The nature of the Ice Warriors' armour never really got locked down in onscreen Doctor Who, but the general fan assumption currently seems to be that it's artificial, but grown from their own tissue (and probably an enhancement of their ancestors' natural carapaces). Best of both worlds, really...
Kzinti in Trek novels?
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The nature of the Ice Warriors' armour never really got locked down in onscreen Doctor Who, but the general fan assumption currently seems to be that it's artificial, but grown from their own tissue (and probably an enhancement of their ancestors' natural carapaces). Best of both worlds, really...
Like this?
I have to say, I'd pay good money to see those buggers turn up in Trek or TrekLit...
Oh They're there, they live on Mars, you may have to thaw them out of the polar ice caps though. We keep them there for freshness.
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Really? Which "certain segment" is being unfairly appeased?
I'll admit, after Therin Park ("Paradigm"), Shantherin th'Clane ("Ex Machina"), numerous purposeful TAS references in "Crucible", and several mentions in acknowledgment pages, I'm convinced that I, personally, am the "certain segment" being appeased, and for that I am truly grateful.
^ As far as I'm concerned, Ian, it's always about you.
Personally, I hope we never actually find out what the Tzenkethi look like. I really like the idea of the audience never knowing what they look like, even though everyone in-universe does -- sorta the interstellar equivalent of everyone being tired of hearing Morn talk so much even though none of us in the audience ever hear it. 
I did a little bit of Tzenkethi worldbuilding for Day of the Vipers - ship design mostly, although I had to think about the "design" of the species. Marco Palmieri and I did discuss ideas for the Okinawa Lost Era novel, but only in general terms.
Back to the Kzinti, I just remembered something: IIRC, and thanks to Larry Niven being the writer, they do appear as the "villians" in one of the stories published for the newspaper strips in the early 1980s.
That's a pity that an Okinawa Lost Era novel is unlikely to appear. By the way, would the Okinawa have been yet another Excelsior-class starship as stated in the Star Trek Encyclopedia? Or would it have been another class of starship?
You didn't follow my earlier link...
I don't follow a lot of links.
These names sound familiar. Have you mentioned them before?
"The Wristwatch Plantation." Niven talks about writing it in Playgrounds of the Mind. (Though, watch, I'll bet it's actually N-Space.)
In games, the Kzin appear in Star Fleet Battles. They're also mentioned in the manual for Starfleet Command, and they appear as the Mirak Star League in Starfleet Command II.
^ You didn't follow Therin's link either. It's gonna get crowded in this penalty box.
I never follow Ian's links. I don't mind penalty boxes. Just keep your hands to yourself.
I followed Therin's link and got an error screen.
Larry Niven adapted his early kzinti story, "The Soft Weapon", for Filmation's TAS, "The Slaver Weapon" in the 70s. Later, he and Sharman DiVono contributed a loose sequel, "The Wristwatch Plantation", again featuring the kzinti, for the LA Times' Syndicate ST daily comic strip set after ST:TMP.
Maybe Geocities was down? Works for me.
http://www.geocities.com/therinofandor/TAS/TAS.html
http://www.geocities.com/therinofandor/TAS/TAS2.html
Can't be overloaded if no one ever follows my links though... Puzzling.
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