Ten Forward:Episode 32: Book Club Destiny Book III or You’re not the Picard I use to know!
This week it’s book club time and Sina & Michael are joined by Literary Treks Matt Rushing as we discuss the third and final book in the Destiny Trilogy: Lost Souls by David Mack. We discuss an email from David Mack, the author himself. We look at how the 24th century will never be the same again after this story line. Our Thoughts: This story was epic. Spanning so many charcters, stories and finally we see the end of the...
Ten Forward Episode 28: Star Trek New Frontier by Peter David
This week Sina & Michael look at the series Star Trek: New Frontier by Peter David. New Frontier centers on the adventures of Captain Mackenzie Calhoun and his crew aboard the USS Excalibur. Created by John Ordover and Peter David the series comprises eighteen novels, various tie-ins to major story lines including “Gateways”, “Double Helix” and “Captains Table”. In the show Sina and Michael...
Ten Forward:Episode 24: Book Club Destiny Book 2
This week it’s book club time and Sina & Michael are joined by Literary Treks Matt Rushing as we discuss the second book in the Destiny Trilogy: Mere Mortals by David Mack. Our Thoughts:This is a great book. The story continues at a good pace with the fate of the whole Alpha Quadrant in the balance. Again as in Book one Mack continues to thread together stories from across the Star Trek universe towards it’s...
Ten Forward:Episode 19: Night of the living Trekkies
This week it’s book club time and Sina is joined by Stolen Droids podcaster Carl Stark as they review ‘Night of the Living Trekkies’ by Kevin David Anderson. Our Thoughts: Carl and Sina definitely liked this book. Carl, who is an uber zombie and Star Trek fan, was in heaven with the mashup of the genres. Sina, who greatly dislikes horror and brain eating zombies, nevertheless appreciated the author’s Star...
Ten Forward:Episode 15: Book Club Destiny Gods Of Night
This week on Ten Forward, barkeeps Sina and Matt chat with guest host Michael Clark about Book 1 of the Destiny Trilogy: Gods of Night. We also discuss a bit of news and read your emails about Anthony’s controversial opinions. Join us as we talk books and more books! Our Thoughts: We really enjoyed this book. It is fast paced and very well written. It discusses many stories (four captains and four ships), has lots of character...
Ten Forward:Episode 11: Book Club: Borg And Babies
In this week’s episode we are joined by Carl Stark as we continue our book club, there’s almost no news this week but we do of course make time for your emails. Our Thoughts: There were several aspects that we enjoyed about the book. We liked the idea of the new life form that spanned the entire star system, and its slip stream method. We enjoyed meeting some of the new senior officers and the call backs to previous...
Ten Forward:Episode 6: Let’s Talk Books
In this week’s episode we are joined by Carl Stark as we kick off our first installment of the Trek Mate book club as we read “Tales of the Dominion war”. As well as plenty of news and emails from you. Our Thoughts: This anthology of short stories has something for everybody. There are bloody battles, brave Klingons, sneaky Romulans, engineers in battle, planets being taken over by the Dominion, Picard in action, and attempted...