Just finished finished The Burried Age!

[GalaxyClass1701]

I have to say it was probaly the best Trek Novel I have ever read. It was a near perfect story and great to see Picard act so different.

It reacked of Next Gen and was great to see how it started. The Manaraloth were great and the Mabre were the mist interesting Aliens I've seen in Trek in a long time. It was also great to see the crew being formed and interesting to see Picard comand another ship in between the Gazer and ENT-D!!

 

[Christopher]

^Thank you very much! High praise indeed.

 

[Thrawn]

Yeah. This book is just relentlessly awesome.

 

[GalaxyClass1701]

^Thank you very much! High praise indeed.

No thank you for writing it.

I wish we got to see a little more of the Mabre andget a look at their technology. I imagined there ships and even their ships weapons to be organic based, is this correct?

 

[Deranged Nasat]

I wish we got to see a little more of the Mabrae...

For what it's worth, they show up briefly in another novel, Greater Than The Sum. It's a minor apperance, but there's still a rather interesting discussion of their psychology and cultural worldview. Oh, and Christopher wrote that one, too, so that little scene is building on how they were portrayed in The Buried Age.

So if you ever get round to that novel, it might be something to look forward to .

 

[GalaxyClass1701]

I wish we got to see a little more of the Mabrae...

For what it's worth, they show up briefly in another novel, Greater Than The Sum. It's a minor apperance, but there's still a rather interesting discussion of their psychology and cultural worldview. Oh, and Christopher wrote that one, too, so that little scene is building on how they were portrayed in The Buried Age.

So if you ever get round to that novel, it might be something to look forward to .

I'll have to read it I'll read anything by Christopher or David Mack by far my favorite Trek authors!

But I'm now off to start the Stargazer series!!

 

[Christopher]

I wish we got to see a little more of the Mabre andget a look at their technology. I imagined there ships and even their ships weapons to be organic based, is this correct?

Well, that depends on how you're defining "organic." As I said in the text, "Although they used refined metals where such materials worked best, much of the Mabrae’s technology was built of strong and adaptable resins, rubbers and plastics, if not actual wood." Probably the essentials of their spacecraft -- the spaceframe, the engines, the sensors, the shields and weapons, etc. -- are made of a mix of metals, polymers, resins, carbon composites, and the like, not too different from anyone else's ships, though maybe a bit heavier on the non-metallic stuff. Biological components would handle things like atmosphere regulation and waste recycling as well as being part of the crew quarters and other living spaces, the living biosphere contained within the nonliving spaceframe. But I'd say the ability to bioengineer an organism capable of functioning as a spacecraft is well beyond them.

 

[GalaxyClass1701]

^^^

Wow thanks another question-Does Ariel appear in any other novels.

 

[Christopher]

No.

 

[Smitty]

I have to say it was probaly the best Trek Novel I have ever read. It was a near perfect story and great to see Picard act so different.

It reached of Next Gen and was great to see how it started. The Manaraloth were great and the Mabre were the mist interesting Aliens I've seen in Trek in a long time. It was also great to see the crew being formed and interesting to see Picard comand another ship in between the Gazer and ENT-D!!

Sounds like a good recommendation.... even though I have plenty on my reading list I think I am grabbing my kindle and purchasing..... and done

 

[Smellincoffee]

I was particularly enamored of the way Christopher worked in Lieutenants Janeway, Troi, and Data, especially given that the latter two later became his bridge officers. Best depiction of Troi I've yet read.

 

[GalaxyClass1701]

I was particularly enamored of the way Christopher worked in Lieutenants Janeway, Troi, and Data, especially given that the latter two later became his bridge officers. Best depiction of Troi I've yet read.

Agreed I also enjoyed when he hinted that Janeway was Picards first choice for first officer.

 

[Section 31]

This was definitely a good read, one of my favorites from recent years and easily the best of Christopher's books that I've read so far - though I'm not 100% on reading all of his work yet.

The Buried Age did a fantastic job of filling in a lot of blanks leading into the setup of TNG, and the scenes with Data were priceless.

 

[Technobuilder]

I'm suddenly reminded of my favorite portrayal of Katheryn Janeway anywhere.

Reading The Buried Age, I actually remembered Janeway was supposed to be a scientist first and foremost when Voyager began... and it saddened me that such potential was never fully realized/utilized to its full effect on screen. (Mentioned lots, but hardly ever shown.)

If Janeway ever shows back up in TrekLit, either via flashback or Q-Resurrection, I must insist that she be more like she appears in TBA and less like the Ellen Ripley clone she'd morphed into by Voyager - Season 7.