SPARTACUS (T.L. Mancour) - August 31/13

I liked the premise of this one - a race of androids attempts to join the federation to escape from their human creators - but as usual, the story has been overwritten and padded-out to a progressively uncomfortable degree. This one is rife with debate scenes, for example. There's some exciting stuff here - one of the androids plots to blow up the Enterprise - but on the whole it's just double the length it should be. ** out of ****