Trivial Matters

I’m onto the next book in the post-Nemesis TNG series, Greater Than The Sum, and I’m a little put off by the nakedness. Don’t get me wrong, I’m not a prude, and I have no problem with nakedness, just not in my Star Trek novels. And not when they don’t really add anything to the plot.

Does the main character (storyline-wise, not “bridge crew”) have to be naked when she warns the Federation about the Borg? Also, am I the only one who read into one of the earlier scenes that the same character was sleeping with a superior officer in order to get a better position on the ship. That’s not Trek. That’s some slash-fic I could download for free.

I’m also a bit confused about the timeline now. I though that they had editors whose job it was to keep all of this straight, but this guy is jumping all over the place in the events of the previous books. Picard and Crusher for married, there was yet another new security chief, and something about a Admiral becoming another Borg Queen!?!?

Part of me wants to just skip this one and finally get to the Destiny trilogy that prompted my review of the TNG books in the first place, but I think I’d be even more lost. I skipped to the end of Sum (which I do from time to time when book becomes boring) and I got even more confused.

I have three more days at Dotty’s starting tomorrow morning, so I’m sure I’ll be able to finish it in between the moochers and pregnant menthol smokers, but this is now like having to read a book for a class. If I don’t at least skim it, I’ll be lost when I get where I want to be.

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