SuitabookStar Trek - Starfleet Academy - Cadet Kirk
Diane Carey
- Reading
- You could read together and pause when the characters choose between acting and escaping. Ask what each knows at that point, then revisit the question after the resolution.
- Themes
- Risk, protection and competing plans: After the group is captured, Kirk wants to destroy the pirates' outpost to protect Daystrom; McCoy and Spock want to escape and alert the authorities. The plot presents a difference of approach, but does not establish which plan is endorsed or what consequences follow.
- Worth knowing
- Capture by pirates, being outnumbered and outgunned, and a proposed attack on an outpost bring threat and potential violence into the story. How these scenes are depicted is unclear.