I was going through some of my old book in my office the other day and I came across a novel I had not read in about twenty years...Vendetta by Peter David. I reread that book in a few days and had forgotten how well written it was. Normally I am hesitant about taking books and converting them into movies, but I thinK Vendetta' Borg could have served as a good Star Trek movie instead of First Contact's Borg.
Vendetta
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PAD's most recent TNG book, Before Dishonor, serves partly as a sequel to Vendetta, but frankly, it isn't nearly as good as Vendetta was (Although I don't dislike it nearly as much as some in this forum).
How can a book published twenty years ago or so have a Star Trek Online tie in as the latter is what, a year or so old.
I have a feeling he meant that STO tied in with Vendetta. You never know though, maybe it needs to be investigated by the DTI!
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Vendetta was the first Trek novel I'd ever read. I held onto it for all these years but never went back to re-visit it until I read PAD's Before Dishonor. After finishing that novel (which, as already mentioned, serves as a loose follow-up in a way), I re-read Vendetta and was pleasantly surprised to see that it holds up well today.
The accepted acronym is "TOS".
For a while, in the pre-Internet days, when BBS's came to us in more primitive ways, the original series was being called ST or perhaps STC (Star Trek Classic, as in the "New Coke" vs "Coke Classic" era), to distinguish it from TNG - and the Filmation animated series was usually STA (Star Trek Animated), but that morphed into TAS.
I think it was the video releases that codified "The Original Series" and "The Animated Series" as the standard subtitles for those shows. Growing up, I always thought of TAS as just "the cartoon Star Trek" or (as I got older) "the animated Star Trek".
Yeah. Early "Starlog" issues began calling it Star Trek Animated, if only to distinguish it.
Forgive the digression, but it strikes me as interesting that Filmation just called their animated show Star Trek. Usually their animated sequels to live-action shows had different titles from the originals -- Lassie's Rescue Rangers, My Favorite Martians, The Brady Kids, and a bunch of The New Adventures of shows including Superman, Batman, Gilligan, and Flash Gordon. But TAS was just Star Trek. Between that and their nearly shot-for-shot recreation of the main titles, I really think they were trying to present the show as a direct continuation -- it's still the same show, it's just in cartoon format now.
Definitely.
Vendetta remains my favorite Trek novel to this day. A close second is My Enemy, My Ally
^ idk, I thought it was kind of... weird.
One thing I thought during the reread of Vendetta was that the TNG characters seemed alittle "off" at times, especially Crusher and Troi. They seemed alot more blunt and cold hearted when dealing with Geordi and Bonaventure. Picard was an a-hole in some sections (but I guess that could be the result of this novel's events happening just a few months after what happened in Best of Both Worlds).
I really liked how Vendetta explicitly showed that Picard coming back from Borg assimilation was the exception and not the rule -- a theory that the TV shows would blow to hell with Hugh and Seven of Nine. One of several places where I wish the TV shows could have followed the lead of the novels.
"Exception and not the rule" doesn't mean "can only happen once ever in all history". I think a dozen or two out of a trillion is still pretty exceptional.
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