Star Trek Novel Fic Fest

Strangers From the Sky, Spock/Uhura, reboot -- I've always thought this novel was considerably over-framed (a book inside a memory, numerous weird devices, etc.) I'd like to see the reboot group get there in a more streamlined way, for our main characters (most particularly Uhura) to play bigger roles in the proceedings and the ways in which Spock and Uhura's relationship might considerably complicate things for Melody Sawyer, T'Lera, et al.