Rating: Summary: The best StarTrek book of all--most incredibly written! Review: Uhura's Song is remarkably well-written, focusing on a culture based on gesture and tradition passed on by song. The Star Trek crew takes on new and individual life in this fantastic interweaving of cultures. Characterizations and interactions are incredibly real and true to life, and the use of both human and feline gestural language is truly remarkable.
This is the best first-contact book ever in the Star Trek series, and deserves a closer look.
It may be the best first contact book of all time
Rating: Summary: Not just another Trek novel! Review: Uhura's Song was the first Star Trek novel I ever read, and almost every one since has been a disappointment. Some Trek novels can be formulaic with plots that are painfully predictable. But Uhura's Song is so much more! The alien cultures are wonderfully developed, and the original characters are delightful. If the book lacks a bit as far as technical precision goes (the portrayal of the universal translator is different here than in other Trek works, and I wonder how such a thing could exist), the author more than makes up for it by giving us characters and cultures that will not easily be forgotten. I read this book for the first time about sixteen years ago. It's the type of book that you can just randomly open to a page and start reading. Definitely my favorite of the Trek novels.
Rating: Summary: Great Fun for all Classic Trek Fans! Review: What a great book that harkens back to the old days when the word "Star Trek" was associated with fun and adventure! I for one would like to "see, learn, know" more about the mysterious Dr. Wilson! Classic Star Trek truly was an adventure series this book keeps that theme alive!
Rating: Summary: star trek at it's best Review: when the planet of eeiauo is struck by a plague, it asked the federation for help. the being of this world are catlike and they are dying by the thousands. uhura had befriended one of them years ago and when she finds out that her friend has also contracted the plague, she and spock pull out all the plugs to find out the secret that the eeiauo are not originally from that planet but are outcasts from another. one of the eeiauoans gives them vital information on the location of the other planet when humans are also infected by the plague. the enterprise sets out to find the other planet and finds that it's inhabitants are not any more eager to discuss their long missing relations on eeioau either. this leads to a lot of diplomacy in the strangest forms and how they eventually win their trust is interesting enough to get the book itself.
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