Re: Destiny trilogy - pretty heavy spoilers It could be Captain Spaulding. "I once shot a Borg in my pajamas. How he got in my pajamas, I'll never know."
Re: Destiny trilogy - pretty heavy spoilers For my money, I think it'll be someone that could still be alive on the 24th century if they hadn't been killed by artificial causes, not someone from a previous era who's now popping up like Scotty or Kirk.
Re: Destiny trilogy - pretty heavy spoilers Actually that adds up to 300,000 exactly. I assume rounding accounts for the discrepancy. (And your first drafts add up to 303,000, so I guess you trimmed some in revisions.)
Re: Destiny trilogy - pretty heavy spoilers Me am writer. Not know math. You're right, they total 300,000. However, during editing I usually cut between one percent and two percent of the manuscript.
Re: Destiny trilogy - pretty heavy spoilers I'm an idiot, so would mind pointing out some other books around those lengths so I can get an idea of how long that would be?
Re: Destiny trilogy - pretty heavy spoilers Well, Orion's Hounds is 105,000 words. Ex Machina is 110K.
Re: Destiny trilogy - pretty heavy spoilers That was my thought, too. A great potential Geordi arc there.
Re: Destiny trilogy - pretty heavy spoilers Articles of the Federation was 104,000 words. A Burning House was 95,000 words. Q & A was 68,000 words.
Re: Destiny trilogy - pretty heavy spoilers Ok, cool. So it looks like they should be in the 350 - 400 page range then.
Re: Destiny trilogy - pretty heavy spoilers Nah. They'll be 250 pages, and come with complimentary magnifying glasses with little Trek quotes on the handles - "Fascinating", "Scanning for life-forms", etc. Fictitiously yours, Trent Roman
Re: Destiny trilogy - pretty heavy spoilers I realy want the presumed dead Captain to be Janeway, but a mad thought has occured to me...what if the person they find is the alternate future Janeway from Voyager's finale?
Re: Destiny trilogy - pretty heavy spoilers But she was an Admiral there, so it wouldn't 100 % fit with the "long thought dead Captain" bit.
Re: Destiny trilogy - pretty heavy spoilers Indeed, and neither would the other Janeway since she too was an Admiral. This one also doesn't fit the "long thought..." part because she hasn't been dead very long at all.
Re: Destiny trilogy - pretty heavy spoilers ^ Unless the phrasing used for marketing purposes doesn't exactly reflect the details. I mean, which seems more exciting to you: "a captain long-thought dead" or "an admiral recently-thought dead"? Fictitiously yours, Trent Roman
Re: Destiny trilogy - pretty heavy spoilers "An admiral recently-thought dead that a load of people on the internet complained about"