The Entropy Effect (Star Trek #2)

by Vonda N. McIntyre

1985

Status

Available

Publication

Star Trek (1985)

Description

The U.S.S. Enterprise is summoned to transport a dangerous criminal from Starbase prison to a rehabilitation center. The brilliant physicist Dr. Georges Mordreaux has been accused of promising to send people back in time, but then killing them instead. But there's more at stake than just a few lives. Mordreaux's experiments have somehow thrown the entire universe into a deadly time warp. All of existence is closing in on itself, and only Spock can stop the Entropy Effect.

User reviews

LibraryThing member kaulsu

I'm not sure why I kept this particular book (I got rid of most of my Star Treks years ago). The science was too fuzzy for me even though the theme of how difficult it is to correct actions was on target. The secondary characters were distractions to me for the most part. The "villains" (Dr.

Mordreaux and Ian Braithwaite) were pretty two-dimensional. It was nice to see Sulu given air-time, but too bad he was made to seem so wishy-washy. And really, a dying Kirk was able to overpower Spocks mind? I'm rereading my fiction collection to see if I want to keep it on my bookshelf. This may go: I'll see when I'm finished weeding my shelves.

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LibraryThing member ronnyd1

Still one of the most original Star Trek novels I have ever read.

LibraryThing member gabarito

Started off a bit slow but was amazing. Spock saves the captain, his mad scientist friend, and the universe.

LibraryThing member RBeffa

This was the second novel in the Timescape/Pocket Book series of original Star Trek that continued for a long time. This one is from 1981 and I believe is the first Trek novel published after the novelization of the Star Trek the Motion Picture film which despite its problems gave a brand new and

continuing life to the franchise. Vonda McIntyre was a good choice - a well regarded author with several award winning stories. I have not read a lot of Trek novels although I have picked up about 3 dozen of them in recent years (most still unread) and generally enjoy them but have also run across a couple stinkers, especially in some of the badly written early ones prior to this. This one strikes me as one of the better ones. The focus characters here are Sulu, Spock, Kirk and to a slightly lesser extent McCoy. We learn for the first time what Sulu's first name is and get inside of his head and emotions - his part of the story is done well. Kirk as a character sometimes seemed a little "off" to me and Spock and McCoy seemed to be handled fairly well.

Two new strong female characters play large parts in the story and I thought were presented extremely well. The story goes along at a rather leisurely pace for quite a while, setting things up that we wouldn't expect, digging into characters, and then it runs, and it runs hard. I'm not rating this against great novels and literature - rating it for what it is - some well written entertainment that I think any Star Trek fan would enjoy.

About halfway through, maybe sooner, I was getting this deja vu like feeling that this was familiar. I may have read this in the early 80's when it was a newish novel.

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