 Trekkkieguy's tribute to the original Star Trek TV series & movies featuring sound clips, book reviews, memory wall, image gallery & more! |
Trekkkieguy's tribute to the original Star Trek TV series & movies featuring sound clips, book reviews, memory wall, image gallery & more! |
 November 1981 Cover Image    BOOK DETAILS
ISBN: 0-553-20854-3
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By: David Gerrold The author of 'The Trouble With Tribbles' (Text taken from the November 1981 edition) Beyond the realm of the Federation, beyond the edge of the galaxy, a lost colony of humans in space drifts inexorably toward the galactic whirlpool. Kirk blazes new star trails to these strange people, isolated for centuries. Unless he can convince them that the Enterprise crew members are not 'demons,' they will be sucked into a churning one-way funnel of doom! (Text taken from the July 1984 edition) From The Log Of Chief Medical Officer Leonard McCoy The young woman brought back aboard the Enterprise by Lieutenant Reilly's contact team is responding well to treatment: physically, there's no question she's going to be fine. I'm more worried about the culture shock, the mental strain imposed by the sudden discovery that the world she's grown up thinking of as the be-all and end-all of the universe is nothing more than a spaceship - a ship we need her help to gain control of before it and her entire world are destroyed. So far, her response has been to regard everything that's happened as a 'demon trick': this could be masking some deeper strain, but we don't have the time right now for a gradual indoctrination. The captain has to convince her - and soon - that the crew of the Enterprise is not composed of 'demons' - And he'd better do it before she gets a good look at Spock...
I really enjoyed this story although I do have a couple of complaints about it. First, I don't think a detailed introduction of each of the main characters is necessary in a Trek novel. I'm sure we all know who Captain Kirk and Mr. Spock are. Second, the character of Specks, ships historian. He goes on and on .... and on and on, giving us back story about life on Earth in the 21st and 22nd centuries. It starts out OK but just goes on way too long and gets boring and unnecessary. Other than that the story is quite good. As the characters are wandering around the huge ship you really get the sense that it's very old and very big!
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