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A review by vingilot
The Good That Men Do by Michael A. Martin, Andy Mangels
5.0
When they wrote the Enterprise series Finale they attempted to do something that could be seen as admirable. They wanted to close an era of nearly two decades of continuous Star Trek on television. An era that spanned four shows, and 624 episodes. As far as they knew this might be the last episode of any Star Trek series. They decided to make it something special to acknowledge this, and as most of you reading this will know they failed miserably.
They spliced in the Enterprise Finale into a great episode of the Next Generation. They skipped seven years so that they could skip the Romulan War, and feature the founding of the Federation. All of this could have been done well, but it was simply a failure, reducing the show to what seems to some nothing more than a Holo-novel. The episode itself is also filled with holes, and simple stupidity to fuel the plot, this book aims to fix that.
I do not want to spoil it too much, however it shall suffice to say that it is likely that all your frustrations with the episode will be addressed in this book. It uses a n unobtrusive future framing device to retcon the episode in a way that leaves it intact, but allows for it to be entirely changed at the same time. As you might suspect they simply use the fact that all we see in the episode is a 24th century historical account of what happened in the 22nd century. History gets muddled, just think how little we truly know about events 200 years ago. As a Tolkien fan, I have to say that this is a retcon the Professor would have appreciated.
Everyone disappointed with the Enterprise finale should read this book. It is very well written, and sets up the Romulan War books that came after it. If I had to put the book in a category it would be Espionage.
They spliced in the Enterprise Finale into a great episode of the Next Generation. They skipped seven years so that they could skip the Romulan War, and feature the founding of the Federation. All of this could have been done well, but it was simply a failure, reducing the show to what seems to some nothing more than a Holo-novel. The episode itself is also filled with holes, and simple stupidity to fuel the plot, this book aims to fix that.
I do not want to spoil it too much, however it shall suffice to say that it is likely that all your frustrations with the episode will be addressed in this book. It uses a n unobtrusive future framing device to retcon the episode in a way that leaves it intact, but allows for it to be entirely changed at the same time. As you might suspect they simply use the fact that all we see in the episode is a 24th century historical account of what happened in the 22nd century. History gets muddled, just think how little we truly know about events 200 years ago. As a Tolkien fan, I have to say that this is a retcon the Professor would have appreciated.
Everyone disappointed with the Enterprise finale should read this book. It is very well written, and sets up the Romulan War books that came after it. If I had to put the book in a category it would be Espionage.