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Opinions on Titan series?
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Orion's Hounds was the best Trek book of the year and easily the best of the Titan series so far.
having just read Orion's Hounds and Sword of Democales, I can wholeheartedly say that Titan is THE true successor to TNG and TOS. Mixing plot threads from various parts of Trek canon and TrekLit (as I commented in my review of Taking Wing \ The Red King), along with exploration of new worlds and civilizations, makes for exciting "episodic" novels on one hand and an engaging ongoing story, on the other..
I love that series. The first books sets up the series nicely with introducing the new characters, showing Riker getting into his command style and his search for a first officer. The third book Orion's Hounds was awesome, a lot of exploration just like Star Trek should've always been. There are many aliens that are ... very alien. That's a lot of fun too. I recommend that series by heart (even though I had troubles getting into the fourth novel).
I can't see how everyone thought Orion's Hounds was that great. It killed my drive to read. I am having a hard time starting up on SOD because of it. However, I think it is because I am not that big of a Troi fan in the books and I am pretty diehard TNG.
Riker is great in the books and so is Vale (best character to come along in a long time!), but Troi is getting on my last nerve in Titan.
Riker is great in the books and so is Vale (best character to come along in a long time!), but Troi is getting on my last nerve in Titan.
^ Well, perhaps they don't (A) have a burning hatred of Troi; or (B) consider that the majority of the book which features other characters and phenomena more than make up for whatever scenes she has. Personally, I've never been the biggest Troi fan myself, finding her a rather pointless waste of space on the show, but I thought Christopher did an excellant job demonstrating how Troi really does have use value after all in her role as the Titan's diplomatic officer. Frankly, it's what she should have been doing throughout TNG.
Fictitiously yours, Trent Roman
Fictitiously yours, Trent Roman
I have a burning hatred for Troi, but the novels write her quite well such that she's actually interesting a lot of the time. The Titan series is one such instance of this, so is Battle of Betazed. That latter one being by far the best Troi-heavy book I've read.
i don't have a burning hate for Troi. burning lust for Marina maybe... ANYWAY. i will admit that the TNG writers never utilised her character well, but M&M, CLB and Geoff did in TTN and so have others in the ATT series, like Mack and Bob Greenberger...
I found the exploration of the space jellyfish of "Encounter at Farpoint" to be fascinating, scientifically interesting, and long overdue. And Troi was in fine form!
I thought it was well written, I thought all of the new concepts introduced were fascinating, and I liked all of the characters in it, Troi included. Personally, I'm more suprised to hear about someone didn't like it than I am, but to each his own.
I recently read the first Titan book, and I thought it was okay. I've read a great deal on this site about people disliking how diverse Titan's crew is. I felt the opposite -- it bothered me that a ship with such a supposedly diverse crew would have so many familiar Trek species in the chain of command.
I just finished Sword of Damocles a couple of days ago, it was my first Titan book and I loved it!!!! I can wait to pick up the first 3, just gotta save up a few bucks next pay day.:thumbsup:
I just got back into trek lit and I'm glad Titan was the series I started with.
I just got back into trek lit and I'm glad Titan was the series I started with.
Um. Wow.
thanks. I think you'll find the rest of the series at least as pleasant.
Welcome back. We missed you.
People,
Well, I finallly read the first intallment in the Titan series, "Taking Wing," and enjoyed it quite a bit.
I want to echo some of Red Jack's sentiment about the diversity angle in the Titan books. The authors' expressing how even characters we know like Troi showing discomfort with "others," like her reaction to the Remans, is meant to comment on our current world.
These stories are commentaries on our present-day world. Sure, Starfleet, like companies today, may say they believe in diversity, but how committed are they in reality? I see a character like Melora, for example, as a criticism of how the non-disabled world sometimes is uncomfortable with those who are disabled.
Also, it makes so much more sense in novels to create fantastic characters you couldn't possible portray in a live-action show.
Some of the earlier ST novels, frankly, did a better job at portraying diversity among the crew than ones before the Titan series. Most notably, authors Diane Duane and Vonda McIntyre had created a number of excellent characters, some of them not even humanoid.
Red Ranger
Well, I finallly read the first intallment in the Titan series, "Taking Wing," and enjoyed it quite a bit.
I want to echo some of Red Jack's sentiment about the diversity angle in the Titan books. The authors' expressing how even characters we know like Troi showing discomfort with "others," like her reaction to the Remans, is meant to comment on our current world.
These stories are commentaries on our present-day world. Sure, Starfleet, like companies today, may say they believe in diversity, but how committed are they in reality? I see a character like Melora, for example, as a criticism of how the non-disabled world sometimes is uncomfortable with those who are disabled.
Also, it makes so much more sense in novels to create fantastic characters you couldn't possible portray in a live-action show.
Some of the earlier ST novels, frankly, did a better job at portraying diversity among the crew than ones before the Titan series. Most notably, authors Diane Duane and Vonda McIntyre had created a number of excellent characters, some of them not even humanoid.
Red Ranger
I always thought it was funny that we heard about all Vulcan ships, and I think occasionally we heard hints about other ships that had a completely alien crew from just one species.
In the live action shows I understood why everyone was human or humanoid, I mean there's only so many ways to stretch a dollar, but the fact that they never dealt with this in-story (just references to crewmembers like we got in DS9) always bugged me and its nice to see Titan fully addressing this.
Sometimes I think they mention it too many times (though I really only remember the first book having that problem) but it is something that needs to be addressed both to fix problems in-story and to show society how to go.
I have seen these books out on Amazon.com, but was wondering if anyone knows if they will be put into audiobook format.
Also, has anyone gotten the Kindle thingie that Amazon is pushing? Is it any good? I just can't see spending that kind of money on a device that is only good for one thing.
Also, has anyone gotten the Kindle thingie that Amazon is pushing? Is it any good? I just can't see spending that kind of money on a device that is only good for one thing.
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