Spoilers The Good That Men Do - Here there be SPOILERS***

[StarFleetVeteran]

Okay, so I just started reading The Good That Men Do a couple days ago. I'm a little over a third through it, and I'm now having a difficult time working because I want to read more!

The emotions of everyone involved in Trip's "death", his family, and T'Pol's reaction have really hit me, and for a few minutes there I forgot that he wasn't really dead. I can't wait until my next break!

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[Reanok]

I really like this book too it's well writen and I like the way the characters are handled in this book.

 

[JD]

Yeah, TGTMD is great.

 

[BryanSorensen]

ya it was fantastic, anyone who wanted redemption from These are the Voyages can find it with this book!

 

[Mach5]

The emotions of everyone involved in Trip's "death", his family, and T'Pol's reaction have really hit me, and for a few minutes there I forgot that he wasn't really dead.

Yep, where TATV failed miserably, TGTMD excelled. The thing about the "finale" that personally pissed me off the most was how poorly emotions were handled, and how genuinely unaffected (by Tucker's death) the Enterprise crew seemed. This book offers a pretty good reason for their behavior.
What I really loved about this book is how Mangels & Martin (occasionally) made fun of TATV:

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The part where Jake Sisko talks about how the pirates easily boarded the Enterprise, and calls it's security laughable, was a real slap in B&B's face

Overall I loved the way authors used some existing dialogues from TATV, but there was one that made absolutely no sense to me:

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When Trip and T'pol communicate telepathically for the first time (when Romulan-looking Trip appears to T'pol in the shuttlepod), they have the same exact (word for word) talk as in TATV, about talking to Phlox (?), then Trip says something like: "Do you know how long it's been?" (WTF? How long has it been really, between then and the events from Terra prime? Months?)

All in all, the book was very fun to read, and it's a pretty sad thing that the events in it are not really canon...

 

[Corran Horn]

The only thing I disliked about this book was the 24th century framing story, which I felt went too far into the 'spoon feeding' area of reconciling the historical differences.

 

[Enterpriserules]

We finally arrived at this part of Enterprise on Literary Treks and Dan and I had a lot to say about this one.

 

[Nathan]

This is also one of my favorite books too.....my annoyance is once you get Romulan War, Beneath the Raptor's Wing (or something close to it), that one really sucks. Once you finish TGTMD, you'll want more, and Rom War: BTRW really sucks.

 

[Reanok]

I really enjoyed listening to Literary trek's discussion of The Good that men do. I really like this book a lot . Some of the Romulan War books I liked better than others.

 

[Enterpriserules]

Yeah I am really interested to go back and read the Romulan War books. I remember being heartbroken when the trilogy they had planned got cut to 2 books. Really appreciate you listening to us, glad you liked our conversation.