Spoilers Hidden Universe Travel Guide: Star Trek: Vulcan by Dayton Ward Review Thread

Well, noteworthy if Treklit takes that reference in; keep in mind this book isn't meant to be explicitly consistent with anything but the on-screen media, it just takes references from a broad spectrum.

 

^ What Idran said.

 

Dayton, your link to VLI does not work on mobile Chrome. I did not check other browsers.

 

Well, in a way, he already has. He kept the Bajor bar open after he moved to the new DS9. Opening a third bar hardly seems like more trouble than a second.

 

I've been asked to deliver this comment from the local Vulcan Consulate:

 

Huh. It's weird that they asked you to deliver it to a small historical fiction forum. Vulcans are strange like that, I guess.

 

Especially since they don't believe in time travel... I guess that believe got blown out of the window along with the anti-finger-foodiness.

 

I love it. Give me MOAR!!!!

 

If a Vulcan touches finger food it usually explodes. Spock could only touch it because he focused all of his humanity in his hand.

 

Except that's a still from the scene in "All Our Yesterdays" where Spock gives in and eats meat, which is evidence that he's starting to abandon modern Vulcan behavioral norms and give into his primitive drives. So it doesn't work as a counterargument.

 

I dunno, I think Jinn's argument makes more sense.

 

I'm working my way through this book, and it looks great so far.

The only thing I might have liked to see in it would be a marked planetary map, indicating where each of the highlighted regions in the book are relative to one another.

One slightly odd thing I noticed, though:

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One of the banners shown in the art on page 36 seems to be the emblem of the Mirror Universe's Klingon-Cardassian Alliance. While other entries seem to open the door to trans-dimensional shenanigans, it would seem a tad unfortunate to fly a banner of a union which, in another timeline, conquered and despoiled Vulcan itself.

(But then, there are both Romulan and Dominion banners displayed nearby, and each of those realms would have done the same had they been given the chance to in the Prime timeline, so...)

 

Very fun read. I loved reading about the Vulcan tourist traps which I didn't expect but they all made sense. The worlds largest plomeek? Yeah I'd go see that.

 

I just about died laughing at the Mel Brooks reference on page 73. Well-played, sir.

 

I finished reading this earlier this week, and I really enjoyed it. It really made me wish Vulcan was a real place that I could actually visit.
While the travel information was fun, for me the highlight was the world building, with the little bits of history and culture that were spread throughout the book.

 

I'm so looking forward to digging into this book, as I am the Klingon Empire version.

I do wish CBS would greenlight one on Earth.