Which Star Trek-roman presenterade äckliga väskor som liknade utomjordingar?

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Denna TOS-roman har utlänningar som är vätskefyllda påsar som verkar äckliga mot de flesta konventionella arterna.

De avlägsnar Kirk och får honom att beordra sitt skepp. De har en mänsklig tjej som har bott med sig mest av hennes liv.

Tidigt i boken dödar de med flamthowers.

    
uppsättning JDługosz 18.01.2017 23:59

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Tre-minuters universet - Boka 41 i serien, som jag ursprungligen hittade vid min sökning tar mig här .

The Sackers may be the most hated race in the galaxy, so repugnant that their mere appearance makes most Federation citizens ill. That hatred runs both ways, and now the Sackers have stolen a powerful new device that they use to imperil the rest of the universe. They've torn a hole in the fabric of spacetime, an expanding tear so that one universe is leaking into another, and unless the Enterprise (TM) crew can stop it, it will consume everything in its path.

De är äckliga:

The Sackers were cursed with a physical appearance repugnant enough to turn even the strongest stomach. In addition to their nausea-evoking exteriors, they gave off an overpowering stench; most people of other races became violently ill in their presence, vomiting uncontrollably until removed from the sight and smell of the Sackers. And to top things off, Sacker speech was shrill and piercing, causing excruciating pain in their listeners' ears. This standard response to the Sackers was purely a physiological one, and it couldn't be helped. But even after half a century of exemplary behavior, the Sackers still found that their presence inspired reactions ranging from uneasiness to near-violent disgust wherever they went.

De tvingar verkligen Kirk att ta befäl:

"We have need of your assistance," the newly named Babe told him. "Our ship has recently suffered a disastrous accident. Every officer and crew member on the bridge was killed--not one of our command personnel survived. I am a commander-in-training only. We brought you here, Captain Kirk, because we need you to captain our ship."

Från boken, angående flamethrowers:

One of the two Sackers who'd stayed outside the refrigerated cell--the gray one--had a weapon in his hand. Without further ado he pointed it at Hrolfson ... and set him on fire.

Plotvridningen är att orsaken till att sackarna verkar så inkonsekvent fientlig är att

The crew which kidnapped them are adolescents. All of the adults died in the accident, and the children are working off of a vague data entries on how humans act and react, and using equipment they're unfamiliar with.

    
svaret ges 19.01.2017 00:31
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Du blandar noga upp två olika historier. En, som FuzzyBoots indikerar, är TOS Three-Minute Universe med den äckliga, brinnande-till-the-touch, säck-liknande Vinithi.

Den andra verkar för mig en TNG-roman som heter The Children of Hamlin av Carmen Carter:

The story is about the Children of Hamlin, who were abducted from their settlement by the Choraii, a bunch of crazy musical aliens. Of course it riffs off the story of the Pied Piper, but that never jars. In fact it’s all very understated- as TNG always is at its best.

The deal is this- the Choraii wiped out the outpost of Hamlin and stole the children 40 years ago. Everybody knows about the Hamlin massacre. It gives Picard heart-burn to think of it. Now 40 years have passed, and the abductees will be grown up. For the past 10 years the Federation has been conducting top-secret trades with the Hamlin for the ‘children’, giving small amounts of raw metal (lead, zinc, gold) in exchange.

The problem is the children are barely human any more. They have adapted to life on Choraii ships, breathing in liquid oxygen, weightless, constantly surrounded by the Choraii’s musical language. When they come back to the Federation- they just die. They can’t adjust.

(Jag har boken någonstans, jag minns inte flickans namn - inte så tjej längre efter fyrtio år).

    
svaret ges 19.01.2017 07:59