Haven’t watched any new Star Trek. Loved TOS through Enterprise and only recently started getting the books. Amazing they put someone in charge who attacks fans and doesn’t seem to care about Star Trek. Well I guess that’s normal now
Lower Decks has been the most Trek thing going at the moment. That's where all the writers who cared went, I think.
The first episode did irk me, though. Redoing the whole "Officer and its Kid" dynamic is tired enough, but anyone who doesn't understand that whether something is "farm equipment" or "weaponry" is entirely in how it's being used at the moment and declares how much they "hate authority" should never have graduated Starfleet Academy in the first place. Show gets better from there, though, esp. from the second season on.
Good to hear. I know they are doing an academy show. I saw the animation for Lower Decks and assumed it was current year stuff. Thanks for setting me straight. Have you read any Trek books? I’ve been reading Star Wars EU since age 12 but never thought about Trek books or comics til I was at a comic convention and a guy was selling old Trek books for a quarter and I spent like 60 bucks.
Star Trek books are a lot more hit and miss than Star Wars, because it was never considered to be any sort of canon. They're essentially isn't a Star Trek EU. Any author can write a book about anything, submit it for approval, and have it added to the list. Even if everything in the book directly contradicts stuff in other books. There is absolutely no continuity and there was never intended to be any. So if you're a stickler for that kind of thing, it's going to be very grating. Then again if you like stand alone stories and don't mind that they're completely disconnected from everything else, some of them are pretty good. Some of them are pretty good.
Thanks for the heads up. I’ve only read one so far that takes place in TOS era. I have books from TOS through Enterprise along with Titan and the one Shatner wrote about Kirk coming back to life. I know with Star Wars Lucas wouldn’t allow certain things like I think he made them kill off Anakin.
Haven’t watched any new Star Trek. Loved TOS through Enterprise and only recently started getting the books. Amazing they put someone in charge who attacks fans and doesn’t seem to care about Star Trek. Well I guess that’s normal now
Lower Decks has been the most Trek thing going at the moment. That's where all the writers who cared went, I think.
The first episode did irk me, though. Redoing the whole "Officer and its Kid" dynamic is tired enough, but anyone who doesn't understand that whether something is "farm equipment" or "weaponry" is entirely in how it's being used at the moment and declares how much they "hate authority" should never have graduated Starfleet Academy in the first place. Show gets better from there, though, esp. from the second season on.
Good to hear. I know they are doing an academy show. I saw the animation for Lower Decks and assumed it was current year stuff. Thanks for setting me straight. Have you read any Trek books? I’ve been reading Star Wars EU since age 12 but never thought about Trek books or comics til I was at a comic convention and a guy was selling old Trek books for a quarter and I spent like 60 bucks.
Star Trek books are a lot more hit and miss than Star Wars, because it was never considered to be any sort of canon. They're essentially isn't a Star Trek EU. Any author can write a book about anything, submit it for approval, and have it added to the list. Even if everything in the book directly contradicts stuff in other books. There is absolutely no continuity and there was never intended to be any. So if you're a stickler for that kind of thing, it's going to be very grating. Then again if you like stand alone stories and don't mind that they're completely disconnected from everything else, some of them are pretty good. Some of them are pretty good.
Thanks for the heads up. I’ve only read one so far that takes place in TOS era. I have books from TOS through Enterprise along with Titan and the one Shatner wrote about Kirk coming back to life. I know with Star Wars Lucas wouldn’t allow certain things like I think he made them kill off Anakin.
Any era of books for Trek you like most?