drips 's review for:

Redshirts by John Scalzi
4.0
adventurous funny lighthearted medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Plot
Strong character development: Complicated
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: No

at the start of the book i remember thinking: how far is he gonna take this star trek parody meta? the answer turned out to be pretty fucking far! it was actually very funny and i really enjoyed reading it but it definitely would've been funnier/better if it was written by a woman. the amount of missed parodies of the misogyny in star trek tos is almost sad! there only really being less than a handful of female characters does not feel like criticism of classic scifi and more like classic male writer syndrome. i did like the codas at the end that kind of functioned as one of those triple storyline episodes that get used as filler (another meta nod to tv)