Another New Frontier Review

[Vic Sixx]

Hi, just got through reading 3 New Frontiers books in my attempt to plow through them, Requiem, Renaissance, and Resurrection. I think these books work best if you read one characters story at a time, instead jumping back and forth. It flows better I think.

Calhoun is such a interesting unique character, I get the feeling this is the Christopher Pike would have turned out if they have had gone that way, or at least something like that.

The more interesting stories belonged to Soleta, and Calhoun. Probably the weakest story belong to Shelby, a planet with a bug problem? Not all that interesting.

I gotta ask, is it true that Morgan Primus is really

Spoiler: Morgan Primus

Christine Chapel? The narration made it seem so and Scotty's remarks. When did Christine achieve immortality?

But all in all Peter David is a master story teller, can't wait to get back to them but first I think I'll get to and read Reap the Whirlwind, I've been meaning to polish off that series. Which will probably take me around 2 months, I'm a word per word reader.

 

[The Nth Doctor]

No, Morgan Primus isn't Christine Chapel (or Number One or Lwaxana Troi). She just happens to look and sound just like them. It's nothing but an ongoing coy joke by Peter David.

But I'm glad you're enjoying New Frontier. You still have a bunch of great books to look forward to.

 

[DigificWriter]

^ The tidbits about Morgan are actually intended to hint at her being

Spoiler: Number One

Number One, Christopher Pike's first officer from "The Cage"

, rather than Christine Chapel (If you'll recall, both Number One and Chapel were played by the same actress, Majel Barrett[Roddenberry]).

 

[Csalem]

But in After the Fall (I think) she says in the holodeck

Spoiler

she had some medical knowledge. So she could be Christine Chapel.

But then it is just a joke by PAD.

 

[captcalhoun]

she was apparently intended to be Number One, but after Jeff Oltion gave Number One the name Lefler (which in itself is a goof as Morgan was only Lefler after she married Robin's Dad), PAD decided for whatever perverse reasons not to actually pursue that line.

Certainly she greatly resembles Majel and she served in Starfleet at some point around the 23rd century.

 

[Therin of Andor]

Vic Sixx said:
is it true that Morgan Primus is really...

Morgan is simply the character which would have been played by Majel Barrett, the big boss's wife, had "New Frontier" been live-action.

There is also the chance that Morgan Primus (Primus = One) is actually the immortal Morgan le Fay (linking her to King Arthur legends and... Excalibur). Whether this Morgan was also, for a time, Number One is unresolved.

She's not Lwaxana, though, but she does know a 'Xana who has a daughter she wishes would get married and settle down. Look forward to references as to how Morgan also sounds like the voice of the Starfleet computers. And her cameo in "Double Time", the WildStorm comic (also in "Other Realities" comic omnibus), where her face is hidden by a handheld mirror, even though we now know exactly who she looks like.

 

[greenmystik]

maybe PAD created Morgan as a nod to Majel Barret.

 

[Trent Roman]

greenmystik said:
maybe PAD created Morgan as a nod to Majel Barret.

Just taking a moment to bask in this astounding bit of insight. Such incisive acumen, such perspicacity and sagaciousness, is all the more remarkable for that particular notion having been somehow completely overlooked in the thread thus far. Truly, sir, you are a visionary.

Fictitiously yours, Trent Roman

 

[greenmystik]

What can I say, it's a gift.

 

[Therin of Andor]

greenmystik said:
maybe PAD created Morgan as a nod to Majel Barret.

No doubt a public thank you for her going to bat for "Q-in-Law", which Richard Arnold had tried to quash.