Grimlock ♥ Ultra Magnus

I'm slowly getting over my reading slump, adjusting to the splint and finding the positive.   The splint is forcing me to reevaluate how I read and type: some positions that probably weren't great for me in the first place?   Can't do that anymore. I can't, for example, type while lying down.  Which is relevant to both my reading and writing reviews: I've been hesitant to change, but it's all better for me in the end.   Moving to sit up and type is good for me, typing in positions that aren't as harmful to my wrists?   All good for me.   I know this, but I'm still in that slow period of adjustment. 

It's still pretty awkward typing, but I'm trying to type more so I can make it more natural.  Hopefully my next couple of reviews will be longer, too.   That being said, this is split up into two different stories.  One is a retelling of a TOS episode, Operation! Annihilation!   This is the first story and it's pretty obvious from the get-go that this is the case.   It's also a lot of fun, sticking to the general story, but giving a few twists and surprises, enough for me to feel like this was Nu!Trek and to keep me interested despite this being, for the most part, very much like the original episode.  It's a pretty nice balance, and even when I sometimes wish that things were slightly different, that there were a tad more deviation from the original episode, I realize that this has everything I love about the original here. I can't really complain about that!

And just when I thought that this writer was taking the easy way out and just going with the episodes, he's allowed to, or was told to, write an original story about Vulcan's trying to get revenge for the destruction of their homeworld.   It was in character, for what it was.   I found the whole 'oh, we were blinded by emotion,' to be a bit weak, but the catch-22 is that he couldn't tell this story - a story that I can see coming back to haunt people later on in this series - without the weaksauce excuse for the Vulcans.   (I suspected this ending given a lot of clues.  It was clunky, not quite in character, but so much fun I didn't really care.  I think I'm going to move onto volume three from here, too, because so much fun!.)