Recommend Good Series/Ones to Avoid

[Captaindemotion]

^ I take it that's not the Kobayashi Maru novel from some years ago, which had Kirk's crew telling how they faced the titular Starfleet Academy test?

 

[zarkon]

Nope, there's also an enterprise novel of the same name from the writers of The Good That Men Do.

 

[Christopher]

^ I take it that's not the Kobayashi Maru novel from some years ago, which had Kirk's crew telling how they faced the titular Starfleet Academy test?

No, that one was Star Trek: The Kobayashi Maru by Julia Ecklar, while the more recent one is Star Trek: Enterprise: Kobayashi Maru by Michael A. Martin & Andy Mangels. One has a definite article, the other doesn't.

 

[beamMe]

^ What they've said.

 

[Captaindemotion]

^ Thanks for the clarification folks.

 

[JD]

Well, regarding The Good that Men do... Gwen DeMarco: "Whoever wrote this [book] should DIE"; it was retconning fan-wank of the worst kind.

I can see not liking a book, but don't you think that's taking it a little to far.

I loved The Good That Men Do. I thought it did a much better job of continuing on from where "Terra Prime" and "Demons" left off than "These Are The Voyages...".

 

[Skywalker]

I loved The Good That Men Do, but I found Kobayashi Maru kind of dull and Beneath the Raptor's Wing very dull. I still haven't gotten around to To Brave the Storm because of that and the less-than-stellar reviews.

 

[tomswift2002]

I found "The Good That Men Do" to have been a good launch to the Romulan War (and a better ending for Enterprise than "These Are The Voyages..."); unfortunately afterwards the RW stories kind of got stuck on fast-forward.

It might've been nice to have seen some short stories anthologies instead of novels on the war.

 

[Skywalker]

I would have liked to have seen a trilogy covering the major events of the war from the perspectives of Archer and his crew, with an anthology book at some point in the future detailing other stories during the time period from other POVs. Followed by a book devoted solely to the first days of the Federation and the growing pains of four (and eventually more) different peoples trying to figure out how to live together.

Oh well. I guess ENT just isn't popular enough to warrant that kind of attention.

 

[JD]

I haven't read the book yet, but from what I've heard on here about TBtS it sounds like the formation of the Federation definitely deserves more attention. IMO that does seem like the kind of thing that deserves a whole book to itself, not just a bit at the end of a book covering another event.

 

[beamMe]

Well, regarding The Good that Men do... Gwen DeMarco: "Whoever wrote this [book] should DIE"; it was retconning fan-wank of the worst kind.

I can see not liking a book, but don't you think that's taking it a little to far.

No.

I loved The Good That Men Do. I thought it did a much better job of continuing on from where "Terra Prime" and "Demons" left off than "These Are The Voyages...".

Good for you.