So I just finished A Time to be Born

[thribs]

Just finished the book. I really enjoyed the setting of this with them in a ship graveyard. The threat was interesting and dangerous at the same time. I'm looking forward to finding out who they are in the later books. Wesley reminded me of a ascended Daniel Jackson with the way he popped in and out; subtly interfering with the events without going too far.
The Juno must be one of the last Excelsior ships out there. Can't imagine there are many of them around now. The class is nearly 100 years old at this time.

 

[Kertrats47]

We're currently in the midst of covering this series on Literary Treks, thribs! If you want to follow along, it starts with Literary Treks 228: Wesley 2.0, which covers A Time to Be Born.

The rest so far:
Literary Treks 231: Dancing to the Strains of Cadillac Ranch - A Time to Die
Literary Treks 235: Make it Sow! - A Time to Sow
Literary Treks 238: Don't Be Afraid to Ask for Help - A Time to Harvest

We're actually recording the episode for A Time to Love this Thursday, and it will be out in a couple of weeks. I read the first two novels ages ago, but never got around to the rest, so this is a new experience for me as well!

 

[David cgc]

Well, since the thread's been bumped, and I don't remember us ever talking about it, but on an early episode of Engage: The One-Time Official Star Trek Podcast, Jordan Hoffman interviewed John Van Citters and, at one point, Van Citters clearly describes the bit in "Born" or "Die" when Wesley thinks really hard about flipping out and killing all the space pirates after they murder his new girlfriend as having originally had him actually do it, and him putting the brakes on that.

I recognized the story because the moment in the novel stuck in my mind. I'll always remember reading the book, getting to that bit, thinking "Finally, someone is doing something proactive about these space pirates, even if it's a little murdery" and then being disappointed that it was a daydream and the TNG cast was going to continue sitting passively around for a while like they'd really taken to heart all those jokes about Picard surrendering in the first five minutes of "Farpoint" and letting the space pirates continue to completely command the narrative even while there was a weird shapeshifting space animal that could really take up a lot more plot.