News Two New Children’s Trek Books Coming Next Year

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Next January, two Little Golden Book Trek-themed books for children between two and five years of age will be released. The books,...

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[tomswift2002]

Were they not able to get Shatner or Pine’s likeness for the cover? Who’s the joker on the cover?

 

[Jinn]

Who’s the joker on the cover?

Heath Ledger?

 

[Kor]

Were they not able to get Shatner or Pine’s likeness for the cover? Who’s the joker on the cover?

It's a stylized version of Kirk.

Kor

 

[hbquikcomjamesl]

I am Mr. Spock is written by Elizabeth Schaeffer

Hmm. A familiar name to anybody who has read Kathleen Sky's Death's Angel.

 

[JD]

Were they not able to get Shatner or Pine’s likeness for the cover? Who’s the joker on the cover?

It's a Little Golden book, they're stuff is always really stylized like that. They've done a lot of other books from live action franchises, and the characters always look like Kirk does there, it's just their style.

 

[hbquikcomjamesl]

Hmm. A familiar name to anybody who has read Kathleen Sky's Death's Angel.

Actually, I wouldn't bat an eye if "Elizabeth Schaeffer" turned out to be a pseudonym for Kathleen Sky.

 

[BillJ]

Is it wrong that I want these for my bookshelf?

 

[caseylee4ts]

I don't think it's wrong. I kind of want them for myself!

 

[hbquikcomjamesl]

I just want to know if the name precisely matching that of the "author avatar" character in Death's Angel is more than just a random coincidence.

 

[Christopher]

I just want to know if the name precisely matching that of the "author avatar" character in Death's Angel is more than just a random coincidence.

Coincidences do happen. Like CNN having a science/space correspondent named Miles O'Brien. And given the huge, huge number of Star Trek characters that exist by this point, it's surprising we don't see more such coincidences.

 

[Laura Cynthia Chambers]

Or an ex-FBI officer named Brad Garrett who's always being interviewed by the news. In an episode of "Everybody Loves Raymond", Police officer Robert Barone, played by the actor of the same name, interviewed for a job with the FBI (unsuccessfully).

 

[hbquikcomjamesl]

On the other hand, the 20th century economics writer, "Adam Smith," was actually a pseudonym for George Goodman, assigned by a publisher to preserve his anonymity while alluding to the 18th century economist and author of Wealth of Nations. So it's hardly unheard-of for naming coincidences to be engineered.

 

[Christopher]

So it's hardly unheard-of for naming coincidences to be engineered.

Of course not, but possibility is not proof. "A is not proven" does not mean "Not-A is proven." It just means neither conclusion should be jumped to without more data.

 

[JD]

Elizabeth and Shaeffer are both very common names, so it seems pretty likely to me that it would be a coincidence.
There's also the fact that she hasn't been connected to Trek in almost 40 years, and all of her other credits are adult books.

 

[thribs]

So when's it set?

 

[JD]

I just looked through previews for some of LGB's Star Wars: I Am a ... books on Amazon and if they are anything to go by, it doesn't really look like they'll be set in one specific era. Those are more just talking about the character/group in general.
I Am a Stormtrooper
I Am a Princess
There's a whole bunch of these, but those two should be enough should be enough to get the idea.

 

[hbquikcomjamesl]

It just occurred to me that the Schaeffer opus fits in rather nicely with two rather well-known books by Leonard Nimoy, whose mutually contradictory titles I don't think I need to mention.

 

[Jinn]

It just occurred to me that the Schaeffer opus fits in rather nicely with two rather well-known books by Leonard Nimoy, whose mutually contradictory titles I don't think I need to mention.

You mean I Sang the Ballad of Bilbo Baggins and I Didn't Sing the Ballad of Bilbo Baggins?

 

[Dayton Ward]

Or perhaps he means Warmed By Love and Frozen By Love.