Author: Jane Peyton
Publication Date: 1/1978
Publisher: Bantam Books
Page Number: 6
Historian’s Note: I have no idea
Cast of Characters: Commander Spock some unidentified person
Starships and/or Starbases: none
Planets: unknown
My Spoiler filled summary and review: Spock is
talking to someone. Who it is I have no
idea. It might be Captain Kirk, it could also Dr. McCoy, and could also be
someone else who don’t know. The voice
is teasing Spock about his origins.
Calling him an experiment that the Vulcan Government allowed Sarek to
engage in. Spock denies this but the
voice keeps insisting, even going so far to suggest that was the only reason
his mother was allowed to raise him: an experiment to see how he a Vulcan/human
hybrid would turn out. At one point the
voice apologizes to Spock for annoying him and getting him in this
predicament. Spock says it is equally
both their faults. 
Some strange voice is talking to him.
Additional thoughts: The editor asks us to approach
this one with an open mind and I did.
However, I still didn’t like it.
Its not a story. It reads like
some dialogue borrowed from a larger story and then dumped on to a page without
any context. We have no idea who Spock
is talking to or what is going on? I
know they’re trapped somewhere. The
title of the story is “Cave-In” so I suppose that is what happened, but I have
no idea.
Should it be canon: What is there to add to canon?
Cover Art: What I wrote on the review for story 1:
The cover has the Enterprise flying in front of what appears to be a wrecked space station. Both appear to be in orbit around a planet that you can see part of in the corner. There is this red haze that surrounds everything.
Final Grade: Final Grade 1 of 5
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