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    Star Trek: The Original Series: The Weight of Worlds
    Star Trek: The Original Series: The Weight of Worlds
    Star Trek: The Original Series: The Weight of Worlds
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    Star Trek: The Original Series: The Weight of Worlds

    By Greg Cox

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    The Ephrata Institute is an intellectual think tank at the outer fringes of the final frontier. Dedicated to the arts and sciences, the Institute seems an unlikely target for an invasion, but it proves easy pickings when the Crusade comes from beyond, determined to impose its harsh, unbending Truth on all the worlds of the Federation. Armed with weaponized gravity, the alien Crusaders will stop at nothing to rescue the universe from its myriad beliefs . . . even if it means warping the mind and soul of every sentient being they encounter.

    Responding to an urgent distress signal, Captain James T. Kirk and the crew of the U.S.S. Enterprise soon find themselves in conflict with the Crusade, and facing individual challenges. When Kirk and Spock are transported to the Crusade’s distant homeland to confront the source of the invasion, Sulu finds himself trapped behind enemy lines, while Lieutenant Uhura is faced with possibly the most difficult decisions of her career.

    As the Crusade sets its sights beyond Ephrata IV, it is up to the Enterprise and its besieged crew to keep freedom of thought from being crushed beneath the weight of worlds!
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPocket Books/Star Trek
    Release dateMar 26, 2013
    ISBN9781476702858
    Star Trek: The Original Series: The Weight of Worlds
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    Greg Cox

    Greg Cox is the New York Times bestselling author of numerous Star Trek novels and short stories. He has also written the official movie novelizations of War for the Planet of the Apes, Godzilla, Man of Steel, The Dark Knight Rises, Daredevil, Ghost Rider, and the first three Underworld movies, as well as books and stories based on such popular series as Alias, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, CSI, Farscape, The 4400, Leverage, The Librarians, Roswell, Terminator, Warehouse 13, Xena: Warrior Princess, and Zorro. He has received three Scribe Awards from the International Association of Media Tie-In Writers, as well as the Faust Award for Life Achievement. He lives in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. Visit him at GregCox-Author.com. 

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    • 4/5
      Another enjoyable, if somewhat predictable, entry in the Star Trek library by Greg Cox. Predictable, in the sense that (SPOILERS)...the basic tableau established by the main factions early on plays out to the end. No great plot twists, except for a bit of minor trickery mid-story. Cox, as always, displays his grasp of knowledge of Trek Universe trivia, tossing in references to previous tales, both televised and literary. While this is one of the things I enjoy about Cox's work, he does sometimes appear to be squeezing references in for their sake. Great to see Uhura showing her command chops in the captain's seat!As for the overall story, fairly standard (if somewhat heavy handed) social commentary. In this instance, the target is religious fanaticism. Certainly, an engaging topic in any generation. All in all, a fun bit of light reading.
    • 2/5
      Another formulaic, cliché-ridden, money-spinning novella, I suspect from the J.J. Abrams School of Writing. The plot was fair enough, although a little heavy-handed (pardon the pun), but Greg Cox is obviously one of those serial novelisation hacks who can quickly process a television series, picking up a handful of memorable episodes and character catchphrases, before spewing out a recognisable but soulless rendition in mass market paperback. He claims to have watched the original series during the 60s, and queued up to watch the films at the cinema, but his version of Captain Kirk et al reads like he merely surfed the Internet for half hour with pen and paper in hand, cribbing from YouTube and Memory Alpha. Kirk 'doesn't believe in no-win scenarios', Uhura quotes that 'risk is our business', and Scotty actually calls another crew member for stealing his 'line', 'They can't take any more!' Not to mention Cox's 'Name that Episode' score chart - when Scotty is taken to sickbay, I knew that his brush with death in The Changeling would be brought up, because Cox must have already name-dropped half of the original series by that point.Sadly, for Cox and Abrams alike, recapping and quoting doesn't quite capture the spirit of the show or the characters for me. The dialogue was way off, not to mention completely infantile in places - Chekov sneers 'Dramatic much?' like a snarky teenager, and Kirk challenges an opponent with 'Bring it on!' - and none of the original characters sounded remotely familiar. Calling Kirk on his flagrant and constant abuse of the Prime Directive might have been amusing if handled with slightly more subtlety, but the moment was reduced to a long list of - you guessed right - old episode synopses. Kirk gets packed off to fight bare-chested, Spock performs a mind meld, the secondary characters take turns in the big chair, and Sulu earns a placeholder as a love interest. Been there, done that, returned it to the library. The only plus point is that this is a quick - and I mean two or three hours, tops - read.Where are the writers who actually care about these shows and their characters? Please, rise up and defeat this army of mercenary robots!

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