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Star Trek: The Original Series: The Eugenics Wars Volume 2 by Greg Cox
01/02/2005 . Source: Sue Davies 
pub: Pocket Books/Simon and Schuster. 435 page paperback. Price: £ 6.99 (UK), $ 6.99 (US), $10.50 (CAN). ISBN: 0-7434-0074-7. Buy from Amazon US - Buy from Amazon UK
nb: US titles may only be available from Amazon US, and UK titles from Amazon UK. check out website: www.simonsays.co.uk and www.startrek.com
Khan Noonan Singh s one of the favourite villains of Star Trek who managed to get himself into the original series and 'Star Trek II: The Wrath Of Khan' which turned out to be the making of the film franchise after a shaky start.
An intriguing character, Khan is a superman who has been genetically engineered in a laboratory along with hundreds of his test-tube brothers and sisters. This novel fills in some more of the blanks between Khan's 'lab-rat' experience and his meeting with Kirk on the other side of the galaxy.
Khan is keen to take over the world, by force if necessary, and is sick of the peoples of the world destroying each other. However, his megalomania does not sit well with another super-human, Gary Seven, who has vowed to stop him using all the resources he can muster. Seven recruits Roberta from Earth who joins forces with him to keep tabs on Khan's power.
This is the second book of this back-story and I haven't read the first. All I can say is that although they have a potentially great villain there is not enough to sustain a story and it rapidly lapses into a posturing Khan and a moralising opposition. Most of Khan's attraction and substance comes from the physical presence of Richard Montabalan on the screen and the character does not translate well onto the page.
It never really lights up the sky and I was already flagging when we came to a description of what happens in 'merrie olde England' on bonfire night. Apparently we have processions wearing Prince Charles masks and burn effigies. The only effigies likely to be burned these days are political ones and people don't wait till November the 5th. It seems obvious the writer has not been to England unless he travelled by time machine to the 17th Century.
A very dull story, no characterisation to speak of and guaranteed sales because it has Star Trek emblazoned across the cover, depressing indeed.
Sue Davies
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