This week I’m reading Jeffrey Lang’s The Light Fantastic (TNG) at  work. I should have finished it today but I'v been lazy. It has so many good elements, a direct sequel to the Cold Equation Trilogy but we’ve got Data in his new body, Lal, Moriarty, fucking MORIARTY who’s kidnapped Lal! The only thing so far is I think Geordi is written a bit more stiffly than usual (a turn of phrase somewhere took me out of the story. Again we’re weaving disparate threads across the trekverse into a cohesive whole which includes:

A horribly aged and a bit insane Harry Mudd shows up,

Vic Fontaine on the new DS9 is found and booted up,

we get some inkling as to why the doctor’s mobile emitter was never duplicated.

Movie-era uniformed officers are called Redcoats and I can’t believe it never occured to me that that term would come back associated with Starfleet!

Other points:
Shakti, the A.I. that runs Data’s ship, is as awesome as ever.

Lal doesn’t really like dreaming and hates unconsciousness.

The tragedy of Moriarity’s existence post TNG, it includes a story element I knew would always be there (I.E. that the Enterprise’s crash would be felt even in his cube).

Kirk was notorious for leaving mission details out of the logs when he didn’t think they were relevant, so his exact dealings with Mudd are difficult to determine.

now I’m at the point where Data’s found out he needs to go see Kivas Fajo…fuuun.