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Title: Beating a dead horse, but doing it well.
Review: Frankly, I would have been glad to see the whole "Genesis Device" concept die with "Star Trek III: The Search For Spock". The first two books in this series did a fair job of telling an interesting story resurrecting the concept, but the concept itself was already a moldering corpse even then. Book three had unquestionably passed the saturation point, and only a very well-told story with some very interesting characters saved this book from being a total waste of time and space; if the concept hadn't already been thoroughly played out, it would have been worth four stars, almost five. As it is, it ALMOST persuaded me to give it a third star, but I'm afraid that doing so might encourage the author to keep more "Genesis" stories coming. Please, please, please, let this concept die; it was ready to be put down twenty years ago.
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