The story takes place between the first and second movie. Admiral Kirk is now in charge of Starfleet Academy. The rest of the old crew are on other duThe story takes place between the first and second movie. Admiral Kirk is now in charge of Starfleet Academy. The rest of the old crew are on other duties.
On the Reliant, Captain Terrel and Commander Chekov help rescue ships damaged in a strange cosmic storm. Their investigation just leads to unanswered questions and it is written off as a fluke. But when it happens again at a different place it's no longer seen as an accident of nature. Thus beings the A plot of the book which will actually center around Commander Uhura's past. Specifically the past that was erased by Nomad, and that she no longer remembers.
Meanwhile back on Earth, the B plot involves Captain Kirk and has to deal with a controversial test program to integrate Arcturian Warborn into a society that does not need their skill. The program is having mixed results and when the Arcturian sponsor of the program is killed it appears a cadet may be involved.
Bennet is well versed in Star Trek lore and does an interesting job or pulling everything together. ...more
The first several chapters take place on the Enterprise with Captain Pike in command. Note, this book was written before the Strange New Worlds seriesThe first several chapters take place on the Enterprise with Captain Pike in command. Note, this book was written before the Strange New Worlds series so the 'version' of Captain Pike is strictly what was revealed in the two part TOS episode The Menagerie.
Pike is still trying to get to a base to offer some relaxation for the crew when they run across a rift in space. Pike is not interested in exploring it until after a response to their subspace hail comes back through. The inhabitants on the other side of the rift have technology far beyond the Federation's and thus the Enterprise is tempted to go through and visit. The visit is short however as it is revealed that the rift is only open for a finite amount of time. During their brief visit they setup another meeting, in 33 years when the rift opens again.
Jump forward 33 years. Kirk and the Enterprise-A are taking a delegation to meet with the Calligar on the other side of the rift. Spock leads the delegation through the rift in a modified shuttle, while the Calligar representative visits the Enterprise. When the Calligar representative asks for asylum on the Enterprise and then goes into a coma, things start getting complicated. Somehow the Calligar on the other side of the rift know about her wanting to leave and are now going to hold Spock and the other delegates hostage until their representative is returned, willing or unwilling.
It's up to Spock and the landing party to find out what the Calligar are hiding. It's up to Kirk to effect a rescue of his people while honoring his word of asylum.
There's a lot of good character development. Kirk, Spock, and McCoy are up to their usual banter but focus a good deal on their age and how things are passing them buy. Returning characters include Ambassador Fox and Dr. Daystrom. ...more
It is more of 2 novellas hung together on theme. Time line wise this takes place between Star Trek the Movie and Wrath of Khan. The first part of the It is more of 2 novellas hung together on theme. Time line wise this takes place between Star Trek the Movie and Wrath of Khan. The first part of the book details the Enterprise returning home and goes into how Kirk was to be made head of Starfleet Academy. It then jumps ahead a bit and has Admiral Kirk using the Enterprise to take the medusan, Kollos, to Andoria. The Aenar have been recently targeted by a terrorist attack and the medusan wishes to help. As the Aenar are gathered up and placed in protective custody the plot continues to unfold. (I'm purposefully not spoiling this mission.)
At the conclusion of that mission more time passes in the book and we jump around a bit as various former Enterprise crew have taken up positions on other ships. There's some background given to build things a bit. Then the theme hook pops up as the terrorist that originally attacked the Aenar appear to be targeting human telepaths. All the members of the TOS crew are slowly united on their ships as they being the effort of trying to pick up and transport the "new human" telepaths to a secure place in medusan territory. All the while trying to discover who the terrorists are and to stop them from their genocidal attacks. And then of course, there's the HUGE plot twist.
It was okay. The author definitely knows his Star Trek lore and likes to drop it in reference. There was one scene where it seems that he got Sulu's and Chekov's character's confused when Chekov comes across a person that was a love interest to Sulu and seems to act more like Sulu would have on seeing her again. The only other flaw was the amount of time that passes between sections of the book, I understand why the author did it, I'm just not really a fan of it....more
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