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.
Last time we set up some more of the personal conflict that’s going to be attached to this story. Is Satat going to try to ruin a marital bond again or is he a man of his word, putting the colony first?
We’re going back to the colony this chapter. Korsal is that rare TOS era Klingon we can root for, like Konom in the DC movie period comics. I wonder if Jean Lorrah was imagining him as the original and animated series depicted him, with just the tanned skin and heavy hair, or the movie version onward that added those unnecessary ridged foreheads? Over time I’ve come to accept them, and it beats whatever the hell Discovery was doing with them, but I would have been willing to accept them as they were. Maybe someone thought they looked too “Fu Manchuish” with those goatees? I don’t know, but someday I should look up the reason for the change.
By the TNG era the Klingons and Federation got along as pals, but this is when that wasn’t the case. I wonder if that’s going to matter? We already saw an Orion thought this would be good money for them as a bioweapon…until he became infected, I’d wager. This would also be before Kirk started hating Klingons after a group of them killed his son. It’s wrong to blame ALL Klingons for that, but that’s the kind of thing were racism starts. We shouldn’t see that from him here if this is set in the TOS period, as suggested by the shirt collars on the front cover. We’ll see. I’m just padding out the intro for the homepage. Interestingly, chapter eight is eight pages long…well, seven and three fourths but that’s nitpicking. Let’s get to it.
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