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There was a recent episode of Doctor Who where he, Martha and Donna ended up on an uninhabitable world with a group of humans battling a group of fish people (called the Hath) in an underground city.  The Doctor gets his hand stuck in a gene sampler and ends up with a daughter or something.  The really interesting part, for me, was that both sides of the subterranean conflict, both human and Hath, were fighting to possess a mythic weapon of unimaginable power.  The Doctor discovers that it is actually a device that terraforms planets, or takes dead planets and makes them habitable.  That sounds a lot like Project Genesis to me.

So my first thought is: how can we tie in the Star Trek universe with the Doctor Who universe so that there are Klingons searching here for the Genesis Device? Wouldn’t it be cool if Birds of Prey showed up above the planet, and we end up with middle-age Kirk joining up with Doctor Who to keep their quarry out of the wrong hands (all of them). I can just see Christopher Lloyd saying: “So, Doctor Who, you won’t give me the Genesis Device?” Zap! Jenny gets the Klingon disruptor and that’s it for her recurring character.  Kirk howls, “You killed my son!” The Doctor cries, “You killed my daughter!” Great stuff. Unfortunately, that’s about as far as my little fanboy brain-wanderings went. Neat idea though.

I’ve never been so aggravated with a book that I would seriously think about writing a nasty letter to the publisher, until now. I really liked Star Trek Enterprise, so I started reading the books after the show was cancelled. It’s ok because there’s only a few them, and I’m not going to start reading the ungodly amount of other Star Trek books out there. That being said, aside from the book that was just a rehash of a TV episode (”Enterprise: Shockwave“), this book really pisses me off.

This is actually a very long, yet informative, rant, so click “Continue Reading” below to read the whole thing. Suffice to say that I was unhappy with this book, not just because it was written for the fifth grade level, but because the authors push their political agenda down our throats without so much as a reach-around. And I posted the review on Amazon.com to warn off other people ahead of time.