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Title: An Epic Story, trapped in a short book.
Review: In Ship of the Line, Diane Carrey creates an epic saga, in true Star Trek style. She chooses prevocative characters, ideas and settings, and helps to fill in between the gap in the readers knowledge, before the events of Star Trek - First Contact. The problem is that she embraces too many concepts for her, relatively, short book. Her love for detail in her writing secomes to a need to shorten the text to her publishing requirements. What she actualy needed to do was to flesh out her ideas more, and add at least an extra two hundred pages to her novel. This woulds have helped stop the battles seeming rushed, the internal time-frame being evasive (just how long were the Klingons in Dishounor?), and her characterisations from being flimsy and conveniant. Perhaps she has become a little too used to writing four volume serials, or perhaps she should have done that here?
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