Wouldn't it be ST7?
Spoilers DSC: Drastic Measures by Dayton Ward Review Thread
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Both. The seventh show but the sixth live-action show.
ah good point.
Back in the day, when Voyager was winding down before the announcement of what the next show would be, it was popular to refer to it as "Series Five." It offended my sense of order that, before we found out what DSC's name was, people had taken to calling it "Series Seven," even though I know the reason was that, during the interregnum, TAS regained its standing alongside the other shows.
I believe only once I had to do a manual download.
Do any characters from the shows, other then the obvious (Kodos and Kirk) show up or get mentioned?
More specifically (for myself),
do Robert April and/or Kor get mentioned?
C'est la vie.
As far as I can recall, DM is fully consistent with the April "Enterprise Logs" story, though not to any extent that would make anyone who didn't know about that story think it was anything more than just another TOS cameo appearance to help tie the 23rd century together.
Just finished the book. In deference to the street date and eReaders among us...
I thought Lorca was great. As someone who thought Mirror Lorca was ill-served by how broadly evil he was revealed to be in last week's episode, I liked that Prime Lorca was consistent with what we thought we knew about him. (Interesting touch that Lorca's fortune cookies actually had fortunes in them, something his counterpart apparently dispensed with. That, or Lorca started eating empty ones out of sentiment after everything that happened in the book). Georgiou was also well-served and consistent with what we know of her, especially underscoring her indefatigable optimism even in the face of enormous tragedy.
Speaking of, the actual massacre was well-done, as was the fallout. I've mentioned this before (I think the biggest example was a comment on "Storming Heaven"), but a lot of TOS episodes, especially, take place in the wake of horrific catastrophe, and when you look at the big picture, the Enterprise crew didn't really save the day so much as mitigate the situation or, at best, prevent further destruction. DM is one of those books that brings out the scale of stuff the show treated as backstory or stakes, which is exactly the sort of thing that cross-media storytelling is perfect for.
I thought the cameo by shitty teenage Jimmy Kirk was perfect, especially him turning on the charm with Georgiou. Though, come to think of it, it feels like there's a bit of a loose thread with Winona mentioning George is on a secret mission, after establishing Constitution-class ship's movements were being kept secret a few times earlier in the book, and then not actually bringing up that George was on the Enterprise at the end. I can see how it'd be superfluous to the Tarsus IV story, but my deleted-scene spidey-sense is tingling.
It's left ambiguous exactly how broken Lorca is at the end of the book. His anger is definitely close to the surface, similar to the way Other Lorca explained his behavior as trauma from the death of the Buran crew, and Georgiou thinks, a little before DSC takes place, about how she doesn't know what became of him (beyond, apparently, that he made Captain). Of course, he does keep the one fortune slip he chose as his guiding star the night of the massacre, so I guess that right there tells you everything you need to know about the difference about the Mirror Universe and our own.
So, let's get to the big twist, the thing that history will either regard as a weird blind alley or an early sign that Star Trek isn't afraid of its own books anymore. There's what can only be described as a post-credits scene (I'm trying to remember if there's ever been one in a Trek novel before, and I have a vague feeling there has been, if only as a disguised excerpt from the next book in a miniseries) where we get the bombshell revelation (though, technically, only heavily implied and still deniable or easily ret-connable) that Prime Lorca survived the destruction of the ISS Buran (assuming he transposed with his counterpart a la "Mirror, Mirror") and is being imprisoned but specifically kept alive by some mysterious party, likely a faction of Terrans. I can only hope this is a specific tease for next season and not just a breadcrumb thrown out as a potential plotline that may or may not be followed up on later.
Speaking of, the actual massacre was well-done, as was the fallout. I've mentioned this before (I think the biggest example was a comment on "Storming Heaven"), but a lot of TOS episodes, especially, take place in the wake of horrific catastrophe, and when you look at the big picture, the Enterprise crew didn't really save the day so much as mitigate the situation or, at best, prevent further destruction. DM is one of those books that brings out the scale of stuff the show treated as backstory or stakes, which is exactly the sort of thing that cross-media storytelling is perfect for.
I thought the cameo by shitty teenage Jimmy Kirk was perfect, especially him turning on the charm with Georgiou. Though, come to think of it, it feels like there's a bit of a loose thread with Winona mentioning George is on a secret mission, after establishing Constitution-class ship's movements were being kept secret a few times earlier in the book, and then not actually bringing up that George was on the Enterprise at the end. I can see how it'd be superfluous to the Tarsus IV story, but my deleted-scene spidey-sense is tingling.
It's left ambiguous exactly how broken Lorca is at the end of the book. His anger is definitely close to the surface, similar to the way Other Lorca explained his behavior as trauma from the death of the Buran crew, and Georgiou thinks, a little before DSC takes place, about how she doesn't know what became of him (beyond, apparently, that he made Captain). Of course, he does keep the one fortune slip he chose as his guiding star the night of the massacre, so I guess that right there tells you everything you need to know about the difference about the Mirror Universe and our own.
So, let's get to the big twist, the thing that history will either regard as a weird blind alley or an early sign that Star Trek isn't afraid of its own books anymore. There's what can only be described as a post-credits scene (I'm trying to remember if there's ever been one in a Trek novel before, and I have a vague feeling there has been, if only as a disguised excerpt from the next book in a miniseries) where we get the bombshell revelation (though, technically, only heavily implied and still deniable or easily ret-connable) that Prime Lorca survived the destruction of the ISS Buran (assuming he transposed with his counterpart a la "Mirror, Mirror") and is being imprisoned but specifically kept alive by some mysterious party, likely a faction of Terrans. I can only hope this is a specific tease for next season and not just a breadcrumb thrown out as a potential plotline that may or may not be followed up on later.
Very cool, thanks, man.
My review went up on TrekCore this morning! Warning that it has some spoilers for the book...probably best to come back to it once you've read:
http://trekcore.com/blog/2018/02/book-review-star-trek-discovery-drastic-measures/
http://trekcore.com/blog/2018/02/book-review-star-trek-discovery-drastic-measures/
In terms of "post-credit sequences," the one that comes to mind for me is
the Enterprise novel Last Full Measure which revealed that Trip wasn't dead.
Just appeared today. Expect to start it tommorow.
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