Star Trek Prometheus: In the Heart of Chaos
Authors: Christian Humberg & Bernd Perplies
Publisher: Titan Books
Reviewed By: Sandra Scholes
If the cover art alone doesn't give it away, this is the final novel in the series Prometheus where Perplies and Humberg give us the darker side of the Trek universe that is usually reserved for Star Wars.
If the cover art alone doesn't give it away, this is the final novel in the series Prometheus where Perplies and Humberg give us the darker side of the Trek universe that is usually reserved for Star Wars.
Here history shows that it can repeat itself; the crew of the USS Valiant had gone mad and killed each other due to some strange, malevolent entity where the weapons materialised on their own as if the entity wanted them to kill their entire crew.
This news disturbs the USS Prometheus enough to have them on the site if the massacre. In the past, 10,000 years ago on the city of Hestaon their ancient people had planned a single sacrifice to appease their gods. Instead the same entity desired all their blood in a similar massacre. Perhaps aliens cant change their ways in the same way humans cant and evolution is just a word, at least mentally.
This news disturbs the USS Prometheus enough to have them on the site if the massacre. In the past, 10,000 years ago on the city of Hestaon their ancient people had planned a single sacrifice to appease their gods. Instead the same entity desired all their blood in a similar massacre. Perhaps aliens cant change their ways in the same way humans cant and evolution is just a word, at least mentally.
The entity is the son of the Ancient Reds who in legend had been set free by the people and gone on the rampage. According to form the White Guardian had imprisoned him but it was the Valiant's crew who disturbed their peace.
If anyone was going to be able to communicate with the entity it would be Ambassador Spock. He alone had the added bonus of his Vulcan and human heritage and coupled with his studies of other similar entities could at least try to reason with him.
Naively the Ancient Reds thought they were communing with a god when really he was an alien who, according to Spock hadn't left his home. Its not only the crew of the USS Prometheus who have to deal with the fallout from what he did, the Klingon vessel the IKS Bortas could be easily manipulated by him into firing on the Prometheus.
Perplies and Humberg have created a movie style novel series this one in particular has the action, strong narrative and epic feel to transport the reader to the Lembatta Cluster and almost feel as if they are there to watch Spock and get a feel for the entity.
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