Spoilers TNG: Indistinguishable From Magic by McIntee Review Thread

[Cap'n Crunch]

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Spoiler: IFM

I had fun with them! There's another Vol in Reservoir Ferengi, and I definitely want to do more with Kat - I mean, she's Kang's granddaughter, there's got to be more stories with her!

That's interesting about Kat being Kang's granddaughter. I know the novel mentioned her family connections a few times, but I don't remember it ever saying who she was related to.

 

[Rosalind]

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^ same here, I think at the time I wondered whether she was related to someone we know, but I didn't work out who.

David, I laughed at the 'hot chocolate' line as well.

 

[Lonemagpie]

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^ same here, I think at the time I wondered whether she was related to someone we know, but I didn't work out who.

It's probably cos it goes with the Klingon spelling - she's of the House of Qang, and Scotty mentions her grandfather a few times.

David, I laughed at the 'hot chocolate' line as well.

Oh, now I remember that line!

 

[vegaslover62]

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I like the Lord of the Rings reference in IFM: the Romulan ship Stormcrow. Stormcrow, aka Mithrandir, aka Gandalf the Grey, aka Gandalf the White.

 

[star trek]

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Whoa Lonemagpie is David McIntee!. I'm kinda new here but WOW! there are a lot of trek authors posting regularly here.

Lovely book by the way. I just finished it. I must say though, a lot of the main characters in the book are not my favorites. Yet somehow I got through it. Excellent ending for one of the classic characters. I don't think there could have been a better send off for him.

 

[Sxottlan]

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Suffice it to say, I did not like this book.

 

[Graywand2]

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I thought it was okay, my only real complaint was that it "told" more than it "showed". It told me what was going on rather than showing me through details.

-Gray

 

[Lonemagpie]

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I like the Lord of the Rings reference in IFM: the Romulan ship Stormcrow. Stormcrow, aka Mithrandir, aka Gandalf the Grey, aka Gandalf the White.

Yeah, that was actually kind of prompted by the old FASA game referring to the Romulan D7s (Klingon ship) being called Stormbirds, and I thought therefore that Gandalf's nickname would fit as there was precedent...

 

[Lonemagpie]

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Suffice it to say, I did not like this book.

That's the Sith for you...

 

[Reanok]

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I just finished this novel it was an interesting story.

 

[Paris]

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I just wanted to add my two cents...I loved this book . Geordi on the Challenger is a story i've wanted to read for a long time, and I really dug this book. I would be there for each follow-up book with that awesome crew if they ever get another ship and get back together down the line. Thanks for the amazing contribution to treklit, Lonemagpie

 

[Lonemagpie]

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I just wanted to add my two cents...I loved this book . Geordi on the Challenger is a story i've wanted to read for a long time, and I really dug this book. I would be there for each follow-up book with that awesome crew if they ever get another ship and get back together down the line. Thanks for the amazing contribution to treklit, Lonemagpie

Glad you liked it - I'd be up for putting the band back together....

 

[TenLubak]

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I read this book two weeks ago. It was a fun story, even if i didn"t understand much of the technical mumbo jumbo. Scotty crying as he was going to die made me sad, and the Vulcans from the Hera seemed a little off to me. Again the way they got back I didnt totally understand. Elements of going out of phase confused me again.

Now Enterprise has 2 captains! LaForge and Picard. Well does he wear a yellow shirt with 4 dots? I guess so!

Nice work to the writer on this one! It was enjoyable! And i was happy to pay 8 dollars to read it.

 

[rfmcdpei]

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I wanted to pop up and say one thing.

Spoiler: Compliments on the chairman

The back half of the novel did a lot more with Sela than I would have expected - I don't recall this Half-Breed stuff coming up before? And the commander... Varaan?... is her half-brother?

The half-breed stuff just seemed natural for me both from what we've seen of Romulans, and from the way Denise Crosby plays the part - especially in Unification.

Yeah, Varaan's meant to be her half-brother (son of the Romulan general who took Tasha as a concubine.) He's supposed to be played by Daniel Craig, FWIW.

Really? I like Varaan even better, then ...

Ahem.

Indistinguishable From Magic did great things for Geordi Laforge's characterization, giving him interesting things to do, the chance to develop more. It did the very same things for Sela. Congratulations: you've fleshed out for the novelverse one of the more interesting underdeveloped characters of the series quite well!

 

[Lonemagpie]

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Now Enterprise has 2 captains! LaForge and Picard. Well does he wear a yellow shirt with 4 dots? I guess so!

I suppose he will

Nice work to the writer on this one! It was enjoyable! And i was happy to pay 8 dollars to read it.

That's my aim with it!

 

[Lonemagpie]

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I wanted to pop up and say one thing.

Spoiler: Compliments on the chairman

The back half of the novel did a lot more with Sela than I would have expected - I don't recall this Half-Breed stuff coming up before? And the commander... Varaan?... is her half-brother?

The half-breed stuff just seemed natural for me both from what we've seen of Romulans, and from the way Denise Crosby plays the part - especially in Unification.

Yeah, Varaan's meant to be her half-brother (son of the Romulan general who took Tasha as a concubine.) He's supposed to be played by Daniel Craig, FWIW.

Really? I like Varaan even better, then ...

Ahem.

Indistinguishable From Magic did great things for Geordi Laforge's characterization, giving him interesting things to do, the chance to develop more. It did the very same things for Sela. Congratulations: you've fleshed out for the novelverse one of the more interesting underdeveloped characters of the series quite well!

That was pretty much the plan - glad you liked it, and glad you liked the "casting"!

 

[pookha]

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I just wanted to add my two cents...I loved this book . Geordi on the Challenger is a story i've wanted to read for a long time, and I really dug this book. I would be there for each follow-up book with that awesome crew if they ever get another ship and get back together down the line. Thanks for the amazing contribution to treklit, Lonemagpie

Glad you liked it - I'd be up for putting the band back together....

wow, hope you do. with the exception of small quibble really enjoyed the book. going to lend it to a friend who used to read trek books to show there is still some good stuff.

 

[Valin]

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The original intent, of course, was that it would be two books, so there'd have been a gap into which you could slot such adventures in between them. Obviously that was lost when it became one book, but that's why there's a gap of a couple of months between parts one and two...

I voted "Above Average." I started the book yesterday, and finished it today. Very well-written; the characterizations of the various regulars and guests were spot on, and the new ones were pretty interesting, too. You had Geordi's and Scotty's "voices" just about perfect.

One of the few flaws was it felt like two separate , but related novels, glued together. Sort of like in the past, when they would take two episodes of a TV show, put them together, and market the combo as a movie. But your quote above explains why it felt that way.

 

[Freman]

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When does this book take place? Is it after the Typhon Pact TNG book?

 

[Paris]

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When does this book take place? Is it after the Typhon Pact TNG book?

It starts around stardate 60074. So early 2383. It ends some months later. Typhon Pact was in 2382...