Last Full Measure and "Enterprise"

[Orion's Belt 27]

Eventually, I'm planning on watching "Enterprise" all the way through and reading the relaunch novels as well. I understand Last Full Measure is set largely set during Season 3.

Would it be best to wait and read LFM first after finishing the series? Or could I watch the series up to wherever LFM is set, read the novel (except the prologue/epilogue), do the rest of the series and relaunch novels, and finish with the LFM prologue/epilogue?

 

[Jinn]

I'd opt for the last option, though I haven't read any of the relaunch novels or Last Full Measure, though I'm gonna do so as soon as I finished the Daedalus duology and the three episodes set between Daedalus's Children and Last Full Measure.

 

[ryan123450]

Sounds like a fun way to do it to me.

 

[ronny]

I remember when that book came out and there were a ton of comments from people who only read the prologue and epilogue and the authors were like "there's a whole book there". I thought it was kind of funny.

Personally I'm not a big fan of reading a novel out of order. I assume the the writer had a plan and if sections are out of chronological order it's for a reason so I would wait until I'd watched the entire series. But if you're asking the question it doesn't matter so much for you so to each his own. I think hold off on the book until you finished season 3. As far as the prologue & epilogue go, If you know what happens in the last episode of the series then I don't think there's any reason to wait to read them. If you don't know what happens in the last episode you probably want to hold off.

 

[Jinn]

I remember when that book came out and there were a ton of comments from people who only read the prologue and epilogue and the authors were like "there's a whole book there". I thought it was kind of funny.

Why would people do that? I mean I get why some people (including myself) tend to split up books to read them in chronological order, but only reading the prologue and epilogue? Also it doesn't really make senses chronologically speaking, as the bulk of the story ist set before the prologue and epilogue, so I'd read either the complete novel or first the chapters and then the prologue and epilogue.

 

[Stevil2001]

Why would people do that? I mean I get why some people (including myself) tend to split up books to read them in chronological order, but only reading the prologue and epilogue? Also it doesn't really make senses chronologically speaking, as the bulk of the story ist set before the prologue and epilogue, so I'd read either the complete novel or first the chapters and then the prologue and epilogue.

Some pretty exciting things happen in the prologue/epilogue of Last Full Measure if you were a disgruntled Enterprise fan in 2006.

 

[Reanok]

I read the book and I liked it . The mission to find the xindi is important in the novel. The stuff at the beginning and are important about Trip's storyline too after the Romulan war.

 

[Kemaiku]

Seasons 1-3
Daedalus Duology (iffy continuity with the Relaunch)
Last Full Measure
Season 4
The Good That Men Do
Kobayashi Maru
Romulan Wars 1
(Destiny Trilogy tie-in)
Romulan Wars 2
Rise of the Federation series

 

[ronny]

Why would people do that? I mean I get why some people (including myself) tend to split up books to read them in chronological order, but only reading the prologue and epilogue? Also it doesn't really make senses chronologically speaking, as the bulk of the story ist set before the prologue and epilogue, so I'd read either the complete novel or first the chapters and then the prologue and epilogue.

It was really the excitement people had about more info on Trip's storyline. I'm assuming everyone read the book eventually.

I remember thinking LFM was pretty good, The Good that Men Do being really good then all the Enterprise books written by them as a duo or alone after that totally fell off the rails. It took Christopher to revive that series.

 

[Stevil2001]

I thought Last Full Measure was okay, Good That Men Do was shit, and then I stopped reading Enterprise novels.

 

[Jinn]

It was really the excitement people had about more info on Trip's storyline. I'm assuming everyone read the book eventually.

Ah, ok. I understood your post as "everybody just read the prologue and epilogue and then proceeded to the next book" That would've been very weird

 

[borgboy]

I recommend reading the whole book after you finish the series. I only have read the first couple of Ent novels after that so far but I really liked them.

 

[Kemaiku]

I thought Last Full Measure was okay, Good That Men Do was shit, and then I stopped reading Enterprise novels.

Good That Men Do really had to do a lot of retconning to set up the series, and it was rough.

Kobayashi Maru improved on that to some degree, but the Romulan War novels being reduced from a trilogy to two slightly larger novels, meant skipping through too much.

They all suffer from errors in pacing, plot and at times, characterisation, but they aren't so bad after the first one.

 

[borgboy]

I didn't find the retconning in TGTMD to be all that rough at all. The early ENT relaunch novels are great. As good or better as the best eps of ENT in my opinion.

 

[JD]

I really enjoyed TGTMD, but thought that Kobayashi Maru was only OK, and when I saw the reaction the Romulan War duology got around here I didn't bother with them. I do have the first one, but I haven't bothered to read it. I also started and gave up on Seize the Fire, so I figured after KM and then not caring for StF I was going to just skip the RW books. I've recently thought about giving the first RW book a try since it's already sitting on my bookshelf, though.

 

[Tuskin38]

I thought Last Full Measure was okay, Good That Men Do was shit, and then I stopped reading Enterprise novels.

Start reading them again! At least read the 'Rise of the Federation' series.

 

[Jinn]

Seasons 1-3
Daedalus Duology (iffy continuity with the Relaunch)

How iffy exactly?

 

[tomswift2002]

II would say skip it. LFM didn't added anything to the third season, and was a rather pointless book.

 

[Kemaiku]

How iffy exactly?

Well they sort of have the Daedalus being the testbed for the Warp 5 engine, using a totally different style of drive system. Literally the Daedalus, the first one, with the class being more contemporary to the Franklin/NX.

It's contradicted by the history shown in First Flight. And the Romulan War novels, that have the Daedalus class in full production with a lot of them about, all puttering around at warp 2.

 

[Stevil2001]

Well they sort of have the Daedalus being the testbed for the Warp 5 engine, using a totally different style of drive system. Literally the Daedalus, the first one, with the class being more contemporary to the Franklin/NX.

It's contradicted by the history shown in First Flight. And the Romulan War novels, that have the Daedalus class in full production with a lot of them about, all puttering around at warp 2.

It was a testbed for the Cascading Ion Drive, a competing design to Archer's Warp Five engine. And there was only one Daedalus, so I don't think it's meant to be the same as the ship class referenced in TNG, and seen in later novels.