"All words are made up." ---Thor
The Autobiography of Mr. Spock by... Una McCormack?
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Provides an interesting insight that Sarek's biography in-universe says nothing about Michael or Spock.
Indeed. And the parts of Spock's about Michael made me happy and weep. Only because I think Michael and Spock's relationship is the strongest relationship on Disco. Well, other than Stamets and Culber.
As an aside, I find it fascinating that Sarek is closer to his adoptive human daughter than he ever was to either of his blood sons.
The shows exist, they're canon, they'll be referenced, there is no avoiding it except to just stop buying most new books/ comics/merch.
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I’ve bought Discovery novels (both Dayton Ward and David Galanter did excellent books without the Spock baggage) and the first Picard book with no issues. But the creative bankruptcy of connecting Burnham to Spock continues to irk me. So it simply doesn’t interest me.
Not the authors fault in any way (McCormack generally has a solid track record with Trek for me from “Hollow Men” way back in 2005 to “The Last Best Hope” recently), and I bought the book because I had pre-ordered it way back when it was being done by another author.
I just finished. I do not know how I would rate this novel.
I'd had a hard time finishing a couple of this author's recent novels (that's on me) so, I was going to sit this one out, but the comments here have inspired me to give it a shot.
I think Spock is hard to do, what with all the expectations and continuity all over the place with his long story. I feel the Spock volume in the Crucible trilogy is the weakest because of this. But this thread makes me curious.
I think Spock is hard to do, what with all the expectations and continuity all over the place with his long story. I feel the Spock volume in the Crucible trilogy is the weakest because of this. But this thread makes me curious.
Yeah, she goes all in on it. Its an important relationship of Spock and his upbringing, which may tick some readers off.
No harm, no foul. Just not something I’m interested in.
Maybe doing Spock is just to hard an endeavor to satisfy me?
They really should update the cover on that page.
I will note that I recused myself from rating her Picard prequel, because unmitigated, utterly hopeless tragedy is a genre I try to avoid, giving me little basis for comparison. On the other hand, I loved Wonderlands and the Janeway "autobiography," and consider both her knowledge of (and willingness to make the effort to harmonize with) what has already been written, and her chops as a writer, to be orders of magnitude superior to Goodman's.
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I've just begun reading this opus. Not quite sure if I'm seeing any irreconcilable discrepancies with Spock's World, Sarek, and The Vulcan Academy Murders that haven't already appeared in canon.
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I'm now through "Part 1."
It needed the hand of a good copy-editor. There are at least two places in Part 1 that are ungrammatical enough (one's a singular/plural conflict, the other isn't) to throw me out of the story.
It needed the hand of a good copy-editor. There are at least two places in Part 1 that are ungrammatical enough (one's a singular/plural conflict, the other isn't) to throw me out of the story.
To me, this is the first of the Autobiography lines that feels like it could slot into the Pocket/Gallery line. And that's a good thing. Though I agree with the above comment -- IIRC there's a missing word within the first couple pages.
Actually, I felt that way about the Janeway "autobiography" as well.
I've skimmed through the book (like any good autobiography), which might not be the way Una McCormack wants to, but oh well. I liked the parts where Spock talks about Iloja of Prim in his youth, and adds in a bit about same-sex marriage and the conservative Cardassian culture. And, more importantly, that, after the Dominon War, the Cardassian Castellan honored the memory of Ghett Iloja at a ceremony on Cardassia Prime, also attended by the Castellan's husband. A nice sign of societal progress.
Who was the Castellan of Cardassia after the Dominion War? Who was his husband? We may never know.
Who was the Castellan of Cardassia after the Dominion War? Who was his husband? We may never know.
It's by Una McCormack. We know.
I note that Dr. McCormack is continuing Star Trek's long tradition of misusing the term "Flagship."
See my post in the "Man Trap vs. Turnabout Intruder" thread for more on this.
See my post in the "Man Trap vs. Turnabout Intruder" thread for more on this.
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