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Tie-in novels can walk a fine line between genuinely finding loose threads to tie together or stretching a few threads so thin that they seem threadbare.
Unfortunately, the latter is the case with the new "Trek" tie-in novel, "Inception."
Set at a time when a young Commander Kirk is courting Carol Marcus and Spock has just run across a woman named Leila Kalomi, the novel speculates on a what if these two women were part of the same team working on an early stage of the Genesis project. Throw in a ...more
Unfortunately, the latter is the case with the new "Trek" tie-in novel, "Inception."
Set at a time when a young Commander Kirk is courting Carol Marcus and Spock has just run across a woman named Leila Kalomi, the novel speculates on a what if these two women were part of the same team working on an early stage of the Genesis project. Throw in a ...more
Extremely boring, about 220 pages psychology, 30 pages of action. Nothing new is learned, some known fact are elaborated on in minute detail but bring no additional value. The only goal seems to be that Kirk and Spack need to be brought together in the past with an explanation why they themselves don't know about it. That too feels completely artificial.
The scene is mostly Mars and the story contains many flashbacks. Aside from Spock and Kirk are the main characters ddoctor Marcus who discovers ...more
The scene is mostly Mars and the story contains many flashbacks. Aside from Spock and Kirk are the main characters ddoctor Marcus who discovers ...more
I think this was a wonderful look at the behind the scenes relationships between Carol Marcus and Jim Kirk and Leila Kalomi and Spock. Kirk and Spock don't meet in this novel. But they both have a part in solving the problems of a science experiment gone wrong on Mars.
Carol and Leila work together in Inception, a terraforming experiment that is being tested on Mars. An environmental group against such experiments messes with the experiment and causes a major problem that will spell major proble ...more
Carol and Leila work together in Inception, a terraforming experiment that is being tested on Mars. An environmental group against such experiments messes with the experiment and causes a major problem that will spell major proble ...more
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