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Star Trek: Corps of Engineers: Wildfire (Star Trek: Starfleet Corps of Engineers Book 6) by [David Mack, Keith R. A. DeCandido, J. Steven York, Christina F. York]

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Star Trek: Corps of Engineers: Wildfire (Star Trek: Starfleet Corps of Engineers Book 6) Kindle Edition

by David Mack (Author), Keith R. A. DeCandido (Author), J. Steven York (Author), Format: Kindle Edition

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Whenever there's a need to fix, repair, or salvage, Starfleet calls in the crack S.C.E. team on the U.S.S. da Vinci. Under the command of Captain David Gold and Commander Sonya Gomez, the S.C.E. solves the unsolvable, from finding a Starfleet vessel lost inside a holographic ship to doping out new technology captured during the Dominion War.

However, the da Vinci's mission to Galvan VI will prove to be the S.C.E.'s greatest challenge to date, as they must salvage the U.S.S. Orion from the turbulent atmosphere of a gas giant. As if that wasn't enough, the Orion is carrying the prototype of the deadly Wildfire device -- a protomatter warhead that can ignite gas giants into stars -- and the planet seems to be home to a strange alien life-form that may have been responsible for the Orion 's destruction!
Wildfire contains the complete eBook editions of S.C.E. adventures #20-24: Enigma Ship, War Stories Book 1, War Stories Book 2, Wildfire Book 1, and Wildfire Book 2.

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David Mack is the award-winning and New York Times bestselling author of more than thirty novels of science fiction, fantasy, and adventure, including the Star Trek Destiny and Cold Equations trilogies. His writing credits span several media, including television (for episodes of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine), film, short fiction, and comic books. He resides in New York City.

Keith R.A. DeCandido was born and raised in New York City to a family of librarians. He has written over two dozen novels, as well as short stories, nonfiction, eBooks, and comic books, most of them in various media universes, among them Star Trek, World of Warcraft, Starcraft, Marvel Comics, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Serenity, Resident Evil, Gene Roddenberry’s Andromeda, Farscape, Xena, and Doctor Who. His original novel Dragon Precinct was published in 2004, and he's also edited several anthologies, among them the award-nominated Imaginings and two Star Trek anthologies. Keith is also a musician, having played percussion for the bands Don't Quit Your Day Job Players, Boogie Knights, and Randy Bandits, as well as several solo acts. In what he laughingly calls his spare time, Keith follows the New York Yankees and practices kenshikai karate. He still lives in New York City with his girlfriend and two insane cats.

Steven J. York is a science fiction and fantasy writer. He has been published in many magazines and anthologies. He has also worked as a technical writer for computer games. He lives on the Oregon coast with his wife Christina F. York, where he continues to work on both original and tie-in fiction.

Christina F. York has written short stories for Strange New Worlds and the New Frontier anthology No Limits. She frequently writes with her husband, J. Steven York. Visit her online at YorkWriters.com.

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B000FC2K24
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Pocket Books/Star Trek (November 1, 2004)
Publication date ‏ : ‎ November 1, 2004
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 3797 KB
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Print length ‏ : ‎ 397 pages
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Keith R. A. Decandido
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Keith R.A. DeCandido was born and raised in New York City to a family of librarians, which pretty much explains everything. He has written more than 50 novels, as well as short stories, nonfiction, eBooks, comic books, and blog entries, many of them in various media universes, among them Star Trek, Alien, Supernatural, World of Warcraft, StarCraft, Marvel Comics, Cars, Farscape, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Stargate, Serenity, Resident Evil, Kung Fu Panda, Doctor Who, Sleepy Hollow, Leverage, Orphan Black, and more. Among his many works of original fiction are the fantasy police procedural series of novels and short stories that started with Dragon Precinct, as well as a series of urban fantasy short stories set in Key West, Florida, many of which are in Ragnarok & Roll: Tales of Cassie Zukav, Weirdness Magnet, fiction about cops in a city filled with super heroes, and an urban fantasy series about a nice Jewish boy from the Bronx who hunts monsters, starting with the novel A Furnace Sealed. Keith is also an editor (having supervised several book lines and put together dozens of anthologies), musician (percussionist for the Don't Quit Your Day Job Players, the Boogie Knights, and others), pop culture commentator (he writes for both Tor.com and his own Patreon at patreon.com/krad) and a third-degree black belt in Kenshikai karate (he both trains and teaches). He still lives in New York City with various humans and animals.
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J. Steven York
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Steve York is the national best-selling author of over a dozen books and many short stories published in anthologies, magazines, and as Kindle books. In addition to his original fiction, he's written adventures in the worlds of Star Trek, the X-Men, Conan, the Transformers, and MechWarrior.
In his spare time he produces the weekly web-comic "Minions at Work" (www.MinionsAtWork.com)
He's married to fellow-writer Christina F. York (Who also writes mystery as Christy Evans and Christy Fifield), with whom he sometimes collaborates. They live on the Oregon coast with their two cats Sydney and Oz.
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Maxine

Not a book . A chapter.

Reviewed in the United States on April 25, 2021

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This was not a book. It’s more like a chapter. I wouldn’t mind paying the price but it was just shocking not to know. Anyway it’s just as good as all the other Starfleet engineering core books, except the way they made a chapter into an entire book. So I guess I’ll buy part two and part three and then while I will have read it.

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James Yanni

Very powerful, very gripping story.

Reviewed in the United States on April 4, 2008

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This story does just about the best job I've seen of any Star Trek book of conveying the emotions a crew will feel during a disastrous mission when many of their crewmates die. I dock it one star because the threat itself seemed rather contrived and had a definite feel of "seen that before, been there, done that"; both the alien energy intelligences living in the gas giant atmosphere and the protomatter terraforming device have been done before, and I have my doubts that Starfleet would ever consider using such a thing. But the character interactions were perfect, and the heroism displayed by the whole crew, including minor characters, was a delight to see; this is what I read Star Trek for: the idea that human beings (and other sentient life forms) are capable of great heroism is somewhat passe in most other forms of literature these days, and I enjoy seeing characters responding to crises with competence and true heroism now and again.

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Buddy

Tear jerker

Reviewed in the United States on December 9, 2017

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Every time I ready Wildfire I morn the characters lost in the story. The SCE books are with out a doubt some of the best stories in Star Trek and I miss the series greatly. I wish they would revisit the da Vinci and her crew.

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John Anderman

This is a omnibus edition

Reviewed in the United States on July 3, 2019

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This is a young adult book as all S.C.E. books are. Good story's but in this one a bit too much emotion for my taste

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blindman

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Reviewed in the United States on March 23, 2019

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Great book. Is a good read for anyone who is a star trek fan.

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Joseph E Bartle

Five Stars

Reviewed in the United States on December 26, 2016

Very dramtic.

Reviewed in the United States on June 24, 2011

As far as its written, well. As a premise I wonder what where they thinking when someone pitched this idea and someone else said yes. As another reviewer so aptly put it, I read for the escapism, to be entertained, sometimes to have my mind blown away with an interesting concept or a nice commentary. This appeared to me as an author having a bad day and taking it out on the characters. The other review, titled lost as a reader is right. The next several books does not just dwell on the aftermath, they wallow in it. What began as a series I had bought faithfully and loved the premise and characters, turned into a fading glory.

In somewhat fairness it seems to be the trend these days. Killing off characters to prove they can die and there is jeopardy we (the readers) should expect and not gloss over. However, I read (or watch a series, yes I mean you SG and SGA) to bond with a set of characters and go through adventures not with the will they survive mentality, but with either how do they get out of this one or purely to go through the adventure with them seeing them react and how it affects them.

If the goal of the author was to make all these deaths so heroic, it failed. The deaths were cheapened by the sheer number of them. I could only go through so much before it changes from oh no, not him/her, before it became oh not another one.

Worst of all, we have to read about the survivors wallowing in grief (not just grieving I mean -wallowing-) for books, -books- to come. I've actually stopped reading the series now (several books later).

Its a shame this book couldn't be taken back and said 'ooops we didn't mean it', but its here. If you love deaths a plenty, buy it. If not, don't bother. I'd say skip it, but the next several books will visit this one again, and again, and again ad nauseam. I do mean that.

Its a shame, the ending of a great series. I'll have the earlier books of their 'golden era' to enjoy.

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Sxottlan

Burn Baby Burn

Reviewed in the United States on June 9, 2005

So I finished the latest SCE anthology Wildfire. Overall, it's one of the better books of the year despite some quibbles. Won't prattle on, so here's some thoughts on the individual stories.

"Enigma Ship": An interesting tale of a completely holographic starship. Among the stories of the SCE, it's a pretty standard problem-solving storyline, but I liked the idea of a ship that's a whole hologram. All of the character work was pretty good and being a Trek ship nut, I really liked seeing one of the characters designing an SCE starship in his spare time. However, the ending got very muddled as to what happened and how it was resolved.

"War Stories": A great little collection of stories about the crew of the da Vinci during the Dominion War. The unifying story about Biron going through the files of the crew to better understand them is fairly disposable and feels more like set up for some confrontation in the future. Of the four smaller stories within the novella, the last two dealing with Gomez and the da Vinci's mission to the communications array were my favorite. These two had the most sustained and descriptive battle scenes and were the most enjoyable. Bart's story was noteworthy for his first meeting with Anthony.

"Wildfire": Leaving aside the fact that the whole plot is a complete rip-off of James Cameron's The Abyss, save for one crucial difference, the much talked about two-parter is quite good. It was interesting reading about a rescue ship that needed rescuing and there was good sustained tension throughout. I'm seriously not a person that thinks change for the sake of itself is really necessary, so I'm not entirely sold on the idea of wasting half the crew to "shake things up". The segment with the repeated scenes of death over and over again eventually deadens the impact it might have had i.e. any time a character's background or family was mentioned, you might as well as kiss that character good-bye because they're about to bite the dust. So the tragedy is laid on pretty thick, but I can appreciate the attempt to get more serious with the SCE, a series that has always taken more chances to begin with.

Overall, a very solid batch of stories this time around. The SCE continues to be my favorite ship-based Trek book series. It's too bad that they're slashing the Trek book production by half, meaning we're going to have to just scrap by as the SCE paperback offerings will become increasingly meager.

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Jarrak

Excellent Addition to the Series

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on May 13, 2018

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Wildfire is the the sixth release from the Starfleet Corp of Engineers series which was initially novellas but has now been repackaged as a collection of stories in each anthology/omnibus. This novel contains three stories.

ENIGMA SHIP by J. Steven York & Christina F. York

The USS Lincoln while escorting two freighters mysteriously vanishes, scans indicate the presence of some sort of anomaly and the USS da Vinci is sent to investigate and relive the initial responder USS Chinook which has a more pressing engagement. Upon arrival they find that the chief engineer of one of the freighters and two personnel from the Chinook are also missing but the engineer somehow with limited equipment breached the anomaly. The da Vinci need to identify what the anomaly is, how to get inside and how if possible to rescue a starship and crew.
A high concept story which taxed the ingenuity of the SCE to their limits and made use of the common sense and experiences of the crew to bring about a resolution.

WAR STORIES by Keith R.A. DeCandido

Overseer Biron of the Androssi is still smarting over his "defeats" at the hands of the crew of the USS da Vinci, unbeknown to his sponsor he uses his commands resources to secure logs and other sensitive date from a spy to learn more about the crew of the SCE ship. A very interesting story which was dominated by flashbacks to give us more back story of the crew of the da Vinci.

WILDFIRE by David Mack

A distress call from the USS Orion which is testing the "wildfire" device deep in the atmosphere of a gas giant in an unclaimed system is received by Starfleet and time is of the essence not only to save the crew but secure the technology as it's finders keepers in neutral space. The da Vinci arrives on seen and enters the gas giant and slowly makes it way deeper into the heart of the turbulent gas giant in search of the Orion and the wildfire torpedo. Strained to the limit with life and death resting on a knife edge the da Vinci suffers a catastrophic event, the crew faced with limited resources and the wildfire device on a countdown to ignition make terrible decisions and sacrifices have to be made.
Wildfire is perhaps the one story I have been waiting for, I had the basic plot of this novel already in my mind thanks to a podcast interview many moons ago but even so this story stuck the knife in and twisted. A real pay off for readers who have followed the series from the beginning and written with pace and tension which serves the situation the ship and her crew find themselves in.
David Mack did a magnificent job.

Rory Q

A welcome change of pace and a slap in the chops!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on May 23, 2012

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One word to sum up this compilation: WOW!

While Enigma Ship is fairly standard fare, it is actually quite enjoyable with a rather novel conclusion involving mutiny on a Federation starship.

The War Stories duology I think qualifies as the first time this series has had a definite sense of foreboding and obviously set up a future plot line. It was also good to see that the story hadn't come entirely out of left-field and features someone who has been aggrieved by the crew of Da Vinci twice previously - nothing like a good grudge match to heat things up.

What I particularly enjoyed about this story is that it shed some light of some of the characters we don't always get to see much of, and truth be told, up to this point, I was frequently confusing Faulwell with Stevens and Lense with Abramowitz. These stories did a good job of defining them as their own characters and setting them apart so I stop making the same mistake in the future.

Wildfire is the story that I think is going to define this series. Each of the televised series had this kind of episode: TNG was Best of Both Worlds, Enterprise was Azati Prime/Damage, which basically take everything you've known and punches a very large hole right through the middle of it.

What starts off as a fairly ordinary mission quickly becomes one of the darkest, most emotional, harrowing and action packed stories I have ever read (whether that be within the Star Trek franchise or not). I'm not easily moved, emotionally speaking, by reading novels, but this one sent me through a whole range of emotions, which took me by surprise. I've read David Mack's novels before and have always understood why he is commended on his action scenes, but I had no idea he was capable of packing such an emotional punch as well.

To find out this is his first solo project really is worthy of credit on his part. It's refreshing to know that neither he nor the overseers of the series are afraid to change the status quo, as this gives these independent spinoffs much more impact.

Wildfire, I feel, will have long reaching consequences throughout the rest of the series and I can't wait to read the next compilation to see how the crew of Da Vinci react to the trauma they experienced in this story.

David Edwards

Star Trek: Corps of Engineers: Wildfire

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on January 22, 2012

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Star Trek literature at it's best.
The Wildfire story rather eclipses the other two, although they are competently written themselves. The Wildfire story shows why David Mack is such a respected Star Trek author. It is the Star Trek Poseidon adventure, with heroism, fear, adventure and death. It will put you through the ringer and make you desperate to read the next book to find out what happens to the survivors. I never expected to trip over such a gem in the middle of the SCE stories.
Don't read it out of turn though. If you read what has gone before and you have invested time and effort into these characters the book will mark you all the more. If you don't then it will just seem a competently written thriller.

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Sarah Bailey

Three Stars

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on March 8, 2016

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