David Dvorkin's novel is one that hinges heavily on its premise of James Kirk being suddenly transported into a future in which a friendlier group of "New Klingons" have achieved the Organian-prophesied peace with the Federation. Unfortunately the story's twist is easily predictable, and too much of...
The premise of Timetrap by David Dvorkin is a slight of hand that the reader falls for from the experience of James Kirk, who himself falls for the Klingon deception. The Enterprise encounters a Klingon Bird-of-Prey in Federation territory near the Tholian space, Kirk beams over in an attempt to gra...
[These notes were made in 1984:]. Another of the ST novels which uses the Federation-Klingon-Romulan triangle as a metaphor for the current 3-power situation, with Trellisane and its neighbour, Sealon, as third-world countries. Dvorkin is clearly interested in the morality of colonization, or even ...
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