Spoilers Star Trek - Picard: The Last Best Hope by Una McCormack Review Thread

I mean the previous litverse. They could always get Quinto to play an older Spock in Picard.

 

From what I've seen in this thread so far, I can come to only one conclusion: I want this book as soon as possible.

 

You’re not missing much.

 

No offense, but I'll determine that for myself.

 

As soon as I finish my current book, this is going to be my next read

 

That's not how tie-in fiction works. It's stories written around the canon. The novelverse was written around the canon as-was, the new Picard book is written around the canon as-is.

That said, I'd love a novel series rebooting Trek in some way, a seperate thing that wasn't a tie-in but blazing a fresh trail.

 

Yeah but it’s JJVerse canon. No one cares about that.

 

You do know the current overlord of the Star Trek Universe is the same guy who co-wrote and co-produced those movies, right?

 

Unfortunately yes.
You’d think he would have done a better job linking them.

anyway, the more I read of this book, the less likely I think the Verity is a Odyssey Class ship. It would make no sense to let a more powerful ship than the Enterprise into Romulan space since for some reason, the Enterprise is banned.

 

Heck, the novels were doing that years ago. When I read The Fall, it felt implausible to me that the Federation could so easily be co-opted by a fraudulent president who aggressively undermined its principles and turned it down a darker path. Now it seems prophetic, as much as Andor's secession arc was prophetic about Brexit.

Which doesn't guarantee anything, since he was a junior member of that team and the senior member of the current one. Look at what Ron Moore did when he ended up creating his own shows -- far from just copying the kind of stuff he'd done on Trek, he pointedly did the exact opposite, embracing everything he wasn't free to do on Trek. Bryan Fuller's post-Trek career was also consistently much wilder, weirder, and more boundary-pushing than anything he was able to do as a junior staffer on Trek. Answering to a boss and being the boss are profoundly different things.

I always got the impression that of the Orci-Kurtzman duo, it was Orci who was the more prominent creative voice in the Trek movies, although of course they were both subordinate to Abrams. And of course, Kurtzman split with Orci nearly 6 years ago (and had no involvement with ST Beyond).

 

And now I wonder how many other languages this one's getting translated into.

 

No Spoilers here... from me.

But, I'm sorry this a STAR TREK book...I agree with @Avro Arrow

The language was uncharacteristic and COMPLETELY UNNECESSARY to the story. I'm truly sorry. There were too many 17 S--Ts and 19 F---Ks for my taste. The language wasn't limited to Clancy's character at all.

It reminded me of a Wiseguy story. I hate saying this honestly. I hated it in 1990 when someone actually counted the swear words in Goodfellas. That was stupid. It is a crime and mafia movie. What did anyone expect?

Also using JL is annoying. Picard always commanded respect and JL makes Picard sound like foolish. Q could rib Picard.

Honestly, most of this novel should have been SHOWN in the first few episodes. If you watch the first three episodes closely you could pick up most of the story in Last, Best Hope.

I'm sorry I'm not trying to be a Gooder or a Snob. But Trek is Trek

I didnt buy Picard giving up HIS RANK and the Enterprise so easily and stupidly. Riker kept the Titan as his flagship, Picard could too. The Admirality rank felt forced and neutered without power at all. Rank should have its preveileges after all. The Admirality lied to Picard about giving up the Enterprise as his flagship anyway. Admirals in Starfleet are mostly seen as JERKS that interfere with Captain's anyway.

But regardless, Ianguage aside. I hope its a success, and never want anyone to fail at all.

It completely pulled me out of the story, instead of engrossing me into the story after all. I wanted to know more of the Picard series story.

I'm still a Trek fan, but this is beyond weird as far as language and prose go.

Now excuse as I go all hardcore before going to the Laundrette as Simon Pegg said in the movie "The Fantastic Fear of Everything"

Honestly, I hope you enjoy it more than I tried to.

Sorry,
-Koric

 

Fantastic start, one chapter in. Can't wait for more.

 

I'm glad they didn't go that route. It's one of Trek's most ridiculous contrivances to have the same crew stay on the same ship for decades on end. In the real Navy, captains often command a ship for only a few months or a year or two before being rotated out, and officers stay in a given post for a similarly limited time before getting reassigned or promoted. Realistically, a series about a given ship's adventures would have cast rotation as frequent as Law & Order had, or more so. Keeping the same crew together for 5 or 7 years is tolerable as dramatic license, but having them cling fanatically to the same ship for decade after decade -- or, worse, giving them a replacement ship of the same name -- just stretches my disbelief past the breaking point. So hell yes, let Picard move beyond the Enterprise. After all, he commanded the Stargazer for 22 years but was able to move beyond it.

 

Does anybody have any info of when a paperback version of this might release? Hardcover only from what I've seen in the UK

 

What was the last Star Trek prose hardcover? Was it the Shatner Academy hardcover from 2007?

 

From the old pattern when they did hardcovers previously, I would guess about this time next year.

 

Downloaded today. Will start tomorrow.

 

Have to go Digital on this one then I think, doesn't seem from some of these reviews to be one I want to buy in HC