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Plot-Your-Own-Adventure Stories/Plot-It-Yourself Adventure Stories
Star Trek III: The Vulcan Treasure
A civil war rages on Vulcan, drawing into it the crew of the Enterprise, as the reader chooses how the plot will develop and decide the fate of that planet.
117 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1984
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About the author
William Rotsler
80 books8 followersWilliam "Bill" Rotsler was an American cartoonist and graphic artist; author of several science fiction novels and short stories, and television and film novelizations, and non-fiction works on a variety of topics, ranging from Star Trek to pornography; a prominent member of science fiction fandom; and a sculptor, primarily in metal, who contributed to the art at the entrance to the Los Angeles Police Department headquarters.
Pseudonyms:
Victor W. II Appleton, William Arrow, Andrew Garth, John Ryder Hall, Cord Heller, Latham Hilliard, Linda Holland, Harmony Holt, Lothar Korda, Honey Malcom, Hord Markham, Clay McCord, Howard Scott Miles, Clint Randall, Beverly Sorenson, Beth Waring, Fletcher Westflag.
Pseudonyms:
Victor W. II Appleton, William Arrow, Andrew Garth, John Ryder Hall, Cord Heller, Latham Hilliard, Linda Holland, Harmony Holt, Lothar Korda, Honey Malcom, Hord Markham, Clay McCord, Howard Scott Miles, Clint Randall, Beverly Sorenson, Beth Waring, Fletcher Westflag.
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January 17, 2018
We found this gem during a sojourn to a literal barn full of books, and picked it up for a friend as a bit of a joke. On the long (~90 minute) drive home, the best narrator among us read the book aloud (doing all the voices, of course) and every time we reached a branching path, we voted/shouted our choices. I believe it is the best, and really only, way to enjoy this Vulcan treasure about Vulcan treasure. If you like logic, skulls, whimsy, and very detailed cargo manifests, this book is for you!
February 15, 2021
Ugh. What a mess.
Broken stories, inaccurate page numbers, silly and obvious mistakes like "arifact" for artifact, and incredibly yikes lines like, "A dark smooth wall was fitted smoothly across the cave." Oh, was it smooth, then? The word smooth appears on this single page four separate times. Very smooth.
Why are ancient Vulcans shaking hands? This is a western human affectation and Vulcans find touching extremely intimate due to being touch telepaths.
Why does Spock have two hearts? Is he secretly Gallifreyan? What a twist! ...Oh, it's just a total lack of any research whatsoever (and by "research" I mean literally watching any episode where Spock's internal organs are mentioned, likely derisively, by Dr. McCoy)? Okay.
There are so many repetitive descriptions of treasure and jewels, it's nauseating. By the third full-page description of piles of gems, it was wearing thin, but by the tenth I was ready to swear off material wealth for life.
One thing I did like (at first) was the little Vulcan knowledge cubes Spock could hold to his head to psychically experience a recording. When first described, I thought he could hold them to his head and instantly get some whole huge story, like absorbing an entire life experience or an entire book at least, in a few seconds. But it's just... words. Old degraded voice messages. These little cubes are apparently psychic audio clips. Great.
Maybe a child who really really really likes descriptions of treasure would like this book. But hopefully they won't try to read the stories that are broken.
Not recommended.
Broken stories, inaccurate page numbers, silly and obvious mistakes like "arifact" for artifact, and incredibly yikes lines like, "A dark smooth wall was fitted smoothly across the cave." Oh, was it smooth, then? The word smooth appears on this single page four separate times. Very smooth.
Why are ancient Vulcans shaking hands? This is a western human affectation and Vulcans find touching extremely intimate due to being touch telepaths.
Why does Spock have two hearts? Is he secretly Gallifreyan? What a twist! ...Oh, it's just a total lack of any research whatsoever (and by "research" I mean literally watching any episode where Spock's internal organs are mentioned, likely derisively, by Dr. McCoy)? Okay.
There are so many repetitive descriptions of treasure and jewels, it's nauseating. By the third full-page description of piles of gems, it was wearing thin, but by the tenth I was ready to swear off material wealth for life.
One thing I did like (at first) was the little Vulcan knowledge cubes Spock could hold to his head to psychically experience a recording. When first described, I thought he could hold them to his head and instantly get some whole huge story, like absorbing an entire life experience or an entire book at least, in a few seconds. But it's just... words. Old degraded voice messages. These little cubes are apparently psychic audio clips. Great.
Maybe a child who really really really likes descriptions of treasure would like this book. But hopefully they won't try to read the stories that are broken.
Not recommended.
May 1, 2024
A young-adult movie tie-in that really has no connection at all to the events taking place in Star Trek III: The Search for Spock. The Enterprise responds to signals and ends up recovering a lost ancient Vulcan treasure from the time prior to the conflict that established logic on Vulcan. You have the option to follow different characters (Kirk, Spock, or Chekov) and there are further opportunities to make choices within each story. The writing is stilted, the dialogue poor, and things are found or events happen randomly that move the short stories forward. A few interesting ideas here and there - I think I wove my way through all of the permutations - but there are also a few errors and inconsistencies in the constructed narrative. Of interest as a collector of Star Trek books only.
May 6, 2017
This is the Star Trek the Original Series in choose your own adventure style. But whoever wrote it probably hadn't seen the series in 10 years. Either that or it's some really bad fan-fiction that accidentally got published.
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