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geekwayne's review against another edition
3.0
'Star Trek: The Original Series: Shadow of the Machine' by Scott Harrison is a short Trek novel. It's more about character reflection than anything else. If you like your stories more dramatic and action packed, this may not work for you.
The story takes place in between the first Star Trek movies. In the aftermath of their encounter with V'ger, the crew finds themselves back on Earth to get the Enterprise repaired and refitted. This story follows three of the crew. Kirk is on his Aunt and Uncle's farm trying to come to terms with the death of crew by V'ger and the death of his brother. Sulu is a new father and faced with some doubts about that job. Spock travels back to Vulcan to finish his Kohlinahr.
Sulu's story is perhaps the weakest, Kirk's gets him set up to meet his son in the second movie, and Spock's continues his wrestling with his human and Vulcan parts. Not a lot externally happens, but with such a short page count, it's over fairly quickly. If you are a Trek novelization completist, it's not bad, but there are probably better Trek novels out there.
I received a review copy of this ebook from Gallery, Threshold, Pocket Books, and NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. Thank you for allowing me to review this ebook.
The story takes place in between the first Star Trek movies. In the aftermath of their encounter with V'ger, the crew finds themselves back on Earth to get the Enterprise repaired and refitted. This story follows three of the crew. Kirk is on his Aunt and Uncle's farm trying to come to terms with the death of crew by V'ger and the death of his brother. Sulu is a new father and faced with some doubts about that job. Spock travels back to Vulcan to finish his Kohlinahr.
Sulu's story is perhaps the weakest, Kirk's gets him set up to meet his son in the second movie, and Spock's continues his wrestling with his human and Vulcan parts. Not a lot externally happens, but with such a short page count, it's over fairly quickly. If you are a Trek novelization completist, it's not bad, but there are probably better Trek novels out there.
I received a review copy of this ebook from Gallery, Threshold, Pocket Books, and NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. Thank you for allowing me to review this ebook.
cathepsut's review against another edition
3.0
Free, ARC from NetGalley, thank you!
The story fits in well after the original Star Trek motion picture, the characters stay true to the original series. I liked the various plotlines, but this was too short to explore any of the themes in depth.
Spock and the Vulcans in general seem to be a bit emotional to me. And Sulu came along as pretty bland in my opinion. But I never really liked Sulu, so I might be biased.
Generally nice character studies, with a little bit of action towards the end to liven it up.
I recommend this to fans of the original series, but it is really only a little filler and it does not add anything relevant to the Star Trek universe.
The story fits in well after the original Star Trek motion picture, the characters stay true to the original series. I liked the various plotlines, but this was too short to explore any of the themes in depth.
Spock and the Vulcans in general seem to be a bit emotional to me. And Sulu came along as pretty bland in my opinion. But I never really liked Sulu, so I might be biased.
Generally nice character studies, with a little bit of action towards the end to liven it up.
I recommend this to fans of the original series, but it is really only a little filler and it does not add anything relevant to the Star Trek universe.
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