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djwudi's review
3.0
Something of a historical curiosity now, these “biographies” of the principal characters have since been nearly or entirely overwritten by later films or more official pseudo-canon works. Still, it’s a fun artifact of this point in Trek’s real-world history, and as the first published material giving Uhura’s first name of “Nyota”.
reeshadovahsil's review against another edition
2.0
Ugh. Embarrassing and disappointing at the same time. Riddled with errors and inconsistencies.
The cruelest cut comes at the end: The entire Uhura "biography" is her fawning over a random handsome man, in classic man-failing-miserably-to-write-a-woman-with-a-personality fashion. Truly pathetic.
The only remotely clever thing about this book is the Bibliography in the back that refers the reader to a host of Starfleet historical documents and articles meant to be the "sources" of the biographies. I was amused by that at least.
Avoid unless you're a cursed completionist like me.
The cruelest cut comes at the end: The entire Uhura "biography" is her fawning over a random handsome man, in classic man-failing-miserably-to-write-a-woman-with-a-personality fashion. Truly pathetic.
The only remotely clever thing about this book is the Bibliography in the back that refers the reader to a host of Starfleet historical documents and articles meant to be the "sources" of the biographies. I was amused by that at least.
Avoid unless you're a cursed completionist like me.
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