Also, Vendetta & Before Dishonor are a duology. Because of that, Vendetta is part of the relaunch, even though the book was published over a decade earlier.
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Although "Once Burned" is a very powerful standalone novel of an oft-mentioned past incident in Calhoun's career.
Really? Didn’t know that. Never read Vendetta. Liked Before Dishonor. That’s how they should have used Seven.
In BD, the backstory about Reannon Bonaventure and how the E-D saved her from the Borg is discussed in length, plus the planet killer’s backstory from Vendetta is also referenced.
True, but I still think you get more out of it if you've read it in PAD's published order. It's certainly the NF book that can be most enjoyed on its own though.
Lighthearted is fine by me. "The Trouble With Tribbles" and "A Piece of the Action" are two of my favorite episodes of TOS, and the Gene Coon era of TOS is my favorite. I just don't like it when in-jokes to other properties pull me out of the reality of a story. That's an easy problem to avoid, IMO, and it's one that PAD falls prey to too often, I think.
I'm guessing you're not a Roger ("Then the fit hit the Shan") Zelazny fan.
Never read him, but if he does a lot of that sort of thing, probably not. A lot of Philip José Farmer's jokes in his stuff have struck me as similarly belabored, if that helps.
Yeah, that kind of nonsense was one of the reasons why I stopped reading many Trek novels, although David was hardly the only one guilty of this. I remember one book (the author of which escapes me at the moment) who put in a scene with two lieutenants at some outpost who were based on Randall and Dante from the Clerks movies, right down to their names and Dante's catch phrase, "I wasn't even supposed to be here today!" And another trilogy of books where literally every guest character was named for a member of the Star Trek production staff. It was idiotic, annoying, took me right out of the story, and whoever edited those books should have been fired for incompetence (the books were also plagued with typos and grammar mistakes.)
I haven't read that, but yeah, that sounds like something I would've hated, not in the least because I generally dislike Kevin Smith's movies.
This one I think I know which one you mean. Was it the Errand of Vengeance or the Errand of Fury trilogies by Kevin Ryan, perhaps?
That's them.
Whichever one came first. I remember the second trilogy being better edited.(Although I don't actually blame Kevin Ryan for this. I blame his editor.)
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Yeah, I remember I saw a lot of vaguely familiar names in those trilogies. I recognised a couple of them but originally I'd thought the others were just TOS ep/book crew names I'd forgotten about lol.
It's a shame because I imagine if you know them all it does really take you out of the story (and Kevin Ryan's two trilogies are otherwise excellent). I remember someone shared a webnovel they liked with me, and I couldn't read it for more then 20 minutes because a load of important characters were named for famous football/soccer players!
It's a shame because I imagine if you know them all it does really take you out of the story (and Kevin Ryan's two trilogies are otherwise excellent). I remember someone shared a webnovel they liked with me, and I couldn't read it for more then 20 minutes because a load of important characters were named for famous football/soccer players!
That's exactly my point of view. Before Dishonor was utterly.......weird and for me personally bad. But I've been rereading NF and Being Human/Stone And Anvil is where I am right now. And like you said, after that I'll stop.
The Morgan Primus finale novel was very good as well though.
Such as the one in "Before Dishonor", where Geordi comments that the Enterprise's computer reminds him of Troi's mother.
Vengeance, then Fury. I looked it up before replying to you before. I was mis-remembering the title as Errand of War, but that was the title of a Mike W. Barr comic book story that followed up on "Errand of Mercy" and "The Savage Curtain."
An entire chapter of Zelazny's Lord of Light (and some say the entire novel) was written around the spooner-pun,
Then the fit hit the Shan.
You probably wouldn't appreciate Asimov's short-short story, "Death of a Foy." That entire opus was written as a build-up for the dying alien's monologue,
Give my big hearts to Maude, Ray. Dismember me for Harold's choir. Tell all the Foys on Sortibekenstrete that I will soon be there
Nope, neither one of those sound like my thing.
There's one New Frontier book where one of the characters plays Marvel superheroes on the holodeck. It's a subplot that doesn't even go anywhere as I recall; it's just there to be, "HEY, MARVEL!"
