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The irony is that my namesake is far too modest and soft-spoken to say anything about being left off that list, as you likely know better than anyone having written him so many times.
Precisely. Which is why, even though I got your point when you posted, I let it pass. Because that's what your namesake will have wanted one day centuries from now. ;-)
Oh, now I see. Sorry about that. I thought you were trying to tell me what Enterprise episodes to watch, and I didn't get it.
^ There's a tie-in to a TOS episode, but telling you which one would spoil a couple of surprises.
I skimmed through the book the other day and I think I came across the spoiler, so I went ahead and watched the related episode this morning, and I watched Brothers a couple days ago.
The Apple, Let This Be Your Last Battlefield, All Our Yesterdays
A younger version of Capt. Styles from Star Trek 3, The Search for Spock has a small role in this.
Any episode featuring Q or Mrs. Troi
Maybe Journey to Babel
All Our Yesterdays
Journey to Babel, Star Trek movies 3 and 4, TNG episode Sarek
The Measure of a Man
The Captain's Daughter, besides Generations, it references things from all 6 TOS movies. I don't recall it mentioning much from the TOS-TAS era, except for maybe the last episodes of TAS, however the flashbacks do start just before TMP. I think Peter David was assuming that Demora was maybe 22-23 in Generations (which I think wa set in 2293), so he might've been assuming Demora's birth around 2270-71.
I wrote Ex Machina with the assumption that the Director's Edition was the correct version, although in a chapter heading I quoted a line of Will Decker's that was only in the Special Longer Version, I think. (I didn't realize at the time that it wasn't in the DE.)
Overall, though, I don't think it matters which version you watch for any of those. The differences between the versions don't change that much, just include or leave out different bits. Indeed, Frontier Doctor doesn't quite fit with any version of TMP, because it depicts Kirk taking a hands-on role in the Enterprise refit, while TMP established (as a pretty important plot point) that he was unfamiliar with the capabilities of the redesign. (Although maybe there's a way to reconcile it that I haven't thought of.)
Its been over a decade since I read them, but I seem to recall that A Flag Full Of Stars and the other Lost Years novels had Kirk as the Admiral in charge of the refit, and while he was on Earth, he was still the one that Decker and the rest of the Enterprise-refit crew had to report to. So while he may not have been hands-on with the refit, he was still in charge.
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