I don’t care if the story in this book ends up sucking. This is probably one of the best covers to come out of the Star Trek novel department… mainly because it’s in wondrous color, hearkens back to the days of colorful Trek novels, and looks somewhat, remotely vibrant and full of life.
We need more novels with this kind of cover artwork, not the drab monotone covers besieging the so-called expanded universe novels of TNGDS9VOY or whatever.
(2024 Update: Yeah, so… breaking the kayfabe on this thing over a decade later, the “art” used are stock renders of the various TOS characters that would be used for various press bits. Knowing that piece of business, this cover comes across as less than stellar. Within the context of everything else, however, in a sea of Trek novel covers that were nothing but CG images and seldom an actual character on the cover, this was brilliance. Fortunately, Trek novels would get some nicer looking covers over time.)
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