Thomcat
12/31/2023
Star Trek (or is it Robotech?) novel starring Christopher Pike and the Enterprise between seasons 1 and 2 of Discovery. I didn't know the war was that long...
The characters are great, both Una and Pike are dead ringers for what we saw briefly in Discovery and even more so in Strange New Worlds. The beginning and end of the novel fit the television series more than the plot of the book, including Spock's visions. The backstory for Pike was a nice fit (recently watched a youtuber go through that same tunnel). Who can't appreciate a baseball loving officer Connolly in the cast?
That said, I'm not sure mecha suits belong on Star Trek. This novel covered a LONG time, and the Enterprise will be in refit long after that (which is why Pike captained Discovery). There was a thread about old earth expressions - had the Boundless captured an earth ship? - which seems to have been dropped. The resolution of the story was convenient, and suitably Trekky, but also a little strange -[The war was a misunderstanding, and they couldn't be bothered to leave the planet to explain?!?]
A solid effort, and glad I read it - will have to go back and rewatch parts of Discovery.