Wednesday, December 26, 2007
Crucible: Spock
Despite being a mouthful of a title, Crucible: Spock The Fire and the Rose is a very good read. David R. George paints a rich and full interpretation of the Federation as an intergalactic society, with a great deal of attention to detail of the film canon of Star Trek. He even makes a few references to the Animated Series.How I wished he also payed some attention to the canon of the Trek novels, too.
I know there isn't any mandate from Pocket or Paramount to do so, but it would be nice. One of the great things about he Expanded Universe in Star Wars is that for the most part the novels reference each other and build off of one another, and create a shared universe. Trek novels do not, except if the novels are written by the same author, which results in tiny multiple canons depending on whom you read.
George's novel ignores the events of Sarek, and create a totally new story for Sarek and Amanda following the events of Generations. Likewise, they ignore Sherman and Scwartz' Vulcan trilogy, which establishes that Spock, McCoy, and Uhura served on the Intrepid II during that same time period. Rich's book is more in line with the fate of the Enterprise command staff as written in other sources, however (this time period is probably the most inconsistent of all of Star Trek's myriad novels and possible time lines).
Despite these inconsistencies, Crucible is a good read and engaging, and I do recommend it.
Labels: My Literary 2 Cents, Star Trek
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