Yeah, that’s right, muthafuckas! 500+ pages of painstaking details explaining how a young Indian boy (born just a few years before I) could wind up sending the world into genetically enhanced chaos. The title is a little misleading, inasmuch as the “wars” spoken of don’t actually happen in this novel. Instead, though, we learn of the rogue non-governmental Chrysalis Project that begat Khan and his people. And we learn about it through Kirk’s eyes as he reads the Library Computer en route and on Sycorax, a small colony of non-UFP Terrans who want in with the Federation – the only problem is that they are genetically enhanced, violating the law.
The files in question are the reports of one Roberta Lincoln and one Gary Seven. How awesome is that?
This romp through recent history (Bhopal, Reijkavik) is vastly entertaining, even if it dips its toes into the facile. With Lincoln as the oftentimes narrator, author Greg Cox does himself a disservice by a) going out of his way to make cultural references and b) punning. There shall be no puns in Trek, even Neelix knows this.
Still, a fun as all shit read and I can’t wait for the remainder of the trilogy.
