STAR TREK: PROBE by Margaret Wander Bonanno - ★★★

When I read Star Trek probe, the so called sequel to Star Trek four, as an afterthought, it lived in my mind for I don't know, 20 or 30 years. unread. unloved. As I was reading it, I did seem to recall, perhaps reading a Wikipedia entry, or a series of quotes from the book. And I believe the Wikipedia entry had a similar review to what I would say, a bunch of Romulan nonsense that I was not interested in and very little interaction with the probe and the probe creators themselves, which I was interested. I believe I read perhaps all the all the sections with the probe previously, in a summary document or wiki irregardless, I enjoyed getting the details about the not super whales, but perhaps super dolphins who created the probe that threatened the earth in the wonderfully humorous Star Trek for the voyage home. The probe interestingly enough, like Star Trek, The Motion Picture, Star Trek four, perhaps has a hint of the borg in there. Of course we all recall that in Star Trek one the Voyager or Voyager probe was enhanced by a mechanical species into a gigantic V juror cloud then threatened the Earth. Similarly, in probe, we learned that the probe was attacked by a small group of mechanical mites. It describes humans and other small things as mites, but it differentiated at these mechanical bites. It is presumed from this attack that the Borg locate the whole world of the super dolphins. The Super dolphins then drain all of the water from their world, taking the energy and the other dolphins to unknown worlds, leaving behind a confusing star map, mainly consisting of stars that had exploded, proving that the super dolphins knew which stars were going to explode. Or perhaps we're causing those stars to explode, perhaps leaving a trap for the Board, who it seems damage the probe to a great deal especially damaging its memory ball, the crystal ball that is exposed in the film and destroying the homeworld of the super dolphins, as Spock is able to mind meld with the probe, solving the problem and getting it back to exploring, teaching it that its voice can also damage might in their spacefaring ships and destroy planets, as we saw in Star Trek four with the oceans of the Earth, being ionized, as the probe used its voice to search for the whales, which speak the same language or a binary version of the language as the Super dolphins. So all in all, not a bad read a quick read a bunch of Romulan nonsense I don't bother telling you about but it was interesting that they attempted to use musicians, human and Romulan musicians to understand the call of the probe. All in all, I guess it was good that I read it to go back in time to a time when I was in high school and I devoured Star Trek novels by the week, maybe even by the day. This was another quick read. I wish it had been more about the probe or about the Super dolphins, less about the Romulans and their typical Romulan nonsense

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