Episode 12: Imzadi by Peter David

First up, MAKE IT SO!


We’re going where we won’t slut shame you if several men, a few women, and the odd salt vampire have gone before!  We’re talkin’ bout Darmok and Jalad between the sheets!  That’s right – we read Imzadi!

Courtney doesn’t know shit about Star Trek.  Sara has a tattoo in Vulcan.  Neither of us are really down for a book with FOUR GODDAMNED FRAMING DEVICES and at least, at LEAST, four? timelines.

So.  Ugh.  God.  Like, you know Troi and Riker are exes, right?  (Courtney, that’s The Hair and The Beard.)  Let’s say this is the book about their prior relationship and leave it there.  Let’s not discuss the <checks notes> time travel plot that ends up with somebody going bowling with Data’s head, the completely unnecessary device of starting the book at the end of “The City on the Edge of Forever”, the fact that you have to remember throughout this book that we’re talking about Beardless Riker, and the cringeworthy conversation between Admiral Riker and Captain Crusher about how all the dudes used to jack it to Troi’s ridiculous outfits.

Thankfully, the rapeometer is set at zero with this one because I don’t have the emotional bandwidth for that.  (Late note: AS WE WERE PODCASTING we realized that it’s possible, but we’re kind of unclear on it, that there was a sexual encounter where one of the participants was a shapeshifter pretending to be somebody else, which is obviously fucked up.  I guess not quite as fucked up as the idea that you can write a book where somebody MIGHT have been raped by misrepresentation but the last quarter of the book is so confusing that nobody is sure.)

Here is some pictorial proof that I, Sara, am a big ol’ nerd.  @ me if you want but don’t you fucking dare try to gatekeep me.  I watched Enterprise and did not once hit “skip intro”, bitches.  If “Faith of the Heart” couldn’t break me no Redditor will.