"Rogue Saucer" [TNG novel] comments (Spoilers!)
Matthew M. Lih
>
> Rogue Spoilers below:
>
> I bought and read "Rogue Saucer" last weekend. Overall, I enjoyed
> it, except for a few minor nits. Here are a few specific points I'd
> like to mention:
I skimmed through it in a supermarket (took about half an hour). I didn't
find anything that would make me go out and buy it.
The whole premise grated on me from the start:
1) Nechayev wants to test the crashworthiness of the new saucer by
actually crashing it! Does Starfleet have so much money and
freedom of action that they can crash a presumably very expensive
saucer? I know there's probably a lot of resources across the
Federation, but still ... aren't there computer simulations for
this sort of thing?
2) She wants to use a field crew to do this. Don't they have test pilots/
crew for this? If something goes wrong, then Starfleet loses one
of their best command crews (not to imply test pilots are expendable).
> Page 88: [Worf, in a shuttlecraft, viewing the Enterprise undergoing a
> simulated Borg attack] He wasn't prepared for what he found: The hull
> section lay dead in space, tilted at an obscene angle, portholes and
> running lights dark.
> (a) "Dead in space"? In other words, motionless? Mothionless in
> relation to WHAT? There is no absolute movement or velocity in space.
I don't have any problem with this. Use the speed of light as the absolute
measure of velocity. Presumably also means no motive power in action.
One thing I did like was that the book gave some depth to Nechayev.
However, it made it seem like she was ready to "forgive and forget"
all her grievances against the crew, which seems out of character. Just
because she's more friendly with them and gains respect doesn't mean
she doesn't have valid concerns about their conduct.
Matt Lih
BarbaraKE
baks...@ix.netcom.com(Arthur Levesque ) writes:
>I thought the cover to this one was an improvement. It still had
>generic portraits of crewmembers (we already knew Picard and Riker
>were going to be in it... why not have Nechayev on the cover with
>them?) in front of a spaceship, but the spaceship in this case was the
>saucer section crashing (aha! Cover art which is relevant to the
>story!!)
It doesn't look to me like it's crashing, it looks like it's flying away
from a planet. The 'front' is toward the upper left of the cover, no? Am
I totally messed up?