Captains Table
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The less bar stuff, the better to be honest. (Except for the gecko.) The Mist probably has the most scenes set in the bar, and they are excruciating. On the other hand, Where Sea Meets Sky uses the bar a lot to good effect, but isn't into its "mystial" aspects.
Where Sea Meets Sky has the best bar stuff.
Once Burned is the favourite here probably for the same reason I love it - it deals with why he left starfleet to begin with, and it deals with it very well. The intro also has a very good bar scene, and PAD deals with the bar differently from any of the other novels, but in a very clever way. I would highly recommend it, but if you really don't want to read a Calhoun book, Where Sea Meets Sky is your best bet.
Another vote over here for Once Burned. I loved how it told the story about Calhoun that we had been waiting for. I'd go so far as to say that it is tied for my favorite PAD book with The Captain's Daughter.
I also really liked the anthology. DRG3's Iron & Sacrifice starring Demora Sulu was my favorite, followed closely by KRAD's Klag story. I'd say this anthology is probably my favorite of the treklit anthologies
I also really liked the anthology. DRG3's Iron & Sacrifice starring Demora Sulu was my favorite, followed closely by KRAD's Klag story. I'd say this anthology is probably my favorite of the treklit anthologies
There's bar stuff between each of the stories in the anthology, but most of it consists of X walked into the bar sat down with Y Z and started to tell a story.
I'm going to have to jump on the bandwagon and say that Once Burned was the stand-out best, although I enjoyed Where Sea Meets Sky and War Dragons.
I'm surprised at the lack of love for The Mist though, I read it last year and I thought it was rather good. I've certainly read a lot worse.
I'm surprised at the lack of love for The Mist though, I read it last year and I thought it was rather good. I've certainly read a lot worse.
"Fire Ship" really surprised me. Most of the numbered VOY novels were so, umm, forgettable, and yet the strongest memories I have of early VOY fiction are "Mosaic" and "Fire Ship", both Janeway-focus novels.
But even without Janeway (the novel even explains the change in hairstyle), the alien ship of "Fire Ship" was intriguing. That lowly members of the crew were literally assigned to scrub it with a toothbrush to make it work efficiently. That Janeway was able to keep rising in rank as she overcame obstacles in her path.
But then I've never had a problem with Diane Carey's books. I guess it's distinctly Carey-enough to antagonize those who don't usually like her work.
the gecko should have gotten a story in the anthology.
I'd like to recommend the omnibus edition just because if you're only getting one why not get them all?
http://www.amazon.com/Captains-Table-Omnibus-Star-Trek/dp/0671040529
I thought the Captain Pike novel was just great cracking fun (though I may be biased as a Pike junky), but the Kirk-Sulu novel wasn't as great, especially since it perpetrated the silly idea that Mitchell was XO in WNMHGB.
i thought he was...
Huh. I thought so too, but according to Memory Alpha, he was only described as a helmsman.
^Sure, but that doesn't mean he couldn't have been first officer too. After all, Spock was first officer and science officer. I don't see why the interpretation of Mitchell as first officer is "silly." One of the best pilot-era stories ever written, Mike Barr's "All Those Years Ago..." (DC Star Trek Annual #1), went with that view.
Oh yeah definitely. I just could've sworn he was actually called XO or first officer in that episode. Just been so long since I've seen it, I guess.
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