Captain April novel?
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The title is The Millennium Bloom and the author is Mike W. Barr. The book is tentatively scheduled for release in 2010; a month hasn't been specified yet.
I'm surprised they're going ahead with an April novel since it looks like the new movie may be wiping that character out. Then again I've always liked Bob April and plan on reading the book anyway.
I'll be disappointed if the April novel isn't an April novel.
The movie is not going to be "wiping out" Robert April, for God's sake. The character of Robert April still exists (as a fictional character) and will continue to exist after the movie is released. How any disparity between his backstory as established in "The Counter-Clock Incident" and the history presented in XI will be addressed is an entirely other issue.
I still think it's possible we'll hear or see an April reference in the movie. Even if we don't, he's still a ST character.
I really can't wait to read this novel, and I hope this novel does for April what Burning Dreams did for Chris Pike.
I just hope that Mike W. Barr remains faithful to the characterization of April that we saw in Final Frontier and the "Though Hell Should Bar the Way" short story. I like the idea of an elderly English gentlemen in a ratty cardigan, sitting in the center seat of the Enterprise.
I just hope that Mike W. Barr remains faithful to the characterization of April that we saw in Final Frontier and the "Though Hell Should Bar the Way" short story. I like the idea of an elderly English gentlemen in a ratty cardigan, sitting in the center seat of the Enterprise.
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Given how much I disliked Final Frontier, I'd be happy with an approach that starts with "Counter-Clock Incident" (silly story though it is) and goes in its own direction.
That characterization of April was also used in Best Destiny (not surprising since she'd written Final Frontier some years earlier).I really can't wait to read this novel, and I hope this novel does for April what Burning Dreams did for Chris Pike.
I just hope that Mike W. Barr remains faithful to the characterization of April that we saw in Final Frontier and the "Though Hell Should Bar the Way" short story. I like the idea of an elderly English gentlemen in a ratty cardigan, sitting in the center seat of the Enterprise.
Since Best Destiny has been expressly mentioned as an inspiration for the "surly, restless youth Kirk" in the new movie, there stands a better than average chance they won't completely forget about April.
I do like his characterization there (i.e., professorial) more than I liked the books on the whole, but no matter how he's handled I look forward to the novel.
I just hope that Mike W. Barr remains faithful to the characterization of April that we saw in Final Frontier and the "Though Hell Should Bar the Way" short story. I like the idea of an elderly English gentlemen in a ratty cardigan, sitting in the center seat of the Enterprise.
I've always thought Michael Palin would make a great live-action April.
Down boy! Here's your biscuit! Good boy!
I have mixed feelings about Final Frontier and Best Destiny. While I enjoyed them quite a bit and loved the characterization of Captain and Doctor April, I thought the idea of Kirk's father serving with April on the Enterprise and of Kirk traveling on the Enterprise as a kid to feel a little contrived and falling into the "Small Universe" syndrome.
I've usually pictured Peter O'Toole, but now that would only work for "old Ambassador April". As for a younger version, there's a whole different thread for that sort of thing.I just hope that Mike W. Barr remains faithful to the characterization of April that we saw in Final Frontier and the "Though Hell Should Bar the Way" short story. I like the idea of an elderly English gentlemen in a ratty cardigan, sitting in the center seat of the Enterprise.
I've always thought Michael Palin would make a great live-action April.
I've always gone with David Warner (sort of casting against type), but I think Michael Palin is a splendid idea.
Yeah, it's great. I used to imagine Leslie Nielsen, putting on an English accent, and without the fart jokes.
Leslie Nielsen? He might make a good David Gold (though I still got Judd Hirsch pegged for that).
Main reason I thought of Michael Palin as April was that the picture of April on the front of one of the books - Final Frontier, I think - seemed to resemble Palin. From then on I couldn't get that image out of my head.
Main reason I thought of Michael Palin as April was that the picture of April on the front of one of the books - Final Frontier, I think - seemed to resemble Palin. From then on I couldn't get that image out of my head.
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