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TOS: That Which Divides by Dayton Ward Review Thread (Spoilers!)

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The other review thread I accidentally made is still hanging around down there somewhere; if a mod could delete or merge it, that would be awesome.

I PM'ed Rosalind about it a couple of days back, but I guess she's out of town or so.
 
A question for Dayton:

In your Acknowledgements, you thank "Michael Richards" for providing the original story for That Which Survives. "Michael Richards" is, I believe, a pseudonym for D.C. Fontana. I'm kind of surprised you didn't unmask "Michael's" true identity in your acknowledgements. Why not?
 
I thought it was pretty pedestrian. I didn't really get a feel of much tension even in the parts that felt like they should have been. There wasn't anything else in particular to dislike, but equally it's not something I'd read a second time.
 
I looked up Lt.Boma in Memory Alpha to help put a face to the name, and I noticed he has apperaed in two previous non-canon books(Dreadnought and Battlestations). Does his posting to the Huang Zhong jive with those two previous books? They have him listed as a civilian scientist not a Stafleet Lieutenant.
 
I looked up Lt.Boma in Memory Alpha to help put a face to the name, and I noticed he has apperaed in two previous non-canon books(Dreadnought and Battlestations). Does his posting to the Huang Zhong jive with those two previous books? They have him listed as a civilian scientist not a Stafleet Lieutenant.
He was a lieutenant in the episode "The Galileo Seven"; Carey's books postulate that he left Starfleet afterwards.

I haven't read That Which Divides, so I can't speak to how well it gels with Carey's accounts. My guess is "not very well", though.
 
I looked up Lt.Boma in Memory Alpha to help put a face to the name, and I noticed he has apperaed in two previous non-canon books(Dreadnought and Battlestations). Does his posting to the Huang Zhong jive with those two previous books? They have him listed as a civilian scientist not a Stafleet Lieutenant.

I don't think they jibe at all. (Jive = nonsense or deceptive talk; jibe = agree or be in accord; gibe = mock or deride.) Dreadnought and Battlestations fit into the old '80s version of Trek novel continuity, which is very different from what the later shows and books have established.
 
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