" and I have no idea where the earlier break could have been.
Briefly these books are the story of a Romulan commander named Ael, her ship Bloodwing, and how through a series of encounters and interactions with James Kirk, she leads a Romulan civil war. As I said, it expands our knowledge of the Romulans considerably. I've also been confused about this empire without an emperor, whether there was one or more Praetors, who the Senate are, etc. These questions are answered, at least for this period in Romulan history.
There's more talking than action, but I liked that. There are also bonuses, like briefly meeting the character Sam Coglan again, and encountering the only two Yankees fans on Romulus.
There's also a place towards the end., with major changes among the Romulans, and Spock in the midst of it, when you wonder why he doesn't just start the Re-unification process that he takes up decades later during "Star Trek The Next Generation"? Duane answers that, and shows us that perhaps this is where Spock originally gets the idea. (Now I really wish the film "Nemesis", all of which takes place on Romulus or in Romulan space, had told us where Spock was at this time. Presumably there was no way to get Leonard Nimoy into the film, but it was a large hole.)
One also wonders why, if everything is changed, when we get back to the Romulans in the TNG episodes "Unification" the empire seems as closed in and totalitarian as before? This too Duane provides an answer for, and perhaps it puts the later TNG/DS9 Romulans into a more understandable context. Ael's remarks to Kirk towards the end reflect this:
"But bear in mind that things will change here, and may do so unexpectedly. When they do, I must react as I must. It has even occurred to me that, if matters do not go as I plan, you should not be surprised if for some while, I and all my people might close our borders, and vanish to put our house in order...It will not last forever. Nothing does. But after such a withdrawal, or absence, when we appear again, possibly you should not be surprised if we do not loók, or act, as we do now..."
6 of 6 people found the following review helpful.
Mnhei'sahe returned
By A Customer
The Empty Chair is the final book in a five-book series that began 22 years ago.
In 1984, Diane Duane wrote an original Star Trek series novel entitled, My Enemy, My Ally. This immediately became (and has remained) my favorite Star Trek novel, and one of my favorite books of all time.
My Enemy, My Ally builds the world of the Rihannsu, or Romulans, and introduces to fiction the most fascinating Star Trek "guest" character of all time: Commander-General Ael t'Rllaillieu, Captain Kirk's Romulan nemesis and long-time enemy, aunt to the Romulan commander from whom they stole the cloaking device (see the episode, The Enterprise Incident). Committing treason by doing so, Ael comes seeking Kirk's help, because her government has been kidnapping Vulcans and using their brain matter to enhance their own limited telepathic powers.
It's an amazing book, the first of a series to chronicle Ael, her struggle to bring honor back to the Rihannsu empire, and her relationship with Kirk and company.
After 22 years, the final book in the series was published this month. The Empty Chair brings to a close, by an extraordinary story that had me nauseous most of the time with anticipation and fear, this brilliant tale. I won't give the plot away, but I will say that I've waited six years for this book to be published (books 3 and 4 were published in 2000), and its release means more to me than even the release of the last Harry Potter book does. And that's saying something.
Diane Duane is a brilliant author, and has a way of capturing the characters of Kirk and company in a way no other author I've read has been able to do. If you're an original series Star Trek fan, you have to pick up her books. Start with The Wounded Sky, her first Star Trek novel, as its main guest character shows up in the Rihannsu series, which makes allusions to the events in The Wounded Sky, and it would be helpful (but not necessary) to understand what had happened.
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