Star Trek - Crossover: McCoy harrasses the Enterprise crew to save Spock and Scotty from Romulans

Michael Jan Friedman writes a readable novel in Crossover, bringing the crew from Star Trek the Next Generation together with Bones as they set out to save Spock from the Romulans. In this adventure, Spock continues his mission to unify Romulans, unificationists seeking to follow the Vulcan way of logic, and takes his followers to a Romulan outpost to seek converts there. It is not long before they are betrayed and sentenced to certain death. However, Spock continues to teach the philosophies of Surak, (the teacher who turned Vulcans from war to logic thousands of years ago), with a surprising result.

Almost repeating events from Star Trek III, Scotty sets out to save Spock, using his knowledge of century old Star Fleet technology to steal a starship from Starbase 178 to help him in his quest. There is something special about the ship he steals but you'll have to read the book to find out. Captain Picard and Admiral McCoy are at odds almost immediately upon the doctor's arrival to the Enterprise and it comes to a head when McCoy becomes impatient with the Captain's diplomatic approach to resolving the crisis. Scotty seems eternally cheerful and talks his way out of being towed home by a Federation captain who happens to be a direct descendent of a former fellow officer on the Enterprise. Later, Scotty provides us with some hilarity when must feign insanity to delay his execution and interrogation by the Romulans, whose techniques are well known to be ruthless. It seems that he hijacks another vessel to escape as far as the Romulans are concerned.

Crossover is a satisfying light read if you're a Trek fan, and if you're missing the old crew, it's fun to see them in action again. This book will hold your attention merely because you just want to know: what's next?

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