Want Sulu, Chekov, and Uhura friendship stories? This seems to be the author to go to for that. I read Ice Trap first, which was Chekov and Uhura povs with a side-order of bravelittetoaster!McCoy. Death Count is Sulu and Chekov povs, with a side order of besiegedbybureaucratsandOrions!Kirk. Sulu and Chekov and Uhura on shore leave together is endearing and hysterical. I just love how much they're friends. I checked out the lists for other L.A. Graf books (it's actually a writing team; L.A. Graf is an acronym and a pseudonym all at once! Let's All Get Rich And Famous. X3) and this seems to be a theme. So I'll be looking for more of their books. I think I especially want to get the Janus trilogy; accidental time travel fuck-up leads to creation of alternate timeline! Sulu shunted to a future not his own, where he hooks up with a grizzled freedom fighter Chekov! Kirk shunted into the horror of his own past, and Tarsus IV!
Speaking of Tarsus IV, the very first "also available now" ad at the back of Death Count is for Best Destiny, which I've had the opportunity to read and/or buy a few times now and keep passing over. It's all about Kirk's first journey into space, with his dad, when he was 16. The problem I have with this is that it was established that Kirk was visiting another planet when he was 13, when everything went tits up: Tarsus IV. There's an episode about it! Obviously the author of Best Destiny either doesn't know or doesn't care. Meanwhile, it's the splitting point for the very excellent Shatner/Reeves-Stevens collab Collision Course, which I love, and this prejudices me regarding the point.
Gonna go read Firestorm now. :3
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