Customer Reviews
Absolutly Brill - By: , 10 Jun 2001 
This is brilliant Spock or Leonard Nimoy reads the orriginal story it is in places a bit dull but it brightens up in the end.
I just finished reading SAREK and : - By: , 20 Jul 1999 
started Vulcan's Forge & found SAREK fascinating, because of the amount of info regarding what happened to Spock after he died onboard the Enterprise & was resurected, I was blown away by Captain/Admiral James Kirks relative nephew when he took on that Klingon slime of a leader for the love of a the Klingon woman Valdyr, that was even more thrilling than the incident of where Spock had a run in with his father regarding the fact he left Vulcan for the negotiations to save the planet when his wife & Spock's mother was on her death bed but I understand his motivation especiallly when "the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few - or the one" - I plan to read Spock's World after this Vulcan's Forge because I'm trying to find out some more about the planet Vulcan, I find Vulcan's Forge just a little hard to get through because I am trying to find out more about Spock & what happened after he died when he was reborn or reconstituted after "The Search for Spock" movie. These books fill in some gaps that I was not aware of after seeing the movies. - And I do not want anyone to give anything away since I have not yet read 'Spock's World'
Who says a Star Trek book can't be well written? - By: , 29 Sep 1998 This book is highly enjoyable, well written & comes in the chronology at a painful time - just after Kirk's "death". Some people will nit-pick the details, or the addition of new characters, but on the whole this is an excellent piece of science fiction writing that can stand on its own outside the Star Trek genre. I reallly enjoyed this book.
Always knew Uhura had it in her. When does she get her own ship?
Why do we have to have a definitive Spock book anyway? He has evolved over time: science officer, first officer, captain, diplomat, ambassador, idealist working for unification. This spans an important gap in Spock's life & I can't wait to find out more.
Don't feel ashamed to recommend this one to your non-Trekker friends. It's just a smashing good read!
A 'not very exciting' Star Trek novel - By: , 09 Jul 1998 
I just couldn't get into this book, as for the most part it was so boring. The superb characterisations were almost a redeeming feature, namely Spock, Uhura & Captain David Rabin, but that alone does not make for exciting reading. Some interesting set pieces. Commander Uhura left in charge of the USS Intrepid goes up against a Klingon ship. There is some insight into Spock's background but it was far from engrossing & left you gasping for some in depth anecdotes about his Starfleet Academy years & not about his sketchy reasons for joining Starfleet. There's his well established prickly relationship with his father Sarek but there was little else of interest. David Rabin's suggestion of Starfleet as a career not withstanding.
I'm sorry we've yet to see the definitive Spock novel, this is not it.
