Last book you've read

[MLJames]

I just finished Lies My Teacher Told Me by James W. Loewen. The author examined a dozen high school American history textbooks, and he details how well (and, more often, how badly) they present the subject. It's quite an interesting book; some of the things in there may surprise you (they surprised me, and I thought I had an excellent American history course in high school).

In addition to the Bill Bryson books mentioned above, I'd also recommend his The Mother Tongue: English and How It Got That Way.

 

[ITL]

In addition to the Bill Bryson books mentioned above, I'd also recommend his The Mother Tongue: English and How It Got That Way.

That's the only one I haven't read. WANT!

 

[MLJames]

That was the first one of his I read. I borrowed my brother's copy, and after I finished I went out and bought my own.

 

[captcalhoun]

i really enjoyed it, it's continuing the story of Voyager's return to the Delta Quadrant as flagship of a fleet of nine ships and follows up on a plot point from the Destiny trilogy. great stuff.

Just out of curiosity, who's crewing Voyager these days?

the fleet commander is a new character Captain Afsarah Eden. Chakotay is CO of Voyager. Harry's Security chief, a Tamarian named Sharak is CMO, Paris is first officer, Nancy Conlon from the SCE series is chief engineer. they've got a counselor called Hugh Cambridge (think House) and a pair of new characters, Lasren and Gwyn, are at ops and con.

B'elanna's Fleet Chief Engineer, The EMH is CMO on the Galen, a prototype medical ship with a majority holographic crew, which Reg Barclay's also serving on. Seven's a civilian advisor on Voyager.

Neelix appeared briefly in the second book, Unworthy and has a small part in CotS.

Janeway was in ~half of Full Circle before her death.

 

[ElBurro]

Just finished The Illustrated Man and am now reading The Day it Rained Forever. I love Ray Bradbury.

My brother has just graduated from Durham University, where Bill Bryson was Vice Chancellor. Bryson spoke at the ceremony and me and brother had a chat with him after. He does seem like a canny bloke.

 

[K'Ehleyr]

I plan on dominating the world. Right after my nap.

Ooops was I s'pose to be doing something... *snoozes*

 

[RJDiogenes]

i really enjoyed it, it's continuing the story of Voyager's return to the Delta Quadrant as flagship of a fleet of nine ships and follows up on a plot point from the Destiny trilogy. great stuff.

Just out of curiosity, who's crewing Voyager these days?

the fleet commander is a new character Captain Afsarah Eden. Chakotay is CO of Voyager. Harry's Security chief, a Tamarian named Sharak is CMO, Paris is first officer, Nancy Conlon from the SCE series is chief engineer. they've got a counselor called Hugh Cambridge (think House) and a pair of new characters, Lasren and Gwyn, are at ops and con.

B'elanna's Fleet Chief Engineer, The EMH is CMO on the Galen, a prototype medical ship with a majority holographic crew, which Reg Barclay's also serving on. Seven's a civilian advisor on Voyager.

Neelix appeared briefly in the second book, Unworthy and has a small part in CotS.

Janeway was in ~half of Full Circle before her death.

Interesting. Still no name for EMH, huh? What became of Tuvok?

 

[{ Emilia }]

I suppose that if you visit Rome, at your return you'll read Angeli e demoni- Angels and demons-Dan Brown

I actually did read it in Rome and it was still rubbish.

 

[Tribble79]

I'm reading Through Wolf's Eyes by Jane Lindskold, Congo by Michael Crichton and Nightwalkers by P.T. Deutermann

 

[TorontoTrekker]

The last book I finished was Shades of Grey by Jasper Fforde. It's an absurdist fantasy, set in a world where your social standing is dependent upon how much colour you can see.

I'm currently reading two books: Turn Coat, a Dresden Files novel, and Mistborn, the first book in a trilogy by Brandon Sanderson. I'd hoped to finish it before he came to Toronto last month, but didn't make it all the way through. (That makes it tougher to read, as I won't take it with me on my commute now that it's autographed.)

 

[Admiral Shran]

Interesting. Still no name for EMH, huh? What became of Tuvok?

I haven't read the VOY relaunch books, but I believe Tuvok is Captain Riker's tactical officer on the Titan.

 

[Canadave]

Interesting. Still no name for EMH, huh? What became of Tuvok?

I haven't read the VOY relaunch books, but I believe Tuvok is Captain Riker's tactical officer on the Titan.

Trek lit really does throw out any pretense that it's a vast universe, eh?

 

[RJDiogenes]

^^ Vast universe, small fleet.

Interesting. Still no name for EMH, huh? What became of Tuvok?

I haven't read the VOY relaunch books, but I believe Tuvok is Captain Riker's tactical officer on the Titan.

Thanks. It's interesting that they've separated him from the Voyager relaunch.

 

[captcalhoun]

Tuvok went to teach at the Academy (a job Seven also briefly held) before rejoining Starfleet Intel. He was captured on Romulus just after the assassination of the Senate (cf. Nemesis) and Riker's mission to Romulus rescued him in the first book. With the Titan's security chief/tac officer in a coma at the time, Tuvok took the job. he later elected to remain on as chief tac officer, after the other guy recovered he became security chief.

Tuvok had a small appearance in part of Full Circle set prior to Janeway's death.

 

[captcalhoun]

Interesting. Still no name for EMH, huh? What became of Tuvok?

I haven't read the VOY relaunch books, but I believe Tuvok is Captain Riker's tactical officer on the Titan.

Trek lit really does throw out any pretense that it's a vast universe, eh?

most of the lit-only series aren't too bad. New Frontier has 3 existing characters from TV: Shelby, Lefler and Selar. Titan besides Riker and Troi has Tuvok, Melora Pazlar and Alyssa Ogawa. Vanguard has Clark Terrell and Dr. M'Benga. SCE has Duffy, Sonya Gomez and Fabian Stevens.

IKS Gorkon's the worst: Klag (A Matter of Honour), Drex (Way of the Warrior), Kurak (Suspicions), Rodek (mindwiped Kurn), Leskit (Soldiers of the Empire), Kornan (Soldiers of the Empire) all appear on the crew. Drex only appears in their first story in "Diplomatic Implausibility", but they all appear...

 

[RJDiogenes]

I don't mind that stuff at all. In fact, I like it. I wish they had done more of that in the series.

 

[captcalhoun]

it's a bit much though with the Klingons.

 

[RJDiogenes]

I suppose it is, unless there was some story-specific reason for bringing them all together.

 

[captcalhoun]

no.

Klag got made captain near the end of the Dominion War. he had his command staff forced on him; Toq was ops, Leskit helm, Drex was 1st officer, Kurak chief engineer. Drex was removed at the end of DI, Leskit rotated off. the new 1st was killed in the ship's second appearance. Leskit rotated back on in the first actual GKN novel, when Kornan came aboard with Rodek.

extra-universally, it was done purely by KRAD for, i guess, selfish reasons. he wanted to use them and did. TerriO said she advised against it.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

Just out of curiosity, who's crewing Voyager these days?

a Tamarian named Sharak is CMO

Does he still talk in metaphor, like the rest of them did in "Darmok"? How do the rest of the crew deal with that?