A review by octavia_cade
Corona by Greg Bear

2.0

Parts of this interested me. I'm never not going to like stories about possession; I'm too much of a horror fan for that, and having the possessed kids at the centre of the narrative be Vulcan is a nice twist. And I enjoyed that the young reporter was from a small colony, had only ever seen humans before, and was genuinely a bit bigoted about alien species - clearly she was always going to Learn A Lesson about that, but it's an interesting take that doesn't come up often in this franchise. Shame it was the only interesting thing about her - I don't buy for one second that she was able to get through to Corona when none of the others could. And I really don't buy the very silly subplot about installing computers that can take over the Enterprise if they think Kirk is commanding it wrongly. Starfleet would never be so foolish as to test that bit of kit for the first time on what's essentially the fleet's flagship. That bit of idiot plot induced so much eye-rolling even Vulcan-child-possession couldn't save it.