Star Trek: Sarek

14 hours and 40 minutes

Published Feb. 21, 2012

ISBN:
978-1-4423-5372-5
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1 star (1 review)

Spock's mother, Amanda Grayson, is dying, and Spock returns to the planet Vulcan where he and Sarek enjoy a rare moment of rapprochement. But just as his wife's illness grows worse, duty calls Sarek away, once again sowing the seeds of conflict between father and son. Yet soon Sarek and Spock must put aside their differences and work together to foil a far-reaching plot to destroy the Federation, a plot that Sarek has seen in the making for nearly his entire career.

The crew of the U.S.S. Enterprise journeys to the heart of the Klingon Empire where Captain Kirk's last surviving relative has become a pawn in a battle to divide and conquer the Federation. With Sarek's help, the crew of the Starship Enterprise learns that all is not as it seems. But before they can prevent the Federation's destruction, they must see the face of their hidden enemy, an …

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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 …

Subjects

  • American fiction
  • Star trek
  • Fiction
  • Fathers and sons
  • Parents
  • Interplanetary voyages
  • Interstellar travel
  • Spock (fictitious character), fiction
  • Kirk, james t. (fictitious character), fiction
  • Fiction, science fiction, general
  • collectionID:STorig