Strangers from the Sky

By: Margaret Wander Bonanno

Narrated by: George Takei, Leonard Nimoy

The planets Earth and Vulcan experience a mysterious first contact in this fascinating Star Trek novel featuring the crew of the U.S.S. Enterprise.

Years before the formal first contact between Earth and another planet’s inhabitants, a Vulcan space vessel crash landed in the South Pacific, forcing humanity to decide whether to offer the hand of friendship, or the fist of war. Complicating matters is a second visitation: a group of people from two hundred years in the future, who serve on a starship called Enterprise.

Discover the astonishing truth about this heretofore unknown first contact and the nightmares that plague Admiral James T. Kirk. Dreams of his dead comrades, of his earliest days aboard the U.S.S. Enterprise, and of a forgotten past in which he somehow changed the course of history and destroyed the Federation before it began.

good

Star Trek strangers from the sky is a good read recommend to any Star Trek fan.

Great lesser known story

This was a surprisingly well-constructed tale of time travel and the illustrious Enterprise crew’s efforts to prevent the destruction of their timeline.

Golden Age Trek Novel

Very enjoyable abridgement of a fun novel. A bit of magic and mystery, aided by Nimoy and Takei's good voice work.

Clashes with tv series canon

The story talks about first contact between humans and Vulcans, but tells a story quite different from what was told in the television series. It made it harder for me to accept the story. I don't know if I would have enjoyed it better if I didn't know the tv series' version of events.

I really wish they wouldn't abridge the Star Trek books. They cut so much out. It feels like they dump two-thirds of the written book. You don't get to know the characters, and the story is over before you realize it started. I can only hope that the unabridged version was more enjoyable, despite the clashing "history" of first contact.

The best part: hearing George Takei and Leonard Nimoy.

Enjoyable, but not unabridged

I had hoped that this was an unabridged reading of the book, and the description simply stated it was the original recording. Alas, this is a very much abridged adaptation. Enjoyable, yes. What I expected and wanted, no.

I will need to be more careful in the future. If you are considering this book, please be aware of all this.