Windows on a Lost World
(Part of the Star Trek: The Original Series (#65) Series and Star Trek Classic (#72) Series)
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Book Overview
While exploring the ruins of an ancient civilization on the uninhabited planet of Careta IV, the crew of the Enterprise discovers windows to a strange alien environment.
Format:Mass Market Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0671795120
ISBN13:9780671795122
Release Date:January 1993
Publisher:Pocket Books
Length:275 Pages
Weight:0.34 lbs.
Dimensions:0.8" x 4.2" x 6.8"
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5 ratings
Fascinating story, extremely well told.
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 20 years ago
There are flaws; how the alien race can have a "name" for themselves that translates into a verbal sound (Kh!lict) when their language has no sounds, but is one of color and movement, is a question I find unanswerable. Still, there are relatively few such flaws in an otherwise exquisite story. Good pacing, good characterization, fascinating plot hook. One of the best. But in spite of the cover, don't expect Chekov to play a major role, he really doesn't. This is a classic Kirk/Spock story.
A Trek book with a unique perspective.
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 21 years ago
This is the story of an archaeological mission that goes spectacularly and uniquely wrong. The crew discover a transporter-like device that converts Kirk, Chekov and several others into the long-dead aliens that originally inhabited the planet. Kirk has to figure out how to contact Spock from inside an alien body while Spock must decipher the alien technology and change the converted crew back before they go insane. The scenes with Kirk in the alien body are very well written and the slow unravelling of the alien society is well paced and depicted. The archaeological investigations of Spock are also written, although others may find them to be lacking in events and with too much time on descriptions. Stories in which the crew actually spend their time in scientific exploration are fairly rare, and this is a very good and detailed one.
Archeology, crab bodies, alien miinds, ancient ruins...wow!
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 22 years ago
While performing archeological research on a long-uninhabited planet, Kirk, Chekov, and a security team fall through an artifact that might once have served has a one-way transportation device and are taken over by alien minds and bodies as they learn the details of exactly what happened to its ancient civilization. This audio novel crept up on me at a time when I was taking geology and oceanography courses in college. I literally had to squeeze fifteen weeks of oceangraphy into three weeks that summer, so while I had to devote most of my time to studying, this tape served as a way for me to take a break without actually forgetting some of what I was studying, because the idea of a team of scientists working together as in this story helped to keep me grounded and hopeful that I would pass my course.
Transporters suck in Kirk, Chekov and an arrogant scientist
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 26 years ago
An archaelogy team on Careta IV discovers a window-like transporter that sends Kirk, Chekov, an archaelogist with a superiority attitude, and several security guards to a time when the planet's original inhabitants were giant crabs. These crabs had the strange idea that they were the only intelligent species in the galaxy and therefore had the right to kill everybody else. Spock has to learn how to communicate with Kirk and feed him, so that the humans could revert to their original forms. Along the way, Spock's team learns of the inhabitant's culture, including the horrific sacrifices and the crabs' education. Giant or small, the only thing crabs are good for are eating them. A whole civilization of them is a nightmare!
This book is confusing at many times.
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 27 years ago
This book is somewhat hard to understand. The Enterprise uncovers a window, and Checkov is sucked in with a few security guards. Then Kirk is sucked in too. It takes a long time for the crew to find out that they have been turned into giant crabs. The only way to get back to normal is to find the other window and go through it. This book is ok, if you like a lot of explaination, and confusion. I would only recommend this book to those who trully would read every Star Trek book out there.
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