The new exciting star trek novel!

The road to hell is paved with good intentions..., 18. Juni 2009

A review by Stefan Seitz

...would also be a fitting title for this exceptionally well written new Star Trek TOS novel. The most interesting and superb point in my opinion, is that Dave Galanter has created here a scenario of a conflict without a bad or an evil party. He merely describes it from both sides and how a humanitarian and seemingly harmless act, namely the rescue of the life of a "Troublesome Mind" left to die by his own people, causes enormous repercussions which lead Captain James T. Kirk to afore unthinkable actions and how he with the best intentions in mind spirals himself and his ship more and more towards hell. Spock as one of the main-characters and his relationship with the Troublesome Mind is extremely well portrait and emotionally and empathically written. This story touches the reader and I'd tears in my eyes more once while reading it. But also all the other characters are well-written and one-hundred-percent as we know them from the show and the movies. Also exceptionally well written are the species of the Isitri which because of their telepathic evolution never developed the ability to hear and speech, which makes the interactions with them extremely interesting and difficult from the beginning of the outstanding story. (I personally know deaf-mute people and like the good and empathic inside-knowlegde of the topic the author shows with his book). Troublesome Minds is a real page-turner and one of the best Star Trek stories that came along for a long time. This is the true spirit, how Gene Roddenberry would have liked it. Thank you Dave Galanter for this superb story!