Anyone here read "Strangers from the Sky"? I just finished it and I absolutely loved it. It was great reading about Gary Mitchell and Lee Kelso.
Strangers From the Sky
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It's been awhile since I've read it, but I remember liking it very much. Of course, I've enjoyed just about Trek book that Garamet has ever written.
One of the only ST books I made a point of reading twice. (Well, there'd be more, only now i have piles of unread ones.)
If you are into audios, I highly recommend George Takei's excellent voice work on the S&S Audioworks version of this novel. It dates back to when even the "giant" MMPBs had to be compacted into only 90 mins, but it's an excellent abridgment. Nimoy is "the voice of Spock".
Hated it. It's one thing for a character to talk "mushmouth" on TV or in a movie, but do they have to do that in dialogue, too? 
Vulcans playing tennis?
Sorry, I just loathe this novel.
Vulcans playing tennis?
Sorry, I just loathe this novel.
Does anyone know if there are any other ST books that feature Gary Mitchell, Lee Kelso and/or Dr. Dehner?
Kelso and Mitchell play a role in the first part of the Mere Anarchy eBook series, Things Fall Apart by Dayton Ward & Kevin Dilmore. If you think eBooks are icky, it'll be released in print form in March 2009.
There's also a metric ton of Mitchell in Michael Jan Friedman's My Brother's Keeper trilogy.
There's also a metric ton of Mitchell in Michael Jan Friedman's My Brother's Keeper trilogy.
Alden was omitted in favor of Uhura. Kelso was the helmsman, so he was omitted in favor of Sulu, as was Piper in favor of McCoy.
Part of MWB's preparation for writing SftS was to memorize Earthdates and log entries (she couldn't afford to buy it!) in Stan & Fred Goldstein's "Star Trek Spaceflight Chronology", which was a ST:TMP tie-in. That book agreed with accepted "fanon" of the day, and vague references in the "Tech Manual" and "Medical Reference Manual", that Alpha Centaurans were the first aliens to meet the people of Earth.
MWB speculated that there was also a forgotten First Contact - with the Vulcan ship mentioned briefly in the "Spaceflight Chronology". The movie "First Contact" gave us a canonical First Contact, and then ENT gave us "Carbon Creek", all of which have similar themes of secrecy and cover-up surrounding Vulcan first contact.
Just in case Therein wasn't clear, this was written well before First Contact was conceptualized at all, and the fanon was another story entirely which she stuck to.
The whole story was rendered contradictory to canon when First Contact came out, but it's still a good book.
Well, pretty good. I thought she pretty much should've cut the entire framing story for the first 150 pages, but I liked the rest.
#85-87 · My Brother's Keeper · Michael Jan Friedman
#85 · Republic
#86 · Constitution
#87 · Enterprise
These feature Gary Mitchel. I'm in the middle of reading Republic and it has Kirk and Mitchel in the Academy together.
Of course, I do pity anyone who feels eBooks are icky.
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Yes, I remember this novel fondly. I liked how it gave Mitchell expertise in faking official records when they had to pass as 21st century people on Earth. I also remember the bizarre time-traveling Egyptian whose name escapes me. I did find the two civilian characters who discover the Vulcans a bit annoying, but not overly so.
I also liked the look at Admiral Kirk's routine, as well as Captain Spock's and Dr. McCoy's, during the period between TMP and TWOK.
Red Ranger
Yes, I remember this novel fondly. I liked how it gave Mitchell expertise in faking official records when they had to pass as 21st century people on Earth. I also remember the bizarre time-traveling Egyptian whose name escapes me. I did find the two civilian characters who discover the Vulcans a bit annoying, but not overly so.
I also liked the look at Admiral Kirk's routine, as well as Captain Spock's and Dr. McCoy's, during the period between TMP and TWOK.
Red Ranger
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