Big Finish to release Star Trek audiobooks

[David Weller]

Although there is nothing on the website, I believe that the production was not down to Big Finish as the director is not one of their usual staff.

I think BF just picked up the distribution rights.

 

[JD]

I can sort of understand "Nil" and "Zero", but pronoucning it "oh" is just misreading what's on the screen.

I haven't read the Q Continuum books, so I don't know if it's addressed there, but whenever I've seen references to 0 in other places, I've always assumed it was the letter O, like how Q is just the letter.

 

[Stevil2001]

Although there is nothing on the website, I believe that the production was not down to Big Finish as the director is not one of their usual staff.

I think BF just picked up the distribution rights.

Richard Fox does work for Big Finish, just not usually as a director. With Lauren Yason, he's one of their regular sound designer/music composers. I think it was a BF production all the way through, as no other company is credited (as opposed to their collaborations with, say, B7 Media).

But he's clearly not a Star Trek fan of any stripe, which is a weird choice for the very fan-driven BF. They couldn't find anyone who would know to tell Alec Newman how to pronounce "Jem'Hadar"?

 

[David Weller]

Richard Fox does work for Big Finish, just not usually as a director. With Lauren Yason, he's one of their regular sound designer/music composers. I think it was a BF production all the way through, as no other company is credited (as opposed to their collaborations with, say, B7 Media).

But he's clearly not a Star Trek fan of any stripe, which is a weird choice for the very fan-driven BF. They couldn't find anyone who would know to tell Alec Newman how to pronounce "Jem'Hadar"?

Just went back to the original news release.

It says they are released in association with Bastei Lubbe who are a German publisher of books and audiobooks.

So who knows?

 

[Stevil2001]

Just went back to the original news release.

It says they are released in association with Bastei Lubbe who are a German publisher of books and audiobooks.

So who knows?

So it does! Thanks. I wonder what they contributed. (It's not like Alec Newman would have recorded in Germany.)

 

[David Weller]

So it does! Thanks. I wonder what they contributed. (It's not like Alec Newman would have recorded in Germany.)

The Sigmund Freud Files, which BF distributed, were produced by Bastei Entertainment (which I assume is related).

So it could have been the full production.

 

[Stevil2001]

It looks like they're also who made the German adaptations of The Tenth Doctor Adventures that just came out.

 

[JD]

How involved would CBS be with these? Wouldn't they have had some way to make sure things were pronounced correctly?

 

[Stevil2001]

How involved would CBS be with these? Wouldn't they have had some way to make sure things were pronounced correctly?

Yeah, I don't know how it works for audio. Does the licensor listen to the finished product? But even if they did, could they really get Alec Newman back in to redo every sentence containing "Khitomer"?

 

[ATimson]

But even if they did, could they really get Alec Newman back in to redo every sentence containing "Khitomer"?

You could, but the final result would probably sound like crap.

(Star Wars: Red Harvest's audiobook has a lot of rerecorded bits, and they don't blend well at all.)

 

[Stevil2001]

You could, but the final result would probably sound like crap.

(Star Wars: Red Harvest's audiobook has a lot of rerecorded bits, and they don't blend well at all.)

I haven't read that book; what happened there?

 

[ATimson]

I haven't read that book; what happened there?

I don't know for sure, but it sounds like the narrator was coming down with a cold when they first recorded - or there were other recording issues that make it sound like that to me - so I'm guessing they rerecorded some of the lowest-quality bits.

Unfortunately, in addition to sounding different (albeit better), the volume levels never match up quite right.

 

[Stevil2001]

I wrote a review of the second one, but there's not much in it you won't have been able to infer from my posts in this thread: http://unreality-sf.net/2018/10/30/star-trek-the-root-of-all-rage-audiobook-review/

Alec Newman does do a pretty good Patrick Stewart.

 

[Stevil2001]

I've finally started the third one, In the Heart of Chaos. I thought something might actually happen, but then there was a ten-minute meeting scene where at the end, the main characters decided they were going to search a database. Then in the next scene, the president thinks to herself that these meetings are repetitive and unproductive. Listen, zha, you said it, not me.