Star Trek: Discovery - The Enterprise War
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I don't think so -- my understanding is that it fills in what the Enterprise was doing during season 1.
No Season 2 spoilers in the broad sense, although it does show some things happening that are described in that season as having previously happened. Readers of the novel will arrive in Season 2 knowing what the individual Enterprise crewmembers know — and as not all of the characters have the same amount of information, you'll know somewhat more.
I'm not going to be able to (and probably shouldn't) get deeply into questions until after Vegas and more have had a chance to read the book, but a couple of answers here to Yistaan may stem any confusion.
I had seen all of Season 1 before I started. I ended up not using the term, but I regarded that the swept-back nacelles were the Galadjian Configuration, designed specifically for navigating the Pergamum.
Regarding the ages, I look for ways to allow varied accounts to coexist whenever possible; there are a million ways to put two characters in the same place in a way that fits the dialogue and also fits what we previously thought about the timeline, and I chose to just hint at a theory.
Logically, there should be no need for the other physical implements of faith, either -- but we see them often. I expect as in any religion the particular elders varied in their interpretations, so it really depends on whom he learned from.
Yes, we worked to find a way to finesse that. It does the trick, as far as I'm concerned.
I'm not going to be able to (and probably shouldn't) get deeply into questions until after Vegas and more have had a chance to read the book, but a couple of answers here to Yistaan may stem any confusion.
Did you know about the Enterprise's new look when writing? Is that why there's mention of a refit in the book?
I had seen all of Season 1 before I started. I ended up not using the term, but I regarded that the swept-back nacelles were the Galadjian Configuration, designed specifically for navigating the Pergamum.
Regarding the ages, I look for ways to allow varied accounts to coexist whenever possible; there are a million ways to put two characters in the same place in a way that fits the dialogue and also fits what we previously thought about the timeline, and I chose to just hint at a theory.
Logically, there should be no need for the other physical implements of faith, either -- but we see them often. I expect as in any religion the particular elders varied in their interpretations, so it really depends on whom he learned from.
You somehow managed to fit the Desperate Hours novel in and acknowledge Spock and Burnham interacted there, despite the show ignoring it entirely. Nice.
Yes, we worked to find a way to finesse that. It does the trick, as far as I'm concerned.
Thank you for your response!
The first couple of chapters are on amazon as a preview. It was a nice reference.
(Waiting for my physical copy at the weekend)
Thanks for the info. Just wanted to make sure I didn't stumble across any major spoilers before seeing season 2.
Makes me wonder when they'll be releasing season 2 on Blu-Ray. Last year it was in November if I recall. Hopefully it will be around the same time this year.
It'd be nice if they included the Short Treks in either this release or another release. I haven't heard anything at this point about those seeing a Blu-Ray release, though I imagine once CBS feels they've maxed out on the subscription they'll release those on Blu-Ray as well to squeeze every possible dollar out.
I look at them like Doctor Who's web shorts (like the TARDISodes, "Night of the Doctor," various episode prologues and epilogues), so I feel like the Short Trips should be like bonus features on the Disco Season 2 set.
On the other hand, CBS probably wants to "squeeze every possible dollar out," as you say, so the Short Treks may well be a separate release.
Yeah, they'd make great bonus features. But I suspect the latter may be more likely. Why 'give' us something when they can make us 'pay' for it. Now maybe in some distant future, when they release a "Discovery" box set of the entire series (much like they do now with the original series and TNG) they may be part of that. But for now I imagine they'd probably be a separate release.
-sigh- at least we don't have to buy the episodes separately anymore. I still have all 79 separate episodes on VHS of the original series. It's amazing to think I used to pay $14.99 for one episode.
I'm in the middle of reading another book, so it'll be a couple days before I start Enterprise War, so all I have now are physical impressions.
Cover looks even better in person. I like how it's mostly matte, with the ship glossy-- really stands out.
On the other, THEY CHANGED THE SPINE DESIGN!!!!! Why do you always do this to me, S&S?
Cover looks even better in person. I like how it's mostly matte, with the ship glossy-- really stands out.
On the other, THEY CHANGED THE SPINE DESIGN!!!!! Why do you always do this to me, S&S?
Glad to know I'm not the only one that's bothered by things like that.
It still drives me a bit crazy that the last TNG book is bigger than the ones previous. Since it's part of the continuing story I want to keep it with my other TNG books. It'll help that all future TNG releases will be trades so it won't be just one big one in the middle of a bunch of smaller ones.
Unlike the first Romulan War book that sticks out like a sore thumb in my collection (though it doesn't bother me enough to buy the MMPB version just for looks
).I'm about a quarter of the way through this novel so far. But damn, this is making me wanting a Star Trek: Pike series on CBS All-Access even more now lol.
I'm almost a third of the way through and enjoying it so far. I haven't been watching Discovery, but I am reading the books, which means I'm not too lost or confused by new characters.
i'm only 70 pages in but I like what I'm reading. Also these chapters are so short.
My chapters tend to average about 1300 words these days. It’s in part a recognition that more readers are either reading digitally or listening to audiobooks on commutes, where 5-7 minutes is kind of the sweet spot for portions. It also tends to help when you have stories with high density of incident — which usually means a lot of scene shifts.
(There is also a particular sort of chapter in this specific book which is deliberately short — the meditations. I tried them as unnumbered interstitials but they flowed better with chapter numbers.)
Thank you for sharing this behind the scenes insight, it really is interesting to learn how new media has an impact on formatting. In the past I've been prejudiced against short chapters, because of the stop and start flow, but it may have been aggravated by authors who pad the chapters out with a rehash of what happened at the end of the last chapter.
It doesn't put me off with this book, I like the story premise, and I thought the Kenobi novel was a good read , so I'm game for it.
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While I'm 'old fashioned' and still read hardcopies, I like shorter chapters myself. I like to read for a few minutes at a time and during my lunch break at work. Shorter chapters work well for me personally.
I'm still waiting for my copy of The Enterprise War to come in the mail and in the meantime am reading Diplomatic Implausibility. One complaint I have about that book is the chapters are on the longer side. I like the story so far, but the longer chapters conflict with my own reading habits (in that case I'll stop at page breaks--or scene breaks--or whatever you call it when there is a space between paragraphs). But I prefer stopping at chapters, which is much harder to do when they are longer.
It's nitpicky, I know. And if it's a good story I'll overlook it.
Saw the book in LV. Have not met Mr. Jackson.
I read an interview with one of the co-writers of The Expanse novels where he said they worked out how long a chapter people consider satisfying-- the length at which you'll read just one chapter and then put it down. They make all their chapters slightly shorter than that, so that when you read the end of one, you feel compelled to go on to the next one, and then the next one, and so on. Their goal is to trick people into staying up to read the whole book.
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