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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 ties this book back to The Vulcan Academy Murders and sets up the non-disease antagonist for our book, or that’s what I’m assuming with the fighting Vulcans. It’s not the first time we’ve seen Vulcans not act like Vulcans. I think by this point Star Trek V had come out with Sybok, the first Sarek kid we didn’t know existed until Michael Burnham the adoptee. We didn’t need either one of them. There was also Stephen, the emotion-seeking Vulcan from Enterprise: The First Adventure, if anyone remembers that book. It was one of the earliest Chapter By Chapter book reviews.

You know, when transported exiled Vulcans who were planning to take over the planet and were only exposed because of an unrelated murder, you’d think they’d be the wrong ship to call to a plague world…unless Starfleet was hoping to wipe them out. Was Jonathan Archer still working there? “I get to make Vulcans suffer? Sign me up!” We’re on chapter 3 of 44, page 21 of 278 and we have eight pages of reading. That’s enough for a decent chapter, so let’s see how Kirk handles the latest news.

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