I never said I would give up on DS9 novels written by other authors, just those as written by Dave the third. I rather enjoyed both The Missing and also Force and Motion. as I get older, I am getting my picky with what I read though and the Dave the Third novels join any written by either Michael A. Martin and Andy Mangels, or any recent ones by Chris because life is too short to read stories by authors I don't enjoy.
Sorry, this wasn't directed at you, it was towards other posters who made it sound like the decided they didn't all Trek Lit just because of the DS9 books.
Some of the recent standalone Ds9 books have been a massive improvement. They have also been the ones that most strongly try to replicate the TV dynamic (having to jump hoops to get that dynamic back in at least one case. They literally have to work to avoid the current set up.) and basically ignore the ongoing non-story. The Voyager books are the strongest line, and Titan is basically just an addendum to the TNG books and general holding space for certain characters, rather than having its own identity.
I haven't read a Titan book since the stuff between Destiny, but at least to that point I was loving the series. It gave us some great strange new worlds stories, and did a great job with the TV characters and it's own characters.
The TNG books are hovering around a certain level, but, Prey excepted (which is also knee deep in Screen continuity callbacks) rarely go anywhere or do anything great. Again there's a bunch of 'sorry who are you?' Characters, and other characters pocketed off for David Mack's personal use. (Data from TNG and Bashir over on DS9)
I'll admit the new characters could use some more development, but we've still gotten some great books in the series, with the Cold Equations books and The Crimson Shadow being absolutely outstanding.
It's a bit like the Star Wars EU got at the end...bares very little resemblance to the license you are using to pull in the fan monies. 'Realism' be damned, alleged 'stagnation' if sticking too close to the original format be damned, TOS to STVI covers what...forty years? With the books too? They didn't worry about those things, and apparently it's still the bedrock of the books without changing to format much, without padding the roster, and no one gives a flying Tellarite about it being unrealistic that the crew are still together or have come back from the dead.
Completely disagree with pretty much every word of this post. I love the fact that the books have actually allowed the characters to change and evolve. I like the characters and I find it a lot more interesting to see them doing new, different things than the same damn things we saw them doing for 7 years on the shows. Don't get me wrong, I love the shows, but we got 7 years of those kinds of stories, so I enjoy the chance to get something different.
Have a little faith in the 24th century characters and whether the fans will stick with them...if we are still just about bothering even though Ro could be anyone at this point and even she doesn't know if she's with Quark or RandomNoNameGuyFromThePast then throw us a bone and assume we might actually buy the books enthusiastically if Sisko does something other than check his email and Odo and Kira actually y'know, talk to each other at some point. We'd probably buy a hardback if the whole damn crew was on the cover and interacted with each other and were recognisable as their TV characters.
Just because the characters have changed and developed doesn't mean they aren't still recognizable as themselves.
I would buy a three hardback crossover series if they put Data back in uniform and on the bridge of the enterprise
I'll admit, I was a little frustrated they didn't bring Data back onto the Enterprise, but I loved what we got with him in Cold Equations, and I find the idea of a more human Data with a daughter and a life beyond Starfleet a lot more interesting than just dumping back in the same place he'd been since Encounter at Farpoint.
got Bashir back from whichever bad spy spy novel he's in this decade, I'll go to a five book series if they get shot of the section 31 and serena nonsense
I wasn't real thrilled with Sarina just popping back into his life, but I really enjoyed Zero Sum Game, and I'm not done with it yet, but I'm about 200 pages into Ceremony of Losses and it's been great so far. I really like the idea of putting Bashir into a darker, more realisitc spy story. I know we got some of that in the show, but not quite to this level.
and put them in a story being themselves.
Just because the characters aren't doing the same thing they did on the shows doesn't mean they aren't being themselves.
What's wrong with Ezri?
and get the bloody station back. Hell if the station comes back I will buy a frickin hardback a month.
The station is gone, I'd rather just move on and work on developing the new station and it's crew than just go back to the old status quo.
Buy a box set and get a clue editor people.[/QUOTE]
Not necessary, the authors and editors have more than proven that they know what they're doing.
The writers are bored with the license so they stretch it to breaking to make it into something else. Bad religious allegory or bad historicalallegory then turns up (that's the SW Eu at the end...though now I mention it...)
Bull fucking shit, the writers and editors are doing great things with the license that have proven time and again that the understand the franchise. Star Trek has been doing religious and historical alegories since the franchise started, so those are exactly the kinds of stories the books are supposed to be telling.
