tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-43047215261007880822024-03-12T19:18:48.924-07:00yoursemidailystartrekgojiramahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00274986971214588604noreply@blogger.comBlogger151125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4304721526100788082.post-60855572835997662492012-08-23T13:29:00.000-07:002012-08-23T13:29:04.349-07:00Vanguard: Storming Heaven<a href="http://www.amazon.com/Star-Trek-Vanguard-Storming-Heaven/dp/1451650701/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1345753315&sr=8-1&keywords=storming+heaven+vanguard">Storming Heaven</a> by David Mack wraps up the epic Star Trek series, Vanguard. Set in the far reaches of explored space, this series has traced the adventures of the crew of Station 47 (Vanguard) and their struggles with the mysterious and powerful Shedai. The back copy promises an explosive conclusion, and Mack delivers. One of my favourite parts of reading novels by the newish crop of writers (over this past almost decade) is not just the great storytelling, but the Easter eggs. I won't give them away, but if you're a fan of The Big Bang Theory or the works of Joss Whedon, you'll have a few "squee!" moments.gojiramahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00274986971214588604noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4304721526100788082.post-11989046981899307082011-06-06T13:32:00.000-07:002011-06-06T13:32:00.483-07:00Episode night ( Thinkgeek to my rescue)Last night was episode night with the USS Thermopylae;ae. We weren't filming an episode ( which is really too bad because we had some really fun times) ; but rather LARPing where not everyone knew what was happening. try ad-libbing that.<br />
Not the only thing I had to ad-lib. As I was getting dressed, and my husband was zipping up my skant for me, I noticed something white on the front that looked like the adhesive left behind when you wash something with a sticker on it. Which I would never do with costuming. When I tried to scratch it off, my finger went through! NO clue what it was- my skant was poplin so not moths. There are several spots like that, so it's ruined. Brian said that might mean it's time to get me one with nicer fabric- I said only if he paid for it.<br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">There were a few things that made pulling off Vulcan hard for me. First, as you can see, I need waaay better ears ( add that to the very long wish list). Second, pot roast. Third, the chicken. Don't ask about the chicken. You had to be there. Fourth, PEOPLE KEPT MAKING ME LAUGH! And last of all, on the way home, The Ramones. I think I'm very far from the Path of Kohlinar.</div>gojiramahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00274986971214588604noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4304721526100788082.post-27874470282491291792010-03-04T13:35:00.000-08:002010-03-04T13:46:10.284-08:00Book: TOS: Inception by SD Perry and Britta DennisonBefore they were stationed aboard the Enterprise, Captain Kirk and Mr Spock met two brilliant women who would gain their own places in Trek history. While their relationships with Dr Carol M<span id="SPELLING_ERROR_0" class="blsp-spelling-error">arcus</span> and Leila <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_1" class="blsp-spelling-error">Kalomi</span> took different paths...with very different consequences- there is no doubt that these relationships affected them and their futures deeply. Perry and Dennison's book brings the two scientists together as <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_2" class="blsp-spelling-corrected">colleagues</span>. This book meets my current standard of needing to be a fast read. Enjoyable!gojiramahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00274986971214588604noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4304721526100788082.post-88614355561720753112010-03-04T13:34:00.000-08:002010-03-04T13:35:54.902-08:00ENT: HarbingerThe Enterprise rescues and alien caught in a spatial <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_0" class="blsp-spelling-corrected">anomaly</span>. The alien appears to be dying when he is brought aboard, but it soon becomes evident that those who has placed his ship in the <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_1" class="blsp-spelling-corrected">anomaly</span> had sinister purposes.gojiramahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00274986971214588604noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4304721526100788082.post-59404302240503929192010-02-11T13:05:00.000-08:002010-02-11T13:12:29.153-08:00ENT: Strategem<span id="SPELLING_ERROR_0" class="blsp-spelling-corrected">Stratagem</span> opens with a scruffy looking Captain Archer in a shuttle with an equally scruffy <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_1" class="blsp-spelling-error">Xindi</span> Primate, <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_2" class="blsp-spelling-error">Degra</span>. It soon becomes <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_3" class="blsp-spelling-corrected">apparent</span> that Archer is not actually fleeing a <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_4" class="blsp-spelling-error">Xindi</span> prison camp, <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_5" class="blsp-spelling-corrected">but</span> has set up an <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_6" class="blsp-spelling-corrected">elaborate</span> ruse to get information out of <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_7" class="blsp-spelling-error">Degra</span>. While they do not get quite the information they wanted, they do get one step closer to their goals.gojiramahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00274986971214588604noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4304721526100788082.post-49504046344765081222010-02-11T13:00:00.000-08:002010-02-11T13:04:59.563-08:00ST Mirror Universe: The Sorrows of EmpireCombining short stories from previous Mirror Universe collections and weaving them into a cohesive whole, The book by David Mack looks at the question of "Our Universe's crew exposed the logical Mirror Universe Spock to dangerous concepts; what did he do with them?". Starting with <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_0" class="blsp-spelling-corrected">Spock's</span> inevitable <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_1" class="blsp-spelling-corrected">assassination</span> of Captain Kirk and ending with slightly after his death, this is a must read for anyone who thinks the Mirror Universe is much cooler.gojiramahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00274986971214588604noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4304721526100788082.post-20384728503258810152010-02-08T12:47:00.000-08:002010-02-08T12:57:37.835-08:00ENT: Chosen Realm, Proving GroundIn Chosen Realm, the <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_0" class="blsp-spelling-error">Enterrpise</span> meets a ship full of aliens who worship the <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_1" class="blsp-spelling-error">Xindi</span> spheres. While <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_2" class="blsp-spelling-error">helping</span> them <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_3" class="blsp-spelling-corrected">repair</span> their ship at first seems a way to get much needed information about the spheres, it drags the Enterprise into an internecine war. Nice use of "Let's fake an execution with the transporter".<br /> Proving Ground has some familiar characters joining the Enterprise in <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_4" class="blsp-spelling-error">Xindi</span> space. General <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_5" class="blsp-spelling-error">Shran</span> has taken advantage of the <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_6" class="blsp-spelling-error">Andorian's</span> superior warp capability to catch up to the Enterprise, ostensibly to offer assistance. In the end, it is of course revealed that the <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_7" class="blsp-spelling-error">Andorians</span> had an ulterior motive.gojiramahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00274986971214588604noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4304721526100788082.post-8326924880851855872010-01-21T13:29:00.000-08:002010-01-21T13:50:56.639-08:00IDW- Best of Star Trek:DS9A collection of Deep Space 9 comics from early in the series run. The first story arc has the station taken over by fast growing green mold. (Something you could get here in the <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_0" class="blsp-spelling-error">PNW</span> without having to travel to the edge of the quadrant). The second story has the crew of <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_1" class="blsp-spelling-error">DS</span>9 placed in the middle of a Prime Directive straining situation between slavers and slave...whom I have to say have very creepy split forearms. Bonus is an 8 page "ashcan" story where a Klingon prison ship places Dr <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_2" class="blsp-spelling-error">Bashir</span> in Danger.gojiramahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00274986971214588604noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4304721526100788082.post-35583903477235737562010-01-19T13:52:00.000-08:002010-01-20T13:21:09.059-08:00Book: TNG: Breaking the PeaceIn the wake of the Borg incursion into Fedration territory, planets are left devestated, familes torn apart, and billions of beings displaced. The USS Enterprise has been tasked with patrolling the near Earth vicinity, doing whatever is needed to find the lost and alleviate suffering. Doctor Crusher has been asked to go to the ocean world of Pacifica, which escaped Borg attack but has taken in a large number of refugees. This book was fastpaced despite the lack of "action"- perhaps my timely reading of it made the book more poignant. We learn things about the families and loved ones of minor characters that we hadn't known before.gojiramahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00274986971214588604noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4304721526100788082.post-4308214314785309582010-01-19T13:43:00.000-08:002010-01-19T13:52:12.938-08:00Book:ENT: The Romulan War: Under the Raptor's Wing.This book is written by Micheal A Martin, who usually collaborates with Andy <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_0" class="blsp-spelling-error">Mangels</span>, and whose collaborations I usually love. Under the Raptor's Wing, however, I found very slow. I had to renew it in order to finish it, and it was the only book I was reading. Along with the slowly advancing plot it tries- too hard sometimes- to integrate "future" Trek with the past it has created- such as Tobin <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_1" class="blsp-spelling-error">Dax</span>, and a slew of <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_2" class="blsp-spelling-error">Romulans</span> named after "future" ships. The main reason I finished the book was because I do not want to be wondering <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_3" class="blsp-spelling-error">what is</span> going on when the next book comes out.gojiramahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00274986971214588604noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4304721526100788082.post-4570648422543768282010-01-19T13:38:00.000-08:002010-01-19T13:42:17.282-08:00ENT: Carpenter StreetDaniels appears and sends Archer and <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_0" class="blsp-spelling-error">T'Pol</span> back to Detroit in 2004. A blood bank worker, under the unknowing employ of the <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_1" class="blsp-spelling-error">Xindi</span> reptilians, has been kidnapping one person of every blood type so they might use them to synthesise a bio weapon. Archer and <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_2" class="blsp-spelling-error">T'Pol</span> must navigate an unfamiliar time period and stop the <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_3" class="blsp-spelling-error">Xindi</span> before they release their weapon into the past.gojiramahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00274986971214588604noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4304721526100788082.post-86880936271705849212009-12-31T11:08:00.000-08:002009-12-31T11:18:51.012-08:00Book: VOY: Unworthy by Kristen BeyerThe Delta fleet has launched with it's newly installed slipstream drive. However, many of the <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_0" class="blsp-spelling-corrected">prominent</span> figures on the <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_1" class="blsp-spelling-corrected">expedition</span> have <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_2" class="blsp-spelling-corrected">closely</span> held secrets- including Commander Tom Paris. How will these secrets affect first contact with a new symbiotic species group, and how will Seven' mental health be <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_3" class="blsp-spelling-corrected">affected</span> by that first contact?gojiramahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00274986971214588604noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4304721526100788082.post-78191078901310782922009-12-31T11:00:00.000-08:002009-12-31T11:08:20.496-08:00Episode: ENT: SimiltudeAn engineering experiment gone awry leaves Trip with incurable brain damage. Phlox proposes and <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_0" class="blsp-spelling-corrected">unorthodox</span> treatment: growing a fast growing symbiont to provide needed neural tissue. Ethics are brought into question when it's discovered that, contrary to Phlox's original <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_1" class="blsp-spelling-corrected">assessment</span>, the symbiont would have to die to save Trip's life. The resolution of this <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_2" class="blsp-spelling-corrected">story</span> left me with a bad taste in my mouth (<span id="SPELLING_ERROR_3" class="blsp-spelling-corrected">spoilers</span> follow). It's as if you had a kid with two bad kidneys, decided to have another kid and donate his kidney, and when he is born with only one good kidney say "Sorry kid. The only reason we had you was to give Big Sib your kidney. <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_4" class="blsp-spelling-error">Yoink</span>!"gojiramahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00274986971214588604noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4304721526100788082.post-69011944012787821952009-12-11T13:30:00.000-08:002009-12-11T13:38:56.331-08:00Book: Titan: Synthesis by James SwallowHaving left the water world Droplet, with one more <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_0" class="blsp-spelling-corrected">soul</span> aboard, Titan comes upon a binary system that is populated by sentient machines. The machines are fighting subspace incursions, and t=when the genesis of the incursions is revealed, so is the genesis of the machines. The book ends with the <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_1" class="blsp-spelling-corrected">question</span> unanswered as to whether Titan has gained another crew member or not.gojiramahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00274986971214588604noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4304721526100788082.post-19012603967836232052009-12-07T13:11:00.000-08:002009-12-07T13:25:51.707-08:00ENT: Shipment, Twilight, North StarIn <em>Shipment</em>, the <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_0" class="blsp-spelling-error">Enterpirse</span> has followed the lead of Psychic Stalker Alien to a planet with a <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_1" class="blsp-spelling-error">ketracite</span> production facility which provided the fuel for the weapons both <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_2" class="blsp-spelling-error">lainched</span> and preparing to be launched against Earth. However, when Archer learns that the colonists had no idea what the <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_3" class="blsp-spelling-error">ketracite</span> was being used for, he has to learn to trust <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_4" class="blsp-spelling-error">Xindi</span>.<br /> <em>Twilight</em> begins with Captain Archer waking up, shocked to find himself in Forks, WA , surrounded by <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_5" class="blsp-spelling-corrected">vampires</span> who.....oops- to find himself on an unknown planet, with <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_6" class="blsp-spelling-error">T'Pol</span> making him breakfast. In the course of her narrative, he discovers that 12 years previously he had been infected by parasites that prevented him from forming any new short term memories, the <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_7" class="blsp-spelling-error">Xindi</span> had destroyed most of humanity, the rag tag fugitive fleet of surviving humans had relocated to...<span id="SPELLING_ERROR_8" class="blsp-spelling-error">Ceti</span> Alpha V! You know that of course, before the end of the episode they find a way to restore history to what had been.<br /> I can see the planning meetings for <em>North Star</em>. "What if we had some humans who had relocated far away from Earth, and lived like cowboys? Then we'd have...Firef...and episode of Enterprise!" Enough said.gojiramahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00274986971214588604noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4304721526100788082.post-73729967671587586902009-12-02T14:57:00.000-08:002009-12-02T15:10:58.322-08:00ENT: Exile<span id="SPELLING_ERROR_0" class="blsp-spelling-error">Hoshi</span>, alone in her quarters, hears a strange voice calling to her. At the same time, <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_1" class="blsp-spelling-error">T'Pol</span> has found evidence of another sphere in the Expanse. The voice continues to haunt <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_2" class="blsp-spelling-error">Hoshi</span>, and soon takes control of her consoles too. <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_3" class="blsp-spelling-error">Hoshi</span> tells Archer she feels compelled to <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_4" class="blsp-spelling-error">find the s</span><br /><span class="blsp-spelling-error">trange</span> telepathic alien who is calling to her, but he is only convinced when the alien promises <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_5" class="blsp-spelling-corrected">information</span> about the <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_6" class="blsp-spelling-error">Xindi</span>. The alien turns out to be an exile from his people, who fear <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_7" class="blsp-spelling-error">telepaths</span>. Of course, he is not so eager to let <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_8" class="blsp-spelling-error">Hoshi</span> go. She is returned <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_9" class="blsp-spelling-corrected">safely</span>, and <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_10" class="blsp-spelling-error">T'Pol</span> makes a shocking discovery about the Expanse spheres.gojiramahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00274986971214588604noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4304721526100788082.post-47198783311189446942009-11-27T13:07:00.000-08:002009-11-27T13:12:34.509-08:00ENT: ImpulseThe Enterprise <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_0" class="blsp-spelling-corrected">receives</span> a distress call from a Vulcan ship formerly lost in the Expanse. When the <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_1" class="blsp-spelling-corrected">landing</span> party arrives, they discover they have walked into a Romero like setting of crazy, <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_2" class="blsp-spelling-error">pustulant</span> <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_3" class="blsp-spelling-error">Vulcans</span>. As their Night of the living <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_4" class="blsp-spelling-error">Vulcans</span> continues, Phlox discovers the Vulcan madness is caused by <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_5" class="blsp-spelling-error">Trellium</span> D, the only substance which can <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_6" class="blsp-spelling-corrected">shield</span> the ship from the <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_7" class="blsp-spelling-corrected">Expanse's</span> <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_8" class="blsp-spelling-corrected">anomalies</span>. The episode ends with Archer assuring <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_9" class="blsp-spelling-error">T'Pol</span> they will find a way to <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_10" class="blsp-spelling-corrected">shield</span> the ship AND keep her sane.gojiramahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00274986971214588604noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4304721526100788082.post-11280630110279989882009-11-12T16:24:00.000-08:002009-11-12T16:29:38.782-08:00ENT: RajiinIn <em>Our Mrs Archer</em>, the search for both the elusive <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_0" class="blsp-spelling-error">Xindi</span> and and <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_1" class="blsp-spelling-corrected">anomaly</span> shielding <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_2" class="blsp-spelling-error">trellium</span> D <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_3" class="blsp-spelling-error">brings</span> the Enterprise to a trading post, where Trip gets a formula for <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_4" class="blsp-spelling-error">trellium</span> D and Archer gains a mysterious slave woman. As Trip and T'Pol heat up the shielding formula ( among other things) we learn that Saff....Rajiin has more to her than meets the eye.gojiramahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00274986971214588604noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4304721526100788082.post-18595133465975170642009-11-07T11:45:00.000-08:002009-11-07T12:05:21.026-08:00TOS: Return of the Archons, Space SeedIn Return of the <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_0" class="blsp-spelling-error">Archons</span>, the Enterprise is sent to investigate the <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_1" class="blsp-spelling-corrected">disappearance</span> of a <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_2" class="blsp-spelling-error">Starship</span> crew. Aside from being another one of Roddenberry's thinly veiled attacks on religious thought (your god is a computer, see!), it recycles the classic "Kirk blinds the <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_3" class="blsp-spelling-corrected">computer</span> with <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_4" class="blsp-spelling-corrected">illogic</span>' plot twist.<br /><br />Space Seed is THE classic <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_5" class="blsp-spelling-error">TOS</span> episode. Even my non Trekkie grandma would watch that one ( no reason to ask why). A wonderful episode with a wonderful actor, which spawned ( in this <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_6" class="blsp-spelling-corrected">re viewer's</span> opinion) the best of the Star Trek movies.gojiramahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00274986971214588604noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4304721526100788082.post-85532850795224080882009-10-28T13:59:00.000-07:002009-10-28T14:27:42.782-07:00ENT:ExtinctionWhile still on the <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_0" class="blsp-spelling-corrected">search</span> for the <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_1" class="blsp-spelling-error">Xindi</span>, the crew sends an away team to an uninhabited planet. Soon after landing, all of the party but <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_2" class="blsp-spelling-error">T'Pol</span> begin to change. While Phlox tries to <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_3" class="blsp-spelling-corrected">discern</span> the best way to deal with the issue, an alien ship and threatens to destroy the Enterprises infected <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_4" class="blsp-spelling-corrected">crew</span> members. The aliens are instructive however as the Enterprise crew learn that the planet's long gone inhabitants, the <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_5" class="blsp-spelling-error">Louque'que</span>, had become sterile and in a bid to avoid extinction, <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_6" class="blsp-spelling-corrected">introduced</span> a <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_7" class="blsp-spelling-error">mutagenic</span> virus into the planet's atmosphere that turned other <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_8" class="blsp-spelling-corrected">humanoids</span> into members of their race. Naturally they are able to <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_9" class="blsp-spelling-corrected">retrieve</span> <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_10" class="blsp-spelling-corrected">their</span> crew without any losses, while sending a cure along with the aliens.gojiramahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00274986971214588604noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4304721526100788082.post-69303786226933698362009-10-12T12:50:00.002-07:002009-10-12T13:08:45.053-07:00ENT: Xinid and AnomolyPart of the ongoing story arc of Archer's search for the <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_0" class="blsp-spelling-error">Xindi</span> home world. Archer gets word of a miner who has a <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_1" class="blsp-spelling-error">Xindi</span> worker. As Trip and the Enterprise crew deal with the <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_2" class="blsp-spelling-corrected">challenge</span> of The Expanse's quirks, Archer and Malcolm attempt to gather information about and from the <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_3" class="blsp-spelling-error">Xindi</span> miner. The mining operation turns out to be staffed with less than willing workers, and the foreman is not ready to let the <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_4" class="blsp-spelling-error">Xindi</span>- or a ship full of potential labor- escape.<br />The Anomaly has the Enterprise fighting both the laws of <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_5" class="blsp-spelling-corrected">physics</span> and pirates. Archer gains important information about the <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_6" class="blsp-spelling-error">Xindi</span>, but at the prise of a piece of his humanity.gojiramahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00274986971214588604noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4304721526100788082.post-34998370947318928592009-10-11T14:29:00.000-07:002009-10-11T14:33:00.268-07:00Book: DS9: Fearful Symmetry by Olivia WoodsA book in two parts- one, the story of Kira <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_0" class="blsp-spelling-error">Nerys</span>; the other, of <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_1" class="blsp-spelling-error">Illiana</span> <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_2" class="blsp-spelling-error">Ghemor</span>. Two women- one a <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_3" class="blsp-spelling-corrected">privileged</span> daughter of the occupiers upper class, the other one of the occupied. The Obsidian Order attempts to intertwine their fates, but <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_4" class="blsp-spelling-error">Skrain</span> <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_5" class="blsp-spelling-error">Dukat</span> steps in and their plans go terribly wrong.gojiramahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00274986971214588604noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4304721526100788082.post-57905637506706796322009-10-11T14:21:00.000-07:002009-10-11T14:29:15.604-07:00ENT: Bounty, The ExpanseIn <em>Bounty</em>, Archer is taken in by a <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_0" class="blsp-spelling-error">Tellarite</span> who charms him with his friendly, helpful attitude ( yes, we're suspicious already). The <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_1" class="blsp-spelling-error">Tellarite</span> turns out to be a bounty hunter working for the <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_2" class="blsp-spelling-error">Klingons</span>, who had impounded his ship some years ago. When he finds out what the <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_3" class="blsp-spelling-error">Klingons</span> have done to his ship, his loyalties change.<br />The Expanse starts out with a probe launching a horrific attack on Earth. When watching the opening, we <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_4" class="blsp-spelling-corrected">debated</span> whether it was actually Earth- as the <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_5" class="blsp-spelling-error">DM</span> pointed out, "if such an attack had taken place on Earth, it would have been mentioned. Surely they wouldn't add such an event to Earth history retroactively." But oh yes, they would. The <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_6" class="blsp-spelling-error">Suliban</span> arrive and take Archer to hear a message from the future- the <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_7" class="blsp-spelling-corrected">attackers</span> are the <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_8" class="blsp-spelling-error">Xindi</span>, and it a a preemptive strike against an attack the Federation will make in 400 years. The season ends with Archer and the crew of the Enterprise in search of the enigmatic <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_9" class="blsp-spelling-error">Xindi</span>.gojiramahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00274986971214588604noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4304721526100788082.post-31366772582026645952009-09-30T13:18:00.000-07:002009-09-30T13:26:45.818-07:00ENT: First FlightArcher and Trip learn that an old <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_0" class="blsp-spelling-corrected">colleague</span>, the first man to break the Warp 2 barrier, had died in a mountain climbing accident. Whilst Archer and <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_1" class="blsp-spelling-error">T'Pol</span> do in the <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_2" class="blsp-spelling-error">shuttlepod</span> to investigate some suspected dark matter, Archer tells her in flashbacks about hid friend A.G.'s flight.gojiramahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00274986971214588604noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4304721526100788082.post-5454158501532823282009-09-29T13:51:00.000-07:002009-09-29T13:56:36.488-07:00ENT: RegenerationAn episode which attempts to explain the disposition of the Borg Sphere that crashed in First Contact, and bring the ever popular Borg into Enterprise, whilst not stepping all over canon? Just don't say the word Borg and it w<span id="SPELLING_ERROR_0" class="blsp-spelling-corrected">ill</span> all be alright.gojiramahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00274986971214588604noreply@blogger.com0