Star Trek: Spock Reflections


Author: Scott Tipton and David Tipton
104 Pages
Published: July 19, 2012

Reviewed By: Kim
Kim’s Rating: 5 Stars

Description from Amazon: A Vulcan, on Romulus? Absurd! Or is it? In the follow-up collection to the smash hit Star Trek: Countdown movie prequel, we discover what could drive a man to abandon all he knows and go to live with the Federation’s sworn enemy, his real motivations, and how he looks back at what brought him to this place in his life.

Kim’s Review:

My second graphic novel and I do believe that I am now a fan! I never used to think that graphic novels were “real reading,” but I was wrong! Of course they’ll never replace novels, but graphic novels are a fun easy way of enjoying a story. I saw Spock- Reflections at a pawn shop for only $3, so I said, “what the heck” and bought it. I read it in one sitting and was nearly in tears by the time I finished. I’ve been a life-long trekkie. My dad started us on the original series back when we were in elementary school and I as I grew up, the other parts of the franchise, movies, TNG, DS9, etc., seeped in and expanded my fandom. Then I married a Star Wars fan who had never seen anything other than the remake movies . . . yeah that has been interesting! ?

I really loved this book. Spock has always been my favorite character and I was devastated when Leonard Nimoy passed away. As dramatic as this is going to sound, Spock Reflections actually gave me some closure. I got to see many different portions of Spock’s life that I hadn’t actually known before. And this story was centered around the death of James T. Kirk and Spock’s reaction to it. Spock has always struggled to reconcile his human half with his Vulcan half and this book showed that reconciliation in such a beautiful way. I don’t think this is the graphic novel to start with if you’re not a Star Trek fan, I would definitely recommend watching the original series and, at least, the first three original Star Trek movies before reading this book. But, for the Trekkies out there, this is an awesome graphic novel, even if you’ve never tried them before.