So what are you reading now? (Part 3)
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Honestly, I never understood the need for them to have talked about Darvin being surgically altered during tTwT. At that point all of the Klingons we had ever seen looked human, so I never really saw what they had to alter. Granted now thanks to Ent. we know there were ridged Klingons around, but that was almost 40 years after the tTwT aired.
I finished The Final Reflection yesterday. I liked the examination of Klingon and human cultures and how they might have interacted during that time period. It was fun to see where some of the things used by other writers involving the Klingons came from. Up next is another book that I could not force myself to complete earlier: The Wounded Sky.
They didn't. All McCoy says is "Heartbeat is all wrong. His body temperature is... Jim, this man is a Klingon." The references to surgical alteration are from "Trials and Tribble-ations," and in context, it could just be an assumption being made by characters who are unaware that there used to be Klingons who could pass as human. (Although IDW's Blood Will Tell runs with it and depicts "Darvin" as a HemQuch who needs to be surgically modified.)
Memory's tricky that way. New information can overwrite old information and make us think something was there all along. I just bet that eventually, there will be people who swear up and down that they remember shots from TOS Remastered being part of the episodes they watched in the '70s or '80s.
Yeah, it wouldn't surprise me if that was one one us in our extreme old age.
Reading Maximum Warp book 1 and really weighing up whether to keep going with it. It's just not interesting me at all.
It's a shame, because I just came off a really good one, Flag Full of Stars. The Klingon character in that was very interesting, and I'd like to see him featured again somewhere.
It's a shame, because I just came off a really good one, Flag Full of Stars. The Klingon character in that was very interesting, and I'd like to see him featured again somewhere.
I didn't. I gave up after the second one.
Eh, I've read worse.
Finished 'The Adventures of Eddie Fung' (in time for his presentation in a class yesterday)...and now reading 'Mudd's Angels.'
It's interesting, because as I'm working on my own writings...I realize there must be something at stake for the heroes to care about...(as well as the audience). If there is no threat...why should we care?
WTF is Harry Mudd?
Sure, in 'Mudd's Women,' he is twirling is mustache saying how he'll have the ENT...and Kirk will be taking orders from him; but, he only has three women who pose in front of the male officers....and he hasn't shown he is really dangerous, just a a liar who has--to take a phrase from another popular franchise--'delusions of grandeur.'
As J. Michael Straczynski also mentioned in one of his books, people who are writers (especially in terms of films, television, etc) never look at the medium the same way as...uh...'others'...as we are always looking at things critically.
With all that said, I think 'Mudd's Women' is a weak episode; and, in this regards, a weak short story...
There is more at stake in 'I, Mudd'...
I did read the third short story in the book a few years ago, but it was a speed reading....and I vaguely remember multiple Uhura...
Or is it Uhurii...? (Multiple Uhura clones sounds redundant...)
Not having multiple Uhura/Uhuraii, but....*sigh* you get my meaning...
It's interesting, because as I'm working on my own writings...I realize there must be something at stake for the heroes to care about...(as well as the audience). If there is no threat...why should we care?
WTF is Harry Mudd?
Sure, in 'Mudd's Women,' he is twirling is mustache saying how he'll have the ENT...and Kirk will be taking orders from him; but, he only has three women who pose in front of the male officers....and he hasn't shown he is really dangerous, just a a liar who has--to take a phrase from another popular franchise--'delusions of grandeur.'
As J. Michael Straczynski also mentioned in one of his books, people who are writers (especially in terms of films, television, etc) never look at the medium the same way as...uh...'others'...as we are always looking at things critically.
With all that said, I think 'Mudd's Women' is a weak episode; and, in this regards, a weak short story...
There is more at stake in 'I, Mudd'...
I did read the third short story in the book a few years ago, but it was a speed reading....and I vaguely remember multiple Uhura...
Or is it Uhurii...? (Multiple Uhura clones sounds redundant...)
Not having multiple Uhura/Uhuraii, but....*sigh* you get my meaning...
If "Uhura" were a Latin word, the plural would be "Uhurae." There is no such Latin plural suffix as -ii. That's a misunderstanding of words such as "radius" whose plural is "radii," but the first "i" is part of the root. The plural of "-us" is simply "-i" (as in magus/magi or focus/foci).
Of course, "Uhura" is not a Latin word, but it is a Swahili word, uhuru, modified with a fake Latin-style feminine suffix to make it sound more feminine to Western ears.
Of course, "Uhura" is not a Latin word, but it is a Swahili word, uhuru, modified with a fake Latin-style feminine suffix to make it sound more feminine to Western ears.
^Stands to reason. Though it's odd to call it a typo when they accidentally got the word right for a change. 
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