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The Unsettling Stars

By: Alan Dean Foster
Narrated by: Robert Petkoff
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An original novel based on the thrilling Star Trek movies directed by J.J. Abrams!

Taking place in an alternate timeline created when the Starship Kelvin was destroyed by a Romulan invader from the future, this bold new novel follows Captain James T. Kirk and an inexperienced crew commandeering a repaired USS Enterprise out of spacedock for a simple shakedown cruise. When a distress call comes in, the Enterprise must aid a large colony ship of alien refugees known as the Perenorean, who are under siege by an unknown enemy. But Kirk and his crew will find that the situation with the peaceful Perenorean is far more complicated than they bargained for, and the answers as to why they were attacked in the first place unfold in the most insidious of ways....

©2020 Alan Dean Foster (P)2020 Simon & Schuster Audio Adventure Fiction Genre Fiction Movie, TV & Video Game Tie-Ins Science Fiction Space Opera Star Trek

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Superbly delivered as always by Robert Petkoff, this story started out hot, but I think it meandered through the middle parts. As for the ending, it seemed to just happen. Hardly any build up at all. Overall, quite disappointing.

Very rushed ending

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I thoroughly enjoyed the book. It felt very Star Trek, exploring ideological differences more than anything. Enjoyable. Only downside is that the resolution felt a little abrupt. I would have liked a coda to see what life was like afterwards.

More Star Trek than the films

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As always this Star Trek book had a great story and very interesting characters, but the ending was very disappointed and very abruptly ended with no difinitive resolution of the story

Very unsatisfactory ending

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Great premise albeit a bit poorly paced. Despite the somewhat slow but intriguing build up, the ending felt anticlimactic, rushed and frankly a bit underwhelming. That said there was enough to enjoy about the story overall. The new alien race that becomes essential to the overarching plot are beautifully described and very thought provoking.

As an aside, if you're a Kelvin timeline fan, it's a bit hit and miss: Kirk was written more as Shatner than Pine in my view, but the other characters felt more Kelvin timeline authentic.

Worth a read, but have low expectations.

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