03-06-2012, 05:23 AM | #46 |
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I don't get why you are so defensive in your first post and your thread title. Being a Star Trek fan is not as nerdy as it was probably used to be.
To read books about stuff you like is pretty common. No need for being defensive, it is not a strange thing to like Star Trek. |
03-06-2012, 07:56 AM | #47 |
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The thing I like about star treck books is that I have seen what the characters look like so there is no mistaking what they look like or how they dress. Makes visualization of the characters much simpler.
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03-06-2012, 10:24 AM | #48 |
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Also the mannerisms....it's kind of nice if you are kind of speed reading through them, you already know how the characters will react and things like that.
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03-06-2012, 01:55 PM | #51 |
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I suspect it varies from region to region.
Also, I hang out mostly with other mothers of small children. If I was a student at a University, or living in a metropolitan area, I suspect I wouldn't sense so much opposition to all that weird, impractical violent stuff in SF books and video games. |
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I was looking at a used Trek book in a store once, a TNG novel about the Enterprise encountering a society that lives on a massive fleet of sublight ships, and who are about to fight another group. The novel's one of intrique and diplomacy. I can't remember the name for the life of me, but I remember checking online at the time and seeing nothing but good reviews. I regret not picking it up. |
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The new eBook is out today.
Star Trek: Vanguard: Storming Heaven by David Mack is the last book in the Vanguard series. |
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I used to read a lot of Star Trek novels. I think I got to the point where I had read them all, and once I didn't have anything more to read I stopped. Of course, if I start again, there's a backlog of books to read. I haven't read as many of the DS9 books, I'm more interested in stories that take off from where the series ended rather than the book just being another episode (although that is OK too).
There is a debate on whether events that created the new movie timeline made the previous timeline never have happened. But I can still watch the episodes, and that new books are being created tells me that the original timeline is alive and well! ;-) I thought the movie was fun, but I don't think it will carry Star Trek forward. When the producers say that there are no more ideas, it is that THEY have run out of ideas, it's not the same thing at all. I think books set in the original timeline will dominate over the new movie timeline. |
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The new timeline is an alternate timeline. If it wasn't, it would be a paradox and that's not allowed to happen. So what happened was once the timeline changed, it became another timeline.
As for the books, they are very good and I do suggest you keep on reading. |
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