Star Trek: Ex Machina
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4.0 • 29 Ratings
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Publisher Description
In the aftermath of the astonishing events of Star Trek®: The Motion Picture, the captain and officers of the U.S.S. Enterprise remain haunted by their encounter with the vast artificial intelligence of V'Ger...and by the sacrifice and ascension of their friend and shipmate, Willard Decker
As James T. Kirk, Spock, and Leonard McCoy attempt to cope with the personal fallout of that ordeal, a chapter from their mutual past is reopened, raising troubling new questions about the relationship among God, Man, and AI. On the recently settled world of Daran IV, the former refugees of the Fabrini worldship Yonada are being divided by conflicting ideologies, as those clinging to their theocratic past vie with visionaries of a future governed by reason alone.
Now, echoes of the V'Ger encounter reverberate among the Enterprise officers who years ago overthrew the Oracle, the machine-god that controlled Yonada. Confronting the consequences of those actions, Kirk, Spock, and McCoy also face choices that will decide the fate of a civilization, and which may change them forever.
Customer Reviews
Nice follow up
It’s a little slow at first, but then it grabs you to the point where you can’t put it down.
A great TOS story!
Kirk, Spock, and McCoy return for another adventure, and continue to develop as people. A great story that continues a story arc started by one of the original episodes. I couldn’t put it down! Great book!
A sure cure for insomnia
To me, it was an agonizing crawl.
I have read over 50 Star Trek novels, this book, however, was very hard to follow. References to many other Star Trek books that he would have to recap to show the relevance and attempting to skim through many alien species, but never giving us a full insight to them.
It bounce back-and-forth and seem to be told by 30 different characters.
It was not interesting until the last 100 pages and then only mildly so.
Night after night, I would pick the book up and find myself so bored after 10 pages that it just put me to sleep.
I have no desire or the skill to be a writer, so I can’t tell you how hard it was for the author to write this, it’s just my opinion.
Before reading this I had finished reading two of Orson Scott Cards Quintents I found them fascinating.
I’ve read 80% of Steven Kings works and I can’t tell you how many times I would take a book to bed only to have my alarm go off and realize I had read the entire night through.