Delta Quadrant

[Akiraprise]

I liked Golden's books while the series was airing. Her relaunch, however, was not the greatest.

 

[Lynx]

If you're talking about Christie Golden I find her writing to be half dimensional porn. She just unfurrels skreels of love letters to Janeway and Seven at the expense of every other characters intellect and ego. It's just painful.

Voyager the TV shows 70 plus authors I will agree had inconsistent continuity, but week by week they had a consistent quality in entertaining me.Stuff happened and it was good, no matter how little resonance one episode might ever have to what happened before and after as long as I suspended belief a little.

I think you are a bit too critical to Christie Golden.

OK, I'm not a fan of the "Voyager Relaunch" books, I've only read two of them, "Homecoming" and "The Farther Shore" and wasn't too impressed.

But I've read some other of Golden's Voyager books, most notably "The Murdered Sun" and "Marooned" which I really liked. "Marooned" is one of my absolute favorite books and "The Murdered Sun" is good too. The "Dark Matters" trilogy were so-so but that's more because of the season 4-7 scenario than the writing.

I've read all the Voyager pocket books which covers season 1-3 of Voyager including "Mosaic" and "Pathways" by Jeri Tayllor and "Her Klingon Soul" by Michael Jan Friedman and I find most of those books better than most of the TV episodes. The only book I've read where the characters were "out of character" was "Ragnarok" by Nathan Archer but that can be explained by the fact that the author hadn't watched a single episode of the series since he started to write the book before the series was aired. He only had basic information about the characters available.

Otherwise the books are brilliant, despite some minor contradictions. One main thing is that ALL characters have something to do in the books. Just look at Harry Kim who is far more better in the books than in the series.

Many of the books should have been great two-part episodes, most notably the masterpiece "The Black Shore" by Greg Cox and "Marooned" by Christie Golden.

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