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Damian said:
My favorite book of the 3 so far is probably the 2nd book, Drastic Measures by Dayton Ward. I really liked the character of Lorca. A no nonsense kind of guy but with a bit of a dry wit. I liked when he told the other officer that his girlfriend was the only one allowed to call him Gabe without getting their head handed to them basically, that sort of thing. And I can see the events on Tarsus will have an effect on him in the future probably making him even more no nonsense. I got a sense their that his girlfriend (I apologize that I can't recall her name at the moment) would have helped him open up a bit more but now that she's gone I suspect in the show he's probably more serious.

I've learned a lot about Burnham and Saru in the other two books with each getting a bit more coverage in the opposite book. Saru of course is always fighting his fearful nature. He strikes me as very cautious and more strictly by the book. Though by the end of Fear Itself he seems to want to grow beyond that. However I get the impression he's still very cautious by the time of the show. Burnham is definitely a risk taker, that I even gathered from the pilot episode I saw. It's an interesting dynamic because of her being raised by Sarek you'd think she'd be more cautious and reserved. Yet she is more fly by the seat of her pants (though she seems to keep her emotions in check). In the first novel driving headlong into danger and in the last beaming the probe on board over Saru's objections. And she seems to like getting under his skin though some of that seems subconscious. She likes the rivalry but I never got the impression she considers him an enemy or even a rival (while he feels she is a rival on the other hand).

Georgiou is given some decent coverage too and I like her character. She seems to have some of Kirk's characteristics. She wants to hear opinions and encourages a free flow of information, yet she is decisive and she has the loyalty of her crew. And she can be unpredictable like Kirk. She also seems to encourage a bit of rivalry between Burnham and Saru, but because I think she thinks each has something the other lacks and she hopes they both work together and help each other in that regard. Those were the main characters I've thus far have gotten a decent feel for by the books without the show. I'm not sure how many characters carried over from the Shenzou to the Discovery. Wheeton was another character I recall from Fear Itself that had some good development, however, I'm not sure that he ends up on the show. But he seemed like a bit of a hot-head but to his credit he did try to reign that in and was willing to calm himself and listen to Saru.
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Thanks for sharing! This is neat.
 
Damian said:
Production stuff I've sort of kept up on. And I'm familiar with some very general plot points. Like I know Mudd has made an appearance, that they end up in the mirror universe at some point, things like that. But I've avoided most specific plot points. I don't know what Mudd is doing, how they end up in the mirror universe or what happens there.

I avoid spoilers, but something like Christopher's comment above is fine since it's mostly time frames and episode names and very general information.

I was initially back and forth about reading the novels. Should I since I wouldn't see the show right away? Once I read the synopsis I realized I wasn't going to be ruining anything for when I see the show but I wondered if I would like them since they were characters from the show that I wasn't yet watching.

But then I thought of all the novels I already read with a lot of original characters like New Frontier, Titan and even all the original characters on the relaunches that were never featured on screen and realized that would not be a problem.
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I’ve not seen the tv series and not even sure if I will. I prefer to read rather than watch.

I'm treating the Discovery novels as an original Litverse series like New Frontier and Vanguard.
 
David Weller said:
I’ve not seen the tv series and not even sure if I will. I prefer to read rather than watch.

I'm treating the Discovery novels as an original Litverse series like New Frontier and Vanguard.
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I plan on watching it once it comes out on Blu-Ray. I'm still a dinosaur and have cable (partly because I follow a number of sports teams and my wife likes a lot of the Hallmark channel and Lifetime movies) and I refuse to shell out more money for a subscription. Plus I'm still old school and like to have a hard copy.

My hope is after they've squeezed everything they can online from season 1 and to generate excitement for season 2 that they release the 1st season on Blu-Ray. I figure that'd be a good time.

As an aside I also hope that next year they release a Blu-Ray of the directors cut of TMP for the 40th anniversary (the creators of the updated effects shots said they have the source material, all Paramount has to do is ask and they're ready). I throw that out there every chance I get ;)
 
Damian said:
I plan on watching it once it comes out on Blu-Ray. I'm still a dinosaur and have cable (partly because I follow a number of sports teams and my wife likes a lot of the Hallmark channel and Lifetime movies) and I refuse to shell out more money for a subscription. Plus I'm still old school and like to have a hard copy.

My hope is after they've squeezed everything they can online from season 1 and to generate excitement for season 2 that they release the 1st season on Blu-Ray. I figure that'd be a good time.

As an aside I also hope that next year they release a Blu-Ray of the directors cut of TMP for the 40th anniversary (the creators of the updated effects shots said they have the source material, all Paramount has to do is ask and they're ready). I throw that out there every chance I get ;)
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I got a Netflix subscription when Discovery was announced but every time I think ‘OK, I’ll start watching it’ I sit down and pick up a book.
 
I wonder if Admiral Ross will return for the new tng book? He's been mia(/missing in retirement) for so long....

Also I guess that will set up Hobus!

Excited for any McCormack work - and Tilly will be intriguing - although I hope she does return to Cardassia and/or Pulaski (madness to think I'd ever write that) and/or Crusher (ditto) and/or DS9 itself...

Also yes could the trek editors hire Krad again? And excited to see what Christopher does next too! And can DS9 be ... Made more diverse again. I have liked DRG's work but I think it works better with tight editorial control of multiple authors managing its very big cast, which was what the Bacco assassination and then immediately after with The Missing and Quark stories did alongisde DRG's work. I hope this can happen again
 
In the future, when Discovery is over, I am thoroughly looking forward to the ongoing litverse series, STAR TREK: SHENZHOU. Preferably starting with Georgiou taking command and working its way up to adding Michael to the crew, eventually leading to the Battle at the Binary Stars. I mean, if they're never going to give us an ongoing Aventine series, I will gladly take the Shenzhou!
 
Christopher said:
That's kinda what we already have, considering that two of the three nominal Discovery novels so far have been set on the Shenzhou.
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Haha, sort of funny when you think about it because no Discovery novels have actually featured the Discovery.

All kidding aside though I wouldn't mind seeing a prime universe Kelvin novel--what happened to it without Nero's influence (plus from the limited amount of time we saw Robau he seemed like an intriguing character). It'd be interesting to see how the production designs are explained (why the Kelvin is so much larger and has a lot more people then normal for the time, why there was a window on the bridge---it makes no sense, whoever makes sense of that will be my hero). I noticed even in the Discovery novels it was mentioned a few times the Constitution class ships are the more advanced ships, despite how it might appear on screen. Plus I wonder if there's anyway to bring some Kelvin characters into a Discovery novel--granted the time frame is about 20 years apart but I'm sure they could meet somewhere in the middle in the 2240s.

Jarvisimo said:
I wonder if Admiral Ross will return for the new tng book? He's been mia(/missing in retirement) for so long....
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I get the feeling Admiral Ross is, how shall we put it, no longer with us. I think he may have joined former President Zife in the afterlife. It wasn't made exactly clear but while Ross was hoping Section 31 was just going to let him disappear quietly I get the distinct impression they would make him disappear more permanently. He was too much of a threat to them alive.
 
Christopher said:
That's kinda what we already have, considering that two of the three nominal Discovery novels so far have been set on the Shenzhou.
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Yes, but only kinda. And that kinda is basically why I want a self-titled, ongoing series for the Shenzhou. I'm looking for a version of what we have now from the first mission and proceeding in chronological order, rather than a string of books set across the timeline only linked together by way of the main Discovery characters. I wanna see the other officers on the Shenzhou get fleshed out novelverse style, with their own pasts and hopes and dreams and futures, on missions big and small.

I like what we have now just fine (super excited for Tilly's book and the inevitable Stamets book) but from the first episode, I wanted more Shenzhou. I like Discovery a lot, but I couldn't help but feel that I would have also liked to watch 7 seasons of Michael on the Shenzhou doing Star Trek-y stuff instead of the war.
 
Mage said:
I feel the same way, but I doubt that's gonna make any difference.
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I wonder how that all works these days. I have novels from the 80's and 90's from a wide range of authors, some of whom only wrote a single book. But nowadays there seems to be a set list of authors they go to and you see few, if any, books from outside that list of authors.

KRAD and Peter David used to be part of that list who wrote a lot of novels with many of our current authors (there are some others too, but those two come to mind in particular because they used to be prolific writers of Star Trek books). I wondered what happened that authors like them seem to be outside looking in. The impression I get, at least with those two and comments I've seen in the past are that they'd be delighted to write another Star Trek book.

I wonder what got them booted out of the club. I don't really expect an official answer to that but it is something I'm curious about. I'd feel the same way if Greg Cox, Christopher Bennett or any other of our current authors were suddenly on the outside.
 
With David Mack currently unavailable as he’s tied up with his Dark Arts series, we need authors like KRAD and Peter David to fill the gap.
 
David Weller said:
With David Mack currently unavailable as he’s tied up with his Dark Arts series, we need authors like KRAD and Peter David to fill the gap.
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Yeah it'd be nice, though I'm not holding my breath right now.

It's always good when our authors take up other projects. I think it helps when they do then write Star Trek books because it keeps them well rounded---as long as they do come back ;).

With David Mack I'm pretty confident he'll write more Star Trek books someday. I can't imagine he's finished with us just yet :)
 
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