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Summary: The first great book
Review: This is a sequel to the episode "All Our Yesterdays". In that, he and McCoy went far back in time, and Spock reverted to an emotional being. The result was a child, Zar, and Spock uses the Guardian of Forever to bring him to the present. The Romulans also come to Gateway, searching for whatever secrets Starfleet has there. This is a genuine classic. The writing and the characterisations are excellent. Spock, McCoy and Kirk are perfectly portrayed, especially in the way they interact with each other. The Romulan storyline involves a lot of well described action, including personal combat and a bit of starship combat. The story of Spock and Zar is a drama of emotional conflict and misunderstanding. It is very well done and reveals a lot about Spock's character at this time. This is a great book, full of witty humour but still a very serious drama, in the best traditions of the Original Series.
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Summary: One of the best of the Star Trek novels.
Review: This is an excellent, well-written story with good characterizations, both in terms of creating new characters (notably Spock's son, the title character) and in faithfully portraying the established characters and the interrelations between them. I could easily envision this story as being canonical, as being made into an episode of the original Star Trek series if only it had been written fifteen years earlier.In it, the author begins in what may be the ideal way to begin a Star Trek novel: she starts with an episode from the series, and builds a "what if" sequal to it; in this case, she builds on the episode, "All Our Yesterdays", in which Spock and McCoy are trapped (temporarily) 5000 years in the past, during the ice age of a planet that is (in the present) about to be destroyed when its sun novas. During that episode, Spock (for reasons never adequately explained, but apparently having something to do with the unplanned nature of their time-travel) reverts to the barbaric, emotional, pre-logical state of Vulcans in that time period. (Why McCoy didn't revert to the superstitious, unscientific state of humans at that point in time is never explained, either.) In any case, this book assumes what is only hinted at in that episode: that Spock and the woman Zarabeth who was (sort of) native to that time became lovers, physically as well as emotionally, and that unknown to Spock, she was pregnant with his child when he and McCoy returned to the present. When Spock learns of this through archaeological evidence, he uses The Guardian of Forever (from the episode "City On The Edge Of Forever") to return to the past and rescue the boy, and the rest of the story builds on that concept. The plot is handled extremely well, although I did find the ending rather unsatisfactory. (Though I must admit, it, too, would have fit very well into an original series story; it seems to follow the series guideline, "Never make a change to the cast or status quo of the characters; any change of that sort must be eliminated by the end of the story.")
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Summary: One of the Best Star Trek novels of all time!
Review: This is one of my most favorite Star Trek novels of all time! I not only have the novel, I also have the Audio recording on cassette tape. Yesterday's Son by A. C. Crispin. A wonderful story about how Spock discovers he has a son on the planet, Sarpeidon. It is the novel sequel to that classic Star Trek episode, where Spock and McCoy accidently activate a time machine called the Atavicron that takes them into the past. Spock and McCoy meet up with this woman named Zarabeth in the Ice age of the planet Sarpiedon. During that time with Spock, McCoy and Zarabeth together, Spock starts to act like his Vulcan ancestors did many millions of years ago. The Vulcans at that time were driven by emotions with hate, anger, violence,& passion which corupted the society. He is acting the sameway his Vulcan ancestors did because the Atavicron had somehow changed him. Unknown to Spock during that time, Zarebeth bore his child! Kirk and Spock find a way to back into the past using the Guardian Of Forever to rescue his son Zar and accept him as a member of the family on Vulcan. It will not be easy as long as the Romulans are out there, learning the secrets of the Guardian Of Forever and waiting to steal that time machine for there own evil purposes. Kirk,Spock,and McCoy journey into Sarpeidon's past to rescue Spock's son, Zar. Will Zar accept his new life on board the Enterprise? Will Spock and Zar accept each other as family? Will Zar abuse his Vulcan powers for his own needs? Will Zar accept that Vulcan's show no emotion and that Spock is merely showing him traditions of his Vulcan heritage? Will the Romulans steal the Guardian from the Enterprise & the Federation? Will Kirk and crew be able to stop the Romulans? Find out! Buy this novel! This was the first Novel I ever read as Kid! That is why it means so much to me, If this was your first book, you will read it more that once!
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Summary: Excellent! Must-Read!
Review: This story is a sequel to the episode,"All of Yesterday's".
This book was the best! The characters are believable and weave into the storyline excellently. The character of Zar(Spock's son)was handled well. The conflicts between a father and son are written well.The plot and storyline is seemless from beginning to end. Spock, McCoy, and Kirk go back in time via the Guardian of Forever to the planet Sarpeidon to find Spock's son, and bring him to the Present. Also, later, the Romulans capture the Guardian of Forever, not knowing its a time portal. They think its a secret Starfleet base. Zar then helps Kirk and the Enterprise stop the Romulans headed by Sub-Commander Tal ("Enterprise Incident"). This book must be on your list as a must-read for Star Trek books! Check out the sequel, "Time for Yesterday" by A.C. Crispin Read on!
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Summary: Excellent! Must-Read!
Review: This story is a sequel to the episode,"All of Yesterday's".
This book was the best! The characters are believable and weave into the storyline excellently. The character of Zar(Spock's son)was handled well. The conflicts between a father and son are written well.The plot and storyline is seemless from beginning to end. Spock, McCoy, and Kirk go back in time via the Guardian of Forever to the planet Sarpeidon to find Spock's son, and bring him to the Present. Also, later, the Romulans capture the Guardian of Forever, not knowing its a time portal. They think its a secret Starfleet base. Zar then helps Kirk and the Enterprise stop the Romulans headed by Sub-Commander Tal ("Enterprise Incident"). This book must be on your list as a must-read for Star Trek books! Check out the sequel, "Time for Yesterday" by A.C. Crispin Read on!
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Summary: one of star trek's best books
Review: years ago when spock and mccoy were sent back in time, spcok was
transformed into vulcans of 1000 years ago. he met a young woman
and had sex with her. now in the future he discoves that he has a
son trapped in the past in an ice age and moves [heaven] and high water to get permission to use the guardian of forever to not only meet his long lost son but to bring him to the present. when
they arrive they find out that he is now 26 and he tries to bond with spock. but spock finds it difficult and the trials that both
of them go through make this a very interesting read.
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