Windows on a lost world

Star Trek #65

Paperback, 275 pages

English language

Published Jan. 5, 1993 by Pocket Books.

ISBN:
978-0-671-79512-2
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OCLC Number:
28126651

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From the back cover: While Captain Kirk and a landing party from the Starship Enterprise explore the ruins of an ancient civilization on the uninhabited planet Careta IV, they discover strange devices that appear to be windows. But the mysterious windows prove to be more than they seem when Kirk, Chekov, and two security guards enter them and disappear.

Suddenly, Kirk and his team find themselves trapped in a strange alien environment and must fight with all their strength to survive and keep their sanity. Now Spock must locate his missing comrades and solve the window's ancient mysteries before his captain and crewmates are lost forever...

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This was rather interesting. It's a take on the well known idea of someone from the regular cast switching bodies or otherwise finding themselves or their consciousnesses elsewhere. Here, instead of a humanoid type of body, it's a crab like being. Very bigoted, xenophobic, warlike crab like beings that no longer exist. It's not something I'm likely to listen to again, but it is an interesting story to read once. Part of me does wish this was an episode of any generation at some point - it might not have been one of the best episodes, but the visuals to actually see it would have been interesting, and not just the alien bodies that the couple of crew members inhabited, but also how Kirk figured out how to communicate with Spock, since that was a very visual thing as well.

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Subjects

  • Interplanetary voyages -- Fiction.
  • Space ships -- Fiction.