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The Entropy Effect

Classic Alternate Timeline story where Kirk is killed by a future version of a mad professor – who was also Spock’s mentor (ofc) – and Spock trying to rectify it for the good of the universe (no seriously if he doesn’t the universe collapses in a hundred years.

It’s tried and true trek storytelling done to death since death. I liked it, although the two main antagonists - the Mad Scientist and the Overzealous attorney are very cartoonish.

Some notes I had:

- Georges Mordeaux is such a late 70s early 80s name for a villain either in trek or DC comics. 

- Captain Kirk turned down an extended polyamorous relationship *three times* and of course it was true love.

- Sulu’s hair and mustache are long on a dare. 

- Spock once got drunk, though doesn’t admit it

- There are Beard repressors

- “Hypermorphic Botulism”

- This is not an Uhura or Chekov book.

- Hikaru has a crisis of where he should be and if he should start a relationship with the Security Chief. 

- All the redshirts are interesting here and not a variation of “1960s-I-have-cop-show-background”

- It’s partly played off as a bad dream, sort of a la Donnie Darko, and Spock is the only one with the whole story.

- “He’s worked himself right into a fit of the vapors.”

-Kirk sitting by Spock’s bedside when he’s recovering

- Jim once grew a moustache but it was brick red. 

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Read this e-novella after the TMP novelization. A nice little quiet story featuring Kirk, Spock and Sulu in the weeks after the Vejur probe. Sulu is faced with fatherhood as Demora is born prematurely, Kirk goes back to the farm where Peter has been...

Read this e-novella after the TMP novelization. A nice little quiet story featuring Kirk, Spock and Sulu in the weeks after the Vejur probe. Sulu is faced with fatherhood as Demora is born prematurely, Kirk goes back to the farm where Peter has been more and more remote, and Spock returns to Vulcan to deal with the aftermath of his failure to achieve Kohlinar.

Out of the three the Spock story was the most interesting with some direct parallels to The Voyage Home, which I found interesting (I though possibly too direct a parallel but it works).

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Read this yesterday, a quick e-novella set not long after Riker was promoted to Rear Admiral (Rear Admiral Riker, that sounds like a bad pun). I was a bit disappointed in this, I’d read a review that stated the author hadn’t quite captured the crew’s...

Read this yesterday, a quick e-novella set not long after Riker was promoted to Rear Admiral (Rear Admiral Riker, that sounds like a bad pun). I was a bit disappointed in this, I’d read a review that stated the author hadn’t quite captured the crew’s voices, something he rectified by the time he got to Takedown, which is next on my trek reading list. There’s also the nagging feeling that something doesn’t quite add up to the other Typhon-Pact set novels either.

But for all that theres’ a lot of good, we get to see Morn’s race, well, a splinter group they and another race have been warring over a single island on former vulcan mining planet (althought that in itself isn’t original it’s still well executed, despite the occasional odd tone). Riker adjusting to be The Man (a la Brigadier Jack O’Neill) and trying desperately not to be like one of the TOS Commissioners (catching himself screaming “THIS IS ABSURD and nearly biting his own fist and what came out of his mouth). It’s a transistion tome, Christine Vale is acting captain only and if she, for example, gets Riker killed, that might not look so good. 

Tuvok gets some decent time here too, especially trying to reconcile the nature of phase cloak on a person and why he simply doesn’t tumble off into space. there’s some good scifi stuff there trying to wrap around a television conceit. 

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