Hello! This is addressed to the writers among us…
I’ve been on quite the odyssey for the past couple of years. My general approach to reading series is to try to wait and read all of them in a row rather than waiting piecemeal, unless it’s something I’m particularly hot-and-bothered-with – as an example, I’d not read any of the Game of Thrones books until the series forced me to, so even after having succumbed I’ll only have to wait for two more [for older fans I managed to wait out the Riverworld series until they were all done, for example].
So to get this back to Trek, while I was a prolific Treklit reader when that was all there was [esp. TOS], I’d not read many of the TNG-DS9-VOY era novels until they were all off the air. I did read the DS9 relaunch a few years back and adored it, have read and loved New Frontier as they came out, and was a loyal Vanguard reader. Two years ago I finally got around to starting the grand project. I’ve topped off the DS9 relaunch, read all the TNG novels from the A Time to… series through the most current, as well as Cold Equations, Slings and Arrows, Section 31, Titan, DTI, Destiny, Typhon Pact, The Fall, and I’m almost done w/the Dominion War books. I’m looking forward to Full Circle, as Voyager is the only “current” thing I’ve not gotten to yet. After that, ENT and the origins.
In two years, the only non-Trek fiction I’ve read was the last Stephen Donaldson Covenant book, which puts a nice cherry on the whole “waiting for series to end” bit.
While the quality has inevitably varied over time and between authors, this is intended as a general and truly heartfelt thank you to everyone involved in this effort. The relaunch idea has turned what was an interesting way of expanding the shared universe we all love into the living and breathing continuation of that universe and all it sometime stands for. What you are all doing is what Star Trek is today [and this is from a non-JJ hater lol].
I was watching an early TNG ep with Riker and Troi dancing around their relationship issues and my first thought was “this is an old married couple with a kid to me”.
As my then-ridiculed t-shirt in high school said, “Star Trek Lives”...and for many of us, you are the reason why.
Thank you, and I look forward to what you will all bring us in the future.
I’ve been on quite the odyssey for the past couple of years. My general approach to reading series is to try to wait and read all of them in a row rather than waiting piecemeal, unless it’s something I’m particularly hot-and-bothered-with – as an example, I’d not read any of the Game of Thrones books until the series forced me to, so even after having succumbed I’ll only have to wait for two more [for older fans I managed to wait out the Riverworld series until they were all done, for example].
So to get this back to Trek, while I was a prolific Treklit reader when that was all there was [esp. TOS], I’d not read many of the TNG-DS9-VOY era novels until they were all off the air. I did read the DS9 relaunch a few years back and adored it, have read and loved New Frontier as they came out, and was a loyal Vanguard reader. Two years ago I finally got around to starting the grand project. I’ve topped off the DS9 relaunch, read all the TNG novels from the A Time to… series through the most current, as well as Cold Equations, Slings and Arrows, Section 31, Titan, DTI, Destiny, Typhon Pact, The Fall, and I’m almost done w/the Dominion War books. I’m looking forward to Full Circle, as Voyager is the only “current” thing I’ve not gotten to yet. After that, ENT and the origins.
In two years, the only non-Trek fiction I’ve read was the last Stephen Donaldson Covenant book, which puts a nice cherry on the whole “waiting for series to end” bit.
While the quality has inevitably varied over time and between authors, this is intended as a general and truly heartfelt thank you to everyone involved in this effort. The relaunch idea has turned what was an interesting way of expanding the shared universe we all love into the living and breathing continuation of that universe and all it sometime stands for. What you are all doing is what Star Trek is today [and this is from a non-JJ hater lol].
I was watching an early TNG ep with Riker and Troi dancing around their relationship issues and my first thought was “this is an old married couple with a kid to me”.
As my then-ridiculed t-shirt in high school said, “Star Trek Lives”...and for many of us, you are the reason why.
Thank you, and I look forward to what you will all bring us in the future.
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