rosenectur's review
2.0
This is the Star Trek the Original Series in choose your own adventure style. But whoever wrote it probably hadn't seen the series in 10 years. Either that or it's some really bad fan-fiction that accidentally got published.
reeshadovahsil's review
2.0
Ugh. What a mess.
Broken stories, inaccurate page numbers, silly and obvious mistakes like "arifact" for artifact, and incredibly yikes lines like, "A dark smooth wall was fitted smoothly across the cave." Oh, was it smooth, then? The word smooth appears on this single page four separate times. Very smooth.
Why are ancient Vulcans shaking hands? This is a western human affectation and Vulcans find touching extremely intimate due to being touch telepaths.
Why does Spock have two hearts? Is he secretly Gallifreyan? What a twist! ...Oh, it's just a total lack of any research whatsoever (and by "research" I mean literally watching any episode where Spock's internal organs are mentioned, likely derisively, by Dr. McCoy)? Okay.
There are so many repetitive descriptions of treasure and jewels, it's nauseating. By the third full-page description of piles of gems, it was wearing thin, but by the tenth I was ready to swear off material wealth for life.
One thing I did like (at first) was the little Vulcan knowledge cubes Spock could hold to his head to psychically experience a recording. When first described, I thought he could hold them to his head and instantly get some whole huge story, like absorbing an entire life experience or an entire book at least, in a few seconds. But it's just... words. Old degraded voice messages. These little cubes are apparently psychic audio clips. Great.
Maybe a child who really really really likes descriptions of treasure would like this book. But hopefully they won't try to read the stories that are broken.
Not recommended.
Broken stories, inaccurate page numbers, silly and obvious mistakes like "arifact" for artifact, and incredibly yikes lines like, "A dark smooth wall was fitted smoothly across the cave." Oh, was it smooth, then? The word smooth appears on this single page four separate times. Very smooth.
Why are ancient Vulcans shaking hands? This is a western human affectation and Vulcans find touching extremely intimate due to being touch telepaths.
Why does Spock have two hearts? Is he secretly Gallifreyan? What a twist! ...Oh, it's just a total lack of any research whatsoever (and by "research" I mean literally watching any episode where Spock's internal organs are mentioned, likely derisively, by Dr. McCoy)? Okay.
There are so many repetitive descriptions of treasure and jewels, it's nauseating. By the third full-page description of piles of gems, it was wearing thin, but by the tenth I was ready to swear off material wealth for life.
One thing I did like (at first) was the little Vulcan knowledge cubes Spock could hold to his head to psychically experience a recording. When first described, I thought he could hold them to his head and instantly get some whole huge story, like absorbing an entire life experience or an entire book at least, in a few seconds. But it's just... words. Old degraded voice messages. These little cubes are apparently psychic audio clips. Great.
Maybe a child who really really really likes descriptions of treasure would like this book. But hopefully they won't try to read the stories that are broken.
Not recommended.
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