So What Are you Reading?: Generations

[hbquikcomjamesl]

The Gospel According to St. Matthew.
I'm now entirely out of the Old Testament, both canonical and apocryphal parts, and into the home stretch of Lent.

 

[JD]

I finished up STLD: Warp Your Own Way, and I'm still in a Star Trek mood, so I started reading the SCE: No Surrender paperback omnibus, which has the novellas No Surrender by Jeff Mariotte, Caveat Emptor by Ian Eddington & Mike Collins, Past Life by Robert Greenberger, and Oaths by Glenn Hauman.

 

[hbquikcomjamesl]

The Gospel According to St. Mark. The shortest of the Gospels, and generally regarded as the root of the three Synoptic Gospels.

 

[Daddy Todd]

Late Star Trek: The Final Frontier in the Franchise Era by Adam Kotsko.

Only about 60 pages in, this is shaping up to be one of my favorite pieces of Trek scholarship in recent years. The Franchise Era of the subtitle is basically Enterprise, the Novelverse, the Kelvin films, and the streaming series (through around the end of 2023). Kostko makes compelling arguments for how those projects relate to each other, and to earlier Trek projects.

Especially intriguing is Kostko’s early assertion (in the Introduction) that the Novelverse is, perhaps, the best of the lot. I’m kind of rushing through Chapter 1, on Enterprise, to get to the Novelverse-focused Chapter 2. I’m sure I’ll post more about it shortly.

 

[Oz Trekkie]

I'm about to start Disavowed by David Mack

 

[hbquikcomjamesl]

The Gospel According to St. Luke.

 

[Krupp]

Late Star Trek: The Final Frontier in the Franchise Era by Adam Kotsko.

Only about 60 pages in, this is shaping up to be one of my favorite pieces of Trek scholarship in recent years. The Franchise Era of the subtitle is basically Enterprise, the Novelverse, the Kelvin films, and the streaming series (through around the end of 2023). Kostko makes compelling arguments for how those projects relate to each other, and to earlier Trek projects.

Especially intriguing is Kostko’s early assertion (in the Introduction) that the Novelverse is, perhaps, the best of the lot. I’m kind of rushing through Chapter 1, on Enterprise, to get to the Novelverse-focused Chapter 2. I’m sure I’ll post more about it shortly.

Cool! Just pre-ordered the paperback. Thanks!

 

[hbquikcomjamesl]

The Gospel According to St. John.

 

[Daddy Todd]

I finished Late Star Trek last night. It's an excellent take on the state of the franchise in the 21st century.

Kotsko is a lot more positive about the first season of Discovery than I am (perhaps it's time for a rewatch) but otherwise I found myself agreeing with all his assessments.

I particularly agree that the best Star Trek storytelling of the last 25 years was the Litverse. I also agree it's a terrible shame that the Litverse was "erased" from existence in order to accommodate a deeply inferior story, Picard.

Anyone else read it?

 

[hbquikcomjamesl]

About to begin The Acts of the Apostles.

Off-topic: I just now got a "shake alert" on my cell phone, less than a minute before feeling an (thankfully not terribly severe, at least in my office) earthquake.

 

[Stevil2001]

I finished Late Star Trek last night. It's an excellent take on the state of the franchise in the 21st century.

Kotsko is a lot more positive about the first season of Discovery than I am (perhaps it's time for a rewatch) but otherwise I found myself agreeing with all his assessments.

I particularly agree that the best Star Trek storytelling of the last 25 years was the Litverse. I also agree it's a terrible shame that the Litverse was "erased" from existence in order to accommodate a deeply inferior story, Picard.

Anyone else read it?

I have it on reserve at the local library, whenever they get their copy in.

As a writing professor, I very much appreciate Adam Kotsko's writing on a totally different topic, the growing literacy crisis.

 

[Christopher]

Off-topic: I just now got a "shake alert" on my cell phone, less than a minute before feeling an (thankfully not terribly severe, at least in my office) earthquake.

I'm wondering if it made your phone vibrate, which would be quite appropriate.

 

[hbquikcomjamesl]

I'm wondering if it made your phone vibrate, which would be quite appropriate.

Vibrate and emit the same alert tone as with an emergency weather warning or an Amber or Silver Alert. Note that I carry an LG VN-220 clamshell, not a full-on smartphone. The message implied that the earthquake that would follow (less than a minute later) would be somewhat more severe than what actually arrived (which didn't even rate being called an "E-ticket ride"). But it's a new system.

Meanwhile, in The Acts of the Apostles, St. Stephen is about to become the first Christian martyr.

 

[Christopher]

The message implied that the earthquake that would follow (less than a minute later) would be somewhat more severe than what actually arrived (which didn't even rate being called an "E-ticket ride"). But it's a new system.

Better to be overprepared for a small one than underprepared for a big one.

 

[Laura Cynthia Chambers]

The Pharisee's Wife by Janette Oke

 

[Dr Bonezee]

Finally tackling Coda Book 3, liking this one better than the other 2 so far!

 

[hbquikcomjamesl]

The Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Romans.

 

[Cyfa]

I've finished ST TNG: Warped - An engaging guide to the never-aired 8th season (by Mike McMahan), and have started a re-read of DS9: Avatar, book 1 (by S D Perry).

 

[hbquikcomjamesl]

The First Second Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Corinthians.

And no, the Corinthians don't make leather for car seats; that's a pure bovine scat catchphrase created for marketing purposes. Albeit not nearly as malignant a catchphrase as "pasture-raised" eggs (eggs are laid, not raised, and free-range chickens typically live in barnyards, not pastures, which are typically the feeding grounds of cattle and other ungulates), as it probably wasn't deliberately concocted to sow confusion.

4/17/2025:
The Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Galatians Ephesians.

 

[Laura Cynthia Chambers]

The Queen's Cook by Tessa Afshar (Book 1 in the "Queen Esther's Court" series)