Surak's Soul
You are alone in the dark reaches of space, surrounded by aliens who do not understand who you are and what you are, and who will not accept your beliefs Under such circumstances, an emotional human would feel lost, cut off, adrift, but Sub Commander T Pol is a Vulcan, and Vulcans control their emotions However, no other Vulcan has served for longer than a few weeks on a human ship Has she, as others imply, lost her way Pulled, once again, into one of Captain Archer s dangerously impulsive attempts to make first contact, the sub commander finds her life threatened T Pol reacts, draws her phase pistol and kills It was a simple act of self defense But is killing ever simple Has she forsaken the teachings of Surak Determined to be true to her heritage, T Pol forswears violence She tells Captain Archer that never again will she kill even if ordered Is she, as Archer suggests, endangering the entire ship Best Download [ Surak's Soul ] Author [ J.M. Dillard ] – kino-fada.fr Pre Read UGH A T Pol centric book Really Post Read I forced myself to plow thru this as quickly as possible And I have just one word for it. MEH.3.5 3.5 Not entirely what I expected, Surak s Soul doesn t exactly deliver on what the back cover blurb says it is about There is some interesting examination of T Pol s philosophy and the choices it leads her to make, but that exploration is d...Whilst it is a reasonably well written original Star Trek story, the overall plot isn t that complex, deep or really anything we haven t seen before It actually reminded me of the type of plot we would have seen on the original series In fact, I could easily visualise the talking alien energy life form, present within the story, in Technicolor glory like we would have seen on the TV show It also wasn t helped ...What a cool Enterprise story Reads just like a good episode It s so nice to read a self contained adventureThe Enterprise crew responds to a medical emergency but are too late to save the planet s population and have almost no idea what killed them But once Doctor Phlox falls ill himself, the crew is faced with a race against time to find the source of the illness and stop it before Enterprise becomes a ghost ship What begins as an interesting medical mystery, eventually sort of devolves into a standard sort of threat of the week plotline Disappointingly, there really wasn t a lot of mystery to The Enterprise crew responds to a medical emergency but are too late to save the planet s population and have almost no idea what killed them But once Doctor Phlox falls ill himself, the crew is faced with a race against time to find the source of the illness and stop it before Enterprise becomes a ghost ship What begins as an interesting medical mystery, eventually sort of devolves into a standard sort of threat of the week plotline Disappointingly, there really wasn t a lot of mystery to this story once it gets moving It s really pretty easy to figure out where the narrative is going, and while a solution is offered, it really doesn t make total sense to me.The most interesting aspect of this novel is in the sub sto...It was a good read, though I do not think it is as good as the earlier Enterprise book, What Price Honor While the book felt like it could be an actual episode, the way they resolved the problem was not as satisfying as I d li...3.5 stars This was another interesting read While this does not feel like anything we have not seen before, hear me out on why I enjoyed it so much The point of views we get from T Pol are amazing in this book As s...Easy to reed and Nice for the Enterprise serie fans The cover and text on the back are a bit misleading tho But still 4 stars because in my opinion they stay true to the characters and when you read it, it is if you are looking to an episode of the series.A typical Star Trek story which borrows from a number of previous works however, the subplot regarding T Pol and the use of nonviolence keeps the story fresher than one would expect This is the first original Enterprise novel to capture the characters well, making this adventure feel like something from the series proper.The beginning of the novel, on a dead planet, is gripping and heartbreaking The rest of the story, taking place on the ship, uses the established sets and characters to their A typi...
- English
- 17 January 2019 J.M. Dillard
- Paperback
- 240 pages
- 0743462807
- J.M. Dillard
- Surak's Soul