Chapter By Chapter (usually) features me reading one chapter of the selected book at a time and reviewing it as if I were reviewing an episode of a TV show or an issue of a comic. There will be spoilers if you haven’t read to the point I have, and if you’ve read further I ask that you don’t spoil anything further into the book. Think of it as a read-along book club.
Our previous chapter explained how a Klingon has an Orion wife, half-human kids, is on a science colony that, while not part of the Federation does maintain connections to planets in the Federation. We got to meet one of his sons, and Korsal may have some idea of what’s causing the plague…and it may threaten more than their lives! (I wish I could find a clip of just the cliffhanger stinger from Star Trek. Imagine how it would benefit some of the novel and comic reviews I’ve done over the years.)
Now we’re going to see what the doctors coming to Nisus are discovering because we’re going back to the Enterprise and with McCoy and Spock. They have an odd friendship, always trying to out insult each other in ways unique to them. McCoy is more emotional, Spock more logical. It’s the two natures that serve Kirk well, getting both perspectives and deciding which is best to follow in a given situation. It also makes for some of the more fun moments between them.
We probably won’t get a lot of that this chapter. This is the shortest chapter thus far, at 3 pages and not even a quarter of the fourth. Normally I would combine it with the previous or next chapter, but both of those are pretty long and I didn’t feel right shoving it in there. So this chapter is short and sweet. For those of you reading along, you might wait a week or jump ahead and wait for me to get to that review, or take the short chapter and…I don’t know, dust or something. Maybe get out of the house. Anyway…review.
BW Media Spotlight 
BW’s Saturday Article Link> The Secret Origin Of Dungeons & Dragons
Not the cartoon, but the original game itself. In an exclusive interview with Robert J Kuntz, one of the TSR creators of the game formerly owned by Avalon Hill, Bleeding Fool contributor Chris Braly learns how the game was born. Kuntz goes over how meeting Gary Gygax at 13 and being part of his circle of players led to him being one of the game module creators for Dungeons & Dragons, how Hasbro’s Wizards Of The Coast (something they purchased) seems to be putting the original creators out of public knowledge if not outright attacking them falsely, and even rewriting the world, lore, and real world history of the game itself. If you’ve only heard current renditions of how things worked at TSR, here’s one of them telling their side of the story.
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Posted by ShadowWing Tronix on September 12, 2026 in Uncategorized and tagged Avalon Hill, commentary, Dungeons & Dragons, Hasbro, Interview, Robert Kuntz, Wizards Of The Coast.
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