^ I liked the concept, and it's not so much that I *disliked* it, it's just that it didn't strike me as anything remarkable. I suppose it is a sign in its favour that I actually remembered it, unlike some of the others that I read.
I think the main thing which bugged me was the way in which the descriptions of Data were very...human. That completely took me out of the romance and injury scenes because it just felt very silly. I understand what it was trying to do; it just didn't work for me.
I'm a bit mixed on the tie-in to TOS. Peter David's my favourite Trek author, so I suppose I can't complain about the "tapestry" style of novels, but I wasn't especially compelled by it. I did like the line about the spinning machine though - some of the references to scripts seem quite mean-spirited (a couple in the Enterprise relaunch in particular) but that was funny.
Was this also the novel which had Picard say to Geordi something like, "Do it again, and you're fired"? That struck me as the least-appropriate Picard line I've read for ages - Calhoun absolutely, maybe Kirk or Archer, but Picard? [and no doubt someone will point me in the direction of a similar line from the show, but it just struck me as completely jarring]
I am very much in the minority in my views on Trek books. I love the entire New Frontier series, dislike all the relaunches except Enterprise and think Trek books were better in the 90s. The good thing is that I have over a hundred still on my shelves (almost all from before 2000), other readers get a steady supply of new books, and we can each be happy with our preferences.
I think the main thing which bugged me was the way in which the descriptions of Data were very...human. That completely took me out of the romance and injury scenes because it just felt very silly. I understand what it was trying to do; it just didn't work for me.
I'm a bit mixed on the tie-in to TOS. Peter David's my favourite Trek author, so I suppose I can't complain about the "tapestry" style of novels, but I wasn't especially compelled by it. I did like the line about the spinning machine though - some of the references to scripts seem quite mean-spirited (a couple in the Enterprise relaunch in particular) but that was funny.
Was this also the novel which had Picard say to Geordi something like, "Do it again, and you're fired"? That struck me as the least-appropriate Picard line I've read for ages - Calhoun absolutely, maybe Kirk or Archer, but Picard? [and no doubt someone will point me in the direction of a similar line from the show, but it just struck me as completely jarring]
I am very much in the minority in my views on Trek books. I love the entire New Frontier series, dislike all the relaunches except Enterprise and think Trek books were better in the 90s. The good thing is that I have over a hundred still on my shelves (almost all from before 2000), other readers get a steady supply of new books, and we can each be happy with our preferences.
