Worst Trek book?

[hbquikcomjamesl]

I haven't read all Trek books but my guess is Second Self by Una MacCormack.

Odd: it got one of my vanishingly rare "Outstanding" votes.

I explicitly recused myself from weighing in on one of McCormack's other works, Last Best Hope, but I also made it very clear that it was not because I considered it poorly written, or otherwise objectively bad, but simply because I intensely dislike unmitigated tragedies in which disaster is absolutely unavoidable. That she did an exceptionally good job with the unenviable task she'd been handed doesn't change the fact that upon finishing it, I wished I could un-read it.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

Windows on a Lost World was probably the worst one I have read. I had a hard time finsihing it.

Isn't that the one where they all turn into crabs?

 

[Reanok]

Yes it is it was the one with the crabs.

 

[David cgc]

Crabitalism! Humans go in, crabs become more powerful!

 

[DGCatAniSiri]

Crabitalism! Humans go in, crabs become more powerful!

Star Trek is not immune to the effects of carcinization. All will eventually be crabs.

...you know, actually, Threshold might have made more sense if Paris and Janeway had become crabs instead of salamanders...

 

[I am not Herbert]

Isn't that the one where they all turn into crabs?

"Windows on a Lost World" should not be on anyone's shortlist (or longlist, for that matter) of worst ST book. The portions in which crewmembers share consciousness with the crab-like creatures (not actual crabs, FWIW) are quite plausible-seeming, for what is, conceptually, an implausible and slightly ridiculous idea. I'd much rather read a ST book that takes a conceptual chance than another Klingon/Romulan/Borg dust-up.

 

[Tosk]

"Windows on a Lost World" should not be on anyone's shortlist (or longlist, for that matter) of worst ST book.

Unless that person happens to have an opinion different to yours. However unlikely that may be.

 

[Therin of Andor]

"Windows on a Lost World" should not be on anyone's shortlist (or longlist, for that matter) of worst ST book.

I thought it was refreshingly different.