A review by wai
Vulcan! by Kathleen Sky

1.0

I'm not usually prone to hating books, but wow. Nothing about this book was appealing to me. Badly written, all of the characters were completely OOC, except maybe Kirk - his care for Spock is the only thing that rang canonically true. McCoy would not be so swayed by a pretty face if she was that disgustingly bigoted, and honestly I find it hard to believe that Starfleet would allow someone in their ranks that was so openly prejudiced. While Vulcans are a fictional race, Roddenberry has always used his ficitional aliens as allegories for racism when he couldn't otherwise talk about it, and having an original character have such a flimsy excuse for espousing racist rhetoric and a nice, tidy "it's okay, I'm not a racist anymore!" ending, just goes entirely against the very real social issues that Star Trek discusses at times. If this book hadn't been so short, I absolutely wouldn't have finished it.