Review: ST: The Good Men Do

[kkglinka]

I'm trying to read The Good Men Do. It's halfway a good story, but the narration relies heavily on telling rather than showing, often with several repetitions. The bits with Trip, Archer and Reed are decent - they have me convinced that Trip would be obsessed enough, in the midst of grief and fear, to join Section 31. I'm just not sure who that

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[rigil_kent]

Ah, someone else who does not bow down before the utter and complete tripe that is TGTMD. I recall expressing a similar sentiment many moons back but became completely disillusioned with various members of the fanbase as they gushed over it. Point of fact: I completely ceased visiting the most prominent TnT website because of arguments about this garbage. (Admittedly, there were other issues, but that was the straw that broke the proverbial camel's back

Re: TGTMD

[kkglinka]

Wow, yeah, me and my sense of passing time. Nonexistent. (Actually, busy with a fix-it-fic).

Ah, someone else who does not bow down before the utter and complete tripe that is TGTMD.It was pretty shite. I went and finished it because I found myself writing a fix-it-fic and it just kept getting worse. I'm not sure what went down with Archer and the Andorians, because I didn't give a bloody damn. All I can recall about that was T'Pol sort of playing lassie. She had one cool moment when she did the classic macho fist-catch when confronted with an Andorian (Shran?) but otherwise spent most her time fawning on Archer, while other characters very pointedly told the reader how totally awesome he was. I had to pry a sledge-hammer out of my forehead a few times. Then there were the ebil ebil Romulans who were completely corrupt, amoral perverts... except for the kindly old man scientist. Which is weird, because I seem to recall that Romulans were almost exactly like Vulcans, but more openly aggressive and somewhat self-indulgent (when not on