L. A. Graf

Enjoyable gap-filler which goes a long way to explaining the circumstances of the first movie. A solid entry into the LOST YEARS books.

This book is ACTION-PACKED. Totally nonstop crashes, fights, submarine dramas, "icequakes," murders, etc. Features some aliens who are kind of an inuit stereotype, but I don't know enough about it to know if it would be overtly offensive. Had some good McCoy characterization. All in all, middling, but at least—ACTION PACKED!

A lot of people seem to have disliked this one, but I actually liked it pretty well. Lots of Chekov, Sulu and Uhura. Not, like, a stand-out, but it was pretty fun.

While this novelization is straightforward, it made me feel a lot better about Tom Paris than the actual episode did. I guess I don't read into annoying young white men as positively and as much as I could - ha.