Book description
A cave painting of a Vulcan convinces Spock to journey five thousand years into the past through a time portal on the planet Gateway to reclaim his son
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1 author picked Yesterday's Son as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
I love a great Spock story, especially when his struggle between logic and emotion is at the forefront. That struggle is externalized and emphasized in this book when he discovers he has an adult son who has not been raised as a Vulcan. The tension between father and son plays off Spock’s troubled relationship with his own father.
It came out just a year after Star Trek II, four years prior to The Next Generation, so I eagerly awaited each book for my Trek fix, especially when they played off an episode because it was often a challenge…
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