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A pivotal time in the career of John Grimes. A fateful journey in the vessel Discovery, bearing an uncanny kinship to the legendary vessel the Bounty. The big black mark on his service record.

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1 author picked The Big Black Mark as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

The story was sci-fi. It had a very similar feel to the original Star Trek series. The characters seemed realistic, the situations they found themselves in were interesting and captivating. It's part of a series, although it didn't have a name, but featured the same lead character, John Grimes. The plot was quite clever in how the Captain changes a crew of misfits on the verge of being mutineers into a well-organized, efficient crew.

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