F/SF

Lo and behold, I made it through a Marshak & Culbreath! Mostly because this features my favorite thing - people who really ought to be in a happy triad. I've loved it ever since I came up with using it in my 1D fanfic. Sadly, this still is not a good book. I don't get their sexual or gender politics at all.

En el curso de una misión a bordo de la Enterprise, Kirk y Spock rescatan de la superficie de un planeta a una agente autónoma de la federación. Ambos se enamoran de ella, y ella a su vez lo está de los dos; se trata de una relación condenada al fracaso, pues ninguno de los tres está dispuesto a hacer daño a los otros dos. Y ello sucede cuando dos poderosas fuerzas mentales, la Unidad y la Totalidad, se enfrentan entre sí y por el dominio de la Enterprise, como palanca para el dominio de la galaxia.

Sola Thane is exotically beautiful, a secret agent, a great hunter, spends most of the book half-naked - and she is the most powerful telepath in the galaxy. If, that is, she finds her Soul Mate. Who is Kirk AND Spock at the same time. Because of course. After those two spend a mind-numbing eternity pushing her to and fro like the last slice of pizza, each far too noble to claim her for himself - "You take her." "I couldn't possibly. You take her." "I'm good. You take her." - it is finally revealed that she is also the macguffin in the plan of an evil hive mind to take over the galaxy. Can Kirk, Spock and Thane figure out their love triangle and save the galaxy?

Well yeah, of course they bloody can. Just takes them 188 pages of intensely purple prose to get there. ( )

A re-read for me, and one for my TBRR challenge. It takes place in several different dimensions and planets, and also deals with another half-human, half-Zaran Free Agent of the Federation. She is female and that fact features prominently in both the societal structure of Zaran and in the personalities of Spock and Kirk. There is also the promise of One-Ness that is presented to the Federation, either as the One-ness of Ambassador Gailbraith, or through the Totality mandated by Soljenov, a former dictator on old Earth.

The story idea is good and takes place after the first movie was released (Spock's almost-all-logic quest is mentioned several times, as is Kirk's attempt at Admiralty). But the emphasis is almost exclusively on Kirk, Spock, and Sola as well as the pull of the One-ness, and there are times when the un-written writing becomes confusing. I found that same style in the "New Voyages 2" stories written by this team; it almost seems that they know what they want to say and the audience will need to fill in the gaps. So there are those two flaws that made my review be 3 instead of 4 stars. ( )