BW Media Spotlight

It’s back to the prose novels for this article series. It’s also a sequel to a previous Chapter By Chapter book review, but you don’t need to have read that story or review to follow this one. I didn’t when I first picked up our next novel. Years later I happened upon a copy of the first book and then picked it up. This time I’m reading it in proper order. So it’s back to the U.S.S. Enterprise and to previous events on planet Vulcan leading to a new colony location.

There are a few books that explored Vulcan in one form or another. The Vulcan Academy Murders, by the same author, used a murder investigation to explore how Vulcans react to outsiders, most positively but a few negatively. There was also a medical element as it involved an experimental procedure to save a life, which of course killed a redshirt but gave us Amanda, wife of Sarek and mother of Spock, to protect. The conflict may have been personal, but it wasn’t at the expense of the murder story…for the most part. There were stretches when it seemed secondary to the emotional conflict of a young couple–one Vulcan, one human–getting married with various objections and support depending on who you ask.

We’re dealing with the same characters, including the usual crew, but now we’re going more for full-on medical drama. That sets our next book apart from the previous one. If you’ve read either the book or my review of the last book, you know what’s coming. For the rest of you it isn’t necessary, but here’s the category pages for that review if you want to go through that before we get into the twenty-seventh book in the Chapter By Chapter review series…

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