Review of
A Girl for Every Star
Published:
May 2002
Reviewer Rating:
Avg User Rating:
(3.55)
What a breath of fresh air after the complete duds of the last short stories in this chronological order. This story was so adorable I loved it. Baby Jon archer? Honestly I liked him better than adult Jon Archer. He has charm, genuineness, excitement, and spunk. I also quite liked T'Rama. Through her the author I think did a lot of work characterizing Vulcans.
My favorite interpretation on Vulcan emotion, is that well they have them. I like the idea that Vulcans experience emotions rather strongly, but through the teachings of Surak have consciously decided to control them and let their lives be ruled by logic. I think this is more powerful and gives the Vulcans more agency over their minds and bodies. In that light T'Rama is still young and learning her emotional control, so her emotions slip through. She is curious and excited to see Jon again and to see Earth flowers!
Something I didn't mention is that T'Rama says that she will one day have a son and his name will be Sarek. This isn't expanded on, but this has to be Sarek's mom and then by extension Spock's grandmother. As far as I can tell this is the first mention of this "in canon". She appears in some later novels so it is cool that this fan fiction becomes part of the published larger fiction. I'm excited to meet her again when I get there in the order!
My only gripe about this was honestly the tie to the title. Jon's father tells him that there is a girl for every star in the universe, and I don't know just didn't seem like the right way to end this story.
My favorite interpretation on Vulcan emotion, is that well they have them. I like the idea that Vulcans experience emotions rather strongly, but through the teachings of Surak have consciously decided to control them and let their lives be ruled by logic. I think this is more powerful and gives the Vulcans more agency over their minds and bodies. In that light T'Rama is still young and learning her emotional control, so her emotions slip through. She is curious and excited to see Jon again and to see Earth flowers!
Something I didn't mention is that T'Rama says that she will one day have a son and his name will be Sarek. This isn't expanded on, but this has to be Sarek's mom and then by extension Spock's grandmother. As far as I can tell this is the first mention of this "in canon". She appears in some later novels so it is cool that this fan fiction becomes part of the published larger fiction. I'm excited to meet her again when I get there in the order!
My only gripe about this was honestly the tie to the title. Jon's father tells him that there is a girl for every star in the universe, and I don't know just didn't seem like the right way to end this story.
