Kobayashi Alternative/Doctor’s Orders

[EnriqueH]

Did anyone else make the connection that the planet in that video game and its aliens are the same as in Doctor’s Orders?

Ive bebe seen anyone make the connection.

I had the game for the Commodore 64, and never got far.

The novel, I read back when it came out, was great. Both were written by Diane Duane.

 

[KRAD]

There are common elements in all of Diane's Trek work across multiple media, including prose, comics, and games.

I absolutely loved and adored The Kobayashi Alternative when I was a kid.....

 

[Christopher]

There are common elements in all of Diane's Trek work across multiple media, including prose, comics, and games.

And even themes that recur across multiple different Duane series/universes. The dolphinlike aliens in TNG: Dark Mirror have a ritual that's taken straight out of her Young Wizards novel Deep Wizardry, and Dark Mirror's concept of different universes having different "ethical constants" is developed more fully in her original fantasy novel Stealing the Elf-King's Roses. You can find resonances with Rihannsu spiritual beliefs in her original fiction as well, IIRC.

 

[Mysterion]

Did anyone else make the connection that the planet in that video game and its aliens are the same as in Doctor’s Orders?

Ive bebe seen anyone make the connection.

I had the game for the Commodore 64, and never got far.

The novel, I read back when it came out, was great. Both were written by Diane Duane.

Same planet is also alluded to in her TNG novel Dark Mirror.

 

[Therin of Andor]

Did anyone else make the connection that the planet in that video game and its aliens are the same as in Doctor’s Orders?

Ive bebe seen anyone make the connection.

Yep, me often.

eg. https://www.trekbbs.com/threads/tos...e-review-thread-spoilers.220555/#post-8414350


Duane Trek by Ian McLean, on Flickr
Also...
Above: Naraht the horta; Harb Tanzer, Chief of Recreation; Nurse Lia Burke; linguist Janíce Kerasus; and Doctor Tom Krejci (DC Comics TOS Series I: the "Double Blind" two-parter, #24-25, and "The Last Word", #28). All of these characters have appeared in Diane Duane "Star Trek" novels, and most also in the old, text-based, computer game, "The Kobayashi Alternative". Harb's hair is miscoloured in the comic; it should be silver/white.

Other Duane novel/game characters who get mentioned by name in "The Last Word" comic include Athende (the tentacled Sulamid), and Avoca. In the omnibus of her first four "Rihannsu" novels, "The Bloodwing Voyages", Diane Duane revealed that the transporter technician, Theresa Renner, is named for her former housemate.