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New York : Pocket Books, 1983.
Description
Kirk's soul...Spock's life A dark plan has been unleashed in the galaxy, a design so vast, only a collective -- and ruthless -- mindlike the Totality could have conceived it. Now Captain Kirk must battle the seductive force of the Totality's will. It was reasonable that Captian Kirk and Federation Free Agent Sola Than would fall in love. But no reasoning the the universe could have foreseen the tragedy of Spock's own passion for the same woman. Now this unimaginable conflict could cost Captain Kirk his very soul, and bring death to the proud Vulcan. But in the unimaginable lies their only chance, and the freedom of the galaxy depends on the outcome of the...Triangle.
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LibraryThing member lycomayflower
Blerg. I usually find Marshak and Culbreath's Star Trek books to be delightfully thinky and fun. Not so Triangle. I felt maddeningly out of the loop most of the time, as if the book were a continuation of a previous story I hadn't read; I didn't understand what was so special about the heroine that
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both Spock and Kirk were irrevocably drawn to her (and why she to them?); and the villains, two groups sharing collective consciousnesses (the Oneness and the Totality), were not drawn well enough to be interesting as villains nor considered thoroughly enough to provide the thinky back-drop they clearly were meant to. This would have been a two-star read if it hadn't been for the last thirty-or-so pages, where a partially satisfying test of Oneness versus love among individuals plays out. Show Less
LibraryThing member VincentDarlage
This is the first Star Trek book I ever read. I was 12 years old and I was in the grocery store with my mom and I saw the book on the rack and asked if I could have it. She bought it for me and from there I became a Trekker and started reading everything Star Trek that I could find. This was also
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the point where I started actively watching Star Trek on TV after church each Sunday. This book changed my life in that sense. Show Less
LibraryThing member RBeffa
This novel follows Black Fire, which I recently read, in the Timescape/Pocket book series of Star Trek novels. This one is set sometime not long after the events of Star Trek the Motion Picture, the first film that gave new life to the TV series franchise. I must say I have a hard time rating this
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story. The characters for the most part feel very authentic. The writers clearly know the shows and the characters and their history very well. The story however started off very poorly for me. I can see some readers throwing this in the trash. I seriously thought about quitting it about 75 pages in. I thought it was going to get better and then it went to this ridiculous (to me) love triangle bit. The story is written as if the reader has already some familiarity with a central character, Sola Thane, as well as some understanding of a cult-like New Human "Oneness" and another, the "Totality." As near as I can tell this novel is not actually a sequel or follow-up to some prior work. The bad romance novel stuff in here threatened to gag me - I had enough of Kirk being the irresistible babe magnet in the TV series - now they lust for him across species and across the galaxy. There is more here that I won't bother to mention, and some characters and ideas that could have been developed a lot better. There's a lot of philosophizing in here that I read as nonsense. I can't recommend this to anyone. Show Less
LibraryThing member threadnsong
A re-read for me, and one for my TBRR challenge. It takes place in several different dimensions and planets, and also deals with another half-human, half-Zaran Free Agent of the Federation. She is female and that fact features prominently in both the societal structure of Zaran and in the
The story idea is good and takes place after the first movie was released (Spock's almost-all-logic quest is mentioned several times, as is Kirk's attempt at Admiralty). But the emphasis is almost exclusively on Kirk, Spock, and Sola as well as the pull of the One-ness, and there are times when the un-written writing becomes confusing. I found that same style in the "New Voyages 2" stories written by this team; it almost seems that they know what they want to say and the audience will need to fill in the gaps. So there are those two flaws that made my review be 3 instead of 4 stars.
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personalities of Spock and Kirk. There is also the promise of One-Ness that is presented to the Federation, either as the One-ness of Ambassador Gailbraith, or through the Totality mandated by Soljenov, a former dictator on old Earth.The story idea is good and takes place after the first movie was released (Spock's almost-all-logic quest is mentioned several times, as is Kirk's attempt at Admiralty). But the emphasis is almost exclusively on Kirk, Spock, and Sola as well as the pull of the One-ness, and there are times when the un-written writing becomes confusing. I found that same style in the "New Voyages 2" stories written by this team; it almost seems that they know what they want to say and the audience will need to fill in the gaps. So there are those two flaws that made my review be 3 instead of 4 stars.
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Subjects
Awards
Prometheus Award (Nominee — Novel — 1984)
Language
Original publication date
1983-03 (eng.)
1987 (deu.)
Physical description
188 p.; 18 cm
ISBN
0671605488 / 9780671605483