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Title: Triumph of commerce over art
Review: This whole book is essentially an epilogue to the TOS episode "That Which Survives." So if you've always wanted to see what happens immediately after the events of that episode, then this is the book for you. But if not, then you might want to skip it.The characterization is OK, and obviously Wright has been watching her TOS videos. In fact, that's part of the problem for me. This book is a by-the-numbers pastiche. The characters all say and do what they would in a TV episode, but who cares? There's no real story. It's all a matter of tying up loose ends from the TV episode and creating some new loose ends for the other 6 books in this Gateway series. This book owes its existence to a marketing strategy, not to artistic inspiration. It exists only to fill the TOS slot in the Gateway series.And be warned: this book ends in a cliffhanger that you have to buy the hardcover book to resolve.
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