Being as I'm currently reading [FONT=Times New Roman]Vulcan's Soul, I'd have to add one thing to the 'dumb' category. In the scene where Ruanek and Data are stealing the Romulan artifact from the Watraii, Ruanek saw lightening coming, and then outran it. If it was Data, it would be greatly stretching the realm of possibility. With Ruanek, it was downright ridiculous.[/FONT]
Dumb and Bizarre Trek Novel Moments...
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GodThingFormerly
A Different Kind of Asshole
Were the pages stuck together, or do they fall open there easily because of dog-eared corners and a severe spine crack?
Neither, at least for the moment. I purchased a mint copy of TSW via ABE.com a couple of weeks ago to confirm the OP's (bullshit) assertion because the one I had as a kid went missing when we moved from Birchgrove to Neutral Bay circa 1981.
TGT
Was the lightning aimed directly at Ruanek? He could have been running from a succession of lightning strikes strafing the ground, and which were headed in his direction.
Side note: Ruanek is totally cool.
Was the lightning aimed directly at Ruanek? He could have been running from a succession of lightning strikes strafing the ground, and which were headed in his direction.
Side note: Ruanek is totally cool.
Nope. He was in a big metal building, basically a big lighting rod. Lightning hit the building, he saw it traveling down the sides of the building, and he had time to unwind himself from a metal wire that was attached to the building and hurl himself to the doorway. Ruanek may be cool, but that doesn't allow him to escape lightning.
Was the lightning aimed directly at Ruanek? He could have been running from a succession of lightning strikes strafing the ground, and which were headed in his direction.
Side note: Ruanek is totally cool.
Nope. He was in a big metal building, basically a big lighting rod. Lightning hit the building, he saw it traveling down the sides of the building, and he had time to unwind himself from a metal wire that was attached to the building and hurl himself to the doorway. Ruanek may be cool, but that doesn't allow him to escape lightning.
Not to mention that lightning doesn't "strafe." If it had been done that way, that would be even sillier.
Captain Robau could outrun lightning in his sleep. 
The amount of times that characters were saying "Jesus Christ!" in Kobayashi Maru (Julia Ecklar's novel) took me right out of what was an otherwise decent novel.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julia_Ecklar
The marriage of Spock and Saavik happened in Vulcan's Heart, not the Vulcan's Soul trilogy.
To be fair, though, Vulcan's Soul has this absurd scene where the Federation President meets with the Romulan Praetor, and the Praetor almost has his guards try to storm the President's office -- as though the Federation President, on a Federation world, wouldn't be covered in security at all times.
Has anybody mentioned the part in The Fearful Summons where Spock, having left Starfleet, becomes an amateur actor on Vulcan? I mean...WHA???
Ack.
That whole book...
^ Pretty much, yeah. As much as I hated that book, I've never gotten rid of my copy, because it's such an excellent example of what not to do, from the misguided story to the appalling mis-characterization to the almost non-existent copy-editing (there's a two-page sequence in there somewhere that has Sulu changing rank three times!)....I swear, it's so bad it's almost good. Only, y'know...not.
Lightning can't outrun Captain Robau.Captain Robau could outrun lightning in his sleep.
trevanian
Rear Admiral
Oh please.
Captain Robau could outrun lightning in his sleep.
Robau doesn't run from lightning. Lightning runs from Robau.
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