Taral Books and Comics

A few weeks ago, my wife and I were discussing what we wanted to watch that evening. A bit ambivalent about it, I told her that I had had an idea about watching every movie we owned, alphabetically. There were several movies I owned that I had not watched (some still sealed). It would be a fun way to spend nights rocking the baby to sleep.  My wife liked this idea.  There were some of my movies that she had never seen, too, and some of hers that she hadn't watched in years. The benefits of an alphabetical order include ease of tracking, randomization on ownership, and especially variation in genre (until we get to Star, where we own 13 Star Trek movies, 9 Star Wars, Stargate, and Starship Troopers).  The first five movies on the list are a musical, a Disney cartoon, a dumb (in a good way) comedy, a superhero movie, and a romantic comedy.  This will make most movie nights different, which will be fun. We agreed to do it. Every night we were planning on staying at ...

Despite the ever-growing list of books and comics I want to read, I keep adding new ones to the list, as they enter my radar. A couple of weeks ago, I was looking into Star Trek novels, and especially the novel continuations of TV series after their series finales.  I remember enjoying the continuing stories of Deep Space Nine, as well as the books leading up to the final TNG movie.  I recently began re-watching Enterprise on Netflix and thought about trying the post-finale novels for that series. The first novel was called "The Good That Men Do", by Michael A. Martin and Andy Mangels.  This novel had a good story, but the idea behind it was beyond weird. Cover of the novel in question.  Image from Memory Beta. Story: It is almost universally acknowledged that the series finale of Enterprise, "These Are the Voyages", was bad.  Not even really an episode of Enterprise, it was Commander Riker and Counselor Troi in the middle of an episode of The Next ...