Star Trek: SNW — The High Country
{4.5/5} “Pike did his best to respond to Cyrus like an out-of-towner and not an offworlder, but he couldn’t help but be fascinated by this long-lost twin culture, separated at birth and by four hundred very different years. The town’s infrastructure was the work of volunteers using donated goods. Want, when it existed, lasted only as long as it took for word to get around — at which point neighborhood charity would kick in, drawing upon the surpluses from a bountiful world.”
Star Trek: Strange New Worlds — The High Country by John Jackson Miller, published in 2023
Captain Christopher Pike takes his new shuttlecraft Eratosthenes to investigate the disappearance of a scientific expedition on a pre-warp planet. When systems go down on the shuttlecraft Pike calls the Enterprise to come get them. But the same thing happens to the Enterprise. When the Enterprise gets close enough to the shuttlecraft, Hemmer attempts to beam Pike and his team to the ship but they get beamed to the backup location instead — the planet. The team all wake up in separate locations.
It’s about trying to escape a place where no one escapes.
It’s very different from most Star Trek books as the characters are living for weeks without the technology they’re used to.
In addition to Pike, it features Una, Uhura, Spock, and Hemmer.
It’s partially a sequel to the Enterprise episode “North Star” and the Discovery episode “New Eden.”
This is the 7th book I’ve read by Miller. I previously reviewed Star Trek: Discovery — The Enterprise War.