Cry of the Onlies Star Trek #46

There are three distinct threads to this story and eventually merge into one. The first plotline follows a trio of Onlies, the children first introduced in the TV episode 'Miri' who, due to a long ago plague, aged incredibly slowly during childhood and died shortly after entering adolescence. The Federation had sent in a team of experts to care for the children. The second story line concerns the Boaco Six colony which had recently overthrown a corrupt regieme. The new government is now controlled by a 'Council of Youngers' which is determined to correct the past abuses, abuses that the new Council feels that the Federation was a party to. The third plot line involves Flint, the character first introduced in the episode 'Requiem for Methuselah'. Flint has lived through centuries and was in fact, many of the great figures of human history, including such diverse personna as Merlin and Brahams. Now though, Flint was finally beginning to age and uncertain about how to spend his remaining time. This is an interesting premise, combining such widely different stories and so is the Boacan situation as well. Both situations though bring out a darker aspect of the Federation than the original series usually does. The Federation is protrayed as having some problems with at least incompetance, if not outright corruption, more in line with the outlook of the Next Generation and DS9 points of view. The endings of the various plotlines is rather too...convenient, predictable, neat but overall the novel manages to breath some new life into the episodes by showing what happened after the Enterprise left.

I thought that this book was truely thought out, and had a good plot to it aswell. It answered many questions of what had happened to the children after Kirk and co. left especially Miri. It's not a page turner, but never the less it is a good book, and a good story to sink yourself into.