The Best of Peter David

[Commander Troi]

PAD's run on Supergirl was one of the most interesting and thought-provoking things I've ever read. His Aquaman run was amazing. Young Justice and Spyboy always made me laugh.

 

[JWolf]

These are in no real order.

I hope I have the correct book. Treason. If not, it's the one where Selar keeps getting asked for relationship advice. It was very funny.
Q-in-Law
Sir Apropos of Nothing series.
This Modern King Arthur series
The Captain's Daughter
Vendetta

 

[ClayinCA]

Should have added earlier that my favourite comics work of his was his lengthy run on The Incredible Hulk (in particular the stories he did with the Grey Hulk), the Sin-Eater story in Peter Parker, the Spectacular Spider-Man, and all of his work on X-Factor. I usually gravitate more towards DC than Marvel, but in PAD's case, I enjoyed his Marvel work much much more than that he did at DC (I realise I'm supposed to love The Atlantis Chronicles, but it never really did much for me).

 

[JD]

They didn't identify it specifically, but during an interview with TrekCore Henry Alonso Myers and Akiva Goldsman said that

Spoiler: Wedding Bell Blues, SNW 3x02

Trelane being Q's son was inspired by Q-Squared

 

[Arpy]

^ it’s not quite clear that that’s who they were, but that’s nice to hear. I wonder if anyone told David what was on the horizon before he passed.

 

[David cgc]

Spoiler: Wedding Bell Blues, et al.

There's also the fact that Q-Squared held that Trelane was Q's illegitimate son, which luckily made it fit perfectly with VGR's eventual Q plotline, but I don't think that precludes Trelane being aware of that enough to call Q "dad" one-on-one, even if he knows his legal Dad is Bart La Rue, and the four of them just keep their arrangement quiet publicly, because of the scandal. I think that fits with what Q alluded to Picard. Plus, you know, Q is a lying liar who lies.

 

[Arpy]

Spoiler: Wedding Bell Blues, et al.

There's also the fact that Q-Squared held that Trelane was Q's illegitimate son, which luckily made it fit perfectly with VGR's eventual Q plotline, but I don't think that precludes Trelane being aware of that enough to call Q "dad" one-on-one, even if he knows his legal Dad is Bart La Rue, and the four of them just keep their arrangement quite publicly, because of the scandal. I think that fits with what Q alluded to Picard. Plus, you know, Q is a lying liar who lies.

Does he ever actually lie?

 

[Charles Phipps]

It's nice to have an official acknowledgement of novels as inspiration for Trek canon.

 

[Commander Troi]

They didn't identify it specifically, but during an interview with TrekCore Henry Alonso Myers and Akiva Goldsman said that

Spoiler: Wedding Bell Blues, SNW 3x02

Trelane being Q's son was inspired by Q-Squared

I was very pleased by both the inspiration and how they left it ambiguous.

 

[JD]

Spoiler: The Wedding Bell Blues

I have to admit, I had just assumed he was q, and didn't even think about Trelane until someone briefly had him listed as Trelane on the cast list of Memeory Alpha, before they changed it to just "The Wedding Planner".