F/SF

Feels like a Star Trek episode that's been stretched too thin, over too many pages. One of those "everyone starts acting mad because of an alien artifact" plots, which also have been done a lot, and featuring a pneumatic junior science officer Spock's lusting after (proving that not only women write intensely cringey Spock sex fantasies).

Cuando el Capitán Kirk y su tripulación reciben la orden de ir a Alnath 11 para desafiar a la más letal de las naves Klingon, el Terror, están listos para cualquier cosa, o eso creen. Pero la tripulación indefensa vulcaniana de una nave científica de la Federación ha sido aniquilada Los miembros restantes de la misión Alnath II han descubierto una ciudad antigua fabulosa pero su informe no tiene sentido. El crucero de batalla Klingon tiene al Enterprise en la mira y está listo para destuirlo.

Although it's less than 200 pages, I had the hardest time forcing myself to finish this book. The basic plot of this story is that, for reasons unknown, the crew of the starship Enterprise are exhibiting extremely erratic behavior. The major characters familiar from the TV show are all acting in ways that are completely out of character (Spock cries! Scotty really wants to work on the engines! Like, more than usual! Bones... doesn't like machines?). It's an interesting concept, but the author doesn't seem to have a firm enough grasp of who these characters are in the first place to freestyle with them the way that he does. Also, this idea has already been done (and done much better): see the first season TOS episode "The Naked Time".

Weird characterizations some odd racist/sexist non-sequiturs a slapdash eleventh hour solution to all of the (many) dangling plot threads = too much going on, and none of it good. ( )

A 2.5, really. Rather a halfhearted excuse to write the cast of Star Trek in out-of-character hijinks, punctuated by Klingon antics and Kirk being . . . Kirk. The Spock subplot was the most irritating; I will never understand writers wanting to throw Spock into lust for the hell of the fun. McCoy's alien-heightened xenophobia was very much not amusing. Uhura and Sulu seemed to be mostly forgotten about. Overall, a quick read but nothing special or particularly quality about it. ( )