Since someone asked, my quick take on some Peter David Star Trek books… Q-Squared was a solid romp. Alternate timelines, the fate of the universe hanging in the balance, the tragedy of Jack Crusher. My favorite scene has to be the three Datas discussing their sexual habits while the Enterprise-D is about to crash. TheContinue reading “On Peter David Novels”
Category Archives: Star Trek
On The Doctor and the Enterprise, and FOX
I read Jean Airey’s The Doctor and the Enterprise recently. 🙂 The Doctor and the Enterprise (tDatE) is frivolous fun. I’d slot it right after “The Deadly Assassin” and before the Doctor picks up Leela, but there’s a reference to K-9, so perhaps it would be best after Leela and before Romana I, so rightContinue reading “On The Doctor and the Enterprise, and FOX”
On Star Trek, Series V
TrekToday has some interesting details on the next Star Trek series, in particular who the characters will be. Is it for real? I’ve talked with some friends of mine about the TrekToday article. All agree that it’s bogus for a couple of reasons. The names are a little in-jokey. A real casting bulletin wouldn’t goContinue reading “On Star Trek, Series V”
The Psi-Phi Project: Re(8550): Dissappointments
But it does no good to vent your spleen if you simultaneously assure them that you’ll keep buying the books no matter what they do. The only way to get the message through to them is NOT to buy the books. Otherwise, what incentive do they have to change? Ah, the Catch-22. You buy stuffContinue reading “The Psi-Phi Project: Re(8550): Dissappointments”
On the Icarus and the Kzin
If you accept Star Trek: The Animated Series you have the Kzin attacking Earth almost simultaneously with the Vulcans’ arrival in Montana. And if you accept the UNSS Icarus mission to Alpha Centauri, you have that ship making contact with the native Centaurans before the Vulcans pass though the Sol system. Putting Star Trek: FirstContinue reading “On the Icarus and the Kzin”
On Nuclear War in the Star Trek Universe
Nuclear war happened in the Star Trek universe. “Encounter at Farpoint” talks about the Post-Atomic Horror. Star Trek: First Contact tells us 600 million dead. But where? Asia and the Pacific Rim? Gone, reduced to radioactive slag. That makes sense, given what Q showed us of the court from the Post-Atomic Horror, and the factContinue reading “On Nuclear War in the Star Trek Universe”
On Quintin Stone
Here’s what I think would be an interesting way to play with Quintin Stone in Star Trek: New Frontier. A Rock and a Hard Place makes the point that Stone used to be a quiet, by-the-book officer, until the Prime Directive situation on Ianni that drove him over the edge and made him the rough-and-tumbleContinue reading “On Quintin Stone”
On Borg History
I’ve been puzzled about the timeline for Annika Hansen’s meeting with the Borg. In tonite’s episode of Voyager, Janeway says to Seven that the Borg took away 20 years of her life and it was punishment enough. How is this possible if it was Q who brought the Enterprise and Picard to first contact withContinue reading “On Borg History”
More on Sulu novels
From John Ordover: Yes, we could use Spock as a prop for Sulu, just as we used Picard and Spock in the first New Frontier book – but why should we?:) For the exact same reason as the NextGen angle was played in New Frontier: to draw in readers. For the same reason Picard featuresContinue reading “More on Sulu novels”
Tania Tobias, Anyone?
While reading a book the other day, suddenly I wondered, whatever became of Tania Tobias? And might we see her appear in a future Star Trek: New Frontier novel, possibly as part of Shelby’s crew on the Trident, possibly as Shelby’s first officer? Or is Ms. Tobias no longer in Starfleet, or did she perishContinue reading “Tania Tobias, Anyone?”