You'll all be happy to hear

[petronia]

That I read the Laurell K. Hamilton Star Trek novel Erin gave me, and it didn't suck. Then again, LKH's problem was never her prose per se. XD; There are no shapeshifting vampiric sex slave crack orgies, just - yanno - Troi and Worf and Picard. You can only derail that shiz so far.

(Orgies aside, LKH does have these... failures of aesthetics, I tend to think of them as, although they're really a form of Poughkeepsie. The imaginative equivalent of ST:TOS's budgetary constraints, trying to make spray-painted Styrofoam look like an alien planet. Maybe the orgies fall under this category too.)

I also found my copy of the novelization of The Undiscovered Country, otherwise known as 1992 BOOK IS 1992, OR, BULLSHIT SPOCK "ONLY NIXON COULD GO TO CHINA" IS NOT AN ANCIENT VULCAN PROVERB. The Klingons will take our jobs because they're willing to work for lower wages, are we for reals having this conversation. I'm going to see District 9 tomorrow, though, which is clearly built along the same lines, which only goes to show.

Other thoughts:

1) if reboot!Spock doesn't mellow out that universe is srsly f*ckd
     1a) I keep worrying about a post-Vulcan-explodey militaristic turn cos like THE PSYCHOLOGICAL SHADOW OF 9/11 IS LONG and I apparently have nothing better to do than bother my head about the future of fictional political spheres
2) what is it with Spocktimus Prime and inappropriate mentor/mentee relationships anyway
     2a) oh gawd what if Jim is finally young enough for him

I keep bookmarking fics for reccing as I have been asked but do I ever rec that is the question.

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[troisroyaumes]

a post-Vulcan-explodey militaristic turn

Now I want to read that fic.

[petronia]

See next movie! F'reals, I would probably put money on this. XD;

[charmian]

Orgies aside, LKH does have these... failures of aesthetics, I tend to think of them as, although they're really a form of Poughkeepsie. The imaginative equivalent of ST:TOS's budgetary constraints, trying to make spray-painted Styrofoam look like an alien planet.

Oh, you actually did start reading LKH before she went down the crack vampire orgy spiral? I never read her because I became aware of her only long after that had happened.

[petronia]

I started reading her just as she was on the verge of doing so - the first couple of books I read were fine, and people I knew liked her fine, and then I started hearing stories. XD;