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There are a couple of board game communities. At least one is very anti-Catan.

Can’t let an opportunity go past to remind everyone that Larry Niven doesn’t seem to have complained that the Kzinti ship in TAS ‘The Slaver Weapon’ was mauvish-pink.

Boimler looks unhappy and stressed in every single image where he appears.

I wonder it that will be an A, B, or C plot element?

He really seems to have reset to his most fragile with the promotion. Hope this gets resolved by end of season.

@GoodAaron@startrek.website ’s one was the one I’d been most hoping for from the time the Very Short Treks were announced, and so far it’s the only one that hasn’t disappointed me.

I have the sense that they are as a whole targeting at a very narrow audience demographic, principally of Americans who were young adults and teens in the late 90s.

I never quite got how ‘drinking poop’ preschool to 9 year-old boy humour took mainstream hold in Austin Powers (which I otherwise loved), but acknowledge it as having been a thing. I can even recognize intellectually that its in a long tradition of low humour that goes back to the ‘great fart’ of ‘The Miller’s Tale’ in Chaucer.

What I don’t get is why the folks who didn’t age out of this kind of humour seem to thing that there’s currently a huge untapped audience that’s just looking for the kind of stuff we got in the earlier VSTs.

I can only speak for those I’ve read - Iane Duane’s ‘Doctor’s Orders’ is a fine, easy read.

I loved Beyer’s ‘Children of the Storm’ but it’s in the midst of her Voyager Full Circle cycle. So it depends on whether you mind dropping in the middle of a long running series.

The Voyager String Theory trilogy is earlier in the timeline. Uneven but interesting.

Just bookmark the Simon & Schuster Star Trek ebook deals page. A new list should be posted the day after this promotion ends.

There’s also the option to signup for emails from the publisher for promotions (valid in the US only) that include other books and franchises.

I’ll continue to post the Star Trek deal links periodically here too.

See my other update comment for this post.

There are ebook and audiobook deals also for CA, UK and DE, but they have some country-specific variations.

It seems Simon & Schuster has different relationships with the various country platforms for the major ebook sellers. It seems that in some countries the promotion is on the audiobooks rather than the ebooks.

It’s usually not actually US only, just the exact $US 0.99 promotional price. (It would be great to have specific listings by country.)

In Canada, Amazon.ca typically has the same deals for $CDN 0.99 and I’ve seen the same but £ 0.99 at times on the UK site.

Checking the current Amazon Kindle prices for Canada shows the ebook deal $0.99

The UK Amazon Kindle is showing some of the books at £ 4.99, others are at 99p - but has Audiobooks for the Genesis wave showing as £0.00, that is for free.

The German Amazon Kindle de site has the ebooks also seemingly at full €8.99 for some, but others are going for free with a €0.00 listed price - including the Voyager ones - but again the Genesis Wave promotion for free audiobooks is in effect.

I’m finding Voyager less up to date for this instance and less functional than a browser view, even on mobile.

It’s a nice app but has some way to go.

There seems to be quite a few of us who are Treklit fans here, just not quite enough to start a separate community.

I do my best to encourage those unfamiliar to get into the novelverse.

It wasn’t the shock baton that came to mind, rather the TNG episode where Lwaxana figures out that the fish-alien diplomats are frauds and spies. Lwaxana’s telepathic insights could be distracted, but not for long.

Even Deanna Troi, a less powerful empath, was able to survive alone undercover on a Romulan ship.

Of course there would be Betazoid Intelligence officers embedded in the Federation diplomatic core.

Once again, Lower Decks is the show that takes things to their logical conclusion.

I also loved how Shax tried to talk her down and persuade her to use some coping/calming mechanisms.

Not sure that it blew minds that much as much of its core audience would have seen two great submarine movies - ‘The Enemy Below’ (1957) & ‘Run Silent, Run Deep’ (1958).

The episode takes and translates the submarine warfare and beats of these these movies into a space setting. It’s still marvellous television.

Recommend both of the movies BTW if you can find them.

Suder - thanks for the correction. 😁

Good question.

TNG had very few Vulcan interactions, mainly with Spock and Sarek. So, no Vulcan and Betazoid ones.

In DS9, I don’t believe Vulcan guest characters interacted with Betazoids.

I don’t recall Vorik and Sutter interacting on Voyager in any significant way.

So, we’re left with Tuvik’s attempts to help Sutter control his psychopathy. Really not the kind of ordinary Vulcan vs Betazoid interaction we might get in Lower Decks.

I’m not sure that they would want to give that much of a spoiler for Coda, or may be like many of us and decide that we’d rather pretend it didn’t exist.

I think Mack, Swallow and Ward are super writers, and understand why they thought Coda was needed, but it’s brutal.

I really appreciate how Goldsman and Myers have taken a sibling who was only ever seen or referred to in TOS in order to drive James’ T’s anger, and turned him into a three dimensional character that we value in his own right.

Credit also to Dan Jeanotte for a consistently great and subtle performance.

In addition to the STLV group guide, Inhave found the flowchart created and maintained by the Trek Collective super helpful.

Here’s a screenshot of the current version to give you a sense of it. Suggest bookmarking the link embedded above.

The Fall ‘event sequence’ crossover is quite late in the Relaunch novelverse. It pays off some storylines that had been building for quite awhile.

I didn’t jump in that late, but still found it better to jump quite a ways back to where the Relaunch took off between the later TNG movies Insurrection and Nemesis.

One doesn’t have to read everything, as there are definitely some core books and ‘event sequences.’

Most Relaunch fans consider the two David Mack books in the TNG ‘A Time to …’ series (A Time to Kill & A Time to Heal) as key foundations, then Keith DeCandido’s ‘Articles of the Federation’ set after Riker takes command of Titan in ‘Taking Wing.’

Mack’s Destiny trilogy is fantastic and is the pivot point of the Relaunch novels. DeCandido’s ‘A Singular Destiny’ then bridges to set up the Typhon Pact sequence.

Who better to be a foil for a Vulcan trying to button down and gain the respect of Vulcan Exploratory leadership than a bunch of Betazoids who know what T’Lyn’s feeling and have no patience with her attempts to cover up with logic?