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[QUOTE]Originally posted by JeffKardde: [QB] [QUOTE]I would humbly ask the person who doesn't like Peter David's non-New Frontier books to elucidate a bit more. I love Imzadi. I, Q is a darned good read. Q Squared does parallel universes and time travel better than DS9 or Voyager. I find his representations of existing characters to be closer to the mark than many other authors can manage (Grounded springs to mind -- *yick*). Sure he makes up details from time to time where there weren't any supplied by the shows, and often when the shows get around to it, they contradict him. That's to be expected, and I don't fault him for that.[/QUOTE] I don't mind about making up details, every novel winds up doing that (in [i]Power Hungry[/i], enemy ships fly off at Warp 11) and then later being contradicted. That doesn't bother me. But Peter David's work is always best when he's using character's he has created (read [i]Howling Mad[/i] if you don't believe me). Read [i]Exiles[/i] or [i]War Drums[/i] or even [i]Sanctuary[/i] for good characterizations of the TNG and TOS crew -- Peter David's books fall short, with each of our known and loved characters being different shades of the extremely sarcastic person David actually is. I haven't read [i]Grounded Springs[/i], but if it's like [i]Rogue Saucer[/i] or some of the other dreck, it's one of the reasons I have stopped reading Trek novels. Go read some of TNG's earlier stuff (obviously, too early and [i]none[/i] of the writers' have the characterizations correct, which is why [i]Strike Zone[/i] is the best of his TNG books). Read [i]Exiles[/i] for an excellent characterization of TNG's cast (so good, even Gene Roddenberry contributed a liner note -- something no other author has recieved). [i]Perchance to Dream[/i], also by Howard Weinstein, is just as good. Michael Jan Friedman's early stuff -- [i]Reunion[/i], for one -- also nails the characters excellently. And the characters he creates for the old [i]Stargazer[/i] crew are remarkeably unique. Granted, Peter David is hardly the worst of the writers. His books are generally entertaining, but honestly, there's only so much of the Q I like -- time for him to tend new fields, which is what he's doing quite well with his New Frontier stuff, IMHO. The only characterization David has hit square on the nose is Odo from [i]The Siege[/i] -- and that's just because Odo's already bitter and sarcastic. [i]Imzadi[/i] is only bearable in the future timeline, where I can imagine Riker being saracastic and bitter. The "present" timeline story totally misread Riker's characterization. And, no, Riker identifying himself as "William Tiberius Riker" didn't bother me, even after [i]Second Chances[/i]. Troi was portrayed as a "space slut", which I didn't agree with (although, in the first season she certainly did dress like one). I didn't agree with future Data's behavior as a whacko-assassin in [i]either[/i] timeline, but this being set in the future, that characterization was fine by me. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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