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     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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