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Future Imperfect: Janus Gate Book Two (Star Trek The Original series) Mass Market Paperback – June 1, 2002

by L.A. Graf (Author)
4.4 4.4 out of 5 stars 60 ratings
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  1. Print length
    272 pages
  2. Language
    English
  3. Publisher
    Pocket Books/Star Trek
  4. Publication date
    June 1, 2002
  5. Dimensions
    4.19 x 1 x 6.75 inches
  6. ISBN-10
    067103636X
  7. ISBN-13
    978-0671036362
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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Pocket Books/Star Trek (June 1, 2002)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Mass Market Paperback ‏ : ‎ 272 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 067103636X
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0671036362
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 4.6 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 4.19 x 1 x 6.75 inches
  • Customer Reviews:
    4.4 4.4 out of 5 stars 60 ratings

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4.4 out of 5 stars
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Bodhi Bokai
5.0 out of 5 stars FASCINATING!!!
Reviewed in the United States on January 30, 2017
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I love time travel and alternate realities! This book (series) is a great read! This has to be among the top rated Star Trek stories. Great cliffhanger! I can't wait to read book 3.
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wildebras
4.0 out of 5 stars the middle of a trilogy need to read all 3
Reviewed in the United States on September 30, 2013
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Great story buy 1 and 3 as well and see how those 3 days they had travelled back in time were worse! then those same 3 days on psi 2000. seemlessly fits into the episodic material. too bad they didn't have this to usde for some episoed.
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Shellie Williams
5.0 out of 5 stars Janus #2
Reviewed in the United States on May 22, 2015
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As usual, L. A. Graf doesn't disappoint. I'm always amazed with the intricate details of mechanics, technology, and machinery in their books. I'm drawn to them because of the focus on Chekov in particular, but always find myself lost in the story and unable to put it down.
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5.0 out of 5 stars The Janus Gate trilogy continues
Reviewed in the United States on May 12, 2019
Author L.A. Graf brings us the second tale in the Janus Gate trilogy with Future Imperfect. Picking up where book one left off we see Lieutenant Sulu meet an older version of Chckov who has had to go through 20 years of war with the Gorn. The older Chekov decides that he is going to teach the young lieutenant how to fly a Gorn fighter in order to ram it into the Tesseract fort and stop the impending invasion of Vulcan. But along the way Commander Spock finds out how to use the Janus Gate to partially transport Uhura into the future to find the young Lieutenant. Once she is seen by the Gorn they capture her and take her to the same location deep blow the fort where they are holding the key to their ability to move from planet to planet. This is an interesting look into a war and how desperate Starfleet and the former crew of the Enterprise have become in the years since it began. I highly recommend this book to all Star Trek fans. 
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Eric Troup
3.0 out of 5 stars Better tahn book one, but still a bit of a letdown
Reviewed in the United States on May 12, 2004
Well, here we are with book 2 of the Janus Gate trilogy. As has been previously mentioned, this is by no means a stand-alone. I have no problem with that; if I'm reading a trilogy and I start with book 2, I deserve any headaches I get while trying to glean what happened in book 1.
This book is better than "Present Tense" in that things get moving story-wise, and especially toward the end, I really got into the story. I will definitely be reading book 3, if only to find out how this whole mess gets resolved. Having said all that, I still feel like this series overall would've been much better as either two books or one big book. It feels padded, and although the writing is excellent, there were moments when I couldn't wait to be done with the book to move on to something more intresting. The characters kept examining their situation, trying to figure it out ... but seeming to get nowhere. It seemed more about trying to solve te puzzle than about the characters involved.
I really had a hard time rating this book. The writing is excellent; the handling of the characters is dead-on as far as I'm concerned, and when the story's moving it's great. It just seems like it moves in jolots, rather than a smoothe--or even exhillaratingly bumpy--ride. I definitely get the feeling the story as a whole was padded to fit a certain length. I think Pocket Books would do well to focs less on quantity and more on quality. This should've been a two-parter. Or a "Giant" Trek novel. As it stands, to coin a Tolkien phrase, it feels like butter that's been scraped over too much bread.
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Carl Malmstrom
4.0 out of 5 stars An Enterprise-less Adventure...
Reviewed in the United States on June 17, 2002
Continuing the serial begun in "Present Tense", L.A Graf moves further into the story of Tlaoli 4, its caves and its time distortions. Oddly enough, though, not once does the action of the story take place aboard the Enterprise.
Picking up from the cliffhanger in the first first book, Lieutenant Sulu of the Enterprise finds himself swapped in time with an older version of himself that is struggling to hold on in a Federation almost overrun by the Gorn. Likewise, Captain Kirk has been swapped with his teenage self. While we do not see the time Captain Kirk has been sent to, we see a how the crew reacts to having a teenage version of their respected captain stuck with them.
While the ideas are again not new: time-travelling technology from an ancient culture, a future in peril and balancing the needs of now against the needs of the future, the way in which L.A. Graf spins them are quite fun. Again, she's created a meat-and-potatoes "Star Trek" story that reads like a well-done episode (and a preview of the crew's five-year mission). She gets the interplay between Sulu, Chekov and Uhura down well and the book definitely stands on those three, relegating Kirk, Spock and McCoy to the periphery. She even manages to throw in an unexpected twist or two while tying the story together (in its back-and-forth-through-time aspect) quite well.
Her future timeline (one in which Kirk never commanded the Enterprse) is reasonably well thought out as well. She constructs an entire future timeline and does a good job of showing what Chekov and Sulu could reasonably have become given those circumstances.
Again, it's not Shakespeare (or even "The City on the Edge of Forever"), but it really doesn't have to be. It's a fun, light read and should be taken as such. If you're a "Star Trek" fan - or even a general sci-fi fan looking for something not too strenuous to take to the beach or the park, you could do worse than this.
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Larry Sinnott PhD
5.0 out of 5 stars Book of Janus, Perry Charles
Reviewed in the United States on February 8, 2011
The Book of Janus is very well written. It keeps the readers attention until the very end. The author has an intimate knowledge of New Mexico and the Southwest and weaves this into the story line. This is an excellent mystery novel that does not have to depend of foul language or sex to make it successful, therefore this book can be read by young and old alike. Overall, I would rate this book as excellent.
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