Captain's Personal Log

Got sidetracked a bit. Penny lent me the 1st of Tamora Pierce's latest series, "Trickster's Choice (Daughter of the Lioness, Book 1)." Great author, great book, but I won't do a review of it here. Maybe later I'll make a separate blog for the other books I read besides Star Trek.

Next Review: Diane Carey's (Star Trek: The Original Series) Final Frontier

Yes, it's the last book I bought, and I couldn't wait to get other real world duties and distractions out of the way to start reading it.

Book Hunting #8

I really did not plan on buying any books for myself today as this was school supplies day for the kids. It just so happened that one of the kids wanted to go to the comfort room and there's a Booksale branch right beside it in Alimall. I got just one book:

1. (Star Trek: The Original Series) Final Frontier

Total cost: PhP 75.00

Book Hunting #7

Bought 3 Star Trek books from Booksale today:

1. (Star Trek: The Original Series, No. 2) Entropy Effect
2. (Star Trek: The Next Generation) Metamorphosis: The First Giant Novel
3. (Star Trek: The Original Series) Star Trek - The Motion Picture (Printed in the U.K., ISBN# 0-7088-1725-4)
   

Total Price: PhP150.00

Book Hunting #6

Did a fly-by on Booksale last week and found these two (nice clean covers too):

1. (Star Trek: The Original Series, No. 89) New Earth, Book 1 of 6: Wagon Train to the Stars
2. (Star Trek: Voyager, No. 19) Dark Matters, Book 1 of 3: Cloak and Dagger

Total Cost: P155.00

Booklist: The Original Series (Books by William Shatner with Judith and Garfield Reeves-Stevens)

• The Ashes of Eden
• The Return
• Avenger
• Star Trek: Odyssey (contains The Ashes of Eden, The Return, and Avenger)
• Spectre
• Dark Victory
• Preserver
• Captain's Peril
• Captain's Blood
  

Book Hunting #5

Got to clear some space on my cluttered shelves today, so I unpacked a box which has been in my storage cabinet for 2 years. Lo and behold, I found 6 Star Trek titles among the books in it:

1. (Star Trek: The Original Series, No. 34) Dreams Of The Raven (Double on my shelf)
   
2. (Star Trek: The Original Series, No. 46) The Cry of the Onlies
3. (Star Trek: The Original Series, No. 56) Legacy
4. (Star Trek) The Eugenics Wars Vol I: The Rise and Fall of Khan Noonien Singh (Hard Cover, Paperback Double on my shelf)
5. (Star Trek: The Original Series) Star Trek 2 :The Wrath of Khan : Photostory
6. (Star Trek: Voyager) Mosaic

I think I have a few more in those boxes, but they can wait until I find more space for them.

Book Hunting #4

The book I'm about to review was so good that I almost forgot to post this. I hit Booksale on May 8, 2007 and got these 5 nice titles:

1. (Star Trek: S.C.E., No. 6) Wildfire
2. (Star Trek: The Next Generation, Starfleet Academy, No. 08) Starfall
3. (Star Trek: All) Captain's Log: William Shatner's Personal Account of the Making of Star Trek V: The Final Frontier
4. (Star Trek: The Original Series, No. 82) Mind Meld
5. (Star Trek: The Next Generation) Vendetta: The Giant Novel

Total Price: PhP280.00

Book Hunting #3

This is becoming a habit. Good or bad, I don't know. Anyway, I took my family to Fully Booked today to show them the titles available on sale, knowing I cleared one table of titles I didn't have yet. After a few minutes in the store, I'm told there was another table in the back with more Star Trek titles. These 9 I found in that pile and bought them, again at a ridiculous bargain:

1. (Star Trek: The Original Series) Strangers From the Sky
2. (Star Trek: The Original Series) Captain's Peril
3. (Star Trek: The Original Series) Janus Gate, Book Two: Future Imperfect
4. (Star Trek: The Next Generation) Crossover
5. (Star Trek: The Next Generation) Klingon
6. (Star Trek: Stargazer) Maker
7. (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine) Avatar, Book One of Two
8. (Star Trek: Voyager) Equinox
9. (Star Trek: All) The Star Trek Encyclopedia

Total Price: PhP900.00

That's 41 new titles in my library in the span of 3 days. Whew! I think I'll stay away from the bookstores for a while to give them a chance to replenish their stocks. Unless there's a sale, of course.

(Star Trek: The Original Series, No. 09) Triangle

Title: "Triangle"
Date Published: 1983
Author/s: Sondra Marshak
Main Plot:
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A new power is growing in the galaxy. A power so irresistible that few can stand up against it. Captain Kirk and Spock are joined by Free Agent Sola Thane in the ultimate battle between the seductive forces of the Totality and Oneness. Individuality and freedom are caught in between as the titans struggle for control of the Enterprise and her crew, and the fate of the galaxy.

My Short Review:
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This book reminds me so much of the horrors of Borg assimilation, only it is increased tenfold here. Not that any of us have experienced it, but I'd rather be assimilated into the Borg Collective than be consumed by this new threat. Totalitarianism has always been resisted in our history, but this time, it is so subtle, we won't even feel it. Fighting back doesn't come to mind and that's scary. You realize the scale of things very slowly until you're just past the middle of the book, and then it hits you. Wow! I pray this threat will never come to pass.

Captain Kirk and Spock's friendship is put to a test, like I've never seen, as an irresistible woman gets in the mix complicating things further. This has to be the deepest test of any friendship. Sondra Marshak describes the strain on each of their minds so vividly that I can't help but wince in imaginary pain myself.

My Overall Rating:
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Booklist: The Original Series (Novelizations)

• Star Trek: The Motion Picture • Gene Roddenberry
• Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan • Vonda N. McIntyre
• Star Trek III: The Search for Spock • Vonda N. McIntyre
• Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home • Vonda N. McIntyre
• Duty, Honor, Redemption • Vonda N. McIntyre (contains The Wrath of Khan, The Search for Spock, and The Voyage Home)
• Star Trek V: The Final Frontier • J.M. Dillard
• Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country • J.M. Dillard
• Star Trek Generations • J.M. Dillard
• Starfleet Academy • Diane Carey

Book Hunting #2

I had a meeting at Fully Booked yesterday. After the meeting, I discovered that they had a sale going on. They had a table of books in the middle of the store at ridiculously low prices. All the Star Trek books on sale were arranged in a row, and most of titles were those that I did not have yet. When the people I just had a meeting with saw the look on my face, one said "Get him a shopping basket. No, make that two", another said "Call an ambulance", and yet another said "Breath, Pao, breath." So I ended up with 31 new books and will be going back for more tomorrow. The titles I got are:

1. (Star Trek: The Original Series, No. 44) Vulcan's Glory
   
2. (Star Trek: The Original Series, No. 48) Rules of Engagement
3. (Star Trek: The Original Series, No. 73) Recovery
4. (Star Trek: The Original Series, No. 85) My Brother's Keeper, Book 1 of 3 - Republic
5. (Star Trek: The Original Series, No. 86) My Brother's Keeper, Book 2 of 3 - Constitution
6. (Star Trek: The Original Series) Vanguard, No. 2 - Summon the Thunder
7. (Star Trek: The Original Series) Constellations
8. (Star Trek: The Original Series) Burning Dreams
9. (Star Trek: The Original Series) Crucible: McCoy - Provenance of Shadows
10. (Star Trek: the Original Series) Federation
11. (Star Trek: The Original Series) Vulcan's Forge
12. (Star Trek: the Original Series) Worlds in Collision
13. (Star Trek: The Lost Era, No. 2) 2311 - Serpents Among the Ruins
14. (Star Trek: S.C.E., No. 5) Foundations
15. (Star Trek: The Next Generation, No. 29) Sins of Commission
16. (Star Trek: The Next Generation, No. 41) The Soldiers of Fear (Invasion, Book 2)
17. (Star Trek: The Next Generation, No. 43) A Fury Scorned
18. (Star Trek The Next Generation) The Genesis Wave Book 2
19. (Star Trek: The Next Generation) Imzadi Forever
20. (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, No. 10) Valhalla
21. (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, No. 14) The Long Night
22. (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, No. 17) The Heart of the Warrior
23. (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine) Warped
24. (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine) The Left Hand of Destiny, Book 2
25. (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine) Millennium Omnibus
26. (Star Trek: All) The Amazing Stories
27. (Star Trek: All) The Definitive Star Trek Trivia Book
28. (Star Trek: All) Strange New Worlds I
29. (Star Trek: All) Strange New Worlds III
30. (Star Trek: All) Strange New Worlds VI
31. (Star Trek: All) Strange New Worlds VII

I also got a book at Booksale prior to my fateful visit to Fully Booked:

1. (Star Trek: The Original Series, No. 37) Bloodthirst

All in all, I think that was a book hunt I will have a hard time surpassing in terms of volume.

Total Price: P1,885.00