So What Are you Reading?: Generations

[FredH]

I'm a little over halfway through The Vulcan Academy Murders. The mystery is easy to solve, but it is fun spending time with these characters on Vulcan.

Oh heck, I could see who the murderer was before anybody even died. But yes, a fun book.

 

[Greg Cox]

I tend to think Bruce's Watson may have been based on a cultural, though incorrect, memory of Watson instead of the textual Watson.

Kinda like the way the culture "remembers" Dr. Frankenstein having a hunchbacked assistant named Igor?

(Who appears nowhere in the novel, and is basically a conflation of two different characters from the original Karloff movies.)

 

[Victoria]

BTW, does anybody have the slightest idea what "Sinnravian drad music" sounds like?

Like electroacoustic music composed by Stockhausen and played very slowly with long pauses.

 

[Guy1993]

I finished Knots and Crosses it’s a bit strange as a crime novel the revelation comes out of nowhere and it’s about someone we haven’t met in the book prior.

 

[Reanok]

Star Trek Perchance to dream by Howard Weinstein

 

[Smiley]

Uhura's Song is quite interesting so far. It's much longer than most of its contemporary Trek books, but it makes sense to be because first contacts are seldom going to be quick and easy. Seeing the various groups learn about each other, their similarities, and their differences makes for quite compelling reading. It is a testament to the writing quality that I care about the mission just on the basis of helping Uhura's friend, even though other named characters have the disease, and contagion is also a concern.

Should I assume that ADF syndrome is a tip of the hat to Alan Dean Foster, or did Janet Kagan have some other abbreviation in mind?

 

[hbquikcomjamesl]

That was my guess as well.

And you are reading one of the masterpieces of its era.

 

[JD]

I read the newest issue of the ST: Lower Decks comic yesterday, and it was pretty good. I'm a big Ferengi fan, so any story that involves them is already starting at a good place for me. And all of the stuff in Tendi's nightmares, like Dr. Moopsy, was pretty fun.

 

[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 am almost done with it and enjoying it a lot... but "Mark" Palmieri!?

 

[JD]

I finished up the Insolence of Office earlier this afternoon, and I liked it a lot. I'm a big fan of Lwaxana Troi, any story involving her is going to get a few points no matter what, and the other storyline gave us some nice character stuff for Geordi. After that, I started Batman * Superman: World's Finest: Strange Visitor, written by Mark Waid with art by Travis Moore and Dan Mora, colors by Tamara Bonvillain and letters by Aditya Bidikar and Steve Wands.

 

[JD]

I finished up Strange Visitor which thought was pretty good, and now I'm reading IDW comic Star Trek: Klingons: Blood Will Tell written by Scott & David Tipton, with art by David Messina, art assist by Elena Casagrande, colors by Ilaria Traversi and letters by Neil Uyetake and Robbie Robbins. For those who've never read it Blood Will Tell has a bridging story arc following a High Council member who is trying to decide what they should vote to do following destruction of Praxis, and so he is looking at old encounters between Klingons and the Enterprise, which are then told through flashbacks that give us retellings of An Errand of Mercy, Trouble with Tribbles, A Private Little War, and Day of the Dove from the Klingons perspective. I'm just starting A Private Little War issue, and I've been really enjoying it so far.

 

[Guy1993]

I finished up the Insolence of Office earlier this afternoon, and I liked it a lot. I'm a big fan of Lwaxana Troi, any story involving her is going to get a few points no matter what, and the other storyline gave us some nice character stuff for Geordi. After that, I started Batman * Superman: World's Finest: Strange Visitor, written by Mark Waid with art by Travis Moore and Dan Mora, colors by Tamara Bonvillain and letters by Aditya Bidikar and Steve Wands.

I like Lwaxana too. I will have to look into that one.

 

[JD]

https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/The_Insolence_of_Office

Since my last post I finished up Blood Will Tell and I started the next Slings and Arrows e-book, A Weary Life by Robert Greenberger. I enjoyed Blood Will Tell quite a bit, I've always liked stories that give us a look at a familiar story and I thought it did a great job of doing that. I'm also a big Klingon fan, and I thought this handled them really well, and even did a bit to try to bring some of what we see them do in the TOS episodes into line with what the later series established about them.
A Weary Life is pretty good so far, I've always enjoyed Maquis so far this is a pretty good. I'm assuming the references these last two e-books have made to what happened on Betazed before and Tom Riker's involvement were references to Imzadi II: Triangle? I know a little about it, like that it deals with Worf & Deanna's breakup and involved Tom Riker, but I've never actually read it.

 

[Reanok]

Ultraman Seven by pat Cadington and TNG Imortall Coil by Jeffrey Lang