Anyone besides me annoyed by the original NF Excalibur blowing up.

[Hartzilla2007]

While I know its been some time scince Peter David decided to blow up the original Excal, it's still annoying I mean We never get to see the Ambassador-class much so its nice that an Ambassador-class is used because I see it as a 24th century Connie. Then David goes and blows it up so he can use a Galaxy which we already saw a lot of in TNG series and the TNG novels set during the series. I mean I like the new Excal. but was it really necesary to destroy the old one.

 

[Dayton Ward]

It was a cost-cutting move. With NF and TNG in simultaneous production, it was more efficient to redress the Enterprise-D sets to stand in for the new Excalibur, thereby saving rental space for additional soundstages to house the sets for a separate ship.






What?

 

[captcalhoun]

 

[BrotherBenny]

I'm just waiting for him to destroy the Excal-A and then get given a Sovereign for the Excal-B (following Enterprise's transition of ships...)

 

[CaptJimboJones]

Plus, David's CGI just sucked for the Galaxy class. He should have used miniatures like he did with the earlier novels.

 

[JNG]

It would have saved us from the eye-rolling "hot rod" crap about the new one.

 

[William Leisner]

I'm not as annoyed about the Excalibur as I am by all these people panicking about the Y2K bug...

 

[Sxottlan]

That did start the decline of NF's quality for me.

 

[Eeveevolve]

I wasn't annoyed... Just confused. As the first NF book I read was Requiem. The one straight after it 'blew up'.....

Which btw, made me buy all his novels, and basicaly start reading ST Fiction XD

 

[Strider]

I'm not as annoyed about the Excalibur as I am by all these people panicking about the Y2K bug...

haha burned.

 

[Dukhat]

While I know its been some time scince Peter David decided to blow up the original Excal, it's still annoying I mean We never get to see the Ambassador-class much so its nice that an Ambassador-class is used because I see it as a 24th century Connie. Then David goes and blows it up so he can use a Galaxy which we already saw a lot of in TNG series and the TNG novels set during the series. I mean I like the new Excal. but was it really necesary to destroy the old one.

That was nowhere near as annoying as having the Trident, Shelby's new command, as a brand-new Galaxy class ship, but with a ridiculously low registry number of NCC-31347. I'm not a ST novelist, and even I know that's wrong.

 

[JD]

The only thing that bothered me about the ship being destroyed was the fact that afterwards he split the cast across the two ships. Although newer ones have still been pretty good, it just hasn't been the same since he split them up.

 

[CaptJimboJones]

That was nowhere near as annoying as having the Trident, Shelby's new command, as a brand-new Galaxy class ship, but with a ridiculously low registry number of NCC-31347. I'm not a ST novelist, and even I know that's wrong.

I agree. I was so filled with RAGE when I read that registry number, it took weeks worth of sessions with my therapist to finally get over it. And lots and lots of Paxil.

 

[Dayton Ward]

Note to self: Be sure to use really low registry numbers for ships in next 24th century Trek book. Oh, and buy popcorn.

 

[captcalhoun]

Dayton, I love you in a totally platonic and non-homosexual way...

 

[David cgc]

Honestly, neither the inexplicable blowing up (immediately after I finished that book, I went, "Wait, what?" and went back to read the last chapter again and found, no, I didn't miss anything) or the Trident's registry/class missmatch get to me as much as the stupid-sounding "Excal" nickname. I think it's worse than "the Bucket and the Beast" from the new BSG, and that's hard to pull off (and it was so horrible they stopped using it after one episode because random people on the set started bitching about how much they hated it).

 

[Therin of Andor]

Plus, David's CGI just sucked for the Galaxy class. He should have used miniatures like he did with the earlier novels.

Not to mention the poor guy playing Janos - his suit was so hot he asked to be written out!

 

[Therin of Andor]

Note to self: Be sure to use really low registry numbers for ships in next 24th century Trek book. Oh, and buy popcorn.

Low registry? You mean, like, put a zero in front?

 

[Dayton Ward]

Dayton, I love you in a totally platonic and non-homosexual way...

Hey, I know I have a role here. I just do my best to live up to expectations, is all

 

[David cgc]

Note to self: Be sure to use really low registry numbers for ships in next 24th century Trek book. Oh, and buy popcorn.

Low registry? You mean, like, put a zero in front?

I am in full support of this idea. In fact, make it a double zero.