This was a good story where we see Captain Pike on Talos IV wondering about his former science officer Spock who at the time is on a survey mission, while on the mission Spock is attacked and then taken back to the Enterprise while Captain Kirk is stranded as the Enterprise is called away to fight a villan from the ships past. While I was reading this book it felt like an episode from the TV series so I would say that Mike did a great job writing it.