I consider the ones that aren't adaptations of episodes or movies to be sanctioned and paid-for fanfic, frankly. Especially after I found out how many authors were recruited from 'zines. I also had to LOL at Peter David, in the forward to Q-Squared said that some people call his more ambitious Trek novels "fannish", and points out that he is a fan. Frankly, if he wants Picard fencing with a holo-version of Sulu, I am A-OK with that! And if he wants to explain some of the weirder shit in TOS with "a Q did it", well, at least he backed it up for the length of that one book.
As for that slashy two-parter, I think you might mean The Price of the Phoenix and The Fate of the Phoenix? I've heard they're really horrible, so I haven't even tried to read them, even though I keep seeing them at the book store.
Not that that really stopped the slash subtext in Trek novels.
L.A. Graf writes good McCoy. Occasionally traumatized woobie McCoy dealing with a) phobias and b) ripped!shirt Kirk, but since McCoy seems to be the one ripping Kirk's shirt in the how half the time anyway -- and no that's not a McCoy/Kirk comment, I am talking about instances of McCoy ripping Kirk's shirt, usually at the shoulder, to inject him with crap -- I don't think he was terribly bothered... I enjoy the ongoing saga of Chekov's occasionally successful attempts to escape Sickbay. X3 The thing is, Graf books have Chekov whumping, but he's usually not woobie... exactly. Sometimes emotionally woobie. Usually fairly stoic and put-upon; the reader sort of woobies for him. I like his security minions. :3
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Date: 2010-10-10 06:54 am (UTC)As for that slashy two-parter, I think you might mean The Price of the Phoenix and The Fate of the Phoenix? I've heard they're really horrible, so I haven't even tried to read them, even though I keep seeing them at the book store.
Not that that really stopped the slash subtext in Trek novels.
L.A. Graf writes good McCoy. Occasionally traumatized woobie McCoy dealing with a) phobias and b) ripped!shirt Kirk, but since McCoy seems to be the one ripping Kirk's shirt in the how half the time anyway -- and no that's not a McCoy/Kirk comment, I am talking about instances of McCoy ripping Kirk's shirt, usually at the shoulder, to inject him with crap -- I don't think he was terribly bothered... I enjoy the ongoing saga of Chekov's occasionally successful attempts to escape Sickbay. X3 The thing is, Graf books have Chekov whumping, but he's usually not woobie... exactly. Sometimes emotionally woobie. Usually fairly stoic and put-upon; the reader sort of woobies for him. I like his security minions. :3