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ADF has this problem where when he's only writing for a paycheck, you can really, really tell, and most of his novelizations these days seem to fit that category, more's the pity. His characterization gets really, really bland and perfunctory, and he uses all the same weird phrases to describe things that may not fit particularly well with the 'verse he's writing in at the moment. It's irritating. They should let someone who wants to write the novel write it, not the first name they can think of who is already known for writing scifi tie-ins and can bang one out in a hurry.

There are still a handful of theaters out there showing nuTrek; I'm waiting for the local dinner theater to get it to go again with some friends, but it hasn't gone to second-run status yet, it's still out in the local Regal Cinemas on one screen.

Drake did kind of vaguely imply in Book 6 that Tovera may be kind of sort of gaining a moral compass after hanging around Mundy, but considering how he keeps hammering home how bleak and detached from humanity Mundy feels all the time, that's not very inspiring!