A review by octavia_cade
The Prisoner of Vega by Sharon Lerner, Christopher Cerf

adventurous fast-paced

2.0

This was honestly pretty dreadful. A lot of it makes no sense whatsoever - the Klingons attack a colony and force the inhabitants to mine for them, and Kirk and company capture the leader and take him back to a star base for trial, while leaving the rest of the Klingons there, because clearly job done. There's a myriad of stupid things here, and it would be a one star read for me if one of those stupid things didn't start me cackling every time I saw it. The Klingons - who look exactly like humans, to the point that the Klingon leader doesn't recognise Spock as not-Klingon until he sees Spock's ears - are all in bathing suits. Oh, they're supposed to be uniforms, but they're cut so high it might as well be sci-fi Miss Universe at the mining colony. 

Every time I looked at them I pictured Worf in a similar costume, and the amusement value of that alone was worth an extra star.