Spoilers TOS: Legacies, Book 2: Best Defense by David Mack Review Thread

I voted outstanding. Fast paced, yet still easy to keep track of. Just the right level of hinting to give me an educated guess about some of the plot twists.

Mack does a brilliant create-mess-with-massive-implications routine but it felt far more intimate than usual, so I think the epic/personal balance was about right.

Looking forward to book 3 next month!

 

Just received mine. Expect to start it before the LV Con starts.

 

I just started book 2 and haven't read the rest of the posts in this thread but just wanted to comment on something I brought up in book 1. So, it turns out that Captain Pike calling Una Number One because she's the First Officer is JUST A CO-INCIDENCE with regards to her friends previously giving her the nickname of Number One.

Really? I know 3 authors collaborated on this trilogy but that has to be the lamest explanation I have ever heard. It more or less was hinted at in the first book but this book spells it out clearly. What were you thinking? A co-incidence?

Anyway I just had to get that off my chest. Hopefully this second story will be just as good as the first.

 

Four authors, to be exact. The third book is by Dayton Ward & Kevin Dilmore.

 

It's really a minor nit, not as bad as I make it sound. Loved the first book, will finish the second this week, I have high hopes for this trilogy.

 

I ordered this novel from Amazon it should come in the mail in a few days.

 

Just snagged mine today (meant to yesterday, but some stuff came up last-minute), and plan to crack it open very soon, here.

 

I loved this, it was an amazing work.

Spoiler: Book spoilers

The presentation of the alternate dimension was a great way to show the skew from reality, and I wasn't expecting it to go so in depth into the events on Centaurus, that was an amazing surprise. I also wasn't expecting the inclusion of Joanna; we haven't seen her relationship with McCoy in the books in a long while, and I don't think it's ever come up in modern novels (though I may be forgetting something). It was really well-done, and I could really feel both the tension and the love between the two of them.

Kudos also for a) what I think is the first time the functioning of the Federation's economy has ever been described without a handwave, and b) bringing more trans representation into Treklit.

 

There are five authors. How many do you see now?

 

What authors?

 

Greg Cox (Captain to Captain), David Mack (Best Defense) and Dayton Ward (Purgatory's Key) & Kevin Dilmore (Purgatory's Key).

 

Uh, that was a response to the joke from "JoeP." (At one point, Picard flippantly replies to Gul Madred's perpetual "how many lights" question with "What lights?")

I'm guessing that at least one person got it.

 

Oh sorry. I didn't get the joke.

 

Genius.

 

Picked this up today. Still trying to get through book one (the book is not bad, my wife and I had twins).

 

In that case, you're forgiven.

Congratulations!

 

I noted that just because it was more or less how I figured it must work. I've read more esoteric theories that dispense with pretty much all mediums of exchange, but we can leave that airy-fairy nonsense to the 24th century. Federation Credits still spend in the TOS-era! Make it rain! Er, ding!

I wanted to mention the repair sequence late in the book. I think I first noticed it in "Second Nature," but Mack's got a way of making the Star Trek cliche of fixing things by twisting some knobs and plugging stuff into other stuff explicable, reasonable, clever, and tense.

 

Thanks. I did finish child of two worlds though. I liked it!