So What Are you Reading?: Generations
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I just the other day read the newest issue of the Star Trek year five comic book, and a back issue of DC's Star Trek TNG comic: an early issue set in season 2: every one is drawn super muscular and Pulaski has blonde hair. Fun!
I am reading Open Secrets and Seeds of Rage. There are some nice ties between the Ward and Ryan books like the reference to the incident at Starbase 42 and the use of the term Earther as a Klingon insult.
I am also rereading Star Wars: A New Dawn. It is better now that I have seen the Rebels show. Vidian is coming through as a terrible person, the type of villain that you love to root against.
I am also rereading Star Wars: A New Dawn. It is better now that I have seen the Rebels show. Vidian is coming through as a terrible person, the type of villain that you love to root against.
David Mack’s “More Beautiful Than Death”.
Um, "Earther" as a Klingon insult is from the original series, notably "The Trouble with Tribbles."
Not limited to Klingon use -- the Vulcan bullies in "Yesteryear" used "Earther" as a racial slur against young Spock. It's also used by an Orion officer in "The Pirates of Orion."
More generally, it's been in use in science fiction since at least 1952: https://web.archive.org/web/20170415210120/http://www.jessesword.com/sf/view/1243
The latest episode of the Positively Trek Book Club podcast is up: Positively Trek 30: Book Club: More Beautiful than Death, featuring special guest David Mack to talk about his new Kelvin Timeline novel.
I'm currently reading TNG #18: Q-in-Law by Peter David for the first time. Enjoying it so far!
I'm currently reading TNG #18: Q-in-Law by Peter David for the first time. Enjoying it so far!
Shadow Fall - Alexander Freed.
Pablo Marcos was an... unconventional artistic choice for DC's NextGen comics.
Seriously, though, I thought he brought an interesting energy to the comics with the way he posed the characters. He had a solid grasp of how the 24th-century looked -- compare to Tom Sutton on DC's first Star Trek series, who drew a 23rd-century that had more in common with the United Planets of Legion of Super-Heroes than the UFP of Trek -- but his characters, always recognizable, had an exaggerated, larger-than-life quality to them. That style wouldn't have worked late in NextGen's run when it was much more sedate, but it fits with the weird energy the first two seasons had. In short, I'd call Marcos the right artist for the spandex hell years.
The Butcher of Anderson Station: A Story of The Expanse by James S. A. Corey
ST:VAN: Storming Heaven
Don Quixote. The Grossman translation.
I'm nearing the end of the Bloom introduction.
Which is to say, I probably won't be reading much else for a while.
I'm nearing the end of the Bloom introduction.
Which is to say, I probably won't be reading much else for a while.
I just started TOS The Folded World by Jeff Mariotte.
Started on Saturnine by Dan Abnett.
Now 6% into Don Quixote. The library has been burned, Sancho Panza has entered the story.
I think I see windmills on the horizon, but then again, they might be giants.
I think I see windmills on the horizon, but then again, they might be giants.
I've been tempted to read that from time to time. I probably should.
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