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A review by frakalot
The Tears of the Singers by Melinda M. Snodgrass
4.0
This is a pretty good story, an alien race (the Tageytians) is somehow linked to a destructive spatial rift and Kirk and cohort head over to make contact and see if they can mend the rift. The Klingons get involved led by a very familiar TOS era captain.
The aliens appear to communicate with a mathematical language through music and an "expert" is brought on board to assist.
The story occasionally has some good humour. The "love stuff" is classic TOS era laaaaame, but becomes a fairly important part of the story. And the Klingon stuff is actually great, some of the older stories have klingons painted semi-Romulan but this story doesn't.
"and there was a burst of agitated singing from Shing. It was a rapid fire of song and thought, far too fast for Spock to follow." This passage made me picture the Taygetians having a bonafide rap battle to debate their issues.
The Tears of the Singers is a good and fun old fashioned Star Trek adventure.
The aliens appear to communicate with a mathematical language through music and an "expert" is brought on board to assist.
The story occasionally has some good humour. The "love stuff" is classic TOS era laaaaame, but becomes a fairly important part of the story. And the Klingon stuff is actually great, some of the older stories have klingons painted semi-Romulan but this story doesn't.
"and there was a burst of agitated singing from Shing. It was a rapid fire of song and thought, far too fast for Spock to follow." This passage made me picture the Taygetians having a bonafide rap battle to debate their issues.
The Tears of the Singers is a good and fun old fashioned Star Trek adventure.