The Price of the Phoenix (Star Trek) (Mass Market Paperback)

~ (Author), Myrna Culbreath (Author)

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Product Description

Spock must play a dangerous game when an outside factor threatens the sovereignty of the Federation and the life of Captain James T. Kirk. Reissue.

Product Details

• Mass Market Paperback: 182 pages
• Publisher: Bantam Spectra; 7th printing edition (April 1, 1984)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0553246356
• ISBN-13: 978-0553246353
• Product Dimensions: 6.8 x 4.2 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3.2 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 2.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (13 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #1,199,628 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Spock must play a dangerous game to save his friend Jim., August 24, 1998

By A Customer

After the death of Captain James T. Kirk, Spock goes down to the planet of the, so he believes, murder of his friend. We re-encounter the romulan Commander of the original series. We see here a Spock out of control and can only start to understand the frienship between the Captain and his first officer. It's very dark but very captivating. You don't want to put it down until you at the end.

5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars that which makes love possible..., September 20, 1998

By A Customer

This is one of the very best of the Star Trek novels - (along with, say, Strangers from the Sky, or Best Destiny) full of action, full of tossed-off references that will delight longtime fans, full of rapid-fire dialogue, and best of all, totally LACKING the smothering homogeneity that seems de rigeur for all brands of Star Trek novels today (i.e. it was written pre-franchise, when writers didn't have to memorize and regurgitate a 400-page "bible" of do's and don't's). The villain of the piece, Omne, has developed a variation on the transporter that exactly duplicates its subjects, hence the title's allusion to the phoenix. The price comes from the book's best piece of dialogue, when Omne is defiantly told by our heroes (including the Romulan Commander from "The Enterprise Incident"): "We will not sell that which makes love possible" - that is, the uniqueness of the one who's loved. That's a bit profound a sentiment for a Star Trek novel, and this book's sequel, "The Fate of the Phoenix," is very nearly as good and twice as long...

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars This was like college hot dogs, grade D, barely edible, June 8, 2008

By	Andy Steinberg "Be careful what you wish for." (Amherst MA USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This would've done better as a totally original sci-fi novel, being put into an established universe like Star Trek's was a bad idea. Kirk, Spock and the other characters we know all act very out of character in this book. There is so much thick, sludgey, pedantic psychobabble in this story that it seems like the authors were trying to write a Dune or a Fellowship of the Ring, and failing miserably. If the characters had spent less time talking in circles like drunk philosophy students, maybe they would've had the time to plan and take more successful action against the antagonist Omne.