My favorite moment is when the Klingons have to Google "nuts". :D
Yeah, the ;At bothered be slightly, especially since she'd already played with the Underdwellers. And the na'mdeihei in Wounded Sky. Which were already a callback to the dragons in her original fantasy series... Duane does have a habit of visiting the same themes repeatedly. Sometimes interestingly and with awareness, sometimes not.
(Like, the ;At just seem to be a reuse of the same idea as the na'mdeidei, whereas the Demisiv in YW take the Lahit and go elsewhere. But that just may be because I read the YW books long after the ST ones.)
And you're right that it's clunky in a way that's very TOS, though I think it's slightly less clunky - or at least clunky in a different way - than TOS would've done it. And I kind of like that the books references some of the stuff in TOS (especially the Preservers, which got taken up in fanon the way none of the other super-advanced races seem to have been) but doesn't - quite - ever define exactly who and what the ;At are; they're allowed to stay ambiguous in a way I don't think TOS, with all its glowy ascended energy beings, would have gone for.
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Yeah, the ;At bothered be slightly, especially since she'd already played with the Underdwellers. And the na'mdeihei in Wounded Sky. Which were already a callback to the dragons in her original fantasy series... Duane does have a habit of visiting the same themes repeatedly. Sometimes interestingly and with awareness, sometimes not.
(Like, the ;At just seem to be a reuse of the same idea as the na'mdeidei, whereas the Demisiv in YW take the Lahit and go elsewhere. But that just may be because I read the YW books long after the ST ones.)
And you're right that it's clunky in a way that's very TOS, though I think it's slightly less clunky - or at least clunky in a different way - than TOS would've done it. And I kind of like that the books references some of the stuff in TOS (especially the Preservers, which got taken up in fanon the way none of the other super-advanced races seem to have been) but doesn't - quite - ever define exactly who and what the ;At are; they're allowed to stay ambiguous in a way I don't think TOS, with all its glowy ascended energy beings, would have gone for.