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What is the most impactful Star Trek book?
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By Nathan , Executive Officer · 3 posts · 18 views
last updated Jun 06, 2024 04:36AM
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First, the bad. I felt like the whole book dragged. The writing style during dialogue scenes drove me nuts. There'd be a line or two of dialogue, then a page of material in past perfect tense explaining why the person just said that. Then, the dialogue would pick up again, but by that time, I'd forgotten what they were replying to and I'd have to go back and find it again. One chapter opened with a lengthy speech being delivered, but it wasn't until the end of the speech that you found out who w
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You can get more pleasure from watching "The Conscience of the King" and Discovery. I did not feel like I was getting anything in terms of an interesting story or characterization from this book that was not already covered in either of those sources.
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