Star Trek

Has ANYONE besides me read this novel? You all are missing out!

I agree. That seems to be the case for all the new Star Trek novels. 

On a positive note, I started up the New Frontier books again. I am on "Requiem"

Working on it buddy, I want to enjoy the books before I dissect them. You know I take the whole review thing seriously. 

Seriously, how do they get covers oberseas that are both different and better?

Not too impressed with IFM.  The story is okay but I'm a quarter of the way through, still no closer to knowing what happened to the Intrepid and I can't stand all the guest TNG characters that keep popping up.  I feel the author was more concerned with showing the depth of his TNG trivia knowledge than writing a good book. The story is just a little too weighed down with the dropping of names and conversations that don't seem to go any where.

But I can't REALLY judge it conclusively yet and won't try to.

I mostly liked IFM. It left me wondering why use the Intrepid when you have other more advanced ships at your disposal? The one change I would have liked was a more permanment ending for La Forge. I also would like to see more of Nog. Nog's a great engineer but he does his job too well at Security to move him? Come on, if you've given Ezri a ship, put Nog on the command track.

I liked the interaction between LaForge and Sela. I also like LaForge coming to his own in command.

I finished IFM last week and I liked it quite a bit actually.  I was really ready for a break from the Typhon Pact and this fit the bill pretty well.I do see your point about pulling characters from other parts of the trek universe, but it did not really detract much from my enjoyment.  Ogowa on Challenger actually made sense to me, Reg was a bit of stretch but I liked how he was written in the story. 

David McGintee (lonemagpie) posts over at trekbbs and indicated that the editorial shake-ups hit this book pretty hard.  CBS required him to add more familiar characters and made him compress what was originally going to be two books into one. 

Normally I would say keep reading, but the half of the story dealing with the intrepid was the better half if you ask me so this may be a struggle for ya. 

It seems like a lot more of authors post over there.  Christopher L. Bennet is pretty much johnny-on-the-spot with replies in a lot of threads.   The IFM review thread with David McGintee's comments can be found here if you're interested:

http://www.trekbbs.com/showthread.php?t=139045

Chuckle. I can pretty much count on you not liking a book I talk up, MR.

I thought the book was really well done. I am not surprised that CBS is mucking up the books. They are pretty much mucking up everything star Trek related.