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Spoilers TP: Zero Sum Game by David Mack Review Thread

How would you rate Zero Sum Game?

  • Outstanding

    Votes: 42 23.2%

  • Above Average

    Votes: 83 45.9%

  • Average

    Votes: 46 25.4%

  • Below Average

    Votes: 8 4.4%

  • Poor

    Votes: 2 1.1%
  • Total voters
    181
Re: Typhon Pact: Zero Sum Game Review thread

Heh. I was born and raised with Christian beliefs and celebrate Christmas every year.

However, I use the word "holiday" just to piss off morons people like Bill O'Reilly. :guffaw:
 
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Well, if I'm talking to a WASP I might as well say "Christmas," and if I run into someone of another religion, I'll say whatever's appropriate or just hi. It's not like we have to say the same thing to every person we speak to. I prefer to respect people as individuals. Saying "holidays" to someone you know, if you know what belief system they ascribe to, actually seems insulting to me.
 
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Sci said:
St. William of Levittown said:
^Well, in my defense...I couldn't find a serious Rush Christmas pic. The choices all stunk to high Heaven.

But hey--I'd say one of my allies on the BBS would heartily approve. :)
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I don't suppose you were able to find a Christmas picture that involved promoting the actual spirit of Christmas -- generosity, brotherhood, family, giving, love -- rather than one chastising people for daring to refer to the existence of other holidays than Christmas, too?
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Humbug. :cool:
 
Re: Typhon Pact: Zero Sum Game Review thread

Something has been bugging me since the Destiny novels. We have an idea what the Aventine lexterior looks like. But what about interiors? For the life of me when I'm reading the novels I keep picturing Ezri on the last known bridge we saw on screen from that era, the Enterprise-E. I know I'm supposed to use my imagination but does anyone have any ideas? I have the same problem with the Titan. In ZSG I was distracted and taken out of the story trying to picture interiors.
 
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Halliwell said:
Something has been bugging me since the Destiny novels. We have an idea what the Aventine lexterior looks like. But what about interiors? For the life of me when I'm reading the novels I keep picturing Ezri on the last known bridge we saw on screen from that era, the Enterprise-E. I know I'm supposed to use my imagination but does anyone have any ideas? I have the same problem with the Titan. In ZSG I was distracted and taken out of the story trying to picture interiors.
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Now, i might me mistaken, but i have a distinct recollection of Mr Rademaker stating that interiors were in progress.

I imagine the aventines bridge as a cross between the enterprise E and the intrepid. Titan, i haven't really thought of.
 
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Halliwell said:
Something has been bugging me since the Destiny novels. We have an idea what the Aventine lexterior looks like. But what about interiors? For the life of me when I'm reading the novels I keep picturing Ezri on the last known bridge we saw on screen from that era, the Enterprise-E. I know I'm supposed to use my imagination but does anyone have any ideas? I have the same problem with the Titan. In ZSG I was distracted and taken out of the story trying to picture interiors.
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See my Luna-class schematics from my fanon with modifications in mind based descriptions of the Titan's bridge. For the Aventine, I'm picturing an even more futuristic design than that the Enterprise-E or the Abrams-verse 1701. So far for the captain's quarters, I imagine a living area with a viewport that extends all the way down the floor.
 
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Enterprise1981 said:
See my Luna-class schematics from my fanon with modifications in mind based descriptions of the Titan's bridge. For the Aventine, I'm picturing an even more futuristic design than that the Enterprise-E or the Abrams-verse 1701. So far for the captain's quarters, I imagine a living area with a viewport that extends all the way down the floor.
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hmm, thats actually a great idea. Mind if the Kir'Shara receives one of those viewports?
 
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Ever since KRAD depicted Ezri's ready room desk as being too tall for her (her legs dangle from the chair), I'd pictured Ezri as rennovating the room so that the "lowered" desk is on a platform, encompasing the back of the room, a step above the front. That way, her feet won't dangle, and she won't look small to anyone who sits across from her (the other seats are in the "front half").
 
Re: Typhon Pact: Zero Sum Game Review thread

Just finished Typhon Pact. Lots of high points -- Bashir's inner struggle, the exploration of Breen culture, an action/spy thriller plot that's not done much in Trek lit that I know of, and the varied action for starters. I loved the Google-inspired commercial advertising on the Breen world. :lol: I fear for the good doctor given the plot twist with Sarina revealed in the final pages, though.
 
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Enterprise1981 said:
^ She's as affiliated with Section 31 as the actress who played her all those years ago is with Fox News. :lol:
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^ I have no affiliations with poster above. Anything that might have looked like conversation in the past was in fact mere accident. I don know him, and i dont not condone his actions or statements. To claim that a fictional department from a sci fi show and the almighty Fox News have anything, at all, in common in common is heresy. And its is something is despise with all my heart. I am loyal to Fox News and will not participate in anything that might make Fox News look bad, or otherwise hurt Fox news.

All hail to Fox News

*Salute*
 
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Are you saying you are loyal to Fox News, yet do not condone the actions of Section 31? That's the same as being a Republican and disagreeing with the face of Fox News himself, Mister Bill O'Reilly. You can't do that. ;)
 
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Enterprise1981 said:
Are you saying you are loyal to Fox News, yet do not condone the actions of Section 31? That's the same as being a Republican and disagreeing with the face of Fox News himself, Mister Bill O'Reilly. You can't do that. ;)
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No sir. I do not condone your opinion. Which quite clearly stated that you compared Fox news to an organization that has commited despiccable crimes.


Btw, i clicked your link. Damn she hot.:drool:
 
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So in other words, that was awfully foolish of Ezri to suggest that Julian has nothing more than a schoolboy crush on a someone once portrayed by my current "older woman crush". :)
 
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^I think Ezri was on to something...but her motives were wrong. I strongly believe it was jealousy on her part--and frustration that Julian's basically leaving her behind, just when she's trying to make things right....

Enterprise1981 said:
Are you saying you are loyal to Fox News, yet do not condone the actions of Section 31? That's the same as being a Republican and disagreeing with the face of Fox News himself, Mister Bill O'Reilly. You can't do that. ;)
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Well, interestingly enough, I'm more sympathetic to 31 than most. I think you'd love my tale in the FanFic Forum of how Luther Sloan became what he is.

It doesn't necessarily condone his decison...but I think it'd help one understand it. In effect--"We Report, You Decide".

And yes, in case you didn't pick it up through the avatar...I am an avid viewer of FOX News. I will not coment further, lest I invoke The Wrath Of Sci.
 
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St. William of Levittown said:
It doesn't necessarily condone his decison...but I think it'd help one understand it. In effect--"We Report, You Decide".

And yes, in case you didn't pick it up through the avatar...I am an avid viewer of FOX News. I will not coment further, lest I invoke The Wrath Of Sci.
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"SCIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII!"

</ Shatner >
 
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(wicked chuckle) On the other hand...

"Sci...I'm laughing at the 'superior intellect'...." :evil:
 
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Just amazed me that they set Sarina as having willingly gone into Section 31. I agree with the above poster that it makes me worried for the future of our good Dr. Bashir. He'll completely freak out when he finds this out, should he ever do so!
 
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