Revisiting the Golden VGR Relaunch + Full Circle

[JD]

Chakotay is not one of my favourite characters, so reading two entire books based around him is not interesting to me. Thanks though

Well of course one should read what is your interest, lol, though I was also trying to express that I was frustrated w/ not caring for Spirit Walk 2 after I rather enjoyed Spirit Walk 1 (the tone difference between the two books was to me fairly strange) but guess that's how it goes when posting an opinion!

I've never thought of reading Spirit Walk as a way of getting to know Chakotay better. It's not that I don't like him, I just find him boring. Maybe I will give it a try. I just really want to get to the relaunch books. It's weird. Five months ago I didn't want to read them at all but after finishing the series in November, I miss the crew. It's not often when a show ends that there is a continuation.

Actually it's getting to be pretty common these days.
W've gotten all of the Trek series, Buffy, Angel, Farscape, Smallville, Batman '66, The X-Files, Serenity, The Sixty Million Dollar Man, the original The Bionic Woman, and I'm pretty sure there are others I'm not remembering right now. Granted all of those except the Trek series are comic books, but they are still continuations.

 

[Sparkle Fabulosa]

I never realized how many continuations there are. Except Xena. There's no Xena I wish Buffy was in book format.

 

[Kilana2]

I despise Cambridge and was mad that they dumped Kaz, as he was a really neat character.

Cambridge has potential. I had my difficulties with Cambridge and Seven, and I´m female. I don´t know what you guys think of them?

The loss of Kaz is a pity, both Jarem and Kaz. Not even the symbiont did survive. Kirsten Beyer obviously puts her focus on the main characters plus family members. We learn to know Julia Paris a little better and Gretchen Janeway but Tom´s sisters remain pale.

 

[borgboy]

I never realized how many continuations there are. Except Xena. There's no Xena I wish Buffy was in book format.

Xena did get a comic continuation for awhile, but I didn't care for it. They retconned out the last two or three seasons so it didn't really continue all that much. It would've worked better if they just set it in the era they wanted to write about.

 

[Sparkle Fabulosa]

^ That's what I heard, so I have no interest in them, even if I read comics.

 

[Idran]

I looked it up the other day because I thought I'd remembered that Xena did have one, and from what I saw even Rob Tapert didn't like the comics.

 

[borgboy]

The first arc where Xena is resurrected was ok, but after that I didn't care that much for it. I admit though that I was really put off by the awkward continuity hacking to return the characters to their early years versions by eliminating years of story - and that there wasn't proper reaction from the characters of this. For example, this time changing erased Xena's daughter from the timeline and I don't think Xena ever even reacted to that.

 

[Sparkle Fabulosa]

Xena is in desperate need of a good continuation. Seriously, how can any fan be happy with FIN as the end?

 

[JD]

I never realized how many continuations there are. Except Xena. There's no Xena I wish Buffy was in book format.

If you mean collected, then they have been collected in trades. There are 8 for Season 8, 5 for Season 9, Season 10 is going on right now, so there are only 2 collections. Even if you don't usually read comics, you should check them out, I'm 3 (digital) trades into S8, and so far it's been great. These are actually canon too, Joss Whedon is in charge of the series, and has written a lot of issues himself.
If you mean prose novels, there were two non-canon post finale novels, Queen of the Slayers, and Dark Congress. According to the QotS page on the Buffy wiki, they aren't in continuity with each other.

 

[Sparkle Fabulosa]

I meant in novel form. No pictures or little blurbs of writing. Apparently there were many released during the show's run, as canon and non-canon stories.

 

[Jedi Ben]

So, about 7-8 years later I finally got around to re-reading Full Circle / Unworthy.

I'd forgotten a fair bit about the first and even more about the second, but both were good reads.

For a book assigned to summarise 4 years of development plus weaving in the fallout from Destiny, Full Circle is one hell of an ask, yet it works. It's also one of the bigger Trek books at 560-odd pages, but the space is merited - the book has a lot to do and needs all of it.

Unworthy is an interesting follow-up and starts to go into the Q of what happens to the Delta Quadrant without the Borg? The other aspect to this book is that of getting the band back together. Along with that most traditional Trek ingredient - the Arse Admiral. (There's clearly an unofficial rule that requires Admirals to mostly be gits.)

I had entirely forgotten that there was a loose end with Meegan, suspect that'll get followed up in due course.

For now, it's onto the new stuff!

 

[Enterpriserules]

I'm so excited that Literary Treks finally made it to Full Circle! It's been so long since I have read this one and man did it live up to my remembrance.

 

[borgboy]

Xena is in desperate need of a good continuation. Seriously, how can any fan be happy with FIN as the end?

There is a new Xena comic that I've heard good things about. The story is set right after the 25 year time jump, which is a really interesting place to explore, and from what I've heard they are exploring the psychological effects of their time displacement.
I'm waiting for the trade.