Re: Re: The Federation
  By: Kurt Weiske to Charles Stephenson on Tue Dec 01 2020 08:42 am

 KW> The Star Trek: Vanguard series of books builds a lot of detail into
 KW> civilian life, the life of a Federation News Service journalist, the
 KW> co-existence of non-aligned but neutral parties like the Orions, and
 KW> civilian life aboard a space station. They're interesting novels set
 KW> in the TOS timeframe and play around with some of the characters,
 KW> build rich back stories to what were minor characters, and end up
 KW> being an entertaining read and a nice fleshing out of stories, places
 KW> and characters that canon just touched on.

I LOVE the Vanguard series!! I found one by accident, it was a TNG book. 
Data's character was pretty sweet!  He was more....'emotional'.  He as having2
conflicts with trying to be more human.  a part of the book, he was trying to
understand sexuality and it was great to see!!
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