What I’m Reading: Star Trek Voyager 10: Bless the Beasts

My latest reading adventure comes in the form of a juicy Startrash novel. As far as I know, none of my readers could give targ piss on this topic, but allow me to regale you with interesting tidbits that will make you smile and think you are clever, or think that I am clever, or at least that reading me was better than working – those three objectives summing up the whole point of reading most personal blogs, I think.

Legal Disclaimer – you do have to know something about Star Trek in order to feel fully clever and/or think that I am clever on this topic.

OK, let’s begin with quality. Given the givens – that this is pulp fiction, typed rather than written, with a lifespan of less than five years – I’ve gotta give it 8 out of 10 stars. The author nailed most of the characters, which doesn’t happen very often. I suspect that most of the writers hired for this type of pulp fiction do not watch the shows at all so they’re really at the mercy of whatever their editors tell them about the characters. And this babe got it goin’ on. I felt like I was really WITH the characters I worship – errr, watch – from the show.

Where the book fails is in the author’s basic misunderstanding of the Prime Directive. I mean, it’s the Prime Directive. How can you be allowed to write Star Trek books when you don’t possess a basic understanding of the Prime Directive? The dizzy broad-autor had Captain Janeway sounding like President Bush – “Ahh, we couldn’t possibly help anyone on the benighted and resource-poor continent of BLANK as that would be interferring in the natural order of their lives. The BLANK 2 ALIENS, however, can further our objectives so let’s start with a banquet.”

And I really hate it when Captain Janeway starts sounding like Bush. Makes me feel all creepy crawly and everything.

It bring the over-all stars for this title down to seven out of ten.