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<blockquote data-quote="Richards" data-source="post: 7307886" data-attributes="member: 508">I'm reading Blind Man's Bluff, the 22nd (I think) book in Peter David's Star Trek: New Frontiers series.&nbsp; I'm of two minds about it: on the one hand, Peter David is one of my favorite Star Trek authors, as he has a good grasp of the characters and has a knack for taking bits and pieces of the Star Trek universe (often all-but-forgotten ones) and putting them together in new and interesting ways; on the other, he often tends to get too &quot;cutesy&quot; for my tastes.&nbsp; Case in point: one of the enemies in this current book are the &quot;D'myurj.&quot;&nbsp; C'mon, Peter, if you want a race called the Demiurge just call them the Demiurge!&nbsp; (He does this rather frequently; the main character is Mackenzie Calhoun, but his first name is a translation into Federation Standard from his real name, &quot;M'k'n'zy.&quot;&nbsp; Ugh.)In any case, I read the first dozen or so novels in the series years ago, so when I saw this at a library book sale I picked it up.&nbsp; Apparently quite a lot has happened in my absence: one of the main members of the ship's crew has had her intellect downloaded into the ship's computer; a major character from &quot;Star Trek: Voyager&quot; was slain in a previous conflict with the Borg; Seven of Nine has had her Borg implants removed and is now being asked to help remove the extraneous consciousness from Calhoun's ship's computer, as her time as a Borg has apparently made her an expert in man/machine interfaces.&nbsp; There's also a plot line about an invasion on Calhoun's home planet, Xenex.&nbsp; I feel like I'm playing extreme catch-up, but so far it's an interesting ride - although not to the extent I feel the need to go back and fill in all of the gaps I'm missing from previous books I haven't read.Johnathan</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Richards, post: 7307886, member: 508"] I'm reading [i]Blind Man's Bluff[/i], the 22nd (I think) book in Peter David's [i]Star Trek: New Frontiers[/i] series. I'm of two minds about it: on the one hand, Peter David is one of my favorite Star Trek authors, as he has a good grasp of the characters and has a knack for taking bits and pieces of the Star Trek universe (often all-but-forgotten ones) and putting them together in new and interesting ways; on the other, he often tends to get too "cutesy" for my tastes. Case in point: one of the enemies in this current book are the "D'myurj." C'mon, Peter, if you want a race called the Demiurge just call them the Demiurge! (He does this rather frequently; the main character is Mackenzie Calhoun, but his first name is a translation into Federation Standard from his real name, "M'k'n'zy." Ugh.) In any case, I read the first dozen or so novels in the series years ago, so when I saw this at a library book sale I picked it up. Apparently quite a lot has happened in my absence: one of the main members of the ship's crew has had her intellect downloaded into the ship's computer; a major character from "Star Trek: Voyager" was slain in a previous conflict with the Borg; Seven of Nine has had her Borg implants removed and is now being asked to help remove the extraneous consciousness from Calhoun's ship's computer, as her time as a Borg has apparently made her an expert in man/machine interfaces. There's also a plot line about an invasion on Calhoun's home planet, Xenex. I feel like I'm playing extreme catch-up, but so far it's an interesting ride - although not to the extent I feel the need to go back and fill in all of the gaps I'm missing from previous books I haven't read. Johnathan [/QUOTE]

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