Garm Bel Iblis
Commodore
Just finished Survivors, not bad, liked the early concepts. what are some of your favorte 'during the series' tng books?
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I just started diving into these again with Ghost Ship. I'm gonna read them in chronological order, all the way up to "Losing the Peace."
Some of my favorites would be: Doomsday World, The Eyes of the Beholders, Imzadi, Vendetta, Metamorphosis, A Call to Darkness, Grounded, The Romulan Prize, Q-in-Law, Q Squared
Some of my favorites would be: Doomsday World, The Eyes of the Beholders, Imzadi, Vendetta, Metamorphosis, A Call to Darkness, Grounded, The Romulan Prize, Q-in-Law, Q Squared
indianatrekker26 - Big Peter David fan? Have you been reading New Frontier as well?
Garm Bel Iblis
Commodore
ugh, i hate Peter David. Reads like fanwank comic books.SUch ludacris soap opera garbage.
I'm a fan of his older works like Imzadi and Vendetta. Ever since New Frontier, I have never been blown away by how changed his writing to more of a comic book feel.
Really? I don't remember any rappers in his books at all.
Ludacris is actually a pretty decent actor...I bet he could make a soap opera work.
With the cancellation of As the World Turns, however, he has one fewer option--and ironically, it's the one with the most Star Trek-sounding title.
But his spelling is ludicrous.
If that's going to be a problem for you, you should probably avoid reading most rappers' stage names.
I don't have a problem with performers using variant spellings for their stage names. It's just sad when it leads people to think the words are actually spelled that way. But that's probably the fault of the schools, not the performers.
The Eyes of the Beholders (Andorian, blind child, Crispin!)
Survivors
The Children of Hamlin
Dark Mirror
Doomsday World
Contamination
Q-in-Law, oddly enough.
War Drums
Reunion
Federation
Survivors
The Children of Hamlin
Dark Mirror
Doomsday World
Contamination
Q-in-Law, oddly enough.
War Drums
Reunion
Federation
I thought this book was HILARIOUS.
I actually think PAD mis-characterizes Q. Q, on the show (with perhaps the exception of Sherwood Forest) never showed up just to mess with them. He always had some kind of reason or lesson he wanted to teach. Sure, he was a total jerk about it, but he had some kind of reason for being there.
When Q shows up in PAD's books (Excalibur: Renaissance too), he seems to just want to dick with people for no particular reason. I think it misses the character's motivation, makes him more shallow.
When Q shows up in PAD's books (Excalibur: Renaissance too), he seems to just want to dick with people for no particular reason. I think it misses the character's motivation, makes him more shallow.
No, I don't think so. Q's motivation in "Encounter at Farpoint" was clearly nothing more than putting up a roadblock (almost literally) for humanity. In "Hide and Q", he dicks the crew around making them fight "animal-things" in Napoleonic uniforms, and in the end, he learns the lesson that humans can resist temptation. "Q Who?" can be interpreted in hindsight as "Q helps Starfleet prepare for Wolf 359," but taken at face value, what Q really does is threaten to let the Enterprise be destroyed until Picard admits how lame he is and how cool and awesome Q is. In "Deja Q," he arrives against his will, and is almost killed by another species that also disagrees with the idea that Q was simply providing valuable lessons. It's not until after "Qpid" (and for that matter, Q in Law) that we get "Tapestry," which ends with Picard and Riker wondering aloud why Q had behaved so uncharacteristically in letting Picard deal with his perceived failures at Earhart Station. PAD made Q a clownish dick in his books because Q was a clownish dick on screen.
Survivors and Metamorphosis
A Rock and a hard place
Imzadi
Q Squared - I really enjoyed PAD's work once but his more recent books were kind of a disappointment for me... yes, too comic-book-like for me. Which is why I lost interest in the NF after Restoration.
Reunion
A Rock and a hard place
Imzadi
Q Squared - I really enjoyed PAD's work once but his more recent books were kind of a disappointment for me... yes, too comic-book-like for me. Which is why I lost interest in the NF after Restoration.
Reunion
Wow, so many actually. I may be in the minority, but I prefer these earlier "during the series" books than some of the less-than-great post-Nemesis TNG stuff I've read.
Some faves...
"A Call To Darkness"
"Reunion"
"Contamination"
"War Drums"
"Here There Be Dragons"
"Doomsday World"
Some faves...
"A Call To Darkness"
"Reunion"
"Contamination"
"War Drums"
"Here There Be Dragons"
"Doomsday World"
