Lit I'll be honest...

I agree, I read once on a Trek board where they complained and were wishing there EU was like ours.

I also did read Star Trek Destiny by the way-awesome trilogy.

 

Still have issues with DNT onwards but reading chapters for those series's after watching TFA makes me appreciate certain things from those stories even more.

 

DNT is Denning's best work. Seriously.

 

Destiny was indeed excellent, but the follow-through on it was even better.

And yes, Trek books may not be canon nor have to respect a shared continuity, but the people editing and writing them decided to act as if it were - the result has been a sustained year-on-year of excellent books that have taken various Trek characters to some very interesting places.

 

What I have noticed is that Trek books are somewhat darker than Star Wars books.

As for Denning I don't think he's a bad author-I'm not a fan of where he took Jacen's character, his sexual fetishes, and his overly gratuitous violence but he can certainly write well-SBS for example.

 

Maybe I need to read SbS and DNT again to compare literary quality
However, as of this moment I feel like DNT have everything. My favorite characters, a war of galactic importance. Everyone pitched in, adults, older men, younger girls, older women, even some Chiss of every age. It literally is a war without concern for age, without discrimination for locations.
When I read SbS I feel like the plot destroys everything I held dear. The NR utterly defeated when the battle of Coruscant could have been won. Denning wrote a battle scene where the NR is winning, and then because the overall plot demanded it, [Mr. Scott] The Yuuzhan Vong held at their post, while the NR ran.[/Mr. Scott]. Then every single adult Jedi were like, even though the Yuuzhan Vong is killing absolutely every Jedi, I bertter stay out of the way, let the kiddies handle it.

 

Wasn't there some reason why the adult Jedi didn't participate in the Mykyr mission? Something about capture?

 

How old was Ganner anyway? I mean wasn't he in his early twenties?

 

Ganner Rhysode and Wurth were in charge of the Academy while Yuuzhan Vong indiscriminately slaughters everything in their path while Kam and Tionne went to Luke and Mara's wedding.

This is EU canon.

 

more about 6 years. They were married in 19 ABY and the Vong arrived in 25 ABY.

 

I can count fourteen off the top of my head: Jacen, Jaina, Anakin, Tahiri, Tenel Ka, Lowie, Zekk, Raynar, Tekli, Eryl Besa, Ulaha Kore, and three Barabels. Or were there more Barabels? Seriously, Denning overdid it with the Barabels.

 

It's okay when the kids went to war when all/most of the adults were dead or something.
The terrible wrong comes from the kids were in war while the adults hid. At least Mara should have participated. She should have been "pretending" to be the leader

This is why some people were mad that Luke hid while everything went to poodoo.

Edit: Oh hell Luke could have Force called Callista or even the Sith could have responded like Shira Brie or the Lost Tribe of the Sith or something. Then have Shira Brie pretends to be Mara pretend to be the leader cause Luke was such a family first guy. Seriously this guy will only respond when family gets harmed.

 

Luke is too valuable to be captured/killed.

 

I mean, IRL it's a war crime to use children under 15.

Hadn't Mara like just recently given birth?


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First it's probably not a war crime to use children in under 15 in SW universe

Then so what. She's a Jedi. People were dead left and right and a Jedi can take a rest? What kind of an example does that set?

 

That she believes that children are our future...

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Well the Jedi involved in the Mykyr mission were 15 to around 20 years old. So it wouldn't be a warcrime.

 

It was more a general reply to "There is nothing wrong with kids in war" than me trying to damn the Jedi. It might've been a weird, weird plan, but not a war crime.

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There was a lot wrong with that mission.

 

Yes!

Let's send them all in a sucide mission!

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so mychild can live! WOOT Don't worry Mommy will always be here she won't let anything bad happen to you I here by give you permission to kill me first