There is an Uhrura's Song thread that keeps getting derailed by other contemporary novels. So let's just celebrate the mish mash!
There was something about this era. For one thing there were obviously more books than movies coming out. For myself there was not knowing who (if anyone) was running anything so it was a question of what authors followed what other authors. The Final Reflection will come up eventually. If the subject ever came up most authors were following the early 2200's timeline from The Spaceflight Chronology and FASA games and I was firmly a late 2200's guy going by the Star Trek Maps, etc. (We won!)
Looking back it's interesting to realize what books I was reading as the were published and what books had been floating around for a few years.
We now re-join a conversation about Vonda M. McIntyre's Star Trek III: The Search for Spock, already in progress.
Earth is depicted as a very nice place but hardly post-scarcity. She also introduces the concept of transporter-free areas which is interesting.
Now I need to read these again.
There was something about this era. For one thing there were obviously more books than movies coming out. For myself there was not knowing who (if anyone) was running anything so it was a question of what authors followed what other authors. The Final Reflection will come up eventually. If the subject ever came up most authors were following the early 2200's timeline from The Spaceflight Chronology and FASA games and I was firmly a late 2200's guy going by the Star Trek Maps, etc. (We won!)
Looking back it's interesting to realize what books I was reading as the were published and what books had been floating around for a few years.
We now re-join a conversation about Vonda M. McIntyre's Star Trek III: The Search for Spock, already in progress.
Pretty close. Sarek shows up in the same place as he did in the movie although he gets a dressing down from Kirk that amounts to "Oh, so NOW you care?" Enterprise never goes to Ceti Alpha (Alpha Ceti in the book). The trainees are transferred and the Enterprise is sent home. Scotty and his niece do NOT get along. He consideres her something of a hothead. (She points out that the last two times Kirk got near the Enterprise she came back without her captain.) Scotty also meets one of Peter's shipmates who ran during the attack and is now in hiding.The book opens up the day after Spock's funeral, David and Saavik have spent the night together. Carol has rebuffed Kirk's attempts at reconciliation. Enterprise proceeds to the meeting with the Grissom where Esteban tells Kirk that Genesis is off limits. David and Saavik transfer to Grissom. Carol, the Reliant survivors and unnecessary Enterprise crewmen are transferred to a another ship which takes them back to Earth while Enterprise takes the slow road home. Once back at Earth, Carol meets with the family members of Regula One. I think Sarek is involved as well. Once back at Earth, Morrow tells Sulu he won't be Captain of the Excelsior pending further investigation into Khan/Genesis. There is also Peter Preston's funeral and Scotty falling out with his sister and niece, who is also a member of Starfleet and who says she'll conduct in investigation into Scotty's actions during Reliant's initial attack to see if anything could have been done to prevent her brother's death. That's what I remember off the top of my head without pulling the book out of storage.
Earth is depicted as a very nice place but hardly post-scarcity. She also introduces the concept of transporter-free areas which is interesting.
Now I need to read these again.