Lois reviewed Vulcan's Forge by Josepha Sherman
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4 stars
This was really interesting - the main story point is what is up above, with the crazed, emotional Vulcan that Spock and the fellow Starfleet captain from his past had to deal with on a tough planet. But the best parts were the side stories or issues - because this is when he begins on the path that we see him some decades later in the Next Generation episodes. First, this was when Spock decides he had enough of Starfleet, and wants to go into diplomacy. And second, the seeds of his working with the Romulans for reunification were planted here. We also see another human friend from his teen years, and the parallel from then, the first time they had to work together, to now. He still is morning Kirk's death (though we all know he didn't actually die on the Enterprise-B, but they didn't), but that actually really …
This was really interesting - the main story point is what is up above, with the crazed, emotional Vulcan that Spock and the fellow Starfleet captain from his past had to deal with on a tough planet. But the best parts were the side stories or issues - because this is when he begins on the path that we see him some decades later in the Next Generation episodes. First, this was when Spock decides he had enough of Starfleet, and wants to go into diplomacy. And second, the seeds of his working with the Romulans for reunification were planted here. We also see another human friend from his teen years, and the parallel from then, the first time they had to work together, to now. He still is morning Kirk's death (though we all know he didn't actually die on the Enterprise-B, but they didn't), but that actually really helps to have Spock shine all on his own.
And after hitting a few audiobooks where there was mainly one narrator, but Leonard Nimoy would be there to do the Spock log entries, I kept thinking, does he ever narrate a full one on his own? The answer is yes - and it's this one! He does a pretty darn good McCoy - not with any sort of close approximation of copying DeForest Kelley's voice mind you, but in attitude and meaning, heck yeah.