The IDIC Epidemic - Books Babb.no

278 pages

English language

Published Nov. 11, 1988 by Pocket Books.

ISBN:: 978-0-671-70768-2

(1 review)

IDIC - Infinite Diversity in Infinite Combinations. More than just a simple credo, for those of the planet Vulcan it is the cornerstone of their philosophy. Now, on the Vulcan Science Colony Nisus, that credo of tolerance is being put to its sternest test. For here, on a planet where Vulcan, Human, Klingon, and countless other races live and work side by side, a deadly plague has sprung up. A plague whose origins are somehow rooted in the concept of IDIC itself. A plague that threatens to tear down that centuries-old maxim and replace it with an even older concept: Interstellar war.

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Elena. reviewed The IDIC Epidemic by Jean Lorrah (Star trek -- #38)

Love in times of an epidemic

2 stars

I guess these early novels that spend a lot of time exploring Vulcan bonding and mating and mind melding are just not my thing. I respect them a lot however. These early writes, many of them women, were pioneers and absolutely essential for shaping our fandom.

The actual epidemic this book is about reminded me of our own Covid-19 epidemic and it was interesting to see how it has the potential to sow dispute and distrust, though I would have liked that part to be a bigger focus. Unfortunately that was not the case. A lot of the story was about people falling in love in the midst of it all. There was also a natural disaster and some berserk Vulcans (holdovers from the earlier book "The Vulcan Academy Murders"), that have no problem whatsoever to circumvent the Enterprise's security. Nothing was really explored in the detail I wished it …

I guess these early novels that spend a lot of time exploring Vulcan bonding and mating and mind melding are just not my thing. I respect them a lot however. These early writes, many of them women, were pioneers and absolutely essential for shaping our fandom.

The actual epidemic this book is about reminded me of our own Covid-19 epidemic and it was interesting to see how it has the potential to sow dispute and distrust, though I would have liked that part to be a bigger focus. Unfortunately that was not the case. A lot of the story was about people falling in love in the midst of it all. There was also a natural disaster and some berserk Vulcans (holdovers from the earlier book "The Vulcan Academy Murders"), that have no problem whatsoever to circumvent the Enterprise's security. Nothing was really explored in the detail I wished it were, and a lot did not quite click for me.

However, there is a scene between Spock and Sarek about Spock's mixed heritage that I found really good. The Klingon forhead ridge thing is also mentioned, pretty much in passing, and I wonder if the Enterprise writers had read this book before they wrote their story.

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