Why Don't Trek Writers Like "writing battle scenes"?

[BrotherBenny]

Although it's not strictly a battle scene,the prolonged action sequences in "Wildfire" are amongst the most exciting and cinematic in Trek fiction IMHO.

Gracias, sir.

They were written from the POV of the characters we'd grown to love, and I was almost willing the text to save some more of them.

 

[JD]

I can't speak as to why the writers don't like writing them, but I know why I don't like reading them-- they tend to bore the snot out of me.

I enjoyed Michael Stackpole's Rogue Squadron novels, but would tend to skim the battle scenes lest I fall asleep with the book in my lap.

I do that with a lot of the Star Wars books. The space battles tend to put me asleep. There's only so much of Jaina Solo juking and jinking that I can put up with before it gets tiresome. Those scenes work better on the screen than they do on paper. I have a hard time visualizing them while reading.

I have pretty much the same problem, it just gets really confusing keeping track of who's where and what they are doing.

 

[ToddCam]

Is Starfleet a military organization? Yes, when it needs to be.

Is Starfleet a research organization? Yes, the rest of the time.

Okay?

Wow. That is exactly right.

(not being sarcastic)