Four words for you guys.
Recreation Officer Harb Tanzer.
You won't find him anywhere else other than Diane Duane's Trek novels. And yet he is so perfectly in tune with what Star Trek is supposed to be that he might as well be what Diane Duane thought what Gene Roddenberry would be if he was a character in Star Trek. I'd even wager that the Original Series might have hung in there for a bit longer if they had Harb and his Rec Deck.
Oh. And the freakin' Horta who is one of their security officers. Nothing says Fuck You like getting run over by a sapient pile of rubble. TWICE. (Just be glad that you hadn't actually pissed it off, otherwise it would have used the insanely potent acid it uses to move through rock as easily as we move through air. Pretty much nothing gets in the way of a Horta.)
Recreation Officer Harb Tanzer.
You won't find him anywhere else other than Diane Duane's Trek novels. And yet he is so perfectly in tune with what Star Trek is supposed to be that he might as well be what Diane Duane thought what Gene Roddenberry would be if he was a character in Star Trek. I'd even wager that the Original Series might have hung in there for a bit longer if they had Harb and his Rec Deck.
Oh. And the freakin' Horta who is one of their security officers. Nothing says Fuck You like getting run over by a sapient pile of rubble. TWICE. (Just be glad that you hadn't actually pissed it off, otherwise it would have used the insanely potent acid it uses to move through rock as easily as we move through air. Pretty much nothing gets in the way of a Horta.)