Rise of the Federation: Uncertain Logic

Christopher L. Bennett

Mar 2015 · Simon and Schuster

About this ebook

An original novel continuing the saga of the TV series Star Trek: Enterprise—featuring Captain Jonathan Archer and the crew of the Enterprise!

Years ago, Jonathan Archer and T’Pol helped unearth the true writings of Vulcan’s great philosopher Surak, bringing forth a new era of peaceful reform on Vulcan. But when their discovery is seemingly proven to be a fraud, the scandal threatens to undo a decade of progress and return power to the old, warlike regime. Admiral Archer, Captain T’Pol, and the crew of the U.S.S. Endeavour investigate with help from their Vulcan allies, but none of them suspect the identity of the real mastermind behind the conspiracy to reconquer Vulcan—or the price they will have to pay to discover the truth.

Meanwhile, when a long-forgotten technological threat re-emerges beyond the Federation’s borders, Captain Malcolm Reed of the U.S.S. Pioneer attempts to track down its origins with help from his old friend “Trip” Tucker. But they discover that other civilizations are eager to exploit this dangerous power for their own benefit, even if the Federation must pay the price!

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Ratings and reviews

If you try to do two things at once, you won't do either of them very well. That's the chief problem with this book... it's trying very hard to focus on two totally unrelated plots and it ends up phoning both of them in. Like so many of the previous books, this one also picked antagonists that are impossible to take seriously... the nutty Vulcan dictator and an unnecessarily chatty service station. It lacks any kind of punch, but at least the Ware have the excuse of being technically non-sentient to excuse their author-induced stupidity.

This book had a phenomenal story to it, but it tried too hard to make a lot of unnecessary nods to other series for the sake of making them.

This series, about the rise of the Federation was fantastic. I thank the author personally for such and enjoyable and layered read. The author included many of the problems and processes that are in in creating a democratic union of independent separate cultures. And of course he does a through the eyes of characters that we know in love from takeoff under on Speed Star Trek’s Enterprise.

About the author

Christopher L. Bennett is a lifelong resident of Cincinnati, Ohio, with bachelor’s degrees in physics and history from the University of Cincinnati. He has written such critically acclaimed Star Trek novels as Ex Machina, The Buried Age, the Titan novels Orion’s Hounds and Over a Torrent Sea, the two Department of Temporal Investigations novels Watching the Clock and Forgotten History, and the Enterprise novels Rise of the Federation: A Choice of Futures, Tower of Babel, Uncertain Logic, and Live By the Code, as well as shorter works including stories in the anniversary anthologies Constellations, The Sky’s the Limit, Prophecy and Change, and Distant Shores. Beyond Star Trek, he has penned the novels X Men: Watchers on the Walls and Spider Man: Drowned in Thunder. His original work includes the hard science fiction superhero novel Only Superhuman, as well as several novelettes in Analog and other science fiction magazines.