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enjoyed the different character's life stories after their mission failed, Extraordinary!!!


READER'S LOG

This is one of the best Star Trek novels that I ever read and easily the best one using only the crew of The Original Series, without counting crossovers novels.


I know that I need to read more books centering on the original crew, however, this novel Prime Directive will keep a place in the highest levels on my own personal Trek ranking ever.


A masterpiece written by the couple, Judith and Garfield ReevesStevens,

They crafted an intriguing mystery since the story began with the careers of the entire crew ruined but you don't know what happened, and along the narrative, you not only get to know what they are doing in the "present" of the story but also you will starting to get the whole picture of the disaster that happened in the "past" of the story and why the crew fell from grace.


I like a lot not only the scope of the story but also that instead of the usual formula in many of the TV episodes of The Original Series where only Kirk, Spock and McCoy get to do the important stuff, here, the rest of the main crew, Scotty, Uhura, Sulu, Chekov and even Chapel, have pivotal roles in the developing of the story.


The whole crew has an interesting part in the story, not only on the "present", but also in the "past" and of course, in the "third act" where they going to work together to resolve the mystery behind on the disastrous way that their Starfleet careers ended.



READER'S LOG SUPPLEMENTAL

The story is set in the chronology of The Original Series between the end of the firstyear mission and before the adventures pictured on The Animated Series, so you will get references about key situations and characters along the original run of the series but don't get intimidated if you don't much about it, if you do, you will enjoy it a lot, but if you don't, there aren't references that you need to understand for the current story.


A cool real scientific fact is that in the narrative is told about the discovery of fossilized lifeforms on Mars, and five years later of the original printing of this book, some scientists founded evidence of precisely that in an asteroid believed to be from there.


Another cool fact but about inside of the franchise is that Robert Orci, one of the writers of the film Star Trek of, used scenes of this book for the process of casting actors, due that it's one of his favorite Star Trek novels.


One thing that I liked a lot about the form of writing this book is that the authors established that "starship" wasn't a term that it could apply to any space vessel but a specific term referring only to space cruisers from Starfleet.
It's something silly and not important but I liked it,

So, if you want to read a novel from The Original Series with great character developing of the whole crew in an epic mission, definitely this is your book.






What all media tieins should aspire to, but so seldom

do: Prime Directive doesn't read like a notreadyforprimetime supplemental installment of a popular television/movie franchise a subpar cashin like the dreadful sitelinkBuffy the Vampire Slayer spinoff sitelinkSlayer read my review sitelinkhere but a richly realized story in its own right that utilizes and capitalizes on its novelistic medium to boldly go where other iterations of Trek either haven't or can't that this adventure was written for the page and not the screen is precisely what makes it so compelling and essential, as opposed to the ancillary and utterly noncompulsory experience typically afforded by these kinds of halfbaked brand extensions.
It should be required reading for all tiein novelists: This is how you do it,

Star Trek: Prime Directive is an ambitious, nonlinear narrative before nonlinearity was fashionable that perfectly captures the tone of the original series, the unique voices and interpersonal dynamics of its characters you can hear the actors enunciating the dialogue as you read it, and the series' commitment to using science fiction as an intellectual vehicle to explore moral, ethical, and philosophical issues in contrast with the vacuous Star Wars wannabe and abject exercise in bigbudget cosplay the franchise became under sitelinkJ.
J. Abrams, or the pointless Easteregg hunt known as Star Trek: Discovery, This isn't a televisionsized adventure padded to fit a novel, but rather a story that was simply too big for any single episode or movie to accommodate in which each character, it's worth noting, is assigned a valuable role a creative feat even the best TV shows and sitelinkmovies alltoorarely accomplished.


Prime Directive is a mercifully selfcontained story that forces the crew of the Enterprise to grapple with the ethical and philosophical complexities of their most sacrosanct spacefaring protocol, often invoked on the various television series but littleexplored at the time this book was first published inthe story puts a premium on Big Ideas over Big Spectacle not that suspense is in short supply here!.
The authors exploit the broader canvas the prose format offers them to present a nuanced exploration of the Federation's policy of cultural noninterference, yes, but they also use the additional real estate to enrichen the very universe of Trek itself.


For example: sitelinkJudith and Garfield ReevesStevens spend time detailing how the gravity on alien planets has a visceral effect on the characters exactly the kind of nonvisual detail that just gets taken for granted on the show that every Mclass planet has a vaguely similar gravity and everyone can walk around nice and normal, but a novel affords a unique opportunity to depict how subtle gravitational variations from planet to planet make someone feel.


Or consider this passage on pages:

The Starfleet Lunar Hall of Justice in Oceanview was one of those peculiar government buildings that seemed to have no particular style, other than a quest for monumentalism.
It was close to a century old and had been built in the twilight of Earth's cultural fascination with anything Centauran, Unfortunately, the fact that it had been built on the Moon under natural gravity long since augmented to Earth normal throughout the city's business sections had inspired the architects to alter the proportions of loadbearing arches whose original graceful dimensions had been dictated by a more massive planet.
In addition, the building's airy roof gardens were situated five meters beneath the inner surface of a dingy green pressure dome instead of under spacious blue skies, further removing it from the Centauran ideals of open postharmony defensism.


McCoy stood in the plaza before the ungainly structure, wondering how anyone could have become enamored of an architectural style that had arisen on a world where people spent most of their time burying things underground so they couldn't be detected by hypothetical enemies from space.
That cultural paranoia, supported by fiber optic data transmission that prevented stray radiation from leaking out into space, had kept Earth's first expedition to another star from discovering there was an inhabited, technologically advanced civilization virtually next door until the first shuttles were almost ready to land.
The members of the Federation are all so eager to find new life and new civilizations, McCoy thought, but when we find it, none of us wants to go first.
Maybe that was the real reason for what had happened on Talin: not that Kirk had been engaged in brash adventurism, but that everyone else involved, including the First Contact Office, had been too cautious.

What seems like a throwaway pair of paragraphs in fact artfully relays so much scientific, historical, and cultural information that would only be implied by production design in the background on TV it's another one of those little details you never consider when you watch the show you're just on an alien world and you don't really give much thought to how cosmic cultural crosspollination might've influenced its aesthetic development and how misguided that appropriation might've been.
How many novelizations or media tieins have you read that give such meticulous consideration to the larger sandbox in which they are playing Most are simply concerned with transcribing the visuals of trying in vain to make a literary medium replicate a uniquely cinematic experience and cramming in as many tooclever internal crossreferences as possible here's looking at you, Discovery.


Even thirty years later, Prime Directive remains a worthy addition to the Trek sitelinkcanon and a great piece of science fiction in its own right, far superior to anything the cinematic/televisional branch of the franchise has produced in two decades that deserves to be rediscovered now more than ever, with Star Trek languishing in the custodianship of screenwriters who manifestly don't understand it nearly as well as Judith and Garfield ReevesStevens did.
Good for them. .