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Day 26 – Trek Book (fiction or non-fiction)
I've been looking forward to this prompt. I want all your book recommendations!
So... which one to choose? There are so many.
Here are just a very few of my personal highlights:
Fiction:
📘 "Articles of the Federation" by Keith R. A. DeCandido. -- a unique book as it is a novel about politics and procedures in the Presidential Palace in Paris. I could read a whole series of that. Or watch one. I'd be happy with a mini series.
📚 "Destiny" trilogy by David Mack. -- I had read a few spoilers a while ago and really did not want to read these books. I was upset about the big reveal. But I kept hearing about how great they are and so I finally did read them. I am so glad I did. It's fantastic! It's dramatic and heartbreaking. I cried several times. And I am still upset. LOL Good books do that.
Non-fiction:
📖 "Star Trek: Open a Channel: A Woman's Trek" by Nana Visitor. -- I have not read far into it yet, but I don't think I am wrong when I say that this is probably the most important non-fiction book about Star Trek.
📓 "The Making of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine". -- One of the first Trek books I ever bought. I love making of books, they are always so very intersting. And this is no exception. (I never liked the translation though and would love to have an English version.)
Shoutout to all the other books, fiction and non-fiction alike.
(I deleted the "Fave" in the prompt, because I just want to pick "one" of many great ones.)
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Star Trek 31 Day Challenge: Day 19 - Fave New Trek First Officer
DIS: Ensign Tilly
I think I need a rewatch of Discovery because besides Burnham, Ensign Tilly seems to grow more interesting the more you watch the show.
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Shocking moments - Star Trek 31 Day Challenge
Shocking I agree, but also all you’ve mentioned were very questionable writing choices.
All of those were main character deaths to make a point that danger is real. ‘For the drama!’ seems to be the plea from the creative side.
I really don’t like them as a viewer and don’t need to see beloved characters die in horrific circumstances to believe danger is real. There are other tools in a writers kit that can create tension and suspense.
One gets the sense that writers find them very exciting to use, but Star Trek seems to have done badly with these.
Picard’s use of these deaths is one of the things that I deeply dislike about the show. They burned two youth-perspective characters (Hugh and Icheb) which was enough to put our teen kids off new live action Star Trek for a while.
In fact, I would say that the franchise has showed a weakness in commitment to its principles of diversity by almost always killing off a representation character, even if they are sometimes revived.
The fact that two of the strong women main cast characters of the 90s shows were killed off due to offscreen misogyny makes it all the worse. But I have to ask why is strong women, youth, gay, and disabled representation characters that are considered permanently sacrifice-able for the shock value.
- Tasha Yar
- Jadzia Dax
- Hugh Culber
- Icheb
-Hugh
-HemmerSpock and Trip would be the exceptions.
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Star Trek 31 Day Challenge: Day 7 - Fave Jeffrey Combs Episode
DS9: What You Leave Behind
Which Weyoun do I like better? Randomly chosen: Weyoun-6
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Star Trek 31 Day Challenge: Day 6 - Fave Mirror Universe Episode
DIS: Vaulting Ambition
What is it about the Mirror Universe that repulses me? I do not have fond memories of any episodes except I guess from Discovery, but still this universe leaves me cold.
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Star Trek 31 Day Challenge: Day 3 - Underrated Character
TNG's Tasha Yar
I understand the reasons behind this storyline, but I would have liked to see her character grow as the other TNG regulars were able to do.
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Day 4 – Underrated Episode
"Star Trek V - The Final Frontier".
Such an underrated piece of Star Trek. This film is the probably most philosophical episode of Star Trek. It asks an interesting question: What would we be without our pain? I for one would do perfectly well without it, I do not need it at all. I don't know what Kirk is babbling about. But I guess we are all different. I find it interesting that McCoy is so troubled by his past and thus so open to what Sybok has to offer, and that Spock as managed to find peace through his Vulcan ways, and that Kirk has made peace through accepting that pain and is thus able to use it to his advantage.
Sybok's methods are not only highly questionable, they are condemnable. He does not ask of consent, he takes a city by force and its leaders as hostages, he takes a star ship. What he does is awful. His goal is not, but his methods are, and that's why he's wrong. His longing for peace and answers is deeply human I think. But there are other ways to reach them (see Spock, and even Kirk). In the end he realises what he's done and does the only thing he can: try and free the being from its pain.
My mind is so full of thoughts after each time watching this film, I do not even know where to start thinking about them.
The film is also very funny. So many great lines. The scene between Uhura and Scotty in sick bay is cute.
The visual effects aren't very good, yes. But they had an acutal flying/ moving shuttle, how cool is that!?
Shoutout to "Unexpected", Enterprise S1E05. The visual effects of how the alien ship feels like for the humans is so cool. I wished we would see more of things like that. The thing of Trip's pregnancy and how he got pregnant is a completely different discussion that I do not want to have right now. But I often feel that for all that pregnancy stuff the really cool and unique bit gets totally forgotten.
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‘Who’s my captain?’
This is tough, mainly because most of the captains do evolve - if not across the shows, then in the movies or subsequent shows.
I’m going with Admiral Janeway - that is Janeway as she’s evolved to in Prodigy. She’s strong, charismatic, loyal, determined and tenacious, always trying to find the solution to Kobayashi Maru type scenarios that will not abandon those who follow her. She’s a captain you can trust to follow, and a captain that places confidence in her officers.
Picard would have been my answer for many years, and peak TNG Picard is still an aspirational leader model.
But Picard was evolving into someone I don’t respect as much - in the movies and especially through Picard the show. Just not a leader I could or would follow. His values are compromised in a way that TNG Picard would never allow, and his own journey to deal with his trauma has made him a much more flawed leader instead of completing him.
Pike remains in evolution - Pike in The Cage vs Discovery vs SNW - I’m not sure where he’ll end up so I’m not ready to say he’s my favourite or the one I would most follow, but I would follow him. Burnham is similar. I appreciate her journey but I didn’t feel that we were at the end of it with the Discovery finale - she evolved and changed so much throughout the show that I can’t be entirely sure where she will end up as a leader, although the epilogue was reassuring.
Sisko is the one I would assess as the most effective captain in consideration of the fraught circumstances of his leadership, but that’s a different question than ‘fave’ or the leader I would most want to follow. He was a captain that had to make morally grey decisions in complex circumstances. I would follow and respect but with a certain wariness and frustration that I would not have complete information.