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[QUOTE]Originally posted by JeffKardde: [QB] I read very few Trek novels anymore. I don't mind someone writing about what the [i]Enterprise[/i] was doing during the war, but they should at least make it a good story and not the boring wretch which was the [i]Dominion Wars[/i]. It's not so much that I mind Pocket Books trying to answer some of these questions, it's just that I wish they'd get some fresh-blood into the program (or at least some people who can write a book and get the characters correct and not bore people half to death). John Vornholt used to be one of my favorite authors. I loved [i]Masks, Contamination, War Drums...[/i] and then he just went right down the tube with [i]Rogue Saucer[/i] and he's been going down farther with each new book he "writes." Q? Haven't we seen enough of Q? What's so good about books about Q? He shows up, torments the crew, and leaves. Wow. And no, I'm not saying the days of early TOS books were that great, but Trek's novel hey-day is long past, and that quality from then is rare and far between (thankfully, Diane Carey still seems to be one of the few Trek-authors whose quality has only grown). Frankly, the only half-way interesting novel series is the [i]Excalibur[/i] series by Peter David, which is a bit of a fluke for him to write good Trek books -- lord knows he's messed up every other Trek novel by totally mangaling the characters and relying on sarcasm and humor to get the reader through instead of a plot*. In short, although Pocket Books sure has a lot of interesting premise books coming out, a novel's success is not just based on it's premise, but on it's execution, and I think Pocket Books has been lacking. Hopefully they'll breathe some new life into the books, but overall, they've been lacking for quite some time now ... Honestly. Some people see "Star Trek" written on something and assume it means good quality. Yeeesh. <small>*With the exception of his Excalibur- series, because he's musing ostly his own characters, and as all his work shows, Peter David does a hell of a lot better writing for his own characters than for other people's. Also, anything that came out of his imagination and not based on Trek ([i]Howling Mad[/i], anyone?) is also super-fantastic, but again, because they're his own characters</small> [/QB][/QUOTE]
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