Editorial notes: In Jan 2010 Shai embarked on his third blogging journey, starting a blog dedicated to reviews of pinball machines :-). This expedition was short-lived (one day only) with only one full review published (see below) and another incomplete draft. Location: Comics ‘r’ Us @ 114 Chapel St, Windsor VIC Machine: Star Wars Trilogy In the corner of the cramp comics store sit...
Editorial notes: This post was found in ‘Draft’ mode in the original blog and may be incomplete. It is published here in its original state. It was last edited on 21/01/2010
Location: Soda Rock @ 257 Toorak Rd, South Yarra VIC
Machine: Attack from Mars
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Masks, by John Vornholt, is the seventh of the numbered TNG novels. The plot involves the Enterprise transporting ambassador Lewis to a planet called Lorca, on which reside descendants of a circus-troupe whose culture has formed around a caste system externalized through the wearing of masks. A number of plot-elements allow two isolated parties of the crew to stay on the planet while details are...
In which famed aqua-documentary man Steve Zissou (Bill Murry) goes to find the “jaguar-shark” that ate his friend; joining him is his possible son (neither of them is sure either way it seems) Ned Plimptom (Own Wilson), amongst many notable others. Steve Zissou: I was hopin’ to go out in a flash of blazes, but I’ll probably just end up goin’ home. Whilst...
The Captain's Honor, TNG book number eight, was co-written by father and son David and Daniel Dvorkin. The novel begins with the Enterprise joining the Centurion, another Starfleet ship, in the task of protecting the peace of a pacifist planet (Tenara). The people of Tenara have been violently raided by a strange feline species called the M'dok. The Centurion is manned by Magna Romans, who have...
The ninth numbered TNG novel, A Call to Darkness is one Michael J. Friedman's first works, and his first TNG foray.Detail from "A Call to Darkness" cover
The plot involves the crew in search of a McGuffin (in this case a missing research vessel) when they discover a shielded planet. Attempts to rescue the McGuffin which lies just past the shield results in the disappearance of key personnel.
Editorial notes: This post was found in ‘Draft’ mode in the original blog and may be incomplete. It is published here in its original state. It was last updated on 16/04/2010 Now that I have a queue of posts scheduled I thought I could afford to start something new: a focus on a particular author. I decided to do Peter David. A caveat should be noted right here at the start: this will...
This is the tenth numbered TNG novels, and also Peter David’s second. Riker’s off to inspect some terraforming project, permitting for the plot to quickly bifurcate: on the colony Paradise we follow Riker as he catches up with some old friends from his Alaska days, while on the Enterprise various members of the crew (especially Picard and Troi) come to terms with a Quinton Stone, who...
This is number eleven of the TNG novels and Keith Sharee’s only Star Trek novel. Troi has some dreams, the Enterprise follows a signal from a missing ship, some characters are taken prisoners on the planet, and then it’s explained what the dreams had to do with everything, the end. In short. In long: the Enterprise crew find themselves at a planet called Rampart, where a Federation...
Doomsday World is the twelfth numbered TNG novel, written by a whole host of authors: Carmen Carter, Peter David, Michael Jan Friedman, and Robert Greenberger. Carmen previously wrote The Children of Hamlin, which I quite liked; David has already authored two TNG novels by this time (#5, #10), and his proclivity for (and style of) humour comes through in a notable Monty Python reference early on;...
