Star Trek: Discovery: The Enterprise War

Written by John Jackson Miller

Narrated by Robert Petkoff

An all-new novel based upon the explosive Star Trek TV series!

A shattered ship, a divided crew—trapped in the infernal nightmare of conflict!

Hearing of the outbreak of hostilities between the United Federation of Planets and the Klingon Empire, Captain Christopher Pike attempts to bring the USS Enterprise home to join in the fight. But in the hellish nebula known as the Pergamum, the stalwart commander instead finds an epic battle of his own, pitting ancient enemies against one another—with not just the Enterprise, but her crew as the spoils of war.

Lost and out of contact with Earth for an entire year, Pike and his trusted first officer, Number One, struggle to find and reunite the ship’s crew—all while Science Officer Spock confronts a mystery that puts even his exceptional skills to the test…with more than their own survival possibly riding on the outcome…

• Language: English
• Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
• Release date: Jul 30, 2019
• ISBN: 9781508283195

John Jackson Miller

John Jackson Miller is the New York Times bestselling author of Star Trek: Picard: Rogue Elements, Star Trek: Discovery: Die Standing, Star Trek: Discovery: The Enterprise War,  the acclaimed Star Trek: Prey trilogy (Hell’s Heart, The Jackal’s Trick, The Hall of Heroes), and the novels Star Trek: The Next Generation: Takedown, Star Wars: A New Dawn, Star Wars: Kenobi, Star Wars: Knight Errant, Star Wars: Lost Tribe of the Sith—The Collected Stories; and fifteen Star Wars graphic novels, as well as the original work Overdraft: The Orion Offensive. He has also written the enovella Star Trek: Titan: Absent Enemies. A comics industry historian and analyst, he has written for franchises including Halo, Conan, Iron Man, Indiana Jones, Battlestar Galactica, Mass Effect, and The Simpsons. He lives in Wisconsin with his wife, two children, and far too many comic books.

Reviews for Star Trek

[macdad-236140 · Rating: 3 out of 5 stars]

The U.S.S. Enterprise is on a yearlong mission to chart the Pergamum Nebula when they receive word that the Federation is at war with the Klingon Empire. Yet despite commanding one of the most powerful vessels in Starfleet, Captain Christopher Pike is ordered to continue with his mission. While exploring an M-class would within the nebula, however, the Enterprise is drawn into another and very different conflict when an unknown group abducts the survey teams on its surface. As the Enterprise searches the nebula for them, the kidnapped crewmembers find themselves impressed into an ongoing conflict against an alien foe – a conflict that threatens to draw in the Enterprise at the cost of their ship and their lives.While the Star Trek franchise has spawned an enormous number of television shows, novels, short stories, and comics, the material that served as the genesis of it all – the adventures of the Christopher Pike-captained Enterprise – remain surprisingly under-explored. While the original series that it helped spawned was what captured the imagination of viewers and provided the source material for everything that followed, the diversity of works in the decades since have largely bypassed the material that Gene Roddenberry originally developed. With the Star Trek: Discovery series this has begun to change, while the announced Strange New Worlds series promises to take these elements further still. In this respect John Jackson Miller’s novel offers a glimpse of what that will look like, with a distinctly different captain and crew of the Enterprise in a universe that fans have come to love.There’s a lot to like about what Miller does in the novel, as his setting is an imaginative one and his characters well-developed and nicely realized. His story suffers somewhat with the requirements to conform to the plot elements in ST:D’s second season, but fortunately this is a minor aspect of the book and doesn’t inhibit him from entertaining the reader. A far greater problem, though, is with the novel’s antagonists. To develop them, Miller reaches from outside the Star Trek franchise, bringing in elements from such classic works as Heinlein’s Starship Troopers and Steakley’s Armor to depict his war within the Pergamum Nebula. Not only does this feel derivative, it introduces technology wholly lacking from the franchise, requiring some effort on his part to explain why it never reappears. In the process, the work feels less like a true Star Trek novel and more of a non-franchise story adapted for it. The overall result makes for an entertaining read, but it’s not something that coheres into something that feels like an adventure that’s true to the franchise as a whole.