Uncertain Logic by Christopher L. Bennett
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

This novel continues with the parade of worlds that are joining the federation: in this book we see the Deltans, and we continue an exploration of those "Ware" space stations which we originally saw on screen in Enterprise. Meanwhile on Vulcan the Kirshara is stolen and people try to use it to overthrow the new Vulcan government. It's fun to see ancestors of characters that we see on screen in later Treks (Dax, Kirk, Paris, and we see the birth of Sarek at the end of this one).

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It's been a while since I played Star Trek Online with the intent to be on the accolade hunt.  I actually I thought I had most of them, but then I came across a list created by one of the game's other players and saw that I was missing a considerable amount.  After clearing out the retired accolades (ones that you can't get any longer), and the ones that you can in theory get, but you need to either be a different class of character (I am a tactical captain, so I ignored the Engineering and Science accolades), and the accolades that you can technically get if some shares a retired mission with you.  Once I got my list, I was off!  Here's what I've accumulated over the past couple of months


This one is from the episode Delta Flight.  The description is "Proved your piloting skills with Delta Flight" which didn't give a lot to go on. I got this by going through all the rings/checkpoints in the mission.  There are a few more accolades in Delta Flight that I have no idea (yet) how to get.




From the Researcher Rescue mission, "Scan the dead body in the middle of the room of where the boss is"
I totally missed the Lore component of New Romulus when it came out - or found it, and summarily forgot about it since it required a lot of repetition. I just spent EC on the exchange to get the data chips for this one.  Expensive, but worth it.

One more Lore related accolade that I had completely missed, from the mission Shadow Play.  I think I had scanned most artifacts originally, but had missed a few.
From the mission Frozen - just needed to replay a couple of times to arrest some Remans after the end of the mission

One more Lore accolade on New Romulus. No data chips for this one.  Just lots of dropping and adding on one of the missions so that the right artifacts could pop up in one of the Dewan caves...

Basically choosing the Hard Option on Kobali Prime (do the mission on your own without allies)

Another Researcher Rescue mission - "Scan the planet at the beginning of the mission" which is easily missed...
From the Undine mission "Assimilation" and the way to get the accolade was to Scan the Undine on the examination tables.  Optional thing to do, not even an optional objective, so easy to miss.

Handbook of Narrative Inquiry: Mapping a Methodology by D. Jean Clandinin
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

While I didn't read this book cover-to-cover I did find quite a few chapters quite useful in thinking about and designing my narrative inquiry project.

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The Romulan War: Beneath the Raptor's Wing by Michael A. Martin
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

This book continues on from the previous couple of novels and explores the first year of the Romulan war. Archer becomes a Commodore (interesting how they say it's an archaic title, but still used, perhaps foreshadowing the change of the rank name around TNG). Trip's alive (yay); there are heavy losses but Romulans are driven off. This book was longer (or felt longer) than previous ones, but was quite engaging.

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