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Fair, and same here, yes. I still think the worst of the Litverse is better than the worst of anything on screen and the best of the Litverse is better than the best of anything on screen. Which is part of why it bothers me so much that a major part of the "hope" given in Coda is "don't worry...

You are greatly overestimating how many people read Trek novels. Even ignoring the JJ movies and Star Trek Online (both of which far, far outpace the popularity of the books, and were far more relevant in keeping it active in public awareness), what "saved" Star Trek was the fact that it makes...

Q&A was a better threat to all of reality (that somehow no one in this trilogy remembered happening just a few years ago). A Singular Destiny was a better love letter to the full and whole Litverse in all its aspects. Watching the Clock was a better temporal morass to untangle. And none of them...

i'm agreeing with you while simultaneously mildly teasing about the "they need disintegration beams to protect themselves" perspective via a repurposing of a dumb but oft-repeated NRA quote that sums up said perspective

The only thing that can stop a bad guy with a disintegration beam is a good guy with a disintegration beam

Why is the word biography in quotes there, hbquikcomjamesl This and the Kirk book are both biographies of a fictional character I can at least somewhat get your objection to the word autobiography for it since kayfabe is a horrible thing not worth a single ounce of respect, but it's...

Cogent criticism isn't a nice thing in and of itself? :p

That doesn't really help when you're looking for information you don't have and it's clear that MB is out of date, like the OP is.

What do you mean by "our ADHD type of society"? Isn't that a little rude to people with ADHD, to take a disorder and minimize it by turning it into a general description of an entire culture? Like, what's the difference in meaning between this and saying "our distractable type of society", or...

I mean, the writer does reference them, but did you look at the link he gave to what he was referencing, tomswift2002? The link does give the specific numbers, by the way, JD: They're declining, but they're still a huge part of the market. We're beyond the "EBOOKS ARE GOING TO REPLACE PRINT"...

Plus, the article that tomswift linked is an opinion piece. And it's not even an opinion piece about abandoning digital, it's about how both have their pros and cons. I mean, it's one of those weird sensory-porn approaches to analog that I'll never understand. (Seriously, "even the subtle taste...

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Yes it does. Typo, I guess?

This doesn't explain what makes eschewing four genders "more Star Trek", though. If you dislike it and your interpretation of events differs, fine, there's nothing innately wrong with holding that opinion. But what about the concept lacks the innate qualities that you associate with the...

Ah yeah, good point; Beyond too. For gay characters, at least. We wouldn't have any gay humans in novels printed before July 2016 then. :p

By that same logic, there shouldn't be any gay or trans humans in the novels either.

Yeah I agree. I meant that as empirical evidence of the fact that it doesn't make sense. And a mild excuse to vent about the dumb way Blizzard Entertainment handles their tie-in media in a context where it was relevant to do so. (I love when tie-in media does feed into the main work, but WoW...

I mean, to be fair, that almost is the default in the big two nowadays. Over the historical scope not really, but in recent years there's definitely a push for events to work that way. You'd think so, yeah. But I mentioned the WoW novels some time back on the board? And they do work that way...

Narrative fiction. I'm not sure if a memoir can strictly speaking be necessarily called narrative, since it's not recounting a story but rather the full course of a person's life. You can have a recounting of a person's life that follows a narrative line, novels have been written on that basis...

What kind of evidence would distinguish between looking for things in the Novelverse to go out of your way to contradict and writing a story that overlaps with the Novelverse and not looking at the Novelverse at all when you write it, leading naturally to contradictions due to differing...