Star Trek: The Original Series: Vulcan's Forge
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3.8 • 11 Ratings
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Publisher Description
Just over a year ago, Captain James T. Kirk was lost to the Nexus while saving the U.S.S. Enterprise 1701-B from destruction. Aboard the science ship Intrepid II, Captain Spock, commanding some of his old crewmates, must face the loss of his closest friend. But while still in mourning for one friend, he must come to the aid of another. Decades ago, Spock had teamed up with David Rabin, the young son of a Starfleet Captain, to fight an attempted coup on Vulcan that would have turned the planet's people away from the path of logic. Now a Starfleet officer, Captain David Rabin has been assigned to a harsh desert world much like Vulcan, where the Federation is determined to protect the lives of the inhabitants. But Rabin's efforts are being sabotaged and he has asked for Spock's help against the unknown forces that may well destroy the society he had come to save. While reflecting on his youthful adventure with David Rabin, Spock joins with Rabin to face and enemy out of their past and confront deadly Romulan treachery. In the process Spock will decide if the path of his life now leads back toward the family traditions he had once sought to escape.
Customer Reviews
It’s zionist propaganda :(
This book attempts to justify the violent occupation of Palestine by using extended metaphor, white saviorism, islamophobia, and outright lies. It and targets american Jewish children with a narrative that heavily implies that not only is this violence justified, but that they must take up arms themselves for the settler colonial project… regardless of critiques of the apartheid state from their family members. It depicts Palestinians (the nomads/the faithful) as hapless, ignorant, suffering noble savages that need a more technologically-advanced people to come and save them from themselves and their oppressive culture and more powerful Muslim countries. The main villain of this story (Sered) is a ‘self-hating’ Vulcan who brings a phaser gun to a Vulcan bar mitzvah and holds everyone hostage due to his ‘impotent rage and madness’.
It breaks my heart to listen to Leonard Nimoy advocate for an unjust war and the violence of settler-colonialism. He is somebody I deeply respect and treasure (may his memory be a blessing!)
Anyone with critical thinking skills can see the odious narrative that’s being woven in this book. This kind of oppressive, bigoted story has no place in the future imagined by Star Trek!
Live Long and Prosper and Free Palestine!