The better way to put it would be that Palpatine was doing the right thing for preparing against the Vong, but he did it with all the wrong methods and reasons. (ie. slavery, murder, genocide) It also makes the Jedi look good for defeating the Vong without having to resort to Palpatine's extreme methods.
That's pretty much what the books did.
Er, no. Even in Dark Empire, where Palpatine was at his strongest, when he tries to command the spirits of the Ancient Sith to heal his broken clone body after it was ravaged by a virus, their response was "LOL NO, GO FUCK YOURSELF" before showing him Baby Anakin Solo so that he'd go on a suicide mission to Onderon where he gets killed by Han Solo and some Jedi survivor of Order 66. So it makes sense to introduce guys like Vitiate who can snap Sidious in half, especially when in the one comic book where Palpatine was at his strongest, the Ancient Sith saw him as a dilettante who lost his power within mere decades while they have ruled for centuries in their time. Among the people of the New Republic/Galactic Alliance who have long since forgotten the history of the Ancient Sith, Palpatine was the baddest mofo amongst the Sith, but from the POV of the Ancient Sith Lords, he's a wannabe who can never measure up to their power, since he was toppled in mere decades.
You can make that argument, but for me, it's too much in conflict with G-canon. I don't think the EU should reduce the in-universe significance of the conflict in Lucas's films to a historical afterthought, and make the nebulous "Outlander" a hero of greater stature than Luke Skywalker.
TBH, you recently tried to deny and doublethink away the fact that Traviss liked her men having fun in a gay bathhouse and who flirts quite often with gay couples.
I don't recall denying that Traviss wrote a homo couple into LOTF (I don't recall anything about bathhouses, however). I simply don't agree with it as a realistic/plausible/believable addition to the kind of society that she constructed for the Mandalorians.
All while rejecting all non-human mando designs for specifically one in shape bounty hunter man.
What's this in reference to, specifically?
A bit on the closeted side I'd say.
Seriously? You're the one who can barely manage a response to one of my posts without turning it into some kind of sexualized
ad-hominem. 
This would've been the part I stopped taking you seriously, but that was a long time ago when you dismissed one of the main lore writers for another series.
A good length of this thread is composed of "dismiss[ing]" the main lore writers for various series, such as George Lucas. Merely being the head creative does not render one immune to criticism of one's writing and creative decisions. As for the writer in question, I continue to hold firm that it's patently unrealistic for Eric Nylund to have portrayed Catherine Halsey as "a good person" given the things that she did. However, I don't think that the more critical point of view of Halsey as articulated by Traviss was actually
originated by Traviss. Rather, I suspect that she was simply following the lead of the most recent lore penned by Nylund
(Halo: Reach and
The Journal of Catherine Halsey) which predate tge publication of Traviss's novels and paint the "good" doctor in a much more negative light.
I'm actually more baffled because of that now given the doublethinking away of the homoeroticism tbh.
LOL
It's also telling that you seriously hate Ron Moore as a writer rather than Braga of time-parodox obssession fame too. Braga, for all his efforts in the franchise, was guiltier of writing shit scripts than Moore, given he most supported those bottle ship episodes where causality loops were a thing. I'd almost suspect you hate Moore because he too focuses on a warrior race, but because they don't have the Boba Fett armor and honestly are more often known in geek culture that's unnacceptable.
Because holy shit you can thank Moore for actually some of the best episodes in DS9 and if you liked Worf as a character, thank him for expanding on his relations with Klingon culture.
I don't hate Moore's writing for DS9. I'm actually quite fond of the series (still going back and forth on whether it's my favorite Trek iteration or not) and the elaboration/development of alien cultures like the Klingons and Cardassians in particular. I'm not sure where or how you came to believe otherwise, other than this mysterious, reflexive urge to paint everything I say in the most ridiculously negative terms you can think of.
Traviss was big on LGBT in Star Wars. It's not like KOTOR where Juhani's lesbianism was something that was off the beaten path, Traviss openly wrote her Mandos are OK with man-on-man love.
Actually, the revelation that Goran and Medrit Bevin were two dudes came as something of a surprise at the time.
Klingon is practically the Latin of geekdom, is it not? I don't think Mando'a got that far outside of being used for songs in the Republic Commando game.
Mando'a is used quite extensively in the
Bounty Hunter Mandalorian campaign for TOR, shockingly enough, to the point of inventing new terminology, like the
Geroya be Haran. Drew Karpyshyn also incorporated a fair bit of the language into his
Revan novel, there's
Mando'a in the KOTOR comics and
Legacy, Stover's
Luke Skywalker and the Shadows of Mindor...really, anywhere that Mandalorians turn up in the EU following the publication of the
Republic Commando novels, you're probably going to see a bit of
Mando'a in use.
DS9 salvaged Trek from being a tunnel-vision series by subverting some of Roddenberry's single-minded anti-capitalism, and Worf is one of latter-era Trek's most beloved characters.
Huzzah, something that we agree on.
Would that your words could pierce his safe space.
Not at all SJWish to block people because their words 'twigger you.'.
For the record, I've been blocking you, Adam'ika, the Imp and Cactus guy for the past few months because I've been trying to avoid getting drawn back into the kind of circular, essay-length, autistic slap-fights that people were complaining about clogging up the thread at the time. Serves me right for trying to be community-minded, I guess...
No, some get mad because they don't like thinking about and reflecting on their suppressed desire for Boba to disintegrate their pants and take them roughly on carbonite while growling in the ear with an accent.
Dude, you need help. Like, seriously.
The best Fett stuff is the Bounty Hunter Wars trilogy. Who was the main character of that trilogy? Dengar, Neelah, and Bossk. All three have full arcs to a satisfying conclusion. Who wasn't the main character? Boba Fett. He was simply the exciting means to get Neelah, Dengar, and Bossk from beginning to end of their arcs. Boba Fett doesnt change at all through three novels. He was there to be a badass and do badass stuff. That's his character. If it was just Boba Fett you'd have three novels worth of that short story from Tales from the Empire where he BTFOs an entire Imperial garrison to get the General's brother. Which was fine but forgettable. Fett is interesting in action, surviving against the odds, getting into confrontations with characters that have more depth like the one with Xizor in Hard Merchandise. He is boring otherwise. He is good when he's in the focus, not when he IS the focus.
You must be thinking of a different
Bounty Hunter Wars trilogy.
