Star Trek: Strange New Worlds: The High Country
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Publisher Description
The first novel based on the thrilling Paramount+ TV series Star Trek: Strange New Worlds!
When an experimental shuttlecraft fails, Captain Christopher Pike suspects a mechanical malfunction—only to discover the very principles on which Starfleet bases its technology have simply stopped functioning. He and his crewmates are forced to abandon ship in a dangerous maneuver that scatters their party across the strangest new world they’ve ever encountered.
First Officer Una Chin-Riley finds herself fighting to survive an untamed wilderness where dangers lurk at every turn. Young cadet Nyota Uhura struggles in a volcanic wasteland where things are not as they seem. Science Officer Spock is missing altogether. And Pike gets the chance to fulfill a childhood dream: to live the life of a cowboy in a world where the tools of the twenty-third century are of no use.
Yet even in the saddle, Pike is still very much a starship captain, with all the responsibilities that entails. Setting out to find his crewmates, he encounters a surprising face from his past—and discovers that one people’s utopia might be someone else’s purgatory. He must lead an exodus—or risk a calamity of galactic proportions that even the Starship Enterprise is powerless to stop...
Customer Reviews
Did not enjoy
I want to preface this review by saying firstly I really like JJM as an author and he’s done some terrific work. This book references an episode of Enterprise which was easily one of my least favorites and is a trope of Trek that I’m beyond tired of (dumping a humanity of the future into our past) so it was a fair bet I wasn’t going to like this book and sure enough I didn’t. I thought it was really boring and dragged on WAY too long. It didn’t get going till about 3/4 of the way through and I’m almost DNF’d it. I didn’t feel like the characters were fleshed out well and it seemed like characters moved around this world with no explanation and unfortunately it was a very frustrating experience.