Star Trek vs. Star Wars: Pros cons, better worse
#121
Posted 30 April 2009 - 03:42 PM
What got me hooked were those novels, one a month pubished for-like-over a decade.
If you really want to read some great epic adventures, get the ones by Judith & Garfield-Reeves Stevens.
They are awesome in scope (I haven't read the ones they ghost-wrote for Shatner, so I won't stand by those).
They really know how to take nugets from the show, and make them well rounded and "improtant" feeling.
If you want to read some good plup adventures, look for the author LA GRAF (Lets All Get Rich And Famous).
Its actually a pair (sometimes trio) of women.
They write Sulu+Checkov w/ a lot of subtle/fun gay subtext.
None of the stuff is particulrarly deep, but it skims a nice edge of being fun, character driven and sometimes wonderfully clever.
JRC
#122
Posted 30 April 2009 - 03:47 PM
#123
Posted 30 April 2009 - 04:00 PM
I read one book "the lost years" which takes place between the end of the series and ST:TMP.
That was an okay one, its part of trilogy actually.
I recommend Federation which is a sort-of OS & TNG crossover, lots of decent pathos.
Also Prime Directive, Memory Prime are fun.
http://www.reeves-st...hopfiction.html
And by GRAF:
Star Trek DS9: Invasion!: Time's Enemy (I'm not a DS9 fan, bt this one has a plot point so disturbing I couldn't shake it).
Star Trek TOS: Death Count
Another Fav:
Crucible: McCoy: Provenance of Shadows (just a great story of a man putting his life back together, under a cloud of dread)by David R. George's
#124
Posted 30 April 2009 - 04:03 PM
#125
Posted 01 May 2009 - 10:58 AM
#126
Posted 01 May 2009 - 11:00 AM
#127
Posted 01 May 2009 - 11:02 AM
This just became my new mantra
#128
Posted 01 May 2009 - 11:26 AM
heres the link:
http://www.azscience.org/star_trek.php
#129
Posted 01 May 2009 - 11:53 AM
if you have any of these, i will read them.
I know they have "Crucible: McCoy: Provenance of Shadows" at the Library, that's where I got it from.
. . . I'll have to dig around for the others, I have the LA Graf ones, but they are autographed, so I can't bring myself to loan them out. (I can't believe I just wrote that)
JRC
#130
Posted 01 May 2009 - 12:19 PM
if you have any of these, i will read them.
I know they have "Crucible: McCoy: Provenance of Shadows" at the Library, that's where I got it from.
. . . I'll have to dig around for the others, I have the LA Graf ones, but they are autographed, so I can't bring myself to loan them out. (I can't believe I just wrote that)
JRC
Understood. I lent out my signed copy of Idoru by William Gibson and will never see it again. sigh
#131
Posted 01 May 2009 - 01:04 PM
if you have any of these, i will read them.
I know they have "Crucible: McCoy: Provenance of Shadows" at the Library, that's where I got it from.
. . . I'll have to dig around for the others, I have the LA Graf ones, but they are autographed, so I can't bring myself to loan them out. (I can't believe I just wrote that)
JRC
Understood. I lent out my signed copy of Idoru by William Gibson and will never see it again. sigh
William Gibson = Sci Fi genius
LA Graf = obsessive-dork cultism
#132
Posted 02 May 2009 - 01:11 AM
Good stuff. Nothing better than a fellow Federation starship asking the Enterprise for a status/withdraw when Riker responds, "Tell them we're washing our hair!!"
Plus, a Ferengi Borg? Guinan's sister? The return of the Doomsday Machine?
Classic, should have been a movie.
#133
Posted 02 May 2009 - 10:24 AM
ST is awesome too, but every episode had nearly the same plot. I like the episode where spok gets his brain stolen by underground amazon women that control some kind of super computer
I like flash gordon too
#134
Posted 02 May 2009 - 12:43 PM
#135
Posted 04 May 2009 - 09:36 AM
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