She also fights for justice, never call anyone a derogatory name around her! Evan dives right in and is great with the aliens, taking over the landing party and, of course, being perfect with First Contact, making friends with the aliens. At first the Captain doesn't like her, but that only lasts two chapters before she's his bossom buddy (we had to have some adversity, but she overcame it!). She's a doctor who can sword fight, who's one of the guys with an easy friendship with McCoy and Scottie. And she is perfect and can do everything great! We see Uhura and Spock working out the mystery of the alien species origins.īut then, Uhura takes second seat and Dr Wilson, who I had assumed was a minor character meant to be a throw away love interest for the Captain, takes center stage for the rest of the novel. Evan Wilson (female) was created for this story.Īt first, I assumed this novel would revolve heavily around Uhura- her name is in the title! Exciting! And for the first few chapters, it does. My other complaint was that this novel is very 'Mary Sue Wish Fulfillment' if you are familiar with that trope. The book went on for so long the suspense kind of tired out and pure curiosity had to keep me goiong. This was actually the reason that I kept reading- to solve the mystery of both the disease's cure and why the alien culture had split in two 2000 years ago.

I also enjoyed the dilema that prompts this 'episode' of the starship Enterprise (ADF Synddrome) and the alien cat-like race that Kagan created. I think she really nailed Spock and McCoy. McCoy, Spock, and Checov's voices in my head as a I read, and it made me smile every time.

Reading characters you know so well from the TV Series was a lot fun, I could hear Dr. I had never read any Star Trek extended universe novels, so I figured it would be fun.Īnd it was.

One of the authors, I can't remember who now, mentioned this book in response to a question about enjoyable debut novels for authors they loved now. I picked this book up after I watched a round table discussion of Urban Fantasy writers that included Jim Butcher.

Uhura's Song by Janet Kagan