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New York : Pocket Books, c1985.
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Second History: a Romulan time-tampering project that has transported the Enterprise and the galaxy into an alternate dimension of reality. Now, Kirk is an embittered young ensign and Spock is a beseiged Starship commander. Lured into a Romulan trap, Captain Spock and Ensign Kirk must free themselves from both their captors and their own altered selves...before the galaxy hurtles toward total destruction
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LibraryThing member JudithProctor
This is very frustrating book, mainly because I want to shoot the person who failed to edit it properly.
There are places where the writer uses words incorrectly, substituting a wrong word for the one she actually means.
The point of view, especially early on, hops around like a rabbit on steroids.
The author has a real aversion to the word 'said', using an entire Thesaurus of increasingly improbable words to describe the simple act of speaking.
Science doesn't get much of a look in either. Sonar in outer space?
There's some glitches in the time travel plot as well.
All of which is doubly annoying , because I actually like the story. There's some good original characters (and some good female characters) and the Kirk/Spock relationship is as close to slash as you're likely to get in a mainstream novel. Although McCoy is probably the character who has the most spot-on dialogue.
I would have rated this book higher if it had been properly edited - I could have done a much better job.
However, even with all its flaws, I'll probably keep it.
There are places where the writer uses words incorrectly, substituting a wrong word for the one she actually means.
The point of view, especially early on, hops around like a rabbit on steroids.
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At one point, it even managed to change mid-sentence.The author has a real aversion to the word 'said', using an entire Thesaurus of increasingly improbable words to describe the simple act of speaking.
Science doesn't get much of a look in either. Sonar in outer space?
There's some glitches in the time travel plot as well.
All of which is doubly annoying , because I actually like the story. There's some good original characters (and some good female characters) and the Kirk/Spock relationship is as close to slash as you're likely to get in a mainstream novel. Although McCoy is probably the character who has the most spot-on dialogue.
I would have rated this book higher if it had been properly edited - I could have done a much better job.
However, even with all its flaws, I'll probably keep it.
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LibraryThing member AdonisGuilfoyle
Ah, published fan fiction! My guilty pleasure. This one ticks all the boxes, for those who ship Kirk and Spock from the original Star Trek series. Della Van Hise was made to clean up her original story, allegedly, but the 'radio edit' still does the job nicely. We have 'bouncy' Bones (perhaps
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slightly too much bouncing), the 'golden-haired, golden-eyed captain' (seriously, bonus points for every mention of Kirk's hazel eyes), the Romulan commander from The Enterprise Incident, AU Captain Spock/Ensign Kirk - and lashings and lashings of space husbands. Show Less
LibraryThing member MacDad
Della Van Hise's novel is one that offers an interesting plot involving a Romulan attempt to erase the Federation from existence by altering the past. There's an interesting twist, too, that sets it apart from most "change the course of history" stories, and I enjoyed what it added to the book. Yet
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this is more than outweighed by plot elements that make absolutely no sense and characterization that runs contrary to canon. To have Jim Kirk getting "the willies" and Spock expressing emotions on practically every other page made me wonder just how familiar Van Hise was with their portrayal in the original series before sitting down to write the book. It left me with a feeling of disappointment at what was a wasted idea, one that could have resulted in a really good "Star Trek" novel had it been paired with recognizable characters. Show Less