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Loading... Spock: The Fire and the Roseby David R. George IIISeries: Star Trek (2006.11), Star Trek: The Original Series (Crucible 2), Star Trek: Crucible (2)
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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book.  ATimson | Feb 11, 2008 |  This is the second volume of the Crucible trilogy, a tale celebrating the 40th Anniversary of Star Trek. I picked up the first volume, Provenance of Shadows, for the flight home from Hong Kong and enjoyed that enough to check out the rest. This book isn't quite as enjoyable. The main storyline follows Spock as he tries again to achieve Kolinahr and remove all of his emotions. Interwoven throughout the story are flashbacks from Spock's career, most notably events experienced in the episode "City on the Edge of Forever". I think the main premise is flawed. The events of Star Trek: The Motion Picture had pretty much put Spock's desire to achieve Kolinahr at rest and to have him want to try again after so many years, even under the circumstances laid out in the story, is--dare I say it?--illogical. But so it goes. Mr. George does love Star Trek and has written a number of fine moments into the book. So I can't complain too much. --J. (  ) Hamburgerclan | Oct 26, 2007 | sfreader.com | Oct 3, 2007 |  no reviews | add a review
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...the lives of three men will be forever changed. In that split second, defined paradoxically by both salvation and loss, they will destroy the world and then restore it. Much had come before, and much would come after, but nothing would color their lives more than that one, isolated instant on the edge of forever.
IN A SINGLE MOMENT
...Spock, displaced in time, watches his closest friend heed his advice by allowing the love of his life to die in a traffic accident, thereby preserving Earth's history. Returning to the present, however, Spock confronts other such crises, and chooses instead to willfully alter the past. Challenged by the thorny demands of his logic, he will have to find a way to face his conflicting decisions.
IN A SINGLE MOMENT
...that stays with Spock, he preserved the timeline at the cost of Jim Kirk's happiness. Now, the death of that friend will cause Spock to reexamine the fundamental choices he has made for his own life. Unwilling to accept his feelings of loss and regret, he will seek that which has previously eluded him: complete mastery of his emotions. But while his quest for the perfect geometry of total logic will move him beyond his remorse, another loss will bring him full circle to once more face the fire he has never embraced.
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Worse, though, is that it didn't feel original to me. Where Provenance offered us a look at McCoy in a manner we hadn't really seen before, Fire was basically a retread of J.M. Dillard's The Lost Years and Star Trek: The Motion Picture. Throughout the book I had a pervasive feeling of having already seen it before.
Provenance gave us a look at McCoy in two situations, really exploring the character's history and self in a way that hadn't been done before (to my knowledge). The Fire and the Rose, by contrast, merely offers the same analysis as before, with the same result, and suffers for it. (