So What Are you Reading?: Generations

[USS Firefly]

Star trek available light.
Classic Picard in battle, when he is outnumbered and outgunned let's only use phasers and no torpedo's.

 

[indianatrekker26]

I just finished TNG: Collateral Damage by David Mack. I enjoyed it very much. I would be up for a standalone Okona/Lavelle/Wildman adventure in the future by David Mack. Full length novel or even just an e-book novella. That was by far my favorite stuff from this novel.

 

[Reanok]

The jewel of seven stars by Bram Stoker

 

[USS Firefly]

TNG: Collateral Damage

 

[Greg Cox]

The jewel of seven stars by Bram Stoker

I have a great, nostalgic fondness for that book, which I first read in sixth grade. Even talked Tor into reprinting it several years ago--with a gorgeous new cover by Boris Vallejo.

 

[JD]

I finished up the STTNG comic Perchance to Dream, and I really enjoyed it. It was written by KRAD, so that's pretty much to be expected.
I thought the Damiano were pretty interesting, them three gender thing was a cool idea, and the whole thing with some people not liking Ra'ch B'ullhy because she only had one significant other instead of two was a nice analogy for the the attitudes some people have toward gay people on modern Earth. The stuff with the dreams also had some nice callbacks to a bunch different episodes of the TV series.
The only thing that bothered me was that there were a bunch of errors with the coloring, for two panels Worf's gold shirt was red, and there was another scene where Dr. Selar was in gold. I think there was another similar error that I can't remember right now.

 

[Kertrats47]

The latest episode of the Literary Treks podcast is up! Literary Treks 284: Smoothing Over the Rough Edges of Canon, in which we discuss Christopher L. Bennett's TNG: Greater Than the Sum.

Currently reading David Mack's TNG: Collateral Damage, and definitely enjoying it!

 

[Reanok]

Greg I really have enjoyed reading The jewel of the seven stars. It's really cool you got Tor books to reprint this book. I like Boris Vallejo's Star trek book covers.

 

[Greg Cox]

Greg I really have enjoyed reading The jewel of the seven stars. It's really cool you got Tor books to reprint this book. I like Boris Vallejo's Star trek book covers.

A reprint of DRACULA with a new Vallejo cover had sold well, so I figured it couldn't hurt to reissue JEWEL as well. Didn't sell anywhere near as well, but that book has never been as popular as DRACULA.

Have you seen either of the feature film versions, BLOOD FROM THE MUMMY'S TOMB and THE AWAKENING? Neither are perfect, but I have a soft spot for BLOOD despite it being a troubled production. (The director literally dropped dead making it and had to be replaced mid-production.). Haven't seen THE AWAKENING (with Charlton Heston) in decades, but I remember being unimpressed at the time. And I believe there's a straight-to-video version, BRAM STOKER'S THE MUMMY, that I've never seen.

A truly great adaptation has yet to be filmed.

 

[Reanok]

I've watched Boris Karloff in the Mummy movie recently .I saw a british 1960s movie version Jewel of the seven stars last year on tv. The book is way better than the movie.I haven't seen the Mummy movies you mentioned yet.I've seen alot of different Universal mummy movies on a classic movie channel the last few weeks.

 

[Greg Cox]

I've watched Boris Karloff in the Mummy movie recently .I saw a british 1960s movie version Jewel of the seven stars last year on tv. The book is way better than the movie.I haven't seen the Mummy movies you mentioned yet.I've seen alot of different Universal mummy movies on a classic movie channel the last few weeks.

That British 1960s version is probably BLOOD FROM THE MUMMY'S TOMB, from Hammer Films.

 

[Reanok]

Yes Greg the that's the movie I saw last year.Have you seen the German Horror movie Vampyr it's a really cool movie the moody mysterious lighting and strange shadow figures adds to the atmosphere of the story. I recommend it. It has english subtitles on youtube. I'm reading Star trek Dark Mirror by Diane Duane.

 

[Greg Cox]

Yes Greg the that's the movie I saw last year.Have you seen the German Horror movie Vampyr it's a really cool movie the moody mysterious lighting and strange shadow figures adds to the atmosphere of the story. I recommend it. It has english subtitles on youtube. I'm reading Star trek Dark Mirror by Diane Duane.

Vampyr is one of the few classic black-and-white vampire movies I've never seen. Really need to remedy that.

 

[Reanok]

I finished reading Dark Mirror by Diane Duane. She really did a lot of research about hyperstring physics for her story about the Mirror universe. I'm now reading Star Trek TNG Collateral Damage by David Mack.

 

[USS Firefly]

Finished TNG Collateral Damage by David Mack.
I enjoyed the novel and almost hoped that retired or became an ambassador so we get captain Worf, I loved how he acted as captain.
And this is for now my last Trek novel for the unforseeable future.

Just started ''blood of elves '' by Andrzej Sapkowski.
The Witcher 3 game was great, now let's see how the novels are.

 

[Reanok]

I finished Collateral Damage I thought it was a good book. I started reading Star Trek SCE Time loss Nog and the Davinci crew have to deal with an emergency that deals with Empok Nor and the mirror universe characters.

 

[thribs]

New Frontier: Stone and Anvil. The first Star Trek book I've read to have a Red Dwarf reference in it. Nicely done.

 

[KRAD]

I know of at least one Trek novel that had a Red Dwarf reference that predates Stone and Anvil.

 

[thribs]

I know of at least one Trek novel that had a Red Dwarf reference that predates Stone and Anvil.

Which one is that?

 

[Kertrats47]

The latest Literary Treks podcast episode is up: Literary Treks 285: Those Bloody Mind Control Revolts! Guest Larry Nemecek joins us to discuss the Star Trek: The Motion Picture novelization by Gene Roddenberry, just in time for its 40th anniversary re-print.