Sarek (Star Trek)

Hardcover, 448 pages

English language

Published Jan. 1, 1994 by Pocket Books.

ISBN:
978-0-671-79561-0
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OCLC Number:
29549270

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1 star (1 review)

Spock and his father, Sarek, join forces to foil a plan that threatens to destroy the Federation. For Sarek the mission could not come at a worse time as his wife Amanda, is dying. But duty to the Federation wins out over love for a woman.

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reviewed Star Trek: Sarek by A. C. Crispin (Star Trek)

My eyemuscles weren't powerful enough to keep a straight and beautiful pokerface.

1 star

The amount of eyerolling, sighing, facepalming, and "Oh god, what!? No!" and similar commenting I did was too high to count. I thought about giving this 2 stars, but the longer it went on the more frustrated I became. So 1 star is all I can give.

A lot of this book is a regurgitation of scenes and quotes from TOS episodes and films. It sometimes feels like a badly re-enacted clip show. It's just too much. By a lot. The part about Amanda dying (no spoiler, it literally says on the blurb) left me cold, and her diary entries are beyond juvenile. (I am an avid journaler myself. A journal should never ever be censored or edited. Be as juvenile as you want in yours. I know that I am, and it is very cathartic. But I don't think it makes for good literature.) The part about Peter's stay …

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  • Science fiction
  • Fiction - Science Fiction
  • Sociology
  • Science Fiction - General
  • Science Fiction - Star Trek
  • Star Trek fiction
  • Fiction