The first part of a graphic novel memoir of one man’s relationship with his father, and his father’s experiences as a Polish Jew during WWII. So many of the early events are sadly topical right now.

The second half of the story, from Auschwitz to America. This really is a powerful piece of work. I really don’t understand how we as a nation are coming so close to letting this happen again.

Filling in the blanks of Pike’s _Enterprise_ up to the start of season two of ST: DIS. Not a bad romp, and helps to flesh out some of the secondary characters we see in Pike’s crew.

Fascinating account of the sinking of the _Lusitania_, and the many factors that led to the tradgedy. Larson’s historical non-fiction work is great — perfect reading while taking a pleasure cruise vacation!

A quick and simple bit of fluff, based on an early CD-ROM game. As such, not exactly the most complex or demanding of novels, even among Trek books, but that’s about what I expected, so no disappointment.

By far the best part: A scene in a combat simulator with Kirk commanding cadets standing in for Sulu and Chekhov, while Sulu and Chekhov stand in for — and mimic — Spock and Scotty. Nobody takes it too seriously, and Chekhov tries to add Scotty’s brogue to his natural Russian accent. A nice moment of levity that stood out.

“Smart people over-thinking things to the point of absurdity” has been many of my favorite conversations with friends, and this is that, in book form.

TAS finally gets its behind-the-scenes episode-by-episode review. Artwork, trivia, and memories from those involved make this a must for TAS fans.

I enjoyed this one more than I expected when I started it. There’s an entertaining story in here, you just have to deal with the very mid-40s gender stereotypes of manly, logical, scientific men who must keep their silly, frivolous women in line. Of course, when a successful husband finds his silly wife playing with witchcraft and makes her stop, things don’t go as he expects, so it could be argued that there’s some amount of subversion of the trope that’s part of the story, too.

Good story, and this was very likely one of my earliest introductions to any sort of consensual non-monogamy ideas, but gender role and sexuality issues bother me.

As seems to be the case for Heinlein’s work, his gender roles are very much in line with the popular culture of his time, with manly men in charge and women as support. Even here, where some of the women arguably push those boundaries a bit, it’s generally only in fairly safe ways. And of course, though the sexual politics of non-monogamy do lend to occasionally touching on the possibility of homosexuality, at best it’s brushed aside as unlikely, at worst, mocked and treated with disgust.

Heinlein continues to be something of a source of frustration for me now — I can see why he’s regarded as highly as he is in the field, while simultaneously being appalled at how his work reads through the lens of modern sensibilities.

A fun, breezy memoir about the creation of one of Star Trek’s most beloved episodes, this is an enjoyable peek into the creative process for television in the 1960s, and Star Trek in particular.