{5\/5} “For every civilization which was more advanced than those making up the Federation, there were a hundred which were less so. And every one of those less-advanced worlds would, in time, have been overwhelmed by the Federation’s superior technological culture and well-intentioned aid and enlightenment — unless drastic measures were taken.”<\/p>\n
Star Trek: Prime Directive<\/strong> by Judith and Garfield Reeves-Stevens, published in 1990<\/p>\n Captain Kirk and his officers have been drummed out of Starfleet. A horrible disaster happened at Talin IV and they were deemed at fault — they broke the Prime Directive. Kirk has a different opinion and he won’t be satisfied until he can return to Talin IV and clear his name.<\/p>\n This is a masterpiece, with a fabulous depiction of the characters. A reunion scene is glorious, as is a first contact.<\/p>\n It’s an unusual entry in the series in that the characters are apart for much of the book but, as Kirk says to himself at one point — even when they’re apart they’re a team.<\/p>\n It’s an argument about the importance of the Prime Directive. It’s about determination, and learning about beings different from you.<\/p>\n This is the 2nd time I’ve read it.<\/p>\n I’ve read 3 Star Trek<\/strong> novels by the Reeves-Stevenses plus 6 novels they co-wrote with William Shatner. They also wrote 4 nonfiction books about Star Trek<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" {5\/5} “For every civilization which was more advanced than those making up the Federation, there were a hundred which were less so. And every one of those less-advanced worlds would, in time, have been overwhelmed by the Federation’s superior technological culture and well-intentioned aid and enlightenment — unless drastic measures were taken.” Star Trek: Prime […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[7,28,5,8,59],"class_list":["post-12242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","tag-book","tag-novels","tag-review","tag-science-fiction","tag-star-trek"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12242","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12242"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12242\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12245,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12242\/revisions\/12245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}