Comments on: Book Review: Resistance

By: Beese

Beese — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 13:36:57 +0000

Woops! Thanks for the clear up, it’s hard to tell when someone uses their initials!

By: steve623

steve623 — Mon, 10 Sep 2007 05:12:11 +0000

Just an FYI, J.M. is a *she* :-)

By: Beese

Beese — Mon, 10 Sep 2007 01:24:27 +0000

Hmm, I was just looking through my Trek novels to see if I’ve read anything else by JM Dillard and I notice he also co-wrote Possession, which is among my favourite Trek novels.

Just a numbered stand-alone one, with a fairly established plot type, but I thought it was a really well written book that did a really good job of capturing the characters.

Frankly I look forward to reading this.

By: mntrekfan

mntrekfan — Sun, 09 Sep 2007 21:31:52 +0000

I liked this book. Yes, it seems a retread of previous Trek stuff, but….
I’m not a fan when the crew is put in just so it can be called a “Star Trek” novel. The plot revolves mostly around the aliens and the ST crew are ther to react.

By: Beese

Beese — Sun, 09 Sep 2007 21:17:13 +0000

I’m not going to get around to reading this for the best part of a decade most likely (I’ve got lots of others to read through first), but frankly I’ll reserve judgement on it until then.

# 12

I seem to be in a minority, but I didn’t really like Vendetta that much. It was OK and fairly well written (every other Peter David novel I’ve read has been excellent), but it just didn’t seem to gel particularly well for me.

It may have a lot to do with the fact that because he wrote about such a large event in his book that it was sure to end up contradicting subsequent canon (which it did). There were things in it, like Picard’s reaction upon coming face-to-face with the Borg again that didn’t seem to reach maxmim potential.

Maybe if I’d read it at the time I would have enjoyed it more…

By: seangh

seangh — Sun, 09 Sep 2007 21:03:58 +0000

from review: If “Nemesis” was the “Wrath of Khan” of the Next Generation era, then “Resistance” is it’s “Search for Spock”.

Scratching my head on that one.

By: Kirk: The Jack Bauer Of Space Editorial Clarification

Kirk: The Jack Bauer Of Space Editorial Clarification — Sun, 09 Sep 2007 18:31:56 +0000

oops.. My post in #11, first paragraph should have been addressing #10. steve623.

Oh, and #16 ZoomZoom, read 2nd paragraph of my #8 post and have faith, that the universe will unfold as it should. :)

By: ZoomZoom

ZoomZoom — Sun, 09 Sep 2007 18:22:42 +0000

I’ll wait for the Movie. Oh no, thats right, its a TNG book, so that won’t be happening. Ever.

By: RandyYeoman

RandyYeoman — Sun, 09 Sep 2007 18:06:43 +0000

I know some people want comfort food in their books. They just want to read about their favorite characters and have it all seem nice and the same. But this TNG releauch is really not grabbing me. Death in Winter was very boring and this one…the borg….again. Even worse if you look at the next two there is yet another borg….and with 7of9 no less….and then Q. It is strange that they are putting TNG into this holding pattern when the DS9 and Titan books are so good. I loooked at some of the reviews of this one on amazon and this review seems kind in comparison. I guess my message to pocket is…dont be afraid to do something new.

By: DavidJ

DavidJ — Sun, 09 Sep 2007 17:57:37 +0000

Sorry, I meant that for #10. heh heh