- Mass Market Paperback: 192 pages
- Publisher: Pocket Science Fiction; First Edition edition (1 April 1984)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0671473905
- ISBN-13: 978-0671473907
- Product Dimensions: 16.8 x 10.7 x 1.8 cm
- Average Customer Review: 2.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,565,841 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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An awesome, sentient force of protostars takes control of a stranded team of Vulcan scientists in this Star Trek novel.
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0 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Titan Books continue their series of novels based on classic Star Trek with #24: Corona by Greg Bear. From the stardate, this novel is set in the middle of season three of the show but sometimes the writer makes references to series events as though they were over a decade ago which can be a little confusing.
Starfleet receives a distress call from inside the Black Box Nebula where a science station manned by Vulcans has been studying the nebula and the unusual levels of ybakra radiation inside.
The Enterprise, which has just been refitted at Yalbo, is tasked with finding out what has happened to the scientists. Kirk has two additional problems on the mission. One is a certain Rowena Mason from the Federation News Service who is there to do a report on the ship and crew as well as their interaction with the new computer system. This system is Kirk's other problem, a massive core of six machines with each one containing the complete memory patterns and experience of the six best Starfleet captains. They have the capacity to override Kirk's decisions if they believe he is acting irrationally, against orders or simply failing to execute his duties in a timely manner.
When the ship finally arrives at the station, they find no life signs but there are still four Vulcans there and another 30 in cryogenic hibernation. They soon realise that the Vulcans are under the influence of an alien intelligence which is using them to create a device which has the potential to destroy the universe.
Corona is by far one of the weakest Trek novels in the series to date. It's a small book and a quick read and essentially never gets into the spirit of the original series at all. The characters aren't written badly, but some of the dialogue is rather unbelievable. The whole concept behind the story seems rather absurd and something that would be more at home an Irwin Allen show rather than Star Trek.
All in all, this book is definitely for completists only and like some of the weaker third season scripts, it's certainly not Star Trek at its best.
Starfleet receives a distress call from inside the Black Box Nebula where a science station manned by Vulcans has been studying the nebula and the unusual levels of ybakra radiation inside.
The Enterprise, which has just been refitted at Yalbo, is tasked with finding out what has happened to the scientists. Kirk has two additional problems on the mission. One is a certain Rowena Mason from the Federation News Service who is there to do a report on the ship and crew as well as their interaction with the new computer system. This system is Kirk's other problem, a massive core of six machines with each one containing the complete memory patterns and experience of the six best Starfleet captains. They have the capacity to override Kirk's decisions if they believe he is acting irrationally, against orders or simply failing to execute his duties in a timely manner.
When the ship finally arrives at the station, they find no life signs but there are still four Vulcans there and another 30 in cryogenic hibernation. They soon realise that the Vulcans are under the influence of an alien intelligence which is using them to create a device which has the potential to destroy the universe.
Corona is by far one of the weakest Trek novels in the series to date. It's a small book and a quick read and essentially never gets into the spirit of the original series at all. The characters aren't written badly, but some of the dialogue is rather unbelievable. The whole concept behind the story seems rather absurd and something that would be more at home an Irwin Allen show rather than Star Trek.
All in all, this book is definitely for completists only and like some of the weaker third season scripts, it's certainly not Star Trek at its best.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Not even in the right universe!
17 Mar 2003
Format:Mass Market Paperback
Those of you who know me know that I like Star Trek because it's a visit with old friends. Authors who can give voice to the ST character, write so that I can hear their voices, are considered to me to be top of the line. Authors who have a grasp of the ST universe, who can write the situations well enough are also top dog. Greg Bear doesn't even come close!
Greg Bear is a marvelous sci fi author. Sadly, I'm afraid, he cannot recreate the Star Trek Universe. Now mind you, he was writing _Corona_ before TNG came out so I tried to give him some slack. But the technology they were installing into the Enterprise was far advanced of anything in TNG. Eventually that fact got on my nerves.
But the worst thing of all is that he had no grasp of the characters, how they speak, what they would do. Captain Kirk would never have ignored another crew member's warning the way Greg Bear has him doing.
I could not and finally did not finish this book. As I was not really visiting old friends or the ST universe, it was a waste of my time. If you want to read a good Greg Bear book.... any other book he's done is heads and shoulders above this one.
2 of 3 people found the following review helpful
An enjoyable quick read.
7 Oct 2000
Format:Paperback
Bear does a reasonably good job of portraying the known characters, and develops a few new ones that are also interesting. His plot has some similarities to the episode "The Ultimate Computer", and also some similarities to various books and episodes, notably "Star Trek: The Motion Picture", that involve the Enterprise saving the universe (or at least all life as we know it therein) from an almost-all-powerful energy creature. But for all of that, the plot is handled well enough that it was only occasionally noticable that the basic plot was somewhat hackneyed. Also, interestingly, it was not actually a member of the Enterprise crew who really saves the day.
This book does not, really, break any new ground, but the plot moves well and the writing is competent.
Not bad
23 Feb 2011
Format:Mass Market Paperback
The level of technology has gone up a notch from the original TV series. For example : Warp 11 and Kirk's brain implant. Seems to me that you would test the monitors before hooking them up to the Enterprise where they can take over. Spock asked if the Monitors could be taken off line and the specialist did not know. Spock and Jim seem off a bit.
Save for those few elements mentioned above, I rather enjoyed reading the book.
Save for those few elements mentioned above, I rather enjoyed reading the book.
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