User:Tkhobbes
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[edit] Hello
I have been using the nick tkhobbes for almost 10 years now - in various chat-rooms, forums etc. In fact, it has become my second identity... You may call me Thomas, if you like, but tkhobbes is just fine.
[edit] Star Trek
My all-time favourite is DS9. I liked TNG when it first aired, but DS9 is the only show I can watch over and over again. Guess it must be the soap-opera-effect... :)
[edit] Favourite Actors
 Patrick Stewart - Especially love the Picard-manoeuver... |
 Avery Brooks - The calm but strong presence that DS9 needed |
 Armin Shimerman - the best and the worst of all the Ferengi out there... |
[edit] Favourite Actresses
 Terry Farrell - "The spots go all the way down..." |
 Suzie Plakson - A pity K'Ehleyr had to die so soon |
[edit] Favourite Characters
 Jean-Luc Picard - Everything the Federation is about |
 Quark - Everything the Federation is NOT about |
 Ro Laren - Some things the Federation is about, some things it is NOT about... |
[edit] Favourite Episodes
- "All Good Things..." (TNG)
- "What You Leave Behind" (DS9)
- "Little Green Men" (DS9)
- "Trials and Tribble-ations" (DS9)
[edit] Contributions
[edit] DS9 "Relaunch"
I am enjoying the "series" of novels very much up to now. I have provided summaries to the so called "8th season" (and maybe even 9th?) of DS9, containing the following novels (in order of supposed reading), including a short rating:
| Title | Rating (out of 5)* |
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| The Lives of Dax | 3 (some good, some not so good stories); note that this is not, by definition, a "Relaunch" novel, however, as the frame-story around Ezri Dax plays after DS9: "What You Leave Behind", I have included it here, and also because at least one of the stories, "Sins of the Mother", has a close tie-in to some of the later relaunch-novels |
| Avatar, Book 1 & Avatar, Book 2 | 5 (the "pilot" - matches the DS9 feeling absolutely!) |
| Abyss (part of the Star Trek: Section 31 mini-series, but great to read stand-alone) | 5 (thrilling) |
| Demons of Air and Darkness & the DS9-part of What Lay Beyond (part of the Gateways mini-series) | 3 (ok, nothing special with the exception of the Quark / Ro episode) |
| Twilight (novel) (part 1 of the Mission Gamma mini-series) | 3 (if not for the "Alpha Quadrant" stuff, this is not a very interesting novel - the aliens are too... alien, and there is no familiar stuff to work with in the Gamma quadrant; however, some important relationships are explored, so this is still a "must-read") |
| This Gray Spirit (part 2 of the Mission Gamma mini series; here, I only reformatted the existing summary and added some bits and peaces) | 2 (terrible - the Gamma quadrant parts were really "painful" to read, I have to say, and again, if not for the Alpha quadrand parts, this can be skipped (although the Yrynthy eggs play an important role later) |
| Cathedral (part 3 of the Mission Gamma mini-series) | 3 (better again; some interesting explorations of the personalities of Julian, Nog and Ezri; also, there is important stuff about Bajor and Joseph Sisko in here) |
| Lesser Evil (part 4 of the Mission Gamma mini-series) | 4 (the best of the Mission Gamma series - the Trills, Bajoran at the edge of being a Federation members, the Borg and the changelings - great!) |
| Rising Son | 3 (better than anticipated, but a lot of stuff that has only Jake Sisko as a familiar character in) |
| Unity ("season 8th's finale", I suppose) | 5 (wow - what a big bang!) |
| Worlds of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Volume 1: Cardassia and Andor | 3 (Cardassia - good in terms of "the arc" and the O'Briens, but weak in terms of the story itself) / 1 (Andor - my god, not even the Shar / Prynn story is... romantic...) |
| Worlds of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Volume 2: Trill and Bajor | 5 (Trill - I just LOVE the parasite story arc!) / 5 (Bajor - great, loads of stuff develops and the picture is set for future novels!) |
| Worlds of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Volume 3: The Dominion and Ferenginar | 4 (Ferenginar - a fun novel, just as you would expect from any Ferengi "episode" - maybe a little too light-hearted) / 5 (The Dominion - WHOA, what a story! A lot about the changelings is revealed, and the end of this story leaves nothing as it used to be - no Dominion any more, Kira and Ro both lethally hurted.... what next??) |
| Warpath | 3 (I was eager to know what happened next; but the Kira part is dull, and the story sometimes confusing - nevertheless, a thrilling novel with another cliffhanger at the end...) |
*Key: 1 = you have been warned; 2 = you can mostly forget about it; 3 = neat; 4 = great; 5 = a must-read, terrific!
[edit] Real Life
I life in Switzerland; have a look at www.hobbes.ch for some more stuff about me.
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