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The
planet Aneher II sits in the middle of the Neutral Zone, and
neither the Klingon Empire nor the Federation can claim it.
Under the terms of the Organian Peace Treaty, any such contested
colony would will go to the party - Federation or Klingon
- which shows it can best develop the planet...
The
Case of the Colonist's Corpse begins
with the two
colonies (Klingons and Federation) attempting to live together
without war breaking out. As you can probably imagine, this
peace doesn't last very long. In fact it ends rather abruptly
when the head of the Federation colony is found dead. And
as the head of the Klingon colony is found crouched over the
body, a discharged phaser still hot in his hand, it would
seems to be an open and shut case.
Step
forward Sam Cogley, who previously represented Captain James
T Kirk as he faced the threat of court-martial, and now volunteers
to defend the accused Klingon. But when Cogley's own investigation
provides the prosecution with its key piece of evidence and
his courtroom tactics unexpectedly backfire, can even the
galaxy's most brilliant defence attorney win the day? Er...
I think you know how this plays out.
It's
not that this is poorly written, or clichéd (though
it is clichéd). It's just that this is so not a Trek
book. It has Trek on the cover, Klingons and Federation
in the story and... well that's it really. They might as well
have rewritten any old courtroom drama and changed the characters
names to Trek related ones... Oh, hang on a second...
they have.
Having
said that, I did find this book fairly entertaining, I just
felt a little misled. Even die-hard Trek fans who will
buy anything that is even remotely Trek related, may
want to question the point in purchasing this.
Nick Smithson
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