Ever had a "There's something in my eye" moment with Trek Lit?
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While no novels (yet), I have written (or co-written) two short stories with "!" in the title:
"The Aliens Are Coming!" for Strange New Worlds III
and
"Enemy Unknown!" written for an RPG called Rocket League, which so far as I know is still "in development."
"The Aliens Are Coming!" for Strange New Worlds III
and
"Enemy Unknown!" written for an RPG called Rocket League, which so far as I know is still "in development."
read Discworld? read Thud! ? enjoy it? i did...
A few stories have made me quite upset (in a good way), but one which really got to me was "Staying the Course" by Paul C. Tseng. I won't give anything away, but this story really has a dramatic impact on the father-son relationship between Worf and Alexander.
The second most harrowing for me was Wildfire, with the whole ship falling down around them, and especially Duffy's demise.
The second most harrowing for me was Wildfire, with the whole ship falling down around them, and especially Duffy's demise.
Oh my, don't get me started on that book. I got teary-eyed throughout most of the alternate timeline, especially at the death of... well, I'm so bad at names... the first husband of McCoy's later wife, and of course, when McCoy himself died.
And then at Crucible: Spock, Spock's realization that he can't mourn his mother's death properly without emotions, his discussion with Sarek, his coming to McCoy for help...
Well, to be honest, I get teary-eyed quite often, especially when books are so great to just pull me into the story - as was the case with Crucible, esp. McCoy and to some lesser extent Spock.
I just read that book. A great novel IMO. And of course, I had tears running down my face when Spock felt Kirk die, and his continued failed attempts to save him... *sighs
I've had one but it wasn't in sadness. In Unity when Sisko came back.
Yeah, I got caught with that one too.
I think I probably got a little misty-eyed at the end of Federation. Can't remember exactly why...it might've been Kirk's letter to Picard, or it might've just been the overall beauty of it all. I thought it was an amazing, spectacular book.
my younger-older sister tells me she cried a couple times during VGD #3...
Third...ed
I'm not sure thats a word but Duffy's death has to be it for me, followed closley by ... and I'm sure why ... the death of Riker Snr in A Time to Hate.
Hi by the way, this is my first post. I appologise if the above has already been said but I'm at work and gotta be quick so I only read a few of the posts.
Ta,
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I think with me it was in "Best Destiny", when the Starfleeters rig up the cutter airlock as a one-man thruster pod, and young Jimmy Kirk realizes he's not being sent in it to go for help....
The ending of TGTMD:
The assault on Coridan - Experiencing the burning husk of what once was a beautiful planet. The president seeing his world burning beneath him knowing that nothing will ever be the same again.
And the ambassador back at Earth who with such a great sadness delivers the news that Coridan is withdrawing from the Coalition of Planets. It makes it even more sad knowing what becomes of it during the next hundred years. A small backwater world, still with one the greatest deposits of Dilithium in the entire Federation, but strife with civil war and stripmined by thugs.
So close, but so far away...
The assault on Coridan - Experiencing the burning husk of what once was a beautiful planet. The president seeing his world burning beneath him knowing that nothing will ever be the same again.
And the ambassador back at Earth who with such a great sadness delivers the news that Coridan is withdrawing from the Coalition of Planets. It makes it even more sad knowing what becomes of it during the next hundred years. A small backwater world, still with one the greatest deposits of Dilithium in the entire Federation, but strife with civil war and stripmined by thugs.
So close, but so far away...
A similar thing happened in the West Wing episode "Swiss Diplomacy".
I hope this doesn't make me sound like a terrible person, but I can't recall any Trek book even coming close to making me cry. But, to be fair, that's pretty much true of any literature. For me, only music, or a very poignant scene in a movie, can get the tears to come; I've yet to cry after I've read something, even though I find some books amazingly moving in their own way. I guess my waterworks tend to be more aurally/visually triggered.
That's fair. For myself, I cry a lot at books but can't imagine music making me cry. Our brains are wired differently that's all.
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