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The older I get, especially given post-Asimov developments (The Second Foundation Trilogy, Psychohistorical Crisis), the more I view the Mule as the tragic anti-hero of the Foundation saga.

Honestly, Jo Martin's TARDIS interior is my favorite post-2005 console room. Like, it's not even close. I've described it before as "the Herman Zimmerman console room"; it looks like a mid-90s Star Trek set. I've long thought Arthur Darvill would be an incredible Doctor. Not a companion, but...

I suggested this before with Jodie, but it would work here as well. Have a two Doctor story with Jo Martin (Division era) and the current incumbent, and structure the story in such a way that the audience leaves with Martin, so it becomes a narrative passing of the torch. The "incumbent" is...

That's essentially what happens in Diane Carey's Best Destiny. Kirk tells Starfleet Command they're not going into retirement right away. Kirk tells Spock at the beginning of the film that the crew has three months until retirement. So, I figure they have about 10 weeks until they have to...

I read M'k'n'zy as "MUH-kuh-un-zy," with "Mackenzie" as a Anglicization that he accepted in a "go along to get along" sense." Like Feivel becoming Philly in An American Tail.

I sort of imagined Calhoun with a pronounced accent and a not exactly fluid delivery, as he's not a native English speaker. I don't really know how well the Universal Translator works on the bridge, so I don't imagine he's speaking Xenexian to the crew.

I've never met him, but I considered him a friend long ago and still think of him fondly. I enjoyed reading his chronology, told him so, even gave him some feedback that he didn't dismiss out of hand.

I am a graduate of Philip Barbour High School in Philippi, West Virginia, which is also the site of the "Philippi Races," the first land battle of the Civil War. I am probably the only graduate of PBHS to visit Barbour's grave in Washington. I have family in the same cemetery (Congressional).

The 90s novels that fit into that gap generally hang together. First, there's a group of novels that's about a short reprieve for the Enterprise crew from retirement -- beginning with Best Destiny, Sarek is in the middle, and it ends with Shadows on the Sun when the ship returns home. (If Ann...

I really would have liked a Wiseguy-esque storytelling approach, where the Enterprise spends 3-5 episodes having adventures at a single planet. "Relics" is the object example of this--sure, Scotty's story is nice, but why not spend 2 or 3 more episodes exploring the Big Dumb Object, the Dyson...

Sorry, I got Rotsler's bibliography all confuzzled in my head. Short Stories, Biographies, all different books, ones I still have never actually seen. :) I'm sure they're readily available on Abebooks or eBay.

I've never seen copies of either of Rotsler's short story collections, so I had no idea that Grand Admiral Stephen Turner originated there. I've assumed for forty years that he was a Mike W. Barr creation.

I look back on NextGen now and I wish the series had been structured a bit more like Tour of Duty, Wiseguy, or L.A. Law, with main characters coming and going. Some stay a season or three or five, some are only around for a short-term arc or a 13-episode contract. Riker gets promoted off, a...

I've always found it interesting that Vonda McIntyre's novelization of Star Trek III is structured so that the film's story doesn't even begin until about 70 pages in. McIntyre is like, "Okay, it's clear stuff happened between these two films, so I have to get this story from there to here...

Because of my age at the time the films came out -- 8 and 10 -- reading the novelizations at the time, plus the DC comic books, the two Saaviks aren't really differentiated in my head. I really wouldn't have known in 1984 when I saw the film at the drive-in that the actress had changed, and...

Terry Jones was a medievalist -- I've read his books Barbarians and Who Murdered Chaucer?. I remember reading a LiveJournal post long ago that explained how MP was the most historically accurate Arthurian film.

Age-wise, yeah, Wesley and Peck would work better as Kirk and Spock in the 2270s than the 2260s. I'm down with that. 👍

A Doctor Who Big Name Fan, and unofficial consultant to producer John-Nathan Turner in the mid-80s. He hates what Doctor Who has become, yet can't stop watching it and complaining about it. I will sometimes wonder which did more damage to their chosen franchise, Arnold or Levine. It has to be...

I can't say that I'd ever noticed any strangeness about that shot in the past 33 years, and if I had I'd probably have rationalized it with, "Oh, we're seeing the Enterprise on a Klingon viewscreen, and that's just how it looks on a Klingon viewscreen." We don't know what a Klingon's visual...

Even though it's inconsistent with what we see in "Relics" and "Trials and Tribble-ations," I basically view TOS as its own thing now. Post-1979 Trek, especially post-1996 (First Contact), had a TOS period, but it didn't look like what was aired on television in 1966-1969. SNW Pike's...