Books: Anniversery Collections

TOS: Constellations celebrates 40 years. It has a preview of the Shinsei Shinsei manga. all the stories are good- "Where everybody knows your name" by Jeffrey lang is an amusing story of mistaken identity; "Make Believe" by Allyn Gibson is poignent and timely.
TNG: The Sky's the Limit celebrates 20 years. Another good collection that spans untold tales from the first Captain of the Enterprise D to Picards letter to Riker as he assumes his first command.
Voy:Distant Shores celebrates 10 years. Always oen for the funny, my favorite is Talent Show. ON my "to buy" list!

Books:Doctor's Orders and Dark Mirror by Diane Duane

Doctor's Orders: When Kirk leaves on a routine mission he leaves the kibbutzing Bones in command. Of course things go all to hell soon after, so Bones has to call on skills he doesn't know he has. Like much of Duane's work, this book starts out strong but gets a bit tiresome by the end. Overall it's good. I enjoyed the reference to Orson Scott Cards Lusitanians.
Dark Mirror: a TNG mirror universe novel. Quite enjoyable. Fans of Duane's Young Wizard series will recognise the sapient cetaeceans who can sense the cosmis strigs.

Book: Ishmael by Barbara Hambly

I've enjoyed Hambly's other work and Ishmael was no exception. Aside from theexcellent writing, it was Spock-centric ( and we all know how I feel about all things Vulcan) and mostly set in Frontier Seattle. It was funny to see streets I can't find parking on described as muddy ruts. bit of trivia- this is actually a crossover novel, with characters and settings from two old shows, "Here Come the Brides" and "Paladin".

Q in Law and Q Squared, by Peter David

These two novels take a look at the chaos that could result from Q meeting two of the more memorable characters from TOS and TNG.
Q in Law pits Q against the only character who stands up to him in the TNG universe for strength, charisma, and the ability to annoy Picard- Lwaxana Troi. The producers of TNG lost out by never making this an episode- it's hilarious, and should have been done.
Q squared answers the question a lot of the long time trekkies asked themselves- isn't Q a lot like Tremaine? Yes, and when they come together the whole universe is threatened.
Highly enjoyable reads about one of favorite Trek characters.

Books: Vulcan's Forge, Vulcan's Heart, Exiles

This post is copied from May '07
I'm on a Star Trek kick, and more specifically, a Vulcan kick. Right now I'm reading "Vulcan's Forge" by Josepha Sherman and Susan Schwartz. ONe thing I love about the book is that it has Starfleet humans who practice religion. Yep, I know it makes roddenberry's ashes roll in their urn, but I enjoy. This is the third book of theirs I have read and as I have sometimes done, read them backwards, starting with " Exiles" and then "Vulcan's Heart".

Book:To Reign in Hell:The Exile of Khan Noonien Singh by Greg Cox

This EXCELLENT tome looks at what transpires with Khan and the rest of the Botany Bay survivors between Space Seed and The Wrath of Khan. Well written, full of literary references, with emotion and a keen insight into the characters, this is s story of love, betrayal, loyaly and hardship. Highly recommended.

Episode review- TNG: Suddenly Human

This episode moves slowly. Picard's and Starfleet's motives in the dispostion of Jono/Jeremy (Chad Allen) are sometimes murky. I enjoyed seeing
Picard trying to "parent" a teenager. I would not bother watching this more than once a year.

Book review-Resistance by JM Dillard

This is a well written book, set post Nemesis; it's also after the book Death in Winter, in which, among many other things, Picard and Crusher finally get together. Thisbook sees the return of Locutus and the Borg Queen, plenty of hand to cybernetic implant fighting, and redshirt deaths galore. This book begs the question- after all this time, if they know the Borg will adapt to their energy weapons, why do they not use bladed weapons? Why does Woorf not charge in with a bat-leth and just chop them up? Hubby posits that "the slow blade that penetrates the sheild will not penetrate the armor". (Now, who'se geeky enough to get that?)