William Shatner's Novels

[Bryan Moore]

Who has read some of them? Is it just me or are they pretty bad? How many liberties can you possibly take with continuity and even basic logical plot set ups. Is it really likely that everyone from the Enterprise is still alive at age 150?! I mean geezus. And if you've ever heard their books on tape, its great. Shatner makes no effort to correctly pronounce various words, so they sound just odd. "Tetryon" as "tet-RYE-own" "Bashir" was "Ba-shire" "Basheer" and "Bashur"

[Sionnach Glic]

Never read 'em, on the advice of a friend.

[Bryan Moore]

It was good advice. Very self-indulgent toward's Kirk's character, and paints a really weird picture of things. I'd almost say they could be justified as being a slightly altered timeline due to the Nexus or something. It's not wholly illogical writing, but much of what's been written has been contradicted in First Contact through Nemesis, yet Shatner/Reese-Stevens have gone along as if the Shatner timeline was correct. The Borg lived on V'Ger's planet and were largely destroyed (a year before First Contact came out), McCoy's a cyborg, Spock is assassinated/resurrected. Just weird stuff.

[Graham Kennedy]

I tried to read one, but it was just scenes of Kirk going around beating the TNG characters up for some strange reason. For like five chapters in a row, somebody from TNG would be doing something, then a guy would show up and beat them at it, and it would turn out to be Kirk. When Kirk beat Worf in hand to hand fighting I just gave up on it. I think Kirk is as awesome as the next guy, but there comes a point where it's just silly.

[KuvahMagh]

I don't know about his novels, the only thing I've read by him are his Memories books which seemed fine, though I have no doubt they are screwed by his involvement as would be expected. I do know that his Music, while generally maligned by the public, is pretty good if you listen to what he is actually saying, particularly on 'Has Been'.

[Sionnach Glic]

Well, seems my friend's advice was justified.

[Mikey]

Sounds like Denny Crain's been writing.

[Mark]

The VERY first one wasn't to bad, before it got involved with TNG, but after that

[KuvahMagh]

Has anyone read his Tek stuff, does that suffer from the same problems or did he step back from that and write it 'properly'?

[Mark]

I had a friend that was really into his Tek stuff. He said it was awsome. I caught a couple episodes of the mini series, and remember thinking it was ok, but I wasn't overly impressed.

[Bryan Moore]

I had a friend that was really into his Tek stuff. He said it was awsome. I caught a couple episodes of the mini series, and remember thinking it was ok, but I wasn't overly impressed.

Miniseries?

[Sionnach Glic]

What miniseries is this?

[Tsukiyumi]

William Shatner's TekWar series. The four TV movies (miniseries) had better production values, IIRC.

[Teaos]

Never bothered with them since they are apparently total crap.

[Mark]

Had some content of interest, IIRC.