Kahless

By Michael Jan Friedman

For 1500 years, the Klingons have revered him as their first emperor, the legendary warrior who united their people and taught them the meaning of honor, but the truth of his incredible life has been shrouded in myth and fables... until now.

A clone of the original Kahless now reigns as emperor, but the discovery of an ancient scroll throws the legends into doubt and threatens to tear the Klingon empire apart. Surrounded by treachery and rumors of revolt, this new Kahless can trust no one - except Captain Jean-Luc Picard and Lieutenant Worf of the U.S.S. Enterprise.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Simon & Schuster UK
• Release date: Aug 28, 2012
• ISBN: 9781471108266

Michael Jan Friedman

Michael Jan Friedman is the author of nearly sixty books of fiction and nonfiction, more than half of which bear the name Star Trek or some variation thereof. Ten of his titles have appeared on the New York Times bestseller list. He has also written for network and cable television, radio, and comic books, the Star Trek: Voyager® episode “Resistance” prominent among his credits. On those rare occasions when he visits the real world, Friedman lives on Long Island with his wife and two sons.

Reviews for Kahless

[daniexj · Rating: 3 out of 5 stars]

I can usually get into Star Trek books pretty fast. I already know most of the characters, the situations and so generally I’m able get into the story and the plot pretty fast. That wasn’t the case with this book. I’m not exactly sure why it was harder, perhaps because it went back and forth between the ‘Modern age’, i.e. the present, and the ‘heroic age’ which was when Kahless the Main Character of this book was literally alive. I sometimes felt as though I would just get into the story and it would change to the other time period.Both stories were about Kahless saving the Klingon Empire. Just, different Kahlesses, one the original, and the other the clone.I’ve never really been into Klingon society, Language, etc., and how it complements the rest of the Star Trek universe, so I’m not sure how the Klingon stuff turned out, but, it seemed to work really well and when there were Klingonese words even though I didn’t know exactly what their definitions was, I definitely knew what they meant.Overall a solid three star Star Trek novel, just a bear to get into, oh, and there weren’t in the narrative either.

[lunza_1 · Rating: 2 out of 5 stars]

Friedman is prolific, but, like many other writers in this genre, he leaves me a little disappointed. (Not disappointed enough to stop buying what he writes just because his name is on it ...)

[gilroy_1 · Rating: 3 out of 5 stars]

Even though the audio book says it's unabridged, it feels so short (only 3 hours) compared to full length books in audio for other companies. Yet this is what Simon and Schuster has done. The shortening and the narrator have thoroughly unimpressed me to this point. I think this would have been much better if Michael Dorn had read it.