So What Are you Reading?: Generations

[JD]

I'm amazed how many people don't like the Andor novella. I loved it, but then Shar and Prynn were two of my favorite DS9R characters, and I really enjoyed the Andorian stuff leading up to it so it already started off in pretty good place for me.
I haven't all of the books so I don't know all of the details, but the stuff with Odo and the Dominion does continue to play a role in the story as it goes on. Not sure about the Trill stuff though.

 

[Jinn]

I don't think the Trill stuff comes up ever again, sadly.

 

[StefanM]

The Odo/Dominion-Story:
Parallel, I'm reading the Typhon-Pact novels, and I've also just finished Book 6. And yes, there we see more of what happened with the Dominion. Although Odo (and Laas) now obviously rules the Dominion, not really much seems to have changed. That's hard for me to believe, especially that Odo doesn't want much contact with the Federation.
But okay, I don't know yet, if this will happen in "The Fall" or the later books......

 

[Kertrats47]

Continuing catch-up following STLV, I've just posted my review of William Shatner's Star Trek: Preserver. Eh. It was okay. I don't really like what it had to say about the Preservers, seeing as on-screen they've only been responsible for transplanting a Native American group from Earth, which would have to have been within the last 10,000 years. Instead, the novel makes them out to be nearly-omniscient super-beings responsible for vast changes throughout space and time for billions of years.

 

[Christopher]

I don't really like what it had to say about the Preservers, seeing as on-screen they've only been responsible for transplanting a Native American group from Earth, which would have to have been within the last 10,000 years.

More like the last 3-400 years. Spock claimed that they were "a mixture of Navajo, Mohican, and Delaware," and the Navajo culture as we know it didn't really emerge until around 1600. Also, the Preservers rescued endangered populations, and given that the Navajo were a southwestern culture and the other two were northeastern, they would've had to be rescued from some widespread, pervasive threat to Native Americans as a whole, and the only thing that could've been was European colonization and disease. So it had to be in the 17th or 18th century.

Instead, the novel makes them out to be nearly-omniscient super-beings responsible for vast changes throughout space and time for billions of years.

Yeah, I've never understood the tendency to elevate the Preservers into a godlike superrace, when all they did was move some people from one planet to another and give them a really mediocre asteroid defense system. Not to mention that if their idea of "preserving" people was sticking them on a planet in the middle of a deadly asteroid field, then they were pretty damn bad at their job.

The problem is that when you leave things unexplained, people are free to fill in the gap with their imaginations, and people's imaginations tend to go to the extremes. So unless you specify otherwise, they'll tend to assume that an old race is immeasurably ancient and an advanced race is omnipotent.

 

[Tuskin38]

Star Trek Online combined the Preservers and Ancient Humanoids, which I don't like and it also makes zero sense given the time differences between the two.

Knowing how the STO writers like to pull ideas from obscure places, they probably did it because Ron D. Moore suggested it once.

 

[Christopher]

Star Trek Online combined the Preservers and Ancient Humanoids, which I don't like and it also makes zero sense given the time differences between the two.

A lot of people want to do that even though it makes no sense. The only thing they have in common is that they're both handwaves for all the humanoid aliens in Trek, but that's a metatextual connection. In-universe, they couldn't be more different, even aside from the insanely immense time difference. The Progenitors/First Humanoids were the only sentient life forms that existed in their era; they didn't preserve other species, they created them. They seeded planets' primordial soup with programmed DNA that would encourage the eventual evolution of humanoid life long, long after they were gone. Anyone who thinks the title "Preserver" fits them in any way is not thinking about the definition of the word.

 

[Reanok]

I'm re-reading Star Trek TNG Devil's heart by Carmen Carter

 

[BillJ]

Finished "The Gods Themselves" by Isaac Asimov and New Frontier "Fire on High" by Peter David. Next is Vanguard "Open Secrets".

I love the subtle nod to "Where No Man Has Gone Before" in "Fire on High".

I've started Double, Double by Michael Jan Friedman and I'm already a little underwhelmed and I'm only on chapter three. A meteor is going to destroy an island and everyone is running around trying to evacuate people. At the last minute Kirk sprints off to find someone. If it's explained why they can't use sensors to find and beam the last few people up I must have missed it. And of course there's a transporter problem just as the they are about to beam up Kirk and the meteor shower has started slamming into the planet.

The best current (last ten to fifteen years) TOS novels are by @Greg Cox and @Dayton Ward.

 

[Kertrats47]

Currently reading A Time To Love by Robert Greenberger. First time reading this one, not sure why I didn't make it through the series when it first came out. Just a bit into it, enjoying it so far.

I've also just posted my review of Star Trek #81: Mudd in Your Eye by Jerry Oltion. We initially read this for the Literary Treks podcast shortly before Discovery premiered. I ended up enjoying it more than I expected to. Some interesting world-building going on in this one.

 

[Oz Trekkie]

About to start the Terok Nor trilogy. Day of the Vipers up first.

 

[Cap'n Crunch]

It's been a while since I posted in this thread.
Since then I've finished Star Trek: Prometheus: The Root of All Rage by Christian Humberg & Bernd Perplies.
I also read:
Star Trek: The Original Series: Constellations: "Official Record" by Howard Weinstein
Star Trek: Discovery: Fear Itself by James Swallow
Star Trek: Tales of the Dominion War: "Blood Sacrifice" by Josepha Sherman and Susan Shwartz
Star Trek: The Original Series: Constellations: "Fracture" by Jeff Bond
Star Trek: The Next Generation: The Valiant by Michael Jan Friedman
Star Trek: The Original Series: Constellations: "Chaotic Response" by Stuart Moore
Star Trek: Voyager: Distant Shores: "Or the Tiger" by Geoffrey Thorne
Star Trek: The Original Series: Gateways: One Small Step by Susan Wright
Star Trek: Gateways: What Lay Beyond: "One Giant Leap" by Susan Wright
Star Trek: Tales of the Dominion War: "Mirror Eyes" by Heather Jarman and Jeffrey Lang
Star Trek: The Next Generation: Dyson Sphere by Charles Pellegrino & George Zebrowski
I'm currently the Tomb Raider comic Volume 2: Secrets and Lies.

 

[Reanok]

I finished reading Star Trek TNG The Devil's heart by Carmen Carter. I really liked this book alot. It takes place during the tv series it was nice having abook including Data and Guinan in it.Good story I highly recommend it. I'm now reading Purrder she wrote by Cate Conte.

 

[John Clark]

The Thousand Dollar Tan Line by Rob Thomas and Jennifer Graham. It's been a while so I think it's time for a re-read.

 

[Jbarney]

Reading Live By the Code.

 

[indianatrekker26]

im into book 3 of the Star Trek: A Time to,,, series. A Time to Sow. Pretty quiet start so far, but a lot of nice character moments with Geordi and Data.

 

[BillJ]

Finished up Vanguard "Open Secrets". Next up is the first Honor Harrington book.

 

[USS Firefly]

Star wars the last Jedi by Michael reaves

 

[Allyn Gibson]

I finished reading Star Trek TNG The Devil's heart by Carmen Carter. I really liked this book alot. It takes during the tv series it was nice having abook including Data and Guinan in it. Good story I highly recommend it.

One of my favorites.

It was published when I was in college, and I was working on a paper on the non-Christian roots of the Holy Grail story in the Arthurian tales. While reading The Devil's Heart, I realized that the Grail could have been the Devil's Heart, and the kingdom of the Fisher King was a wasteland because a starship had crashed in post-Roman Europe and devastated and contaminated the landscape. I eventually wrote it up as a fifteen-ish page fanfic, the "missing chapter" of The Devil's Heart that I felt should have been there.

It's long since been lost.

 

[RuthlessNate]

I'm about to finish the 3rd book in Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars trilogy, Blue Mars. I've got The Dark Forest and Death's End, the 2nd and 3rd books from Cixin Liu's Remembrance of Earth's Past trilogy, and Dark Sky, the second book in Mike Brook's Keiko series, in my backlog. Still using the lull in new Trek books to focus on other reading.