Spoilers DSC: Dead Endless by Dave Galanter Review Thread

[Kertrats47]

Just posted my video review of this novel (very slowly trying to get caught up on reviews). I loved this novel. Spoiler for my review: I picked it as the top Trek novel in 2019.
My review.

 

[JWolf]

And, finally, there was a repeated text rendering error in the Apple iBooks version of the book that appeared around single quotes. The first time I noticed it was the paragraph (error included):

The figure was noncommittal. "' We '?"
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I don't know how to report bugs in eBooks.

That is a bug in Books (formerly iBooks).   is the code for some sort of space. It displays no problem in ADE (RMSDK) and KOReader.

 

[Christopher]

I finally got Dead Endless from the library (since I recently figured out I could get a card for the library across the river in Kentucky, which has some books the Cincinnati library doesn't have). I'm surprised to realize how long ago it came out. Anyway, I think it's my favorite Dave Galanter novel, and it's sad that it was his last. He really captured the Discovery characters well, especially Tilly and the way she speaks and thinks. It was a lot of fun seeing the crew fleshed out, even if it was a slightly alternate version of the crew.

I do share the questions raised earlier in this thread about how these same characters would've ended up together on Discovery if not for the Klingon War. My understanding was that Stamets was a civilian who was reluctantly recruited into Starfleet to develop spore drive for the war effort. But I guess Trek is full of alternate universes where the same people coincidentally end up serving on the same ship even with radically different life histories, e.g. the Mirror Universe and the Kelvin Timeline.

 

[Enterprise1701]

Spoiler

The infamous and ongoing fan-film boondoggle, Axanar, has Garth's ship during the Four Years' War with the Klingons being the U.S.S. Ares.

This week's Literary Trek's is an interview with Dave Galanter on Dead Endless.

With regard to the Axanar easter egg, I was surprised at the point that there was no canon Starfleet ships called the Ares, though I quickly realized I was thinking of a USS Aries with an "i," named after the zodiac goat constellation, and the 21st century Ares Mars landers seen on VOY, which have a bit of an excuse on account of theming. Now that I'm curious, I checked MB, and it has been used as a name in the Rise of the Federation era (named for the aforementioned Mars lander, as part of the "Early Earth Spacecraft" theme), a Saladin-class ship in FJ's tech manual (which also had a Hermes-class USS Aries, to compound all possible confusion), and as a stock name for generic ships in a couple of games.

From my point of view, Starfleet wouldn't be naming a ship after a god of war. At least, if they had at some point, I'd ignore that the same way I ignore "James R. Kirk" and every ship having its own insignia: mistakes before it all shook out. :-)

I missed this tidbit when the book came out and only found out about the Axanar homage this week while doing other research. This is the best Trek joke I have seen in a long time.

I miss you, DaveGalanter.