As I said before and I will say again for myself and the two to three hundred Voyager fans I represent (and I do represent a large and active Voyager message board and fandom). If Kathryn Janeway is dead at the end of Kristen Beyer's book there will be no other purchases.
Kristen I will tell you, we were looking forward to your series. We bought "Distant Shores" primarily for your short story in that book, but we want Janeway back and we will tell everyone. Don't discount us or insult us, we are grown women. I am 61 years old, I read Trek, but I also read Linnea Sinclair and Susan Grant. I truly believe that if you don't to give us what we want to read, we will find it elsewhere or write it ourselves.
You want us to rethink our perceptions, but it's really time for you to rethink yours. When have any of you looked at what really sells these days. Now I am not telling you to write that because you have to write true to yourselves, but don't use shock value which is very short lived, to kill off a very real opportunity that could be taken with a living Janeway.
The great appeal about Trek, is that it has always been about inclusion. You have excluded a lot of fans; we get called unkind names here. We are told "our" captain is unworthy of a life, that our captain has value only in death and the effect that death has on others. We don't like it and we have every right to dislike it, and every right to protest it.
Christopher, I read, I read a lot. I come from a reading family, my house has hundreds of books, don’t assume that because I don’t like the direction of the Trek Books that I don’t get it, or that I am somehow illiterate.
You don’t have to agree with us, but don’t talk down to us either.
Brit
