DTI: Watching the Clock by C. L. Bennett Review Thread (Spoilers!)

[Christopher]

MatthiasRussell wrote:

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Will Garcia and Ranjea be in the new DTI novel? They were great and memorable characters.

Most of the DTI ensemble from WTC is in Forgotten History as well, including those two.

[Admiral_Young]

Excellent to hear.

[MatthiasRussell]

Christopher wrote:

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Most of the DTI ensemble from WTC is in Forgotten History as well, including those two.

Awesome. That raises my anticipation.

[JD]

MatthiasRussell wrote:

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I'm not sure Forgotten History can capture my imagination and the magic of WTC but I'm looking forward to finding out.

I don't see why not. It's the same author (Christopher), writing the same characters (the DTI team), dealing with the same subject (time travel), so I don't see why can't be just as good, if not better, than WTC.

[Admiral_Young]

To be honest, I'm more excited about Forgotten History and the time frame it takes place in than I was WTC!

[MatthiasRussell]

JD wrote:

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I don't see why not. It's the same author (Christopher), writing the same characters (the DTI team), dealing with the same subject (time travel), so I don't see why can't be just as good, if not better, than WTC.

Because what I loved about WTC is how it made sense of so many canon time travel stories that made no sense to me. Forgotten History, as I understand, revolves around a new and original incident with Kirk and the Enterpise.

Christopher is a great writer and he has some great characters but the situation is different.

[Christopher]

MatthiasRussell wrote:

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Because what I loved about WTC is how it made sense of so many canon time travel stories that made no sense to me. Forgotten History, as I understand, revolves around a new and original incident with Kirk and the Enterpise.

That's not entirely true. The book covers both the established time-travel incidents of the 5-year mission (in much the same way that WTC covered TNG-era time-travel episodes, but also unifying those episodes into a larger narrative) as well as exploring a couple of new incidents in the post-TMP era -- incidents that are to an extent an outgrowth of the time-travel events of the 5-year mission, and that may have some surprising connections to other screen adventures as well.

[Yevetha]

Good to hear. No excerpt?

[MatthiasRussell]

Christopher, you are an excellent writer and no doubt Forgotten History will be great based upon the merits of your ability of a story teller.

I'm just saying that the way WTC unified all those time travel stories and made sense of them is what made it, in my view, essential reading for Trek fans.

[ronny]

Reviving an old thread since I finished this just last night. I'm almost done catching up with the 24th century, only Forgotten History to go.

Up until now my favorite Bennett books have been the 2 Titan novels, I just that that's a great match of writing style and series, but this book is now top of the list. I loved it. I liked how the flashbacks converged with the primary story, how it tied in with Destiny, hell, how it tied in with pretty much everything. A good story with fun characters.

I'm about 50 pages into Forgotten History and I'm liking that as well.

[Christopher]

Thanks!

[Mr. Laser Beam]

I also renew my hope that audiobook versions might be made available, which of course would have to be read by Jack Blessing and James Jansen.

You KNOW you want it.

(at the very least, I hope they've *read* these novels...I think they'd be happy to see that their characters are getting their due!)

[Procutus]

I just started reading this just two days ago, and am thus far enjoying it as much as FH. Very eager so see how the TCW ties in.