Captain to Captain: Star Trek Legacies, Book 1

I listened to this as an audio book from the library without reading the blurb about the plot first so I went in totally blind. Was this my favorite TOS Star Trek novel? No. (Vulcan's Glory is, just for reference) Was it still entertaining? Yes! The majority of this story, first of a trilogy, surrounds Number One and a previous mission she had under the command of Robert April (who I was overjoyed to see more of). She makes a mistake that costs other crew members dearly and years later she decides to set out to fix it, if that's even possible.I see some reviews hating on the Una-centric story, saying there wasn't enough of the main TOS cast, but seeing as Una gets so little attention and they get a ton, I'm more than fine with that! Some also seem to think that despite her description as super competent, she's depicted as unusually bad at doing anything in this novel. To be frank, most of this novel involves a flashback to a younger, more brash and inexperienced Una. And in my opinion the Older Una is fully aware that she's embarking on a mission that will probably hit the fan more than once but does so ON PURPOSE.I've always been a huge an of Number One and I don't think she's shown to be out of character here--just in two VERY particular places in her life that might lead her to be a bit more reckless than usual.

Let's face it...there are a lot of Star Trek novels out there, and often times it feels like a dime a dozen. But this one is one of the good ones. "Captain to Captain" in the Legacies Book 1 series is a novel which brings back a previously lesser known but important character, Number One from the original Star Trek pilot, "The Cage" and the "The Menagerie". It tells a story which delves through history and invokes a prior Enterprise captain, Robert April and his crew. Like other novels which exploit different time periods, this one shifts between the present and past, but it does it in a coherent way which is essential to the story. It has a great underlying story with plot twists and turns, a lot of excitement, and some really interesting aliens. There is also a very interesting underlying theme which links to something else in the original Star Trek canon. And the ending is very surprising and sets up the story for the next novel to come.All in all, this is a very entertaining, easily-read novel which fits well within the Star Trek universe. It is well worth the effort and will make you look forward to the next novel.....I am looking forward to it myself!

Kirk and the gang were done well and in character. Robert April as the father figure for his crew and standing for the Federation's morals was also a high point of the book. I liked that the aliens came across as very strange and menacing instead of just another race to meet. Plot twist in the last few pages a nice surprise.

Nearly all of this story is about the woman Star Trek fans know as Number One. Not only would I prefer that at least HALF of a TOS novel be about Kirk and Spock, but the story makes Number One look like an idiot. We're TOLD that she's blindingly competent, but every time we see her in action, she makes stupid decisions and seems kind of bumbling.The author forces his characters and their technology to behave the way he wants them to, regardless of whether or not this is realistic. So people equipped with tricorders do not scan for local inhabitants and are surprised and captured by them, even when they know that local inhabitants exist. It seems as if "do a scan with your tricorder before getting out of the shuttle" would be a Week 1 lesson at Starfleet Academy, but it's evidently beyond a woman that we're told is gosh, oh, so wonderfully competent. Oh, and it's possible to put multiple bugs -- both cameras and sound -- in the captain's quarters without anyone detecting them, even though a highly important object was stolen from those same quarters earlier in the book, so one would think Kirk or Spock or Scotty -- probably all three -- would be on their guard.When Kirk and Spock do put in their rare appearances, they aren't always in character. For example, when Kirk tells Spock that his piloting stinks, Spock replies, "If I had feelings, they would be hurt." SPOCK said that? No way! Totally out of character.The story is not uninteresting, and the tie-in to the technology in "Mirror, Mirror" was intriguing, but if I'm reading a Star Trek novel, I want the characters to be IN character, I want them NOT to behave in weirdly stupid ways, and I want the book to be mostly about Kirk and Spock, not mostly about a minor character from the first pilot.I've read FAN fiction better than this book. Is it too much to ask that the book be mostly about Kirk and Spock and that they be in character?

Nostalgia canaglia!Non solo torniamo alle atmosfere della serie originale, ma il cuore del libro è un racconto nel racconto, una storia che ci riporta agli esordi della missione quinquennale della USS Enterprise, ai tempi del Capitano April, con una narrativa che è fin troppo facile immaginarsi il buon vecchio bianco-e-nero mentre ti si apre davanti un universo che magari credevi dimenticato e diventa invece da subito familiare!Ma era destino che il destino di un equipaggio, si intrecciasse con quello di un altro, con esiti imprevedibili e drammatici fino all’ultima pagina!

I haven't read a Star Trek book for sometime. This book was amazing! Even my son, who is not a trekkie, is reading and addicted to this book. Well done!Can't wait to read the other two books in this series.

Cox is a great Star Trek writer.

A Secret the spans the decades and holding that secret from a galaxy unprepared for the power it represents are the Captains and First Officers of the Starship Enterprise. Captain April while commanding the ship now famed in legend visits the world of Usilde and observes an alien presence that is corrupting this primitive world and it's people. Lt. Una (aka Number One) a fresh faced officer leads an away mission to gather intel and it goes terribly wrong. Captain April intervenes before the whole landing party is lost but there seems to be no room for negotiation with this alien species who are intent on subjugating the native population and terraforming the world and they seem to have the power to back up their intent. We get a potential tricky Prime Directive dilemma as Uslide is not a Federation world and the alien invaders are unknown, the choice to oppose this wanton destruction or negotiate an understanding is why some people get to don the shirt and sit at the heart of a Starship but as we see logic and reasoning can often conflict with a heart and souls desire to do anything to oppose an injustice or right a wrong.Legacies: Book 1: Captain to Captain is the first part of a trilogy of novels each written by a different author, in this novel Greg lays the groundwork and background to the events that helped to shape Una into the character of Number One we saw on the original tv pilot. The character has been used in other novels but this trilogy could become the baseline for judging this character who we never really got to know. Greg also make full use of work by Diane Carey who described April's Enterprise in some detail, it was most satisfying to recognise many names amongst this crew. The elements of the story that centered on a much older Captain Una (commander of Yorktown) also paid off handsomely as her interaction with Spock and the mystery of her visit to Kirk's Enterprise has you on the edge, you know something is going on but at the point you are not sure what. In many ways you get lost in the events on Usilde such is the wonderful descriptive world and people Greg presents but switching back to Kirk and company makes you realise the two main aspects of the novel are feeding off each other and offering up an excellent opening to this trilogy.

Gripping and fits perfectly with cannon. Glad I waited till all three came out so I could read back to back