TNG RELAUNCH? WHY THE NEGATIVITY?

[KRAD]

Oh.

Well.

That's different.

Never mind!!!

 

[Therin of Andor]

IThey are so utilitarian, that even the addition to the queen could not help make them more personable. The Klingons, the Romulans, and the Cardassians all have more that one side to them. They have good and bad people in them.

Seven, Icheb, Hugh...: surely these represent "good" Borg.

 

[Christopher]

So, forge new ground TNG-R writers. Give us something new. Mix up the characters from other series, and do it well. It would be awesome to see Paris and Torres on the Enterprise. Let the Enterprise go explore strange new worlds. Let the crew grow. Let them mix it up with the Romulans, Andorians, Tellarites, Cardassians, and other great races. Maybe give the Enterprise a chance to save the universe the way Kirk did so many times. Just give us something original, authentic and fresh!

Greater Than the Sum has plenty of crew growth and exploration of some very strange new worlds. And a character from another series coming aboard the Enterprise.

As for saving the universe, Picard just did that in Q&A. And I can't recall Kirk ever literally saving the universe, except maybe in "The Alternative Factor," but I'd rather forget that episode ever happened.

 

[KRAD]

So, forge new ground TNG-R writers. Give us something new. Mix up the characters from other series, and do it well. It would be awesome to see Paris and Torres on the Enterprise.

And what would they do, exactly? The ship already has a first officer and a chief engineer. Paris and Torres don't actually have a job on the ship unless they both take demotions.

Let the Enterprise go explore strange new worlds.

Did that in Q & A, and we'll see more of that in GTTS.

Let the crew grow.

Again, did that in Q & A.

Let them mix it up with the Romulans, Andorians, Tellarites, Cardassians, and other great races.

I thought you wanted them to explore strange new worlds. You really can't do both.

Maybe give the Enterprise a chance to save the universe the way Kirk did so many times.

Did that in Q & A, too.

 

[ClayinCA]

All of which (if I may be sycophantic here) merely serves to illustrate why Q&A is the best book thus far of the TNG "relaunch."

 

[Enterpriserules]

All of which (if I may be sycophantic here) merely serves to illustrate why Q&A is the best book thus far of the TNG "relaunch."

Yes it was the best. Thank you KRAD! The rest of the books, have been mediocre. As for the list of aliens, those are great races that DS9 has worked well with that we know, but would be great to learn more about.

 

[Wowbagger]

Just give us something original, authentic and fresh!

Criticizing a cliche by being even more cliched is somehow amusing to me.

I mean, I'm sure Michael J. Friedman didn't sit down at his keyboard before writing Death In Winter and think to himself, "I know! I'm going to go for unoriginal, recycled crap! No one will see it coming! It will be a brilliant new frontier in Trek writing!" I mean, sure, maybe DIW was unoriginal and dull (not that I'm attempting to pick a DIW fight here), but telling the TNG-R writers to be "original and authentic" has got to be the single most useless piece of advice ever.

Like I said at the beginning, though... it does amuse me.

The more specific pieces of advice from the post I'm quoting have been well-dissected above, so I'll not touch them.

 

[Therin of Andor]

but telling the TNG-R writers to be "original and authentic" has got to be the single most useless piece of advice ever.

That, and make sure you give Beverly, Geordi and Worf plenty to do.

And make sure that all new characters will be people we will care about. Only kill off the ones that aren't worth building an interest in beyond one instalment.

 

[Rabid Trekkie]

but telling the TNG-R writers to be "original and authentic" has got to be the single most useless piece of advice ever.

That, and make sure you give Beverly, Geordi and Worf plenty to do.

And make sure that all new characters will be people we will care about. Only kill off the ones that aren't worth building an interest in beyond one instalment.

I don't see how wanting some more Geordi is unhelpful. I've recently finished the entire run of TNG on DVD and possibly my biggest complaint for the whole series was that Geordi seemed to be kept to the background. He was almost always there to either explain some human emotion to Data or to spout treknobabble and little else. So is it wrong to hope that our very capable novel writers will let him shine and to let them know that we are interested?

And yes I did read earlier where Christopher said Geordi is in the new book. I think its just entirely too cool to be able to talk to the writers here.

 

[EliyahuQeoni]

but telling the TNG-R writers to be "original and authentic" has got to be the single most useless piece of advice ever.

That, and make sure you give Beverly, Geordi and Worf plenty to do.

And make sure that all new characters will be people we will care about. Only kill off the ones that aren't worth building an interest in beyond one instalment.

And don't write anything that conflicts with "commonly held fan assumptions!"

 

[Therin of Andor]

I don't see how wanting some more Geordi is unhelpful... So is it wrong to hope that our very capable novel writers will let him shine and to let them know that we are interested?

Of course not. For the longest time people said the same about Uhura in TOS, then we ended up with "Tears of the Singers" (#19) and "Uhura's Song" (#21) in close succession.

Geordi's time will come, I'm sure. If the new novels have the action divided to give the remaining Big Four equal time there won't be enough focus on any one of them to satisfy those wanting intense character studies, and there haven't been enough Relaunch titles to start yelling that one character has been neglected over the others. Yet.

 

[Wowbagger]

They still haven't found the Hera...

 

[JD]

Yeah, but that probably wouldn't be as big as deal as this seems to be.

 

[Trent Roman]

I don't know - now that's Wowbagger's brought it up, I really like this idea. It would picking up from the loose threads left over from the TV show as the DS9R has done, and it would finally give LaForge something interesting to do.

Fictitiously yours, Trent Roman

 

[JoeZhang]

Just give us something original, authentic and fresh!

I've got to ask -is your name a piss take of wolf-bagging?

 

[Trent Roman]

I can answer this one: Wowbagger the Infinitely Prolonged is a character from Douglas Arthur's "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy". An immortal being, he has given meaning to his unending existence by insulting every creature in the universe that has ever existed, and in alphabetical order (for added challenge).

My turn: what the hell is wolf-bagging? It sounds kinda dirty, but I can't imagine who would be crazy enough to try that with a wolf...

Fictitiously yours, Trent Roman

 

[KRAD]

I can answer this one: Wowbagger the Infinitely Prolonged is a character from Douglas Arthur's "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy".

Those are the books where the protagonist is named Adam Dent, right?

(Which is by way of saying: Oi! Trent! It's Douglas Adams.....)

 

[Trent Roman]

^ In any instance where my posts and reality do not match, it is reality which is at fault.

Fictitiously yours, Trent Roman

 

[Wowbagger]

^ In any instance where my posts and reality do not match, it is reality which is at fault.

Fictitiously yours, Trent Roman

Hey, I already made that reference in this thread!

 

[Trent Roman]

So you did. Explains why I thought of it so quickly. What's the standard punishment for post plagiarism these days--ten lashes?

Fictitiously yours, Trent Roman