Thursday, August 13, 2020

The Unsettling Stars by Alan Dean Foster

 

The Unsettling Stars (Star Trek)The Unsettling Stars by Alan Dean Foster
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

Well, that was fun.

One of the long-delayed Kelvin Universe tie-in novels, it was fun to see this at last. This is an untapped angle of the Trek Universe and it has interesting angles.

Alan Dean Foster has a long history with Trek - his Star Trek Log books would be great to see in e-book form.

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Wednesday, August 12, 2020

A Rock and a Hard Place by Peter David

 

A Rock and a Hard Place (Star Trek: The Next Generation, #10)A Rock and a Hard Place by Peter David
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

Well, it's Peter David, what did you expect?

David does his usual great job of portraying Trek characters and universe, while pushing the limits with his own angles and humor. This is a nice A/B story with Riker "helping" on a rugged terraforming planet while he is replaced temporarily by a ... space case. That is to say an officer who works to drive everyone crazy - despite Troi assuring everyone he is sane. He gets results AND manages to step right up to the edge of ... just about every edge there is.

This is a great TNG story - no surprise.

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