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Crisis on Centaurus

de Brad Ferguson

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Sèrie: Star Trek (novels) (1986.03), Star Trek (1986.03), Star Trek: The Original Series (28)

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Massive computer malfunctions are plaguing the "Enterprise™ " when Kirk suddenly receives a shocking message from Star Fleet Command: "Centaurus has been bombed and annihilated; thousands are dead. Give whatever help you can." Centaurus is a beautiful, peaceful planet, home to many humans -- including McCoy's daughter Joanna. The crew risks beaming down to investigate. But Kirk is thrown into a deadly struggle between violent enemy terrorists and vengeful Centaurians. Now Lt. Uhura, left alone in command, must jeopardize the cripple "Enterprise™ " to save Centaurus, Kirk -- and Joanna McCoy!… (més)
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A very present day feeling story, with Kirk owning land that he save up for, references to companies like American Express, and a big stinking nuclear plot. Still, propulsive writing (and the fun situations people find themselves in) carries it through.
  everystartrek | Jan 5, 2023 |
The Star Trek franchise is filled with thrilling tales of Starfleet crews exploring strange new worlds, battling hostile alien species, and even resolving personal conflicts. What you don't see too many stories of, though, are ones about the politics of humanity in their far-off future. Sure there are some (the "Terra Prime" storyline from the Star Trek: Enterprise series comes to mind), but they stand out for their rarity and for understandable reasons. After all, just how appealing is a novel about politics in a world of starships and aliens?

Brad Ferguson's novel demonstrates the falsity of such assumptions. On the Earth colony of Centarus, a political extremist detonates a device that wipes out an entire city. Though plagued with a series of computer problems, the Enterprise is dispatched by Starfleet to provide assistance. They arrive to find a planet coping with an unprecedented crisis, with hundreds of thousands dead and the technological infrastructure upon which Federation citizens had come to rely wiped out, forcing the Enterprise crew to overcome a variety of technological problems as they attempt to aid the population, all while dealing with planetary leaders with a slightly different agenda.

Like so many stories from the first quarter-century of the franchise, Ferguson's novel incorporates elements of the Cold War into it, serving as both commentary and cautionary tale. Yet the novel's great strengths are in its plot and Ferguson's portrayal of a starship crew rising to the challenge by addressing the problems before it. In that respect it invokes the idealism of the franchise by showing humanity at its best while also criticizing those elements which fly in the face of the values at the heart of Gene Roddenberry's creation. It is these elements which make Ferguson's novel one of the best produced in the Pocket Books series, as well as demonstrating the rich possibilities that exist in developing other, less-frequently explored aspects of the Star Trek universe. ( )
  MacDad | Mar 27, 2020 |
A reasonably good Star Trek adventure in which the near-crippled Enterprise goes to Centaurus to help with a struggle against terrorists, and McCoy is reunited with his daughter Joanna. Of interest mainly for this relationship and what it reveals of McCoy, and the revelation of Kirk's wilderness landstake on this planet, Garrovick Valley. ( )
  burnit99 | Jan 15, 2007 |
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As befit the capital of an old, successful colony planet, New Athens had built for itself the biggest (and, local boosters said, the best) speceport on Centaurus-- or anywhere else in the Federation.
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Massive computer malfunctions are plaguing the "Enterprise™ " when Kirk suddenly receives a shocking message from Star Fleet Command: "Centaurus has been bombed and annihilated; thousands are dead. Give whatever help you can." Centaurus is a beautiful, peaceful planet, home to many humans -- including McCoy's daughter Joanna. The crew risks beaming down to investigate. But Kirk is thrown into a deadly struggle between violent enemy terrorists and vengeful Centaurians. Now Lt. Uhura, left alone in command, must jeopardize the cripple "Enterprise™ " to save Centaurus, Kirk -- and Joanna McCoy!

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