A review by gingerreader99
Star Trek: The Original Series: Inception by S.D. Perry, Britta Dennison

3.0

There's Good, Less good/sad and the interesting in this story. Kirk is good why wouldn't he be? Seeing a young Commander Kirk making a name for himself was enjoyable and as fun as I expected it to be. Then there's the battle of the leftist progressives! Carol Marcus and her team that wants to eradicate hunger in the UFP and Kent + Redpeace and the radical Whole Earth! Environmental leftists who want to preserve nature. This is exactly what I'd expect from the UFP not necessarily the "left eating itself" but debates and ideological entanglements coming from a progressive and Noble position, as opposed to the economic neoliberalism and conservatism that constrain and hinder us today. But god is this book also depressing, you just know the end result of the relationships portrayed, both Leila + Spock, Kirk and Carol, it all HAS to end in a bad or sad way and while the author does an excellent job conveying these emotions I just found it more depressing than the hopeful tone that Trek typically embodies.