Authors-- Your opinions please

[TerriO]

Hey, I'm even more willing to write that Dax/McCoy bodice-ripper that I've been bandying about since Urban's casting was announced. That's for sure.

 

[Smitty]

If there's a case where my professional interests might preclude me from publicly criticizing something I dislike, I'll just avoid commenting on it. I'm not a liar.

Sorry, did not mean to imply you, or anyone, was a liar. I certainly do not believe that. Your right, if you or any others who might have professional interests truely disliked it then lack of comment would be the best way to go. Of course no comment does not indicate a opinion either. I apologize.

Thanks

 

[Scott Pearson]

Loved it. Sure the plot rambled about without much rationale, and there were coincidences piled up until Dickens would blush, but it was a big fun ride through the Trek universe with some jaw-dropping and heart-wrenching twists courtesy of the new time line. I eagerly await the next movie--and hope they do some more polishing on the next script before shooting starts.

 

[Jim Johnson]

It was a fun popcorn flick. Plot holes and dodgy logic, but it was a great visceral experience. I'll see it a few times while it's in theaters, and yay me for having a local IMAX theater showing it.

Like Christopher said, it nicely lays the groundwork for a completely new universe of tie-in stories and novels and so on, something that could sit on the shelf right next to the TITANs, the VANGUARDs, and so on.

I'm sure I'm not the only writer hereabouts who'd send in a pitch or two for nuTreklit materials.

 

[JD]

Loved it. Sure the plot rambled about without much rationale, and there were coincidences piled up until Dickens would blush, but it was a big fun ride through the Trek universe with some jaw-dropping and heart-wrenching twists courtesy of the new time line. I eagerly await the next movie--and hope they do some more polishing on the next script before shooting starts.

There's a third writer (Lost's Damon Lindelof, who was an executive producer for this one), so hopefully that will be enough people clean things up.

 

[Therin of Andor]

I cannot imagine any author completely taking a crap on the movie as it represents the opportunity for further work.

Did the authors who hated VOY, ENT and NEM - and said so in public - suddenly get no ST work with Pocket Books?

Even Margaret Clark hated "These Are the Voyages..." and she got to kickstart the relaunch of ENT in novel form.

 

[Sxottlan]

Now, when did Scotty develop infinite transporter ability? Never!

I could not do the math of 129 years added to whenever the movie was set as they never gave a date, but I don't see how that couldn't preclude the idea that Scotty developed transwarp beaming in the post-Nemesis period.

And this is not a "canon" complaint, either; this is a standard Star Trek trope, along with the use of phasers and warp factors. Transporters have a range, and a ship must be within transporter range in order to work.

That did not seem to stop the Dominion. Sure, there was a lot unspoken about that, but that leaves it open to being no different than what we saw in the film.

 

[PaulSimpson]

Now, when did Scotty develop infinite transporter ability? Never!

I could not do the math of 129 years added to whenever the movie was set as they never gave a date,

The Jellyfish was commissioned in 2387, as it tells Kirk and Spock; the new stardate given for the majority of the film was 2258 - there's the 129 years...

 

[TGTheodore]

It was a fun popcorn flick. Plot holes and dodgy logic, but it was a great visceral experience. I'll see it a few times while it's in theaters, and yay me for having a local IMAX theater showing it.

Jim, I hope it's a REAL IMAX theater with the gigantic screen, not one of those "junior versions" with the screens barely larger than the "standard" size.

We have a big one about 25 miles from my house, so I'm hoping to see it there soon for my second viewing.

--Ted

 

[Christopher]

Now, when did Scotty develop infinite transporter ability? Never!

I could not do the math of 129 years added to whenever the movie was set as they never gave a date, but I don't see how that couldn't preclude the idea that Scotty developed transwarp beaming in the post-Nemesis period.

Remember that DaiMon Bok used an interstellar subspace transporter in TNG: "Bloodlines" in 2370. The technology was already known to Starfleet at that point, but they didn't use it because it was too unreliable and power-intensive. My theory is that Scotty invented the technique sometime before then, most likely before his disappearance on the Jenolan (since he'd been in the 24th century for less than 2 years at that point), but nobody ever figured out how to overcome the risks and limitations, so Starfleet abandoned the research. In "Bloodlines," Bok obtained the technology and was obsessed and irrational enough to use it despite the dangers. In the movie, Spock Prime considered the situation to be dire enough to take the risk, and somehow managed to feed enough power through that shuttlecraft's transporters to make it viable.

 

[PaulSimpson]

In the movie, Spock Prime considered the situation to be dire enough to take the risk, and somehow managed to feed enough power through that shuttlecraft's transporters to make it viable.

Carry on like that, Christopher, and you'll be able to rationalize away all the scientific oddities of the movie...!!

 

[captcalhoun]

so come on Christopher, how DOES one create a black hole to counteract a supernova?

 

[MrPointy]

Hey, I'm even more willing to write that Dax/McCoy bodice-ripper that I've been bandying about since Urban's casting was announced. That's for sure.

DO IT.

DO IT NOW.

I'd read it 800,000 times.

 

[Christopher]

so come on Christopher, how DOES one create a black hole to counteract a supernova?

The trick is to reverse the polarity.

 

[dahj]

so come on Christopher, how DOES one create a black hole to counteract a supernova?

The trick is to reverse the polarity.

...of the neutron flow, obviously.