Saturday, July 11, 2009

"Torchwood: Children of Earth" ended brilliantly. The 5 part story wasn't perfect, but it's flaws were minor, and the finale moved me to tears yet again. I'm anxious to see where that finale takes us in future stories. Wow. Just...wow. And if for some reason they don't bring back Torchwood (which I highly doubt as it raked in HUGE numbers for the series and a host of great reviews) - this season would make a really great finale to the series overall. I liked this Season so much better than 2; I can't even express how much more.

Michael joined me after Torchwood, and we went to LC and McDonalds (for Michael), then back home where we played some Wii, watch the "World War Three" episode of Doctor Who, and then Michael went to sleep while I worked on my farm, and read the news.

The Star Trek book news from the Shore Leave convention is in, and I'm not nearly as excited about next year's schedule as I was this year's. In fact I'm rather disappointed. There are no new Voyager, Enterprise or S.C.E. or Vanguard novels, yet there are like 8 Classic Trek / New Movie Universe novels. Plus the DS9 book and offshoots that we're getting aren't likely to be telling the story they've been building up in that series for the last 3 years or so... :-0(

Still here's the best of the bunch in my opinion...

Books I'm Excited About:

Spring 2010:
"Seven Deadly Sins"

I'm hoping this anthology will have some DS9 based content as each story features a different race of Trek aliens, and several of them (Cardassians, Klingons, Ferengi, and Mirror Universe) have close ties to DS9.

June:
"Untitled New Frontier Novel"

I love the entire New Frontier series, and the last one left a bit of a cliffhanger.

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The next 4 titles are part of a story arc set in 2382, after the most recent novels this year.

October:
"Titan #7: Seize the Fire"

November:
"Aventine #01: Zero Sum Game"

The Aventine is the command of Ezri Dax, introduced in the Destiny trilogy and appearing in a few other books. She's getting her own book (and possible series) here. Ezri and at least one other member of her crew (Sam Bowers) are DS9 characters, so this is the next best thing to a DS9 centric novel.

December:
"DS9: The Rough Beasts of Empire"

A new DS9 novel set in 2382; the previous novels were set in early 2377. I'm excited about this book, but I'm also annoyed that the story has jumped forward so far. My hope is that the story here will be used to set up stories set between 2377 & 2382 - and that stories in both eras will be forthcoming.

January 2011:
"TNG: Path of Disharmony"

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