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Summary: A GREAT Book For All Fans Of Star Trek's Sarek and Amanda.
Review: This book was mainly about Sarek and Amanda's past. It is sad at some points but funny at other points. It is the best Star Trek book there is yet, and I recomend it for every Star Trek reader out there.
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Summary: The best Star Trek book ever!
Review: This is the best Star Trek book I have ever read. The plot is intriging. The book reintroduces Peter Kirk. Amanda and Sarek's memories are well presented. Both love stories are good. The Romulan Conspiracy is the best part. Spock and Sarek are well presented. If you loved this book, read Vulcan's Forge and Spock's World (if you can ignore the Leonard E. McCoy and some other things. It is after all an older book, from before the movies)
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Summary: Great family history of Star Trek's most famous son.
Review: This one gives you some great history and background for Spock. Sarek has always been my favorite Star Trek character. I even gave my son the middle name of "Sarek". Read it. You will enjoy it. It is only logical. p.s. Spock son of Sarek son of Skon... get it?
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Summary: A good story based on characters and cultures
Review: When people ask me about the qualities that make the original Star Trek series so appealing, my response is, "characters and cultures." The primary story lines were about sentient beings who found themselves in complex situations and where the gadgetry and weaponry played only secondary roles. Granted, Kirk was a Napoleanic character, but that is a characteristic that early starship captains would have to possess. The other characters were so well-defined that even the lesser roles are as well-known as the main three. We were introduced to the Vulcans, Romulans and Klingons, similar species, but all with exaggerated human characteristics. The Vulcans, a superhuman race with logic and ethics taken to an extreme, the warlike Klingons who nevertheless possess a strict code of honor and the Romulans, for whom deceitful plotting is an art form.
This tale, which is set in the time immediately after the movie, "The Undiscovered Country" is based largely on a growing movement among humans to keep Earth for the humans. It turns out that it is another plot hatched by a secretive race who have interacted with Sarek and the Federation for many years. Once again, we are led through many of the subtle cultural backgrounds of the Vulcans, Klingons and Romulans.
We are along as many of the journal entries of Spock's mother Amanda are read, as we learn a great deal more of the Vulcan culture as well as the origin of the rift between Spock and his father. Klingon honor, mating rituals and marriage rites are also explored, as we are exposed to more of what that complex race uses to guide their lives and rules of succession. The Romulan capacity for long-term plotting is exposed once again, although we do see how their honor is such that they are willing to sacrifice themselves to aid others.
This is one of my favorite Star Trek books because it does rely on characters and shows us so much of the nonhuman cultures. The plot is well-defined and moves along rather quickly as the staid diplomat Sarek proves himself capable of being much more, including a spy.
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Summary: Major character biography + hardcover edition=winner.
Review: When pocket books combines a marqee character name and a hardcover publishing, you know they have checked the story over very carefully.
The only problem with this novel about "Sarek", is that it actually should be titles "Farewell Amanda" because it focuses on the end of Spock's mother.
Certainly worth the paperback price.
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