O. Deus wrote:<\/p>\n
[Peter] David doesn’t do nice stories. He’s the one writer assigned to doing R-Rated ST stories which is pretty much his function. If he didn’t keep shoving in the violence and sex and betrayals, readers might begin to notice that he’s no better a writer than any of the other franchise’s pens for hire.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Despite my repeated criticisms of New Frontier<\/b> and Peter David’s apathetic writing in the New Frontier<\/b> recent novels, I have to take issue with this.<\/p>\n
“assigned to doing R-Rated ST stories…”? Not true. No Star Trek<\/i> novel would, if filmed, rate an R-rating by the MPAA. Most Trek<\/i> novels would rate a PG; at worst, some would rate a PG-13. The Star Trek<\/i> novels don’t feature graphic violence or sex. Even when the characters in New Frontier<\/b> are engaging in sexual acts, they are described either as having happened or in such a way that little attention is drawn to them. (I’m still in awe of the humorous sexual metaphors used in describing the Robin\/Nik encounter in the simulation ride in Renaissance<\/i>; funny and accurate.)<\/p>\n
Admittedly, Peter David gets latitude because he’s the best-selling author in the Trek writing stable and because New Frontier<\/b> is his<\/i> series, no one else’s. He has written some brilliant Star Trek books in the past–Imzadi<\/i>, Q-Squared<\/i>, A Rock and a Hard Place<\/i>. New Frontier<\/b> doesn’t represent his best work, however; only Once Burned<\/i> approaches the heights of those previous books. At best, New Frontier<\/b> is diverting. At worst, it’s dull.<\/p>\n
Particularly with the Excalibur<\/i> trilogy, his New Frontier<\/b> writing is marred by sloppy plotting and poor characterization. These are either stylistic quirks or evidence that PAD’s taken on too many writing assignments. (Six novels in one year is a bit much.) But I don’t find his work gratuitously violent or sexually graphic.<\/p>\n
Your mileage may vary, however.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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