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Re: this post, I was pleased to discover that The IDIC Epidemic is the sequel to The Vulcan Academy Murders. As in, starts 2 days later, continues the story with the same non-crew characters. I think it's a better story, actually, but the first book is a sort of necessary set-up.
You know, sometimes I really can't handle the OCs in Trek novels -- for example, the Romulan or Rihannsu or whatever chicky Diane Duane seems to have in every one of her TOS novels but The Wounded Sky. Even though I like the OCs from TWS, and I know they reappear in these other books, my irritation with Ael and her ilk is too great to make it worth it to read them.
I don't have this problem with the novels mentioned in my first paragraph. You could argue that The Vulcan Academy Murders is more from the POVs of Sarek and Dr. Corrigan than anyone from the crew of the Enterprise, and in The IDIC Epidemic there's a lot of Korsal and T'Pina, but for some reason I like them, and I can handle them much better.
I still generally prefer books which are primarily from the POVs of the crew, though.
You know, sometimes I really can't handle the OCs in Trek novels -- for example, the Romulan or Rihannsu or whatever chicky Diane Duane seems to have in every one of her TOS novels but The Wounded Sky. Even though I like the OCs from TWS, and I know they reappear in these other books, my irritation with Ael and her ilk is too great to make it worth it to read them.
I don't have this problem with the novels mentioned in my first paragraph. You could argue that The Vulcan Academy Murders is more from the POVs of Sarek and Dr. Corrigan than anyone from the crew of the Enterprise, and in The IDIC Epidemic there's a lot of Korsal and T'Pina, but for some reason I like them, and I can handle them much better.
I still generally prefer books which are primarily from the POVs of the crew, though.