Tor.com article on Memory Prime

[Christopher]

Today, Tor.com posted one of Ellen Cheeseman-Meyer's occasional reviews of Star Trek novels (mostly '80s Pocket novels, though she did review DTI: Watching the Clock once), this time about Memory Prime, the first Trek novel by Judith & Garfield Reeves-Stevens:

http://www.tor.com/2016/01/18/star-trek-novels-memory-prime-by-judith-and-garfield-reeves-stevens/

Unexpectedly, the authors themselves found out about the review and posted a comment answering a couple of questions about the book -- mainly why they were credited as "Gar and Judith" instead of their usual "Judith and Garfield."

As for our names appearing as “Gar and Judith,” apparently that’s because that’s how we signed our notes and letters in the long ago pre-email before-time, so that’s what our consistency-minded editor put on the cover. We pointed out the mix-up when we saw the solicitation cover, and were told it would be fixed – and someday we’re sure it will be!

I thought it was worth giving a heads-up since they might post more comments later.

 

[JD]

This is one I've been curious about for a while, and the review did make it sound pretty good. Although I think I'll have to wait until after I hit Lights of Zetar on my TOS Rewatch, because I do not remember that one at all.

 

[Christopher]

I don't think that much from "Zetar" is actually relevant to Memory Prime. All you need to know is what's explained in the book -- that there was an archive called Memory Alpha that had no security and was destroyed, so its replacement is far more security-conscious. And the person running it is someone Scotty had a fling with, and she's fleshed out far more in the book than she ever was in the episode. If anything, you might enjoy Memory Prime more if you don't have memories of a lousy episode like "Zetar" associated with it.

 

[Reanok]

I re read Memory last year it's a good story. The Reeves- Steevens wrote an excellent TOS novel. All the Enterprise get good story arcs in this book.

 

[JD]

I don't think that much from "Zetar" is actually relevant to Memory Prime. All you need to know is what's explained in the book -- that there was an archive called Memory Alpha that had no security and was destroyed, so its replacement is far more security-conscious. And the person running it is someone Scotty had a fling with, and she's fleshed out far more in the book than she ever was in the episode. If anything, you might enjoy Memory Prime more if you don't have memories of a lousy episode like "Zetar" associated with it.

I'm going to watch it no matter what, and I've got plenty of other stuff to read, so I'm in no hurry to get to the book. Even if it's not good, I still like to try to watch anything relevant to a book I'm going to read.

 

[trampledamage]

Memory Prime is one of my favourite ST novels - I re-read it quite often. I've never seen Lights of Zetar though so I can't connect it.

 

[Leto_II]

Very cool -- thanks, Christopher. Was coincidentally planning on giving this one a reread sometime soon, here; looks like it just got bumped up the list a bit, thanks to this.

 

[TheAlmanac]

As I mentioned there, Memory Prime is the first Star Trek I ever read. I continue to think it's one of the better TOS efforts from that era, and I've also been meaning to reread it, so it's nice to see the novel get some extra attention.

Someone should add those tidbits about the cover and the authors' byline to this title's Memory Beta entry...