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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.

In the last chapter we saw what’s going to bring the Enterprise into the events of the story, and that it understood the characters better than the current show writers and movie directors. And this is a non-canon novel.

Vulcan is possibly the second most visited planet in the Star Trek franchise, with Earth being number one. Outside of Spock I’m not sure how memorable it is. It’s a desert planet where the people nearly created self-genocide until the rise of logic. Vulcans do not lack emotions, or else they wouldn’t have music and other arts, nor would they get married and stuff. Those are emotion-driven. It’s why Data in the TNG timeframe can only imitate other artists but has trouble making his own art. He lacks emotions. Vulcans still create, still have feelings. It’s more about controlling emotions. They will act logical, but logical from their perspective, like the Vulcan member of the conspiracy in Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country that I’m so glad wasn’t Saavik as intended. Her actions seem rather evil to us, but to her they were based on a logical, if not flawed, deduction. How can you say Klingons and the Federation can’t work together when the lies and murders your creating to put them into war requires you to work together? A discussion for another time.

With all that in mind, let’s see what’s happening on Vulcan at the moment. It’s a bit early for the murders, so I imagine it will be continued establishment of our cast for this tale.

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