Helpful Score: 2
This book includes two short stories in the Trek world - neither one is set on Tryston. One story is set among the gorilla warriors of Dementia (introduced in No Fear which is Trek Book 5) . The other is set in Galis, the matriarchal planet. The Guide itself doesn't really have that much detail. I wanted more. Much of it is just a regurgitation (sometimes verbatim) of information already in the books. I would have liked greater detail about the certain things like the creation of the Sacred Mate necklaces, the qi'ka, etc. I did like the helpful genealogy chart for the Q'an Tal royal family.
The story set in Dementia is just plain bizarre. These alpha warriors aren't human. They're male apes much like those in Planet of the Apes. They walk upright. They have higher order thinking and speech, but they resemble apes in every other way. They're hairy. They have large teeth. I just couldn't get into a romantic story between a human and an ape. I would say I'm pretty open-minded, but having an intimate relationship with an ape, even a highly intelligent warrior ape, is just too strange and not romantic at all. It's disturbing.
The story set in Dementia is just plain bizarre. These alpha warriors aren't human. They're male apes much like those in Planet of the Apes. They walk upright. They have higher order thinking and speech, but they resemble apes in every other way. They're hairy. They have large teeth. I just couldn't get into a romantic story between a human and an ape. I would say I'm pretty open-minded, but having an intimate relationship with an ape, even a highly intelligent warrior ape, is just too strange and not romantic at all. It's disturbing.
