From the Depths

by Victor Milán

Book Overview

When the U.S.S. Enterprise travels to the planet Okeanos to mediate a dispute between the natives and a group of settlers, Captain Kirk and his crew find that the Klingons have already arrived.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0671869116
• ISBN13: 9780671869113
• Release Date: January 1993
• Publisher: Star Trek
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.34 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 4.2" x 6.8"

Customer Reviews

Almost five stars.

This is a very good story about the dangers of fanatacism, even in a good cause. It is well told, with good pacing, excellent action, fine characterization, and only a few places (fewer than the average mass-market paperback) where it could have used a bit more proofreading to eliminate sloppy errors in language. The only thing that keeps it from a five-star rating is that, as far as I'm concerned, the ending was a bit too easy; it's difficult to explain why I feel that way without giving away too much of a spoiler, but I feel that it was never sufficiently explained how Kirk solved ONE of the problems he was faced with. It was just assumed that once the other problem was solved, that one would go away too, which seems to me highly unlikely.

genetic manipulated society

This is one of the most really SF-like Star Trek books in the series. I say this because in this books, next to the normal first contact episodes, the ever present klingon warriors, the torpedo's, the bantering between the 3 leading characters, in this book two interesting alien societies are sketched. Esspecially the strongly individualistic culture of geneticly manipulated humans, that have adopted themselfs to their tasks, their waterful environnement and their own wishes is fascinating.

An interesting book

It may be an average Kirk vs. Klingons novel but It's no average. It's great. This book has humor and has more action.

Good

This book was fun to read and is now proudly part of my growing collection of star trek books.

Good Classic Trek

I thoroughly enjoyed this book. This is the point in the Star Trek series where the books start getting better. Some older ones by Lee Correy and Marshak and Culbreath were terrible.