DenebStation SF Book Reviews

Warning: Spoilers       After seeing where the writers wanted to go with Picard's character, I thought, why didn't they go back in time to Picard's childhood instead of 2024? We could have explored that mysterious time period between The Original Series and The Next Generation. We could have learned more about the anti-tech beliefs of Picard's father. Maybe some kind of neurotech messed up Picard's mother's mind.      We could have seen Picard try to save his mother's life. This somehow creates the evil timeline. Maybe the Borg are discovered early and this makes humans afraid of what is out there and makes them want to destroy new life rather than learn from it.      I did some reading about Picard's story and discovered a Comic Book that was written about by John de Lancie called "The Gift". This comic book was released in 1990, before the episode "Family" and "Tapestry".  Because of this, the names of Picard's family ...

I was researching the history of the peoples of the Amur River and found out about an interesting battle between the tribes of Siberia who rode on the backs of reindeer and the Manchurian army. In my reading, I discovered a connection to one of my favorite movies of my childhood.