Or Doctor Erin Macdonald who played Doctor Erin Macdonald on Prodigy. Though we don't yet know if she was playing herself who traveled to the future, or if she's playing a different person who has her voice, name, and face.
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I've seen it suggested that some of the claims of a common M.O. may have been inventions or exaggerations of the sensationalist press -- that newspapers invented the idea of a single hand behind multiple separate killings to scare people and sell more papers. And of course, it's always possible that highly publicized murders could attract copycats -- although I admit I don't know if copycat crimes are as common in reality as they are in fiction.
And I agree the glamorization of the Ripper is disturbing. It always bothered me that the sitcom Three's Company named its lead character "Jack Tripper," as if it were funny to equate a womanizing protagonist with a homicidal sexual predator.
She was playing a fictional character named after herself as an homage; the text implies nothing more. Hawking was explicitly, textually playing a holodeck recreation of the real Stephen Hawking.Or Doctor Erin Macdonald who played Doctor Erin Macdonald on Prodigy. Though we don't yet know if she was playing herself who traveled to the future, or if she's playing a different person who has her voice, name, and face.
No way!
Or he was playing a fictional character that was named and modeled after him as an homage.
I guess it’s time for another reminder that this thread should be about upcoming books, not things like serial killers or grievances against past books.
And on that note, Simon and Schuster's Canadian site as well as Canadian Amazon have a listing for a new DS9 novel by Una McCormack titled The Peacemakers. No blurb or plot details, release date currently scheduled for August 4, 2026.
Sold!
I don't care, I'll be buying
Surprising but welcome news!
The versions of the characters that we've gotten in SNW are not new versions of the characters, they're the same versions of the characters just at earlier points in their careers. They all following pretty clear arcs leading them up to where we saw them in TOS.
Garek appeared in a Picard book? The only recent books I know of where he appeared are the The Next Generation book Pliable Truths which was set before DS9, and the DS9 novel Enigma Tales, which was one of the last Relaunch novels before everything was reset for Picard, Lower Decks, and Prodigy.
Actually no he couldn't have, or at least that version couldn't have since the books had to reset for Picard, Prodigy, and Lower Decks.
This seems like kind of a strange reaction since the books are all by different authors, with different styles, and focus on different characters. And the books coming out for the current series are pretty much stand alone, so events you were unhappy about probably wouldn't have any effect on any future Picard books. And since the Discovery books take place either 100 years before, and 900 years after Picard, there's very, very little chance of what the Picard book did to Garak having any effect on them.
And are you sure it was even a Picard book? They seem to have gone back to the books being more standalone without making any kind of huge changes to the characters that weren't established on the show first, so it seems unlikely to me that a Picard book would have made those kind of changes to a TV character like Garak.
You're probably going to want to be very careful then, because I have a feeling that now that it's over we're probably going to be seeing a lot more elements of it popping up in the other series books.
Have you watched Strange New Worlds at all? Because that does not fit it at all, it is by far the lightest and most fun of all of the new series, and pretty much fits the same tone and style as pre-Paramount+ series.
And while a few early episodes of Picard and Discovery, by the ends of their first seasons both had moved away from that and became much more positive, optimistic series.
And I'd also put in a huge recommendation for Lower Decks if you haven't checked it, because it is literally the exact opposite of gloom and doom.
Of those series, only TOS, NCI, NCIS: LA, NCIS: NOLA, CSI, CIS: Miami, CSI: NY, and Stargate Atlantis did not air in the '90s.
Have you actually looked at that much streaming stuff? There are thousands of streaming shows out there and there's a huge variety of tones and styles for the shows all of the different services. You're really missing on a ton of great stuff.
@JD , I'm going to assume you replied from the previous page before you saw my reminder on this page, but please note that this is not the place for this discussion, and (for all thread participants) I don't want this particular tangent to continue. Thank you.
@Denise , I also suspect that you replied before seeing my reminder. I would ask please that if people would like to have a discussion about Jack the Ripper, that maybe Miscellaneous would be a better place.
@Denise , I also suspect that you replied before seeing my reminder. I would ask please that if people would like to have a discussion about Jack the Ripper, that maybe Miscellaneous would be a better place.
I reply to the posts in order as I read them at the end of the day. My apologies. I have removed the offending post.
I think I realized after I wrote out the post that you had said to drop that conversation. I apologize.
