These are the voyages of the U.S.S. da Vinci . Their mission: to solve the problems of the galaxy, one disaster at a time. Starfleet veteran Captain David Gold, along with his crack Starfleet Corps of Engineers team led by former Starship Enterprise (tm) engineer Commander Sonya Gomez, travel throughout the Federation and beyond to fix the unfixable, repair the irreparable, and solve the unsolvable. The S.C.E.'s missions don't always go as planned -- repairing the weather grid on the resort planet Risa turns into a deadly first contact, constructing an industrial complex on a nonaligned world leads to some startling revelations about the financier behind it, diverting a runaway ship could spell death for the crew the da Vinci didn't even know was there, and a planet in a box proves a more valuable prize than anyone could have imagined -- but their greatest challenge comes much closer to home... Captain Gold's granddaughter Esther is marrying Khor, son of Lantar, a Klingon politician. Now Gold faces what may be the greatest challenge of his career: officiating the first-ever Klingon-Jewish wedding!
I read this a few months ago, but some memories remain- it was complex, included characters that weren't really familiar to me and weren't introduced thoroughly enough that they became familiar to me... and it was on the whole so well-written (word choice, plot points) that I didn't care about its shortcomings. It made me- as a Trekkie and as a reader- happy. It's a good continuation of the series. (I've read all of the other books in the SCE series, and was delighted to find this on the shelf.) The trend in the ST universe of publishing what is essentially very well-written fanfiction disturbs me. This book has a more canonical feel to it than do many others that I've read, and it's pleasant.
a good read
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 16 years ago
I've really enjoyed the SCE addition to the Trek line. This book is wroth your time.
looking forward
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 16 years ago
This book doesn't have the Ooomph of the other SCE series; I am waiting to see how other readers find "Creative Couplings".
Another Great One
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 16 years ago
Once more, the gang from Pocket Books has come up with a new set of interesting, compelling, and sometimes downright hysterical stories of the Corps of Engineers. This volume contains half a dozen, by authors both familiar and not. Subject matter ranges from a very bad day on Risa to a very small world in a pyramid - with a Klingon-Jewish wedding in between! VERY good reading.
STSCE
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 17 years ago
Star Trek Corps of Engineers: Creative Couplings is the lastest in the SCE Series and is as good or slightly better than the previous book. All of the SCE books are great and I hope that more will be coming soon.
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