Using Google when you are reading "old" books can be a minefield. I just googled something to do with DS9 and accidently saw a spoiler for something kinda big. Grrr. Anyone got a memory wiper handy?
Me, too, and I was very impressed that this BBS remained remarkably spoiler-free except in those threads marked as such. I thought I was going to have to abstain from The Trek BBS totally but it didn't end up that way at all.
I have experienced similar traumas - in one particular case thanks to this very board, which not only placed, but on further consideration allowed to remain, one of the most massive spoilers there could be right in a thread title. .
I was spoiled on Spoiler: The Eternal Tide Janeway's ressurrection and surviving the book and Spoiler: Star Trek Into Darkness Harrison being Khan (which admittedly had been rumoured forever) on Facebook. The former by a Trek Lit page and the latter by a bitter little Elvis wannabe. Such is the risk we run. But I still very much enjoyed both, and both still had plenty of huge surprises in store!
That was the worst spoiler related incident to ever happen to me. I still can't believe people could be so insensitive.
I'm at work now so I won't search for the thtead link, but the spoiler regarded the big event of Plauges of Night/Raise the Dawn.
Oh, I think I remember which thread you guys are talking about know. Spoiler: question about the spoilery thread topic Was it the one about the destruction of DS9 that popped up right after PoN came out?
^^^ Now, over a year later, yeah maybe, these things happen. But at the time, when it had been about a week since release and I was still waiting for the book to even appear in my local bookstore? Unforgiveable. And it's big news, too. It's not like a "we find out what Klingons really look like under their helmets" level spoiler - it's a big mofo-ing mofo-er of a mofo. .
I read that spoiler before reading the book too but it didn't faze me. Even after reading it I was 100% sure... Spoiler: PoN ...that Sisko saw the station engulfed in a huge explosion, not that it actually exploded. It wasn't until I started the next book when I realized they'd actually done it! *cue Planet of the Apes reference*