I really liked the whole series. The McCoy book is one of my all time favorites. The Kirk book had an ending that still has me wishing it was followed up on.
TOS 50th Anniversary Trilogy: 1 - Cox, 2 - Mack, 3 - Ward&Dilmore
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There are so many things in Crucible that I would love to see developed further. The post-TMP seven-year mission, for instance.
There's something that I feel must have happened late in McCoy: Provenance of Shadows that DRG3 didn't write, but I'm reluctant to say what it was.
And I once worked out how The Man in the High Castle was the future of the alternate timeline.
DRG's more recent books I've found okay, but I remember also struggling with his Mission Gamma book, as, as others have said, he is very verbose, and I think he's toned it down in recent years, but his early books are very wordy, and even when he's trying to build up an action scene, and it is very wordy, then it feels like I'm trying to run somewhere fast, while buried up to my waist in quicksand.
And with trilogies or multi-part stories, I don't start with book 2, I start with book 1 and read in order.
Crucible McCoy by DRG III was great, also one of my favorite noves. But you´re right. Mission Gamma I (If I´m not mistaken) was tedious. I liked The 34th Rule, though.
His book in Mission Gamma was also a huge highlight for me in the series.
Why? I'm certainly intrigued.
Great news, as these authors complement each other very well. I am very excited about this trilogy 
They also compliment each other well.
I also found the first book to really drag, and it prevented me from finishing it and moving on to the others. I go back to it periodically and try again, but so far, I haven't made it past the half way point
It often depends on where you are and what's going on in your life. I was on an interstate holiday, staying with friends who enjoyed sleeping in every morning, so I was totally engrossed in "Crucible: McCoy" and couldn't put it down, even when my hosts were awake!
Similarly, some have found Diane Duane's "The Wounded Sky" to be a hard slog. I was on my first US vacation during December '83/ January '84. I found this then-new book in Honolulu on my free stopover! Reading the scenes of the Enterprise going off into Otherspace while I was on various aircraft, with many takeoffs and landings, was surreal! I tried rereading it a decade later and the magic wasn't there.
^I agree. I read Provenance of Shadows just over six years ago and loved it, but I've never been able to pick it back up and read it again. The same is true for the other two Crucible books.
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I also found the first book to really drag, and it prevented me from finishing it and moving on to the others. I go back to it periodically and try again, but so far, I haven't made it past the half way point
It often depends on where you are and what's going on in your life. I was on an interstate holiday, staying with friends who enjoyed sleeping in every morning, so I was totally engrossed in "Crucible: McCoy" and couldn't put it down, even when my hosts were awake!
Similarly, some have found Diane Duane's "The Wounded Sky" to be a hard slog. I was on my first US vacation during December '83/ January '84. I found this then-new book in Honolulu on my free stopover! Reading the scenes of the Enterprise going off into Otherspace while I was on various aircraft, with many takeoffs and landings, was surreal! I tried rereading it a decade later and the magic wasn't there.
Something similiar happened to me when I first read Andrew Robinsons "A Stitch in Time" in English. It was great, bombastic and all. The I re-read it in German (the translation by Cross Cult with the impressive cover) and was disappointed. It wasn´t really bad. It was just the translation that made it easier for me to read it more quickly. But I knew already what would happen and the whole story.
I hope this 3 new Books are about the Kirk Crew, not playing in the Kirk Universe like Vanguard Books. And i hope (for me) that this book will be released here in Germany. My English far to bad, so i can not read a whole Book.
Books written by this Writers Cox, Mack, Ward&Dilmore, they can only be great.
I don't think I'm giving anything away by revealing that, yes, these books are definitely about Captain Kirk and his crew.
Although I wouldn't be averse to a character or two from Vanguard/Seekers showing up in this!
Are the plot summaries released for each book?
They were saying upthread that they are still working out what the story is going to be. I think they've just started plotting everything out recently..
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