Thursday, August 20, 2009

Star Trek by Vonda N. McIntyre 1986

I know that Star Trek is not the 'insightful' book I need to be reading for AP Language and Composition but this was the book I was reading at the beginning of the year and it is the book I am determined to finish. 
The book is about Captain James Kirk's first mission upon the U.S.S. Enterprise. James is given the honor of Captain after a brilliant (and completely reckless) move at the battle of Ghioghe. But the mission he gets is not exactly what he had in mind: ferrying an intergalactic troupe of circus performers. But Captain Kirk can't just simply go out into space without an adventure. An outlawed renegade named Koronin acquires a ship when she kills its owner in a duel. She then makes way for the Federation Limits... exactly where the Enterprise is heading. I predict that James Kirk will finally prove himself to his skeptical, unwilling crew as he shows them that he is capable of the necessary leadership. I think the book has done a very good job with pacing itself. I have seen other forms of Star Trek with Captain Kirk's unwavering faithful crew and it is nice to see just how that trust was formed. It is also paced well in its plot. It keeps you interested and content. All the while it pulls you in because you know that the climax is yet to come and has to be bigger and better than all of which came before it. 

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