Some nice, fun concepts with the Slavers and the Slaver boxes. It took a while for the story to get where it was going though, but a reasonably decent quick read. ( )

I don't remember this particular episode well enough to be sure of EVERY area where it's expanded, but this story is VASTLY expanded. It's actually almost bizarre how much.

Better than the admittedly low average for Star Trek Logs 7-10. ( )

Foster isn't much with character development in his Star Trek books, but he often does come up with an interesting premise (this one borrowed from Larry Niven). In this book the Enterprise discovers a relic from a long-dead civilization, a Slaver stasis box billions of years old, which in the past have been found to contain weapons and tools of immense power. Interesting for the technology involved. ( )