I actually remember thinking that Lorrah probably had a better handle on Data's character than the show's writers did in S1, and she writes a great Yar too. Survivors is one of the best Star Trek novels, in my view.
I would say, rather, inconsistent to how they were later portrayed in the series. At the time it was published, Survivors was perfectly consistent with the show. In particular, Data wasn't retconned to be emotionless until the start of season 3, so the tentative emotionality Data showed in Survivors was completely consistent with the Data who told Armus "I think you should be destroyed" in "Skin of Evil" and who said in "The Measure of a Man" that Tasha had been important to him. And Tasha's Turkana IV backstory and her sister Ishara weren't established until the 100th episode of TNG.
But while it's no criticism of the authors, I don't think it's unreasonable to provide that warning to a reader - some people understandably find it very off-putting.
It kind of bugs me that they would include Captain’s Blood and Captain’s Glory (books two and three of a trilogy) but not Captain’s Peril (book one).
Which means that Peril can be read on its own (it felt like a standalone on first release), not that Blood and Glory make sense without it.
Strange, the earlier Shatnerverse books arent available on kindle in the US.
There are other benefits as well...Not to mention archiving, and referencing works easily for the future. Leaving works solely to print unfortunately can be lost to the ravages of time, age, discrepancy, and dare I say the ELEPHANT in the room: PIRACY. Just to be clear I CONDONE piracy.
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