This book infuriated me. I rarely ever get mad reading a book, but there’s one line in this that defends the Conferdates and admires them. I’m not talking about some alien civilization but like the actual Civil War ones. It just really irked that these type of beliefs will still exist in the universe of Star Trek. This was another problem I had with the first New Earth book as it contained people who were basically from the 20th century still acting like into the 23rd century. It just irked me.

This book has all the making of a good Star Trek novel like a good villain in Valdus, an interesting concept of a literal starship race and much more. But it felt too folksy and whimsical for Star Trek, particularly in the form of Ransom. Carey did a good job of characterizing the main cast and she did a particularly good job with Kirk and McCoy in my opinion, but this book just left a bad taste in my mouth with the confederate thing.

1/10