En route to settle a dispute between opposing religious groups, the Enterprise drops Mr. Spock off at a colony on Beta Canzandia, where he is suddenly faced with a hostile Klingon threat. Book available.
Faces of Fire (Star Trek: The Original Series)
and over one million other books are available for Amazon Kindle. Learn more
| ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Book Description
Product Details
Would you like to update product info or give feedback on images?
|
Product Description
From the Publisher
En route to Alpha Malurian Six to settle a dispute between two religions, the U.S.S. EnterpriseTM first stops to do a routine check on the progress of a terraforming colony on Beta Canzandia Three, a colony whose inhabitants include Carol and David Marcus.
Spock is left behind at the terraforming colony to continue his scientific studies and the rest of the crew heads to Alpha Malurian Six to find the dispute has turned to war.
As Kirk, McCoy, and Scotty search for a solution to end the conflict, a ship piloted by a Klingon faction arrives at the terraforming colony to take control of the facility. When colonists are imprisoned, and Spock and David must defeat the Klingons or face certain death. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
About the Author
Michael Jan Friedman is the author of more than forty science fiction and fantasy books, among them many Star Trek and Star Trek: Next Generation novels.
Customer Reviews
Most helpful customer reviews
By James Yanni
Format:Mass Market Paperback
Not great, but not bad; this story purports to tell the tale of the first meeting between Kirk and his son David Marcus, as well as to establish the reason for some of the hostility displayed toward Kirk by David in "The Wrath Of Khan". It establishes the character of David fairly well, but the justification for the hostility is weak at best, and the subplot involving the political machinations of the Klingons seems decidedly spurious, merely an excuse for the Klingons behaving in odd and implausible ways later.
A perfectly good adventure novel, which mostly fails at its attempts to a pretension to be more than that.
By Joe Zika
Format:Mass Market Paperback
Star Trek-The Original Series written by Michael Jan Friedman is a double plotted book where the main character get split and the adventures begin.
"Faces of Fire" has the Enterprise and her crew on a mission to Alpha Malurian Six to resolve a "religious" dispute, but while enroute to this mission They happen to pass a terraforming. Spock wants to monitor this and requests to be left behind on Beta Canzandia Three. This is the first book where we meet David Marcus, Captain James T. Kirk's son.
So, one plot involves a "religious" dispute and the other involves a terraforming. But the plot thinckens as they say, and boy does it ever. What good is a Star Trek book if we don't have the bad guys... this time as Klingons. The Klingons have heard of the terraforming and want to nose around and in the process they capture both Carol and David Marcus. Also, Spock is captured and now faced with certain death Spock and David plan, with the other colonists, an escape.
At the same time, the Enterprise crew with Kirk, McCoy, and Scotty are trying to find a solution to end the religious conflict. Here we have McCoy's famous word uttered... "Damn it, Jim, I'm a doctor, not a veterinarian." Or, whatever he's suppost to be other than a doctor depending upon the situation.
This book was a well-crafted story and entertaining as the plots moved along they kept your interest. I enjoyed this book with McCoy and Scotty trying to help Kirk... interesting, indeed.
By Laydie Faire
Format:Audio Cassette
Overall quality is just what I've come to expect from Simon & Schuster: very good. I do agree,however, that the reader here lacks variation and depth. It detracts seriously from the production for me. I found myself getting bored and sidetracked through no fault of the writing, but of the reader. The story itself seemed rather tame for Kirk and Co. Gone was the style and panash and great Errol Flynnish type of adventure. I missed that.
Want to see more reviews on this item?
›
Go to Amazon.com to see all 7 reviews
3.9 out of 5 stars
Listmania!
Look for similar items by category
- Books > Audiobooks > Authors, A-Z > ( F ) > Friedman, Michael Jan
- Books > Audiobooks > General
- Books > Audiobooks > Science Fiction & Fantasy > Fantasy
- Books > Audiobooks > Science Fiction & Fantasy > Science Fiction
- Books > Science Fiction & Fantasy > Fantasy
- Books > Science Fiction & Fantasy > Media > Star Trek
- Books > Science Fiction & Fantasy > Science Fiction
Feedback
Would you like to update product info or give feedback on images?
