Memory Prime Star Trek #42

by Garfield Reeves-Stevens and Judith Reeves-Stevens

Book Overview

Memory Prime It is the central core of an immense computer library -- an elite network of research planetoids. Here, the Pathfinders -- the only artificial intelligences legally permitted to serve the... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0671658131
• ISBN13: 9780671658137
• Release Date: October 1988
• Publisher: Pocket Books
• Length: 309 Pages
• Weight: 0.36 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Suspensilicious

A nice, slow burn with genuine surprises, strong original characters, non-contrived humor and some romantic angst for Scotty that is not over-the-top. The technobabble makes me feel dumber than the characters instead of smarter, which is nice. This is for readers who like suspense and attention to detail, not nonstop explosions.

Above average Star Trek:

Four stars is a little high for this book, but three would definitely have been too low. The plot is interesting, if somewhat implausible; the characters are reasonably well-handled (except for Commodore Wolfe, whose handling was not particularly consistent), the writing was generally good if not spectacular. Perhaps my biggest objection is in an anachronism within the Star Trek universe: if the Federation had had to deal with the question of self-aware AIs as early as this, certainly the Next Generation episode "The Measure of the Man" would never have happened; Data would automatically have been accepted as more than a machine, without the need for a trial. Of course, this book came out at about the same time as that episode, probably a bit earlier, so one can hardly blame the authors for that fact; still, "Next Gen" was already a year into its run when this book was published, and clearly ALL of the questions raised by Data's existence (to say nothing of Voyager's EMH, who WASN'T part of the canon yet, but who even more poorly fits into a timeline in which this book is placed) would have long since been answered were this book to be considered canonical. So clearly, it must be considered one of the many Star Trek novels to exist in some nearly-parallel universe, rather than the "real" Trek universe.

ATTENTION: SPOCK LOVERS!!!

WOW! This is THE BEST book I have EVER read (and I read 8 books a day on average)! It deals a lot with the bond between Kirk and Spock. LOTS of adventure!

Totaly Awasome!

I love Memory Prime actually I'm never dissipointed with any of there work. I think it's wonderful because I'm a fan of Scott and it was great to see him be reunited with Mira Romaine and some of the things that happen in the book are amazing just the thought of some of them. There also is some down parts like a bunch of parts detacated to pure tecnobabble and those parts were boring but besides that I loved this book so much!!!!!!

Imaginative concept.

"Memory Prime" is one of those unusual Star Trek novels with a truly fresh concept--self-aware computers with their own agendas. The book is not without its flaws--Commodore Morgan's views towards the Enterprise and her crew are harsh and unrealistic--but on the whole this is a novel concept, well executed and believable.