Foundations, Part 2 (Star Trek: S.C.E., #18)
Format: kindle
ASIN: B003YCOQHE
Publish date: July 15th 2002
Publisher: Pocket Books
Pages no: 88
Edition language: English
Series: Star Trek SCE (ebooks) 9 (#17)
This is definitely the best part of the Foundations-trilogy which sheds light why the SCE-teams also contain cultural specialists, linguists etc. Scotty again remininsces about a past mission where the SCE-team was confronted with a sudden first contact situation which easily could have gone wrong...
It took me about a year to finally finish this story - it's not a bad story, as it deals again with the crew of the Lovell and depicts the aftermath of the shut-down of the computer Landru, framed by a similar situation faced by the da Vinci's crew... but honestly, I found the prose difficult to con...
This is the opening part of a trilogy where Duffy finds inspiration for an engineering problem in the log entries dating a century back when Scotty first worked with the Corps of Engineers on the USS Lovell (see Vanguard). And actually, the glimpse back to the crew of the Lovell was the highlight ...