2018 Releases

[JD]

Just because it's on Memory Alpha doesn't mean it's canon, it just means that the person who added that page thought it was, and nobody disagreed enough to remove it.
Memory Alpha is a fan run wiki, so that means anyone with an internet connection can add and change stuff.
And that picture comes from a cancelled video game, so doesn't mean anything.
Having said that, I do think there is one. It's been a while since I watched the episode, but I don't remember it making people delusional enough to suddenly make up a whole new area on the ship.

 

[Christopher]

It's been a while since I watched the episode, but I don't remember it making people delusional enough to suddenly make up a whole new area on the ship.

Riley was compromised enough to screw up the engineering controls and almost crash the whole ship into an exploding planet. Imagining a bowling alley seems a pretty minor break with reality compared to that.

 

[marlboro]

It's also mentioned by Kevin Riley when he's stoned out of his mind on Psi 2000 water, so we can't be entirely sure the ship's bowling alley actually exists outside of his fevered imagination.

 

[Greg Cox]

Although I think that photo comes from a video game, not from an episode. That said, maybe next season they'll have an episode where we'll see Tilly getting crunk with José Tyler at an Enterprise bowling-alley party.

Maybe they can have a formal dance (or an ice cream social) in the bowling alley.

 

[thribs]

If Spaceball One can have a circus, a shopping mall and a zoo on board, I don’t see the Enterprise having a pool and bowling alley being a big deal.
What about a bowling green though?

 

[Avro Arrow]

Who doesn't love the idea of a bowling alley aboard Kirk's Enterprise?

" A 7-10 split!"

* Ship shakes from incoming fire *

"... I mean, strike!!"

 

[The Wormhole]

The STD version probably doesn't have a bowling alley or pool. Probably been replaced with a Spore Drive.

Spore drive technology is incompatible with the Constitution class, as established in Despite Yourself.

 

[Laura Cynthia Chambers]

I can easily imagine it being something that a previous captain had installed in the ship because they liked the game, and thus far, nobody has found a reason to remove it. I could also see the term "bowling alley" being code for a "secret" location in the ship where people like to...ahem...encounter each other.

 

[RonG]

this was posted in another thread here (TrekLit forum) -
https://www.trekbbs.com/threads/classic-trek-book-reprints-2020.293053/#post-12375646

Can ST reprints be published by Titan Books?
Does this have anything to do with the current license situation, whatever it is?

 

[David Weller]

Titan reprinted Pocket Star Trek in the U.K. in 1980s and 90s.

Guess it depends on contracts.

 

[Defcon]

Most likely reprints of their UK reprints from the late 80s and early 90s. I figure they still have the rights to reprint those.

 

[David Weller]

Though I find the given publication date of 2020 a bit strange.

I would have thought that if Titan want to use these reprints to plug a gap in the new release schedule they’d have scheduled them for this year or early 2019.

By 2020 I would expect Pocket (or whoever) to have a full schedule of new titles up and running.

 

[Allyn Gibson]

Most likely reprints of their UK reprints from the late 80s and early 90s. I figure they still have the rights to reprint those.

Or, it occurs to me, perhaps the reprint rights are newly bought. If Pocket's not keeping the books in print except digitally, then there's no reason why CBS couldn't sell the reprint rights to the catalogue, say, pre-2000, as a separate license.

 

[The Wormhole]

Though I find the given publication date of 2020 a bit strange.

I would have thought that if Titan want to use these reprints to plug a gap in the new release schedule they’d have scheduled them for this year or early 2019.

By 2020 I would expect Pocket (or whoever) to have a full schedule of new titles up and running.

I doubt that's the actual date. Likely a placeholder until an actual release date (likely this year) is announced. IIRC, something similar was done with David Mack's Disco novel last year.

 

[Markonian]

By 2020 I would expect Pocket (or whoever) to have a full schedule of new titles up and running.

Would that not be somewhat optimistic? We may have to wait longer.

 

[Kilana2]

Would that not be somewhat optimistic? We may have to wait longer.

Hopefully not until the 29th century ....

 

[JD]

How trustworthy are Book Depositories listings? I know listings for things that don't actually exist have been known to pop up on Amazon, could this just be the same thing?

 

[theblitz]

I was just reading this book last summer. Here are my comments on it:
https://www.trekbbs.com/threads/tos...hak-and-myrna-culbreath-review-thread.287549/

Just a pity there was not an option lower than "Poor".

Sometimes I wish I had written a short review of each of the nearly 200 I have read so far.
Would have made some interesting reading now.

 

[theblitz]

It would make more sense to have a rec room that could be adapted to serve various functions -- a gymnasium, a bowling alley, a basketball court, etc. as needed.

Well, there is the "rec room" in TAS.
The first version of the holodeck.

Would work there.

 

[DimesDan]

How trustworthy are Book Depositories listings? I know listings for things that don't actually exist have been known to pop up on Amazon, could this just be the same thing?

They're owned by Amazon.

When I used to work in retail we used to have stock listed in the database which wasn't there and I'm sure you've experienced the same in the corner shop you work in.