Enthusiastically Ambiverted Hopepunk
Book 20 of 2026: Rogue Saucer by John Vornholt.
⭐️⭐️: An interesting setup (a test of a saucer section prototype’s emergency landing capabilities is interrupted by it being hijacked) marred by characters making bad decisions because that’s what the plot demands and occasional inconsistencies.
15/2024 – ⭐️⭐️⭐️
A few years after the first book in this TOS Starfleet Academy trio, McCoy is at the Academy’s medical program and ends up being paired with cadet Spock for a disaster relief mission. But somehow these earthquakes don’t seem to be entirely natural…. Not bad, though both McCoy and Spock perhaps felt a bit too much like their adult selves rather than less mature versions.
36/2023 – ⭐️⭐️⭐️
An average adventure, mostly focusing on Ro and Worf as they try to manage confrontations between an unusually xenophobic Federation colony being beset by a band of young Klingons who have gone feral after crashing on a planet. Ro is presented pretty well, but Worf’s characterization often felt off – a bit too smiley, and whatever the situation, it’s difficult for me to see him dancing. Arguably there are reasons for this, but it just kept feeling wrong.
📚 36/2021: Contamination by John Vornholt ⭐️ 🖖🏻
📚 thirty-five of 2020: Masks by John Vornholt ⭐️⭐️⭐️ #startrek #tng 🖖
Given current events, it’s kind of amusing to be reading a Trek adventure in a society where everyone wears masks at all times, and their status is determined by the type and quality of their mask.
