** spoiler alert ** I've watched the movie a few years back. And all I could remember was the KRAKEN.. wait, was it a kraken? anywho, will update later.
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You know, for a second there, I thought I was gonna give this a five. The book opens with an extremely promising, thought-provoking concept that is too quickly and unfortunately abandoned: Beneath the modern-day ocean a ship thought to be alien, sunken for three hundred years, turns out to be The USS StaR Voyager, having apparently traveled through time to get there. There's no sign of any crew, and the flight recorder only gives them a hint to how the ship got there. It's a great story at that point, but there Crichton decides to deal with the one oddity found aboard: The sphere.

Let me tell you, all the way through the book I was hoping Captain Janeway would make her grand entrance uttering her infamous bully speech! Anyway, the story then turns to the remaining characters as they began to realize that their subconscious was the enemy and the "alien" sphere was the facilitator. It seemed good. Concept was really great. But there's just something wrong. Something I could not seem to point my finger to. Oh yeah, it was the Kraken.! That dang Kraken from Verne's book!