I was lied to that this was a new standard in trek lit to marvel young and old as the heinous slander of "these Are the Voyages..." is finally put to rest.
Were do I start? I love how they slipped in a couple gay characters, and made marriage between man and a woman on Andoria an "abomination". Excellent slights, but did every one have to be so god damned girly requiring ten pages more to described every single new feeling they were all having?
Trip is a terrible spy.
His initials are C.A.T. and his favourite food is CATfish? God help us all.
Wiki says he died on October 10. The novel says he died on February 14. Don't care about the inconsistency so much as that, unlike Berman's bland wooing, we really did get a Valentines this time. That's a simply shameless.
Samuels is not the Prime Minister. He was only ever refferred to as "a" Minister, and considering there are no other heads of state present, it's not his job to be ambassador for earth, which is the job he was obsessing over while no one was running Earth during a time of crisis.
The Romulans had a working cloak mounted on a full sized Starship in the second season episode Minefield, despite constant claims that they did not, or that Kirk would be surprised by this technology in a hundred years and change.
The Phrase "My/Our Mother wouldn't recognize us/me." was used 4 times, that I gratingly noticed.
NuRomulans look nothing like Vulcans. That's a huge lump of plastic pasted in their brow. What is the point of having Romulans and Vulcans completely distinguishable with radically different make up if you are going to pretend that they are indisinguishable? This was a bad idea since they repremiered in TNG and is even harder to maintain the "cousins" angle here where the far fetched is forced to be made obvious.
IT'S STILL A *(&^^ING HOLOGRAM! Filtered history open to interpretation. Cop out.
Shifting the years around was completely disrespecting the stupid cannon of the terrible show final of Enterprise. It's not clever to disregard canon without a plausible reason and a little misdirection and wiggling. Bend it, don't break it.
He kissed her and left? ()*& that. She's a Vulcan, and he's going to a part of space where everyone looks like a Vulcan. If you love her then (*&$ing recruit her. This is so not Casablanca.
No one is going to be fooled by a translator, they will not work like they seem to on TV. More important, when they cut the machinery out of his corpse it's fabrication as much as it is a device translating Rihanssu into English will point straight back to Earth.
That )(&(ing Drone ship was never revealed to be of Romulan design. Archer was left completely in the Dark because his enemy was sneaky and quiet. T'Pol who corrected Hoshi's pronouciation of the word "Romulan" in Minefield, after gathering 126 ships in season 4 for their sensor net to track the drone ship, if they had known they were up against Romulans, would have plotted a course for Romulus straight out to kill the people holding the remote control to the killer drone. That was a huge unfounded leap in the ongoing plot of this book. Vulcan thought it could hold Andor with what, 9(?) ships? How the frack could Romulus stand up to 126?
Trips death made a hell of a lot more sense, even the script lifted from the TV show put into this context was a hell of a lot more sensible. Everything about his original death seemed fake, and that he was in on it made perfect sense. Except for why he did it. Like the Romulans care who his family is.
T'Pol not figuring it out that he boyfriend she's telepathically linked to? Now, that's unbelievable.
Jake and Nog getting drunk? I get, the idea, that this is how these two authors etched out the frame work for this story.
Shran not killing his lovers fiance, and stewing over it like a bitchy school girl was so grating. That kids subsequent heroic sacrifice was painful deus ex machina.
Was the continuous talk about the masks on Corriden diplomats, an apology for the costume department forgetting that Archer had been to Corriden in the Shadows of P'Jem and that world was a puppet state run like a monkey by the Vulcan High Command?
Where the hell were the kretessians? I saw one at the table in Terra Prime and Demons.
The destruction of Corriden was a nice bit of writing. Boom. The Romulan evaluation of it afterhand was also smart. Obviously a nod to the twin towers regimenting the American people into a single mind with their undecenting eye on a single threat.
The Romulans suck so bad that they eventually get the klingons as their shipwrights, ala real world, they need to build less starship models in TOS lowering the production costs. Did they really spend too much time exploring the singularity drive that they needed... bah!
The World Series is extinct, but the World cup lives on. Excellent.
if the rRmulans found him out, they woudl have attacked humanity. Not his family, not Enterprise. They would have blown up the planet if Trip bothered them so much. And if you're so worried about being labeled human then you don't send messages to "Captain Archer aboard the enterprise" while being chased by Romulan warships.
O! here's the real kicker! Vulcan ships in Enterprise can already travel at Warp 7. They're fantastic. The new ships in These are the Voyages were all about breaking warp 8, which were probably the Daedladus design. Mothballfleet, decomissioning?
What the hell was with bringing in that Vulcan Captain from Shadows of P'Jem as a Romulan separatist and then doing nothing significant with him? And as far as saving information for later Trip, when they're holding a gun to your head it's time to put your cards on the table... "hey? Ain't you a Vulcan?"
I can't believe these guys actually thanked Berman in the Acknowledgments in the end for writing 'These Are the Voyages" after this book too a righteous dump all over that soddy piece of television. They got huge brass ones I tell you.
...
I suppose they told A story well enough even if the frame work they were working with in might as well have been a from a mirror universe, and I really thinking about the cast of Enterprise were probably just about as whiny and sappy and painfully optimistic as they were in this novel, so really the narrative and direction were not terrible and even enjoyable sometimes. I've read worse books.
Were do I start? I love how they slipped in a couple gay characters, and made marriage between man and a woman on Andoria an "abomination". Excellent slights, but did every one have to be so god damned girly requiring ten pages more to described every single new feeling they were all having?
Trip is a terrible spy.
His initials are C.A.T. and his favourite food is CATfish? God help us all.
Wiki says he died on October 10. The novel says he died on February 14. Don't care about the inconsistency so much as that, unlike Berman's bland wooing, we really did get a Valentines this time. That's a simply shameless.
Samuels is not the Prime Minister. He was only ever refferred to as "a" Minister, and considering there are no other heads of state present, it's not his job to be ambassador for earth, which is the job he was obsessing over while no one was running Earth during a time of crisis.
The Romulans had a working cloak mounted on a full sized Starship in the second season episode Minefield, despite constant claims that they did not, or that Kirk would be surprised by this technology in a hundred years and change.
The Phrase "My/Our Mother wouldn't recognize us/me." was used 4 times, that I gratingly noticed.
NuRomulans look nothing like Vulcans. That's a huge lump of plastic pasted in their brow. What is the point of having Romulans and Vulcans completely distinguishable with radically different make up if you are going to pretend that they are indisinguishable? This was a bad idea since they repremiered in TNG and is even harder to maintain the "cousins" angle here where the far fetched is forced to be made obvious.
IT'S STILL A *(&^^ING HOLOGRAM! Filtered history open to interpretation. Cop out.
Shifting the years around was completely disrespecting the stupid cannon of the terrible show final of Enterprise. It's not clever to disregard canon without a plausible reason and a little misdirection and wiggling. Bend it, don't break it.
He kissed her and left? ()*& that. She's a Vulcan, and he's going to a part of space where everyone looks like a Vulcan. If you love her then (*&$ing recruit her. This is so not Casablanca.
No one is going to be fooled by a translator, they will not work like they seem to on TV. More important, when they cut the machinery out of his corpse it's fabrication as much as it is a device translating Rihanssu into English will point straight back to Earth.
That )(&(ing Drone ship was never revealed to be of Romulan design. Archer was left completely in the Dark because his enemy was sneaky and quiet. T'Pol who corrected Hoshi's pronouciation of the word "Romulan" in Minefield, after gathering 126 ships in season 4 for their sensor net to track the drone ship, if they had known they were up against Romulans, would have plotted a course for Romulus straight out to kill the people holding the remote control to the killer drone. That was a huge unfounded leap in the ongoing plot of this book. Vulcan thought it could hold Andor with what, 9(?) ships? How the frack could Romulus stand up to 126?
Trips death made a hell of a lot more sense, even the script lifted from the TV show put into this context was a hell of a lot more sensible. Everything about his original death seemed fake, and that he was in on it made perfect sense. Except for why he did it. Like the Romulans care who his family is.
T'Pol not figuring it out that he boyfriend she's telepathically linked to? Now, that's unbelievable.
Jake and Nog getting drunk? I get, the idea, that this is how these two authors etched out the frame work for this story.
Shran not killing his lovers fiance, and stewing over it like a bitchy school girl was so grating. That kids subsequent heroic sacrifice was painful deus ex machina.
Was the continuous talk about the masks on Corriden diplomats, an apology for the costume department forgetting that Archer had been to Corriden in the Shadows of P'Jem and that world was a puppet state run like a monkey by the Vulcan High Command?
Where the hell were the kretessians? I saw one at the table in Terra Prime and Demons.
The destruction of Corriden was a nice bit of writing. Boom. The Romulan evaluation of it afterhand was also smart. Obviously a nod to the twin towers regimenting the American people into a single mind with their undecenting eye on a single threat.
The Romulans suck so bad that they eventually get the klingons as their shipwrights, ala real world, they need to build less starship models in TOS lowering the production costs. Did they really spend too much time exploring the singularity drive that they needed... bah!
The World Series is extinct, but the World cup lives on. Excellent.
if the rRmulans found him out, they woudl have attacked humanity. Not his family, not Enterprise. They would have blown up the planet if Trip bothered them so much. And if you're so worried about being labeled human then you don't send messages to "Captain Archer aboard the enterprise" while being chased by Romulan warships.
O! here's the real kicker! Vulcan ships in Enterprise can already travel at Warp 7. They're fantastic. The new ships in These are the Voyages were all about breaking warp 8, which were probably the Daedladus design. Mothballfleet, decomissioning?
What the hell was with bringing in that Vulcan Captain from Shadows of P'Jem as a Romulan separatist and then doing nothing significant with him? And as far as saving information for later Trip, when they're holding a gun to your head it's time to put your cards on the table... "hey? Ain't you a Vulcan?"
I can't believe these guys actually thanked Berman in the Acknowledgments in the end for writing 'These Are the Voyages" after this book too a righteous dump all over that soddy piece of television. They got huge brass ones I tell you.
...
I suppose they told A story well enough even if the frame work they were working with in might as well have been a from a mirror universe, and I really thinking about the cast of Enterprise were probably just about as whiny and sappy and painfully optimistic as they were in this novel, so really the narrative and direction were not terrible and even enjoyable sometimes. I've read worse books.
