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  • I found the Voyager books when they return to the Alpha Quadrant very frustrating and disappointing. I DNFd the second one.

    It seems like the tie-in auto Christie Golden was required (by the IP holder) to break the Voyager crew up and make them experience a great deal of unhappiness.

    In the main series of post Voyager 24th century relaunch timeline novels post Nemesis, longstanding author Peter David was obliged to kill Katherine Janeway off in one of the crossover events!

    That said, I did really enjoy Kirsten Beyer’s Full Circle Voyager novels. Beyer was eventually given permission to get the Voyager crew back together for a new exploratory mission to the Delta Quadrant with a group of slipstream ships.



  • Directors, actors and art directors seem to be very happy to tread the ground of adaptations.

    What we really have is some writers that want to tell their own Star Trek stories but aren’t doing a good job of serialization and studio executives who think that rehashing existing stories and characters will buy success.

    And yes we have egos like Patrick Stewart’s holding his character hostage to his own reinterpretation of his character to be a reflection of himself.

    But as we have seen with the character of Jim Kirk, there can be other actors to carry on the legacy.




  • There was a good recent thread on this. Much depends on your own preferences.

    I posted the image of the first book of the TOS era series Vanguard because I think it would be excellent to adapt to television. It’s about Starbase 47 serving Starfleet in a region of Federation expansion and colonization. It’s somewhat dark and there’s a mystery at the core. Tholians get extensive treatment which is rare.

    If you’re looking for the Alpha and Omega of the Borg, the Destiny trilogy is excellent. It’s basically the best Borg content out there.

    If you’re into time travel, Christopher L. Bennett has a series of books about the Bureau of Temporal Investigations.

    There was also a great anthology of novellas focused on the Starfleet Corps of Engineers.

    There are numerous great standalones too.






  • The Fall is a multibook ‘event’ in the Relaunch novelverse with each book by a different one of the regular authors.

    It comes after Destiny and the Typhon Pact series of books.

    While I like most of the books in all of these, there’s one author David R. George III whose books I find unbearably dull. He clearly knew his canon cold but his books are long on excessively detailed exposition, and short on dialogue or action. By the time I got to The Fall, I had learned to skip his books and just count on the recaps provided by the other authors.



  • My partner and I really liked this one.

    We both think it’s in the top rank of Star Trek episodes. In my view it may be the best of SNW to date.

    It definitely should be the ‘For Your Consideration’ episode of this season.

    The direction was excellent. This was one of the best dramatic performances from Mount as Pike since season two of Discovery.

    My sense is that some viewers were mistaking the C-plot about the warring groups, for the A-plot about the Enterprise officers response to the ethical choice between orders and the free will of a sentient being or the B-plot about the making of the documentary.

    I can’t agree that the episode was too short. The best Trek episodes are tightly rendered and leave lots of room for thought after.