Makes sense, since the colon *is* where it comes from.
(No, I can't believe I said that, either.)
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Makes sense, since the colon *is* where it comes from.
(No, I can't believe I said that, either.)
While I would argue that shapeshifters and wormholes are in no way concepts that TNG came up with and I don't remember a specific wormhole in TNG to the GQ, just to the DQ. I agree with the rest though. However except for Worf and (maybe) O'Brien none of the main characters continued their personal story from TNG, as they didn't appear there. Riker on the other hand was arguably one of the two most important TNG maincharacters. His journey was further chronicled in Titan, after Nemesis.
However I don't disagree with you saying that Titan is a spin-off. That's what it is objectively. Just in my head I've always counted it as a subseries.
Edit: Also sorry for the late reply, but I kinda forgot about this thread...
Obviously not, but they were part of TNG, and DS9's developers were all TNG staffers, so they were drawing on the ideas that had been used in TNG.
Also, the only prior use of "wormhole" in Trek had been in TMP, and it was portrayed very differently there as a dangerous result of a warp drive malfunction, one that only sent the ship a few light-years off course at most. TNG's "The Price" was the first portrayal in Trek of a wormhole as a stable, traversable phenomenon that spanned most of the galaxy.
Which makes sense in the larger context; wormholes were a fairly obscure solution of General Relativity, rarely explored in either theory or fiction, until Carl Sagan's 1985 novel Contact popularized them, with physicist Kip Thorne taking a closer look at the theory at Sagan's request and discovering new possibilities that made the idea of wormholes more plausible and interesting to physicists as well as fiction writers. So the mention of wormholes in 1979's TMP was actually a rarity for its time, and it's no wonder it's different from the version we're used to. Indeed, other than TMP, "The Price" is, as far as I'm aware (and as far as Wikipedia lists), the earliest screen portrayal of the now-commonplace idea of a wormhole. (At least under that name; there had been some earlier depictions of black holes/white holes serving as traversable passages, e.g. "The Magicks of Megas-tu" and Filmation's Blackstar, as well as Disney's The Black Hole.)
The Barzan Wormhole in "The Price" originally linked to the Gamma Quadrant but then moved to the Delta Quadrant, which was how they found out it was unstable. That episode actually introduced the quadrant naming system. It also introduced the idea that a wormhole could be a strategically and economically valuable resource that governments would compete to control, a key aspect of the original DS9 premise. It was also the first episode that portrayed the Ferengi as businessmen and negotiators rather than as a military threat, as well as the first episode to present them comedically. So "The Price" is a clear antecedent of DS9 in multiple ways.
Wow, I never realized that, nor do I know much about science fiction history. That's really interesting.
Ah, yes I forgot that. Stupidity on my part here, sorry.
I enjoyed this one. I find a lot of modern trek books about 100 pages longer than they need to be, so I'm hoping the plot can live up to three books, rather than feeling too stretched out.
I do wish we'd get Data back in some TNG novels, though. I enjoyed his solo book, but it does just feel like the characters we care about are spread way too thin (same with DS9). Not a criticism of this book, just the current state of the novel-verse.
Some of the lit-only characters are well developed (e.g. Vale) but a lot of them are just blank slates I don't care about. Smrhova couldn't be less interesting if she tried. How many lines of text has Elfiki even had across the years?
That said, looking forward to book two!
I do wish we'd get Data back in some TNG novels, though. I enjoyed his solo book, but it does just feel like the characters we care about are spread way too thin (same with DS9). Not a criticism of this book, just the current state of the novel-verse.
Some of the lit-only characters are well developed (e.g. Vale) but a lot of them are just blank slates I don't care about. Smrhova couldn't be less interesting if she tried. How many lines of text has Elfiki even had across the years?
That said, looking forward to book two!
Is Elfiki even a main character?
I got the impression when she was introduced that she was supposed to be...but it's hard to tell with a lot of these characters.
T'Ryssa Chen was introduced in Greater than the Sum, which was a few years ago now. - Having just checked Amazon, that was published a little over eight years ago.
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There's a review thread up for the first Prey book, you might want to at least go vote in the poll if you've finished it.
Found book two this past Saturday and started reading it. About a hundred pages in and action has picked up. Kinda surprising but Picard doesn't show up til page 71
Klag? Wol? Toq? B'oraq? Leskit? Kurak? Ba'el at the embassy? Or the missing man himself, Rodek/Kurn???? Really, where the hell is he?* Hopefully not dead in 2381
Basically, anyone from Gorkon??*
* I hope @KRAD can someday return to that story if you haven't added him in here. Worf is the worst brother as well as the worst father ever! And who does not want to write for Tony Todd's majestic voice?
*Ditto that whole group of characters.
Publisher changes can't keep a good Klingon down!
Publisher changes can't keep a good Klingon down!
