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Star Trek: Discovery: The Way to the Stars

By: Una McCormack
Narrated by: January LaVoy
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An original novel based on the explosive new TV series Star Trek: Discovery!

Despite being an inexperienced Starfleet cadet, Sylvia Tilly became essential to the USS Discovery finding its way back home from the Mirror Universe. But how did she find that courage? From where did she get that steel? Who nurtured that spark of brilliance? The Way to the Stars recounts for fans everywhere the untold story of Tilly’s past.

It’s not easy being 16, especially when everyone expects great things from Tilly. It’s even harder when her mother and father are Federation luminaries, not to mention pressing her to attend one of the best schools the Federation has to offer. Tilly wants to achieve great things - even though she hasn’t quite worked out how to do that or what it is she wants to do. But this year, everything will change for Tilly, as she is about to embark upon the adventure of a lifetime - an adventure that will take her ever closer to the stars....

©2019 Una McCormack (P)2019 Simon & Schuster Adventure Fiction First Contact Genre Fiction Military Movie, TV & Video Game Tie-Ins Science Fiction Space Opera Star Trek Discovery
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This book was great. The Una's writing is wonderful and gripping. A wonderful and heart warming coming of age story in the Star Trek universe. January LaVoy's vocal performance is pretty good, but her Australian accent is not quite perfect. Still better than most Americans who try it though. The best character is probably Captain Yindi Holden. Having an Indigenous Australian captain was a wonderful detail for this book, especially having her researching other cultures' oral traditions.

Best Discovery Book Yet

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loved it have a whole new respect for the characters really puts the series into context

loved it

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This is a very good book. An in depth look at Tilly's journey to Starfleet. My only disappointment with this was that it was told as a single story. Star Trek often does a great job of revealing a character's past by creating a suitable parallel situation through a current mission.

The story got much better as it went along. The churn through the earliest shared experiences becomes a solid backbone to support her later decisions.

Tilly is interesting. She's brilliant.

The narration was also fantastic!

Deep into Tilly's Background

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fabulous to learn tillys backstory. it fully puts into perspective her entire character. loved it.

best character backstory ever.

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With Mother's like Sylvia Tilley's ... well, you know the rest. It's not straight forward and her story has surprises. A lot of fun! Loved the characterisations, January! Well done!

Excellent origin story for Discovery's favourite

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Another reviewer wrote that this is teen fiction and might not be what most Star Trek fans are looking for. They also commented on the truly appalling Australian accent applied to one of the characters in this audiobook. I should have taken that reviewer at their word and left this audiobook on the shelf, but I love Discovery and had really enjoyed one of the other Discovery audiobooks I’d previously listened to, so I thought I’d give this a go. I really wish I hadn’t.
The book itself can possibly be forgiven on the basis that it really is not aimed at adult Star Trek fans. As a work of teen fiction it possibly succeeds. I’m not really a judge of that genre so I can’t really judge. But on no account can the terrible accent applied to the Australian character: Holden Yindi be forgiven. I felt myself cringing at every sentence.
For me this book was a complete waste of time.

Teen Fiction and a truly cringe-worthy Australian Accent

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Despite being an complicated TV series, with an adult demographic, and despite the main character being a complicated and interesting character with intelligence and an as yet undescribed background, this book was disappointingly aimed at Teenagers.
Granted, the main story is about a teenager, Tilly, and how she ended up in Starfleet, but the story was a whiny girl v mom story, with very little thought or research gone into the Sci Fi or Science (which in my opinion is why most people would want to read it ...aka Discovery). Apart from mentioning the word Astromycology many times, it was never delved into, what why or how. Sorry but a very 2 dimensional story. Like a bad soap opera. Not Star Trek at all.

the performance by January LaVoy was, initially, good. I was impressed with her quick change of character voice, especially the French accent. The Scots accent went a little downhill, not bad, but ot good either, but the Australian accent (I'm an Australian) was absolutely murdered. In short, it wasn't. It was a mongrel East End of London cockney, mixed with a bit of flattened American. I just hate it when Americans think we sound like East End Englishmen. (our accent is much worse, ha ha.) First cringe "Gooday"....not Good day, but gu-dai. Really fast. Second, we say last like this 'larst' not L-AST.
It would have been easy to believe the Captain of the ship was a man....surely January doesn't think all Australian women sound rough and have low voices like that. The men in the performance had higher voices than Holden! Overall, nicely read but absolutely SHOCKING accents. It destroyed it for me. Please, if you can't do an Aussie accent, don't. Or get lessons from Meryl Streep.

Disappointingly TEEN style story. Shocking accents

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