Forged in Fire....with some *spoilers*...

[Hoshi_Mayweather]

I was skipping around on this novel, but I may sit down and read it in it's entirety. (Klingons, for me, are okay in small doses...)

I like the way it shows how Sulu got command of the Excelsior; and it shows that Captain Styles was still a jack-ass all the way up until his convienient death...

Too, I like the little conversation between Dr. Chapel and her friend (also in the medical field) about the 'minidresses.' Apparently, Chapel liked them even though she thought they were sexist; moreover, she thought it would have been nice to have the men show a bit of leg too!

Note to Abrams: Maybe we can initiate that idea with nuMcCoy or nuSpock...?

Oh, Doctor!

 

[Thrawn]

Aside from like 100 pages in the middle where Sulu's entire role in the story is to over and over and over again think about how he wishes he could do something but can't (I swear there was that exact scene, Sulu wanting to run off and be useful, at least 6 consecutive times) Forged In Fire is a pretty great read, and the Albino is a fantastically written villain.

 

[Rush Limborg]

Awesome book. One o' my all-time favorites.

 

[Thestral]

See, unlike the OP, I thought Forged in Fire did a nice job of showing us how Larry Styles began changing and maybe becoming someone Sulu could respect, making his sudden death all the more tragic.

 

[Rush Limborg]

^Same here. Despite his less-than-flattering turn in STIII and Prime Directive, this books shows that maybe Styles is not such a bad fellow...after all.

 

[Hoshi_Mayweather]

See, unlike the OP, I thought Forged in Fire did a nice job of showing us how Larry Styles began changing and maybe becoming someone Sulu could respect, making his sudden death all the more tragic.

^Same here. Despite his less-than-flattering turn in STIII and Prime Directive, this books shows that maybe Styles is not such a bad fellow...after all.

Well, I was skipping around...so my opinion of Styles may change after I read the book in its entirety....

It's in my 'to read' pile now....

***

Rush Limborg, I have to show your signature to my boyfriend. He has to write an essay about Atlas Shrugged for a scholarship...

 

[Rush Limborg]

^Be my guest.

And wish him luck on the scholarship.

(BTW, I was introduced to Rand when I did the scholarship for The Fountainhead. Read both that book and Atlas Shrugged for the first time early last year--and I have not regretted it!)

 

[Hoshi_Mayweather]

^Be my guest.

And wish him luck on the scholarship.

Tks....

(BTW, I was introduced to Rand when I did the scholarship for The Fountainhead. Read both that book and Atlas Shrugged for the first time early last year--and I have not regretted it!)

Cool...!

 

[Joel_Kirk]

I thought this book was interesting because it showed that Captain's can name their shuttlecraft; I noticed, in Destiny: Book 2, that Riker named his shuttlecraft after jazz musicians: Holliday, Armstrong, and Ellington...

I noticed too, that Styles didn't permit his crewmen and crew-women to have relationships....(That would have been a VERY uptight ship; if it wasn't already)...

And they didn't even have a holodeck!

Anyway, I have the other Lost Era Sulu book(or 'books' if you count the one with Demora Sulu) in my pile to read (among many other books, Trek and non-Trek)...

Most importantly, the Omega IV virus is of interest to me; something I personally would like to follow-up on in a story of my own if someone else doesn't beat me to it...

 

[JD]

Actually we've known about the Captain's naming their shuttlecraft thing for a while. Kira also named her new one after one of Bajor's rivers in one of the post-Unity books.

 

[Joel_Kirk]

Actually we've known about the Captain's naming their shuttlecraft thing for a while. Kira also named her new one after one of Bajor's rivers in one of the post-Unity books.

^^
You mean everyone knew about this shuttlecraft naming except me?

Seriously, though...I think that's cool...

For some reason I couldn't get into the Unity novels; too slow for me....(I had to start with Warpath!)

 

[Lindley]

^Honestly, the post-Unity stories didn't have the same punch as the season 8 stories. Possibly due to the, like, 5 years that season 9 took to come out. Seemed like season 9 was lots of setup, not much payoff.

 

[JD]

Actually we've known about the Captain's naming their shuttlecraft thing for a while. Kira also named her new one after one of Bajor's rivers in one of the post-Unity books.

^^
You mean everyone knew about this shuttlecraft naming except me?

Seriously, though...I think that's cool...

For some reason I couldn't get into the Unity novels; too slow for me....(I had to start with Warpath!)

I'm honestly not sure where it was established. The first books I remember mentioning it were either the P-U (PU? ) DS9 book (I can't remember for sure which it was) or Taking Wing depending on which came out first.

 

[Christopher]

Actually it was established canonically in DS9's "Family Business":

KIRA: Chief O'Brien wants to know when you can stop by and inspect the new runabout.
SISKO: I will be available at fourteen hundred hours. Tell him I want to name it the Rubicon.
KIRA: The Rubicon it is. You know, the rate we go through runabouts, it's a good thing the Earth has so many rivers.

 

[Reanok]

Forged in Fire is a gripping read I was hooked from the first page and couldn't put this book down. The villian is complex and the story as it unfolds certainly holds your attention.I liked Sulu and the other Klingons who were hunting The Albino trying to stop him.And Styles certainly was as muleheaded as he was in Startrek 3.Too bad he ignored Mr. Sulu's advice about the dangers at the interplanetary conference.

 

[Paris]

Aside from like 100 pages in the middle where Sulu's entire role in the story is to over and over and over again think about how he wishes he could do something but can't (I swear there was that exact scene, Sulu wanting to run off and be useful, at least 6 consecutive times) ...

I'm reading it now, and it's this part that's taking the longest. Every time I read another scene where Sulu "wants to do something but can't" I lose a little bit more steam. I loved Martin & Mangels Lost Era Sulu book, so i'll just push through, but it is kind of slow...

 

[Joel_Kirk]

^Honestly, the post-Unity stories didn't have the same punch as the season 8 stories. Possibly due to the, like, 5 years that season 9 took to come out. Seemed like season 9 was lots of setup, not much payoff.

Alright, I'm kinda out of the loop.

Season 8 are the novels up to Unity, right? Season 9 are the novels/stories afterward?

Aside from like 100 pages in the middle where Sulu's entire role in the story is to over and over and over again think about how he wishes he could do something but can't (I swear there was that exact scene, Sulu wanting to run off and be useful, at least 6 consecutive times) ...

I'm reading it now, and it's this part that's taking the longest. Every time I read another scene where Sulu "wants to do something but can't" I lose a little bit more steam. I loved Martin & Mangels Lost Era Sulu book, so i'll just push through, but it is kind of slow...

^^
I've noticed that each author has his or her style that may or may not work for some people.

@Hoshi_Mayweather-

I would like to hear how your boyfriend did with the scholarship! (I saw the questions and the entries, and you really have to know what you're talking about; and you have to say with a strong essay.

I waited too long since I was going back and forth on the book, and the cliff notes...

Next year...next year...)

 

[Rosalind]

^Honestly, the post-Unity stories didn't have the same punch as the season 8 stories. Possibly due to the, like, 5 years that season 9 took to come out. Seemed like season 9 was lots of setup, not much payoff.

Alright, I'm kinda out of the loop.

Season 8 are the novels up to Unity, right? Season 9 are the novels/stories afterward?

that's what some of the people here like to refer to the books, but it's definitely not something the authors like to think of them.

and of course, some people here like to include the Worlds of DS9 books in their definition of "season 8".

 

[David Brennon]

Why would they want to include Worlds as part of Season 8? Unity leaves it off perfectly! Had they stopped the story at that point it would have been... well heartbreaking, but at least the story would have had an ending you could believe in. I think that Soul Key has left something to be desired and now that the next DS9 Novel is going to sync up the two timelines (finally) I think that we Post-Series DS9 fans are at once going to be pissed and pleased. Pissed because we miss out on a few years of storyline (thought they'll most likely do something a la Full Circle) but pleased because now DS9 can get in on all of this action. I'm really curious about what the DS9 crew was doing during the 2381 Borg Invasion...

 

[Rosalind]

don't ask me. I have never thought of the books in terms of 'seasons'.