Aside from Lives of Dax, did Marco edit any Trek prior to Avatar?
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Cool, thanks for the info.
It's just weird; I'm re-reading Avatar right now, and remembering how incredibly different it seemed at the time, like a totally new approach was coming out of Star Trek. I was young, and didn't know at that point that there were different editors, so I just thought it was S. D. Perry suddenly making the Trek universe seem all unified and fascinating. I was blown away, and I'd read Trek for a few years prior to that and given up because even to a 9th grader it was starting to get boring. Avatar looked interesting, and I grabbed it having no idea what I was in for. And I say all this without having, at the time, even watched DS9 at all!
I can find a bunch of novels he edited soon after Avatar that aren't DS9 (Section 31, Immortal Coil, Battle of Betazed, Engines Of Destiny, Ex Machina, etc), but it doesn't seem like there were any before. I was just wondering if I'd missed any hints that his approach was about to come and be so different.
It's just weird; I'm re-reading Avatar right now, and remembering how incredibly different it seemed at the time, like a totally new approach was coming out of Star Trek. I was young, and didn't know at that point that there were different editors, so I just thought it was S. D. Perry suddenly making the Trek universe seem all unified and fascinating. I was blown away, and I'd read Trek for a few years prior to that and given up because even to a 9th grader it was starting to get boring. Avatar looked interesting, and I grabbed it having no idea what I was in for. And I say all this without having, at the time, even watched DS9 at all!
I can find a bunch of novels he edited soon after Avatar that aren't DS9 (Section 31, Immortal Coil, Battle of Betazed, Engines Of Destiny, Ex Machina, etc), but it doesn't seem like there were any before. I was just wondering if I'd missed any hints that his approach was about to come and be so different.
Marco was able to seed the "TNG: Maximum Warp" duology (and Wildstorm's "DS9: n-Vector" comic mini-series) with introductory passages about the new Bolian female, Tiris Jast, before she appeared in "Avatar".
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^I believe it was Tiris Jast, not Tirius.
Like any good TV show showrunner, Marco had a strong vision for where he thought the storylines should go and a passion for getting them there.
I only had the chance to work with him on the fiction side in two anthologies (Lives of Dax and Constellations) but he was as much a pleasure to work with on those as he was with the non-fiction.
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