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Thursday, January 26, 2012

STAR TREK - TALES FROM THE CAPTAIN'S TABLE

POCKET BOOKS

Edited by Keith R.A. DeCandido

Copyright 2005 by Paramount Pictures. All Rights Reserved.

STAR TREK - TALES FROM THE CAPTAIN'S TABLE, edited by Keith R.A. DeCandido, is an anthology of stories that are based on the idea of The Captain's Table, which is a multi-dimensional space bar that allows Captain's from various times and planets to come in to gather and have a friendly drink - which is paid for by telling a story.

With the bartender Cap as the only recurring character at home in The Captain's Table, he provides a sense of continuity between all the stories of the anthology as Cap welcomes back all of these captains into his bar. The anthology contains nine stories from nine different captains from all the various series. The stories are of Captains Jean-Luc Picard of the U.S.S. Stargazer told by Michael Jan Friedman, Elizabeth Shelby of the U.S.S Trident told by Peter David, Klag of the I.K.S Gorkon told by Keith R.A. DeCandido, Kira Nerys of Deep Space 9 told by Heather Jarman, Jonathan Archer of the Starship Enterprise told by Louisa M. Swann, Demora Sulu of the U.S.S Enterprise B told by David R. George III, Chakotay of the U.S.S. Voyager told by Christie Golden, and David Gold of the U.S.S. da Vinci told by John J. Ordover. These stories are written by some of Star Trek's best writers. These stories range from serious to comedic, adventure and romance, triumph and tragedy, duty and honor and are mostly told in first person which is befitting for a story told in a bar.

Due to the deminsionality of The Captain's Table and the telling of the tales, Demora Sulu appears at various ages of her life in this anthology. I mostly think of Demora Sulu as a young impetuous Starfleet officer as portrayed in The Captain's Daughter, instead of the older mature woman Captain of the Enterprise despite being in other stories besides The Captain's Daughter.

Pancho
All people smile in the same language.

Sunday, January 8, 2012

BATTLESTAR GALACTICA - REBELLION

ibooks

Written by Richard Hatch and Alan Rodgers

A NOVEL BASED ON THE UNIVERSAL TELEVISION SERIES CREATED BY GLEN A. LARSON

Copyright 2004 Universal Studios Publishing Rights, a division of Universal Studios, Inc.

Cover art by Frank Frazetta;
Copyright 2004
Universal Studios Licensing LLLP.
Battlestar Galactica is a trademark and Copyright of Universal Studios. All rights reserved.
Cover design by Raul Carvajal



Battlestar Galactica - Rebellion written by Richard Hatch and Allan Rogers, is the fourth book in a continuation of the Battlestar Galactica universe set 20 years - or yahrens - into the future from the TV series. To escape the Cylons, the Battlestar Galactica - and the ragtag fleet of human Colonial survivors the Galactica is escorting - have warped themselves into a pocket of null-space, in which their engines do not work. And as a result of escaping the cybernetic race of Cylons - whose goal is to exerminate the humans - the fleet have wounded from their battles and their resources are low. With the colonists angered at what has happened to them at being attacked, and being marooned in space, Apollo and Athena are in dire sraits as they have been removed from command - and are thrown into the brig.

This Galactica universe is slightly different than what the TV show Battlestar Galactica was. I have not read the first few books yet, so I do not know if the Galactica universe has changed from the TV show over the course of the books, or if writer/star Richard Hatch was not paying attention to how the TV show was produced when Hatch started writing the books. I can accept that there can be changes after 20 "yahrens" - especially with Commander Adama having passed on. The book still feels a little disorientating - such as when Council President Tigh does not acknowledge that Tigh was once a colonial warrier, let alone Tigh as once having been the Galactica's first officer. Having Cassiopea having a relationship with Apollo instead of with Starbuck also throws me, especially since Starbuck has a daughter pilot now - who goes missing along with Troy, Apollo's son Boxey who had changed his name, and Boomer while they were searching for an inhabitable planet. The question for me was, who was the mother of Starbuck's daughter? That question was not answered in this book, but maybe it is answered in the previous books. There are characters that were mentioned in the TV show Galactica 1980, which was a nice touch of linking that TV show to the book series as they have not discovered present-day Earth yet.

Pancho
All people smile in the same language.
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