The Unsettling Stars, Alan Dean Foster
The Unsettling Stars, Alan Dean Foster
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The Unsettling Stars

Author: Alan Dean Foster

Series: Star Trek

Narrator: Robert Petkoff

Unabridged: 8 hr 5 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 04/14/2020

Synopsis

An original novel based on the thrilling Star Trek movies directed by J.J. Abrams!

Taking place in an alternate timeline created when the Starship Kelvin was destroyed by a Romulan invader from the future, this bold new novel follows Captain James T. Kirk and an inexperienced crew commandeering a repaired U.S.S. Enterprise out of spacedock for a simple shakedown cruise. When a distress call comes in, the Enterprise must aid a large colony ship of alien refugees known as the Perenorean, who are under siege by an unknown enemy. But Kirk and his crew will find that the situation with the peaceful Perenorean is far more complicated than they bargained for, and the answers as to why they were attacked in the first place unfold in the most insidious of ways…

About Alan Dean Foster

Alan Dean Foster’s work to date includes excursions into hard science fiction, fantasy, horror, detective, western, historical, and contemporary fiction. He has also written numerous nonfiction articles on film, science, and scuba diving and produced the novel versions of many films, including such well-known productions as Star Wars, the first three Alien films, Alien Nation, and The Chronicles of Riddick. Other works include scripts for talking records, radio, computer games, and the story for the first Star Trek movie. His novel Shadowkeep was the first ever book adaptation of an original computer game. In addition to publication in English his work has been translated into more than fifty languages and has won awards in Spain and Russia. His novel Cyber Way won the Southwest Book Award for Fiction in 1990, the first work of science fiction ever to do so.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Argent on September 13, 2024

Title: The Unsettling Stars (Star Trek: Kelvin / Movie Universe Author: Alan Dean Foster Genre: Science Fiction, Space Opera Publication year: 2020 Review: I don't love J. J. Abrams' Kelvin Universe. He bastardized a lot of the things fans of "The Original Series (TOS)" enjoyed about the old TV Show enj......more

Goodreads review by Bill on October 31, 2022

A well written but, fairly by the numbers Trek story. When responding to a distress call Kirk and the Enterprise crew find an unknown race of refugees under attack by another race of previously unknown aliens. After rescuing the refugees they are warned by the former aggressors that they have in fac......more

Goodreads review by Daniel on May 12, 2020

I was looking forward to this for two reasons: kelvin timeline and Alan Dean Foster. I will say it started out strong. However, it quickly faded into the typical mediocre Trek novel. The alternate timeline really played no integral part in this novel. It could have been any of the Star Trek series.......more

Goodreads review by Daniel on May 04, 2020

I don't give praise easily to the Abrams-universe/Kelvin timeline...in fact, only "Star Trek Beyond" manages to use it to capture the essence of Star Trek properly. That said, I can't fault this novel at all. Delayed 10 years, Alan Dean Foster is a master science fiction author who manages the enorm......more

Goodreads review by Jonathan on May 10, 2023

What a fascinating book! I've enjoyed reading the Star Trek novels recently, and I really liked the actors and characters of the Kelvin Timeline, despite not loving the movies themselves. I thought that this timeline is ripe for exploration in character and story, as it provides an opportunity to pr......more

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