"That book never happened!"
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I tend to discount most of the stuff written outside the TV and movie timeframes. The DS9 relaunch stuff and the TNG relaunch stuff does nothing for me. I've recently given Titan a try, currently reading Seize The Fire, and I keep wanting to give up on it.
It's really funny, as I was a big fan of the original Lost Years Saga with TOS back in the day.
But now I want my Star Trek Lit to be just as episodic as the TV series were, set during the missions with characters I recognise from the TV series. Reading about characters 20 or even 30 years on, with a lot of character growth applied by the authors, jutifiably given the time frame, often renders them unrecognisable from their TV incarnations, and occasionally a direction is taken which for me feels like character assassination.
It's really funny, as I was a big fan of the original Lost Years Saga with TOS back in the day.
But now I want my Star Trek Lit to be just as episodic as the TV series were, set during the missions with characters I recognise from the TV series. Reading about characters 20 or even 30 years on, with a lot of character growth applied by the authors, jutifiably given the time frame, often renders them unrecognisable from their TV incarnations, and occasionally a direction is taken which for me feels like character assassination.
Oh well. Just because they decided to contradict them because of Ro doesn't mean they can't be enjoyed.
It's been a long time since I read them - what was incompatible with the relaunch ?
^Similarly, didn't Worf say he'd never met Admiral Janeway in Before Dishonor, despite having done so in Resistance, the previous novel?
A TNG character is also revealed to be a Changeling, and yet he's since turned up okay in other books, with absolutely no mention of his unlikely escape from Dominion custody. Explainable, but never explained.
If it's the character I think you mean, my recollection is that the DW novels heavily implied that he was killed, not just replaced.
People can have their own "personal continuity" all they want, as long as they don't talk about it on the Trek boards. In my experience, nothing starts more flame wars than that.
Yeah.. we talk about what we like and don't like on here a lot. Kind of sparks discussion.
Is Seize the Fire your first Titan book? If so, you picked (obviously not your fault) the weakest one to start with. I highly recommend starting with Orion's Hounds to get a feel for what the series is really about, then backtrack to Taking Wing / The Red King.
Well, both yes, but both events had happened offscreen.
It's down to what the library has. Recently read Inception, which gave me a Kirk that I loathed. Not the kind of man who'd travel back in time to find some whales, rather a man who would have found a way to nuke the Probe instead.
Read a Vanguard book, which I really quite enjoyed. It was Precipice. My definition of a good, ongoing series, is if you can pick a book at random from it, without having read any of the other, and still lose yourself in it. This fit the bill perfectly.
I read Myriad Universes: Shattered Light, of which I thought The Embrace of Cold Architects was forgettable, Tears of Eridanus interesting but unexciting, while I thought Honor in the Night was brilliant.
I also read Star Trek Online: The Needs of the Many, which while very well written, and interesting approach, felt like a summary of a larger story and was ultimately unfulfilling.
I have a Captain Pike novel, The Children of Kings which I'm really looking forward to though, as it seems to fit closer to me needs as a reader.
Not necessarily! Interlibrary Loan is an amazing thing; I've read a good dozen trade paperbacks through that. Title and author is usually enough, just ask your librarian and they can request just about any book from literally any other library for you, and have it for you within a week.
This is a publically funded UK library, and it's Interneted up so I can check stock online from home before I set out to borrow a book and visit whichever branch in my borough has it. A fair amount of choice, but the likelihood of branches being closed because of cutbacks is high.
On the brightside, the library which I do visit is a brand new building, with a brand new stock of books, which is why I'm suddenly reading again after 12 or 13 months, as there are finally new books to read. Before that, the newest Trek book they had was The Buried Age.
I think the Andorian genders storyline is one of the most interesting in the franchise, not just the novels. Anyway, they were based on a line from a TNG episode.
The Taurik issue (was he killed or not in the Dominion War novel) reminds me of an idea I had a little while ago.
Could we start a communal project / thread identifying and listing novels which do or do not fit with the relaunch continuity.
I actually think we would need three categories -
1) In relaunch continuity.
2) Possibly in relaunch continuity (i.e. the Taurik question - we don't KNOW he was killed when the changeling replaced him - he could have been imprisioned like Bashir) with reasoning.
3) Not in relaunch continuity.
Could we start a communal project / thread identifying and listing novels which do or do not fit with the relaunch continuity.
I actually think we would need three categories -
1) In relaunch continuity.
2) Possibly in relaunch continuity (i.e. the Taurik question - we don't KNOW he was killed when the changeling replaced him - he could have been imprisioned like Bashir) with reasoning.
3) Not in relaunch continuity.
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