Holy Pama, I did not notice that either.
Spoilers TOS: Legacies: Book 3: Purgatory's Key by Dayton Ward & Kevin Dilmore Review Thread
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Ready to start whenever I get it..
I've gotten a start on it, but thanks to this week's "Shakespeare Night" at Hollywood Bowl, (very good, but very LONG; I was there Tuesday night, and didn't get home until after 1:00 AM Thursday morning) I've been too sleep-deprived to get very far.
September 4th:
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. . . anthotropic, at least as K't'lk would put it.
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Enjoyed the whole trilogy, and liked the conclusion. I liked how each of the main characters got stuff to do, rather than just a few with the others in the background.
Especially cool is, that the blue and red books are essentially monotone, while the mustard/gold one has a big green wedge on the front.
I think that's why I hadn't noticed right away. It was only seeing the spines lined that it was obvious.
I wasn't overly sold on this book - I think the overall story didn't require three books. I think another problem (and I think this is likely an editorial problem) is that the story of the Klingon ship felt very repetitive and covered the same ground as the enemy ship story in the previous book.
One thing that confused me is they mentioned the Organian Peace Treaty multiple times as being in effect but I had the impression from the first two books that we were seeing what would be called the Organian Peace Treaty's creation on Centurus. If there was already a peace treaty, what exactly were Sarek and Gorkon negotiating?
What was put in place by the episode "Errand of Mercy" was a cease-fire. It was up to the two powers to negotiate a lasting, permanent ratified treaty.
But "The Trouble With Tribbles" talked about the treaty's terms for colony development as if the treaty were already in place, yet Books 2-3 of this trilogy take place after "Tribbles" (there's that Klingon engineer who commends Scotty for beating up Korax) and show the treaty still being negotiated. That is a bit confusing.
I always viewed the treaty as something that would be revisited and refined often, as circumstances warrant/new situations are encountered/etc.
"Hey, we didn't think of _____. Now what do we do?"
"We'll have to hash it out. Crap. Another meeting. Can we at least pick a decent planet this time?"
"Hey, we didn't think of _____. Now what do we do?"
"We'll have to hash it out. Crap. Another meeting. Can we at least pick a decent planet this time?"
^Makes sense.
Honestly, it was always ambiguous whether Garth was meant to be human or a humanoid alien. The books that introduced and developed Christine Vale interpreted Izar as a human colony, and so did the 1980 Star Trek Maps, but it was never clear in the episode, and there were probably some tie-in or fan things in the past that went the alien route.
Had a blast with Dayton on Literary Treks talking about the last book in the series.
The only such thing I know of is that FASA claimed Izar was a joint Terran / Alpha Centauran colony, meaning Garth could have been Terran Human, Alpha Cent Human (Like Cochrane back then), or mixed parentage. It'd be interesting to see if anyone else did come up with a more alien tie-in for Izar.
Almost finished it. Was there ever any discussion about putting a picture of the Jatohr on the cover?
EDIT: Done.
Or, for that matter, illustrating the Usildar?
EDIT: Done.
Or, for that matter, illustrating the Usildar?
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