Hey I wasn't complaining, I actually like Trip, just making an observation. 
Cover Copy for Myriad Universes and These Haunted Seas
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Oh wow. These look really interesintg. In both the traditional and Chinese curse senses.
Wow indeed! This is very exciting and I am very much looking forward to these books.
I think I can already say now if I have the choice between Myriad Universes and Mirror Universe, I would buy and read Myriad Universes first.
I wonder, should the name Thelin be familiar to me? I can`t recall the name from TOS episodes and there is very little TOS I have read.
^Have you seen the TAS episode Yesteryear? Thelin was the Andorian first officer of the Enterprise in that episodes alternate timeline. Obviously the same (or similar) alternate timeline being visted here.
^Have you seen the TAS episode Yesteryear? Thelin was the Andorian first officer of the Enterprise in that episodes alternate timeline. Obviously the same (or similar) alternate timeline being visted here.
No, I must admit, I haven`t.
I only watched very few TAS episodes and that was a very long time ago when I was living in Germany. The primitive art put me off and I didn`t like the stories I saw either.
Perhaps I should give TAS a second chance.
My opinion, and Therin's may differ, is that TAS is very hit-and-miss, with a slight advantage to "miss". However, there are some absolute gems in the mix, and Yesteryear is one of them. It's one of the few few TAS episodes that actually influenced later "canon" Trek. In fact, I'd call it the most influential episode of TAS, having influenced three episodes that I can think of-- TNG: Unification pt. 1, The Enterprise "Vulcan trilogy" of season four, and the "remastered" Amok Time.^Have you seen the TAS episode Yesteryear? Thelin was the Andorian first officer of the Enterprise in that episodes alternate timeline. Obviously the same (or similar) alternate timeline being visted here.
No, I must admit, I haven`t.
I only watched very few TAS episodes and that was a very long time ago when I was living in Germany. The primitive art put me off and I didn`t like the stories I saw either.
Perhaps I should give TAS a second chance.
Dude... I called that months ago! If only I could find the documentary evidence...
I have to say I'm astounded at the breadth of these stories.
I could also foresee a new eBook line at some point.
*hunts for the time machine*
I could also foresee a new eBook line at some point.
*hunts for the time machine*
But you read "Crucible: Spock", no? Thelin was in that, too!
If you've ever seen "Starship Exeter: The Savage Empire" fan film, or read Senator Therin's biography on their website, then you'll also have met Thelin's Dad.
Of course, Geoff Trowbridge might have other plans for Thelin's family.
Most definitely. The TAS DVD set is a great investment. Think of Arex and M'Ress as a prequel to the NF adventures of the USS Trident!
Evidence? What evidence?
Yeah, yeah, okay, you pegged it in my blog a few months ago. I'll bring you a cookie to Shore Leave.
Regretfully, I didn't realize that the Therin character was purported to have been Thelin's father. So yeah, I had some other ideas concerning the family arrangement. But it's an alternate reality, so feel free to ignore it.
I have a great fondness for TAS and tend to forgive even its more bizarre missteps. As a guy who's fairly colourblind myself (and could see vivid green in my Saturday morning b/w cartoons all through the 60s), I can understand now why we ended up with giant pink tribbles, a sometimes-caucasian Mr Thelin, and hot pink kzinti spacesuits and ships.
For the fact that TAS adds 22 new ST adventures, and inspired Alan Dean Foster to come up with great "ST Log" adaptations - with extended and new adventures to boot - and that Pocket's own Andy Mangels worked on the great bonus features of the DVD boxed set, I'm happy to encourage people to give TAS another go.
Regretfully, I didn't realize that the Therin character was purported to have been Thelin's father. So yeah, I had some other ideas concerning the family arrangement. But it's an alternate reality, so feel free to ignore it.
Well, only in that when I wrote my first fanfic material, way back in 1980, I imagined that Therin's brother had died at age seven. Thus, Senator Therin, of the "Starship Exeter: The Savage Empire" fan film, became my original character's Dad, but mainly because in the intervening decades I'd changed too much, and couldn't play a young Andorian any more!
Leslie Fish, whose "factional" Andorian fan essay of the 70s is republished on my website, also made considerable use of Thelin - in her numerous stories, Thelin was of a third Andorian gender (predating TNG, of course) and had a male lover called Blackie, IIRC. And Fish's Thelin made reference to an "Aunt Shras", ie. the ambassador from "Journey to Babel".
But no matter, I'm still looking forward to seeing what you do with your Mr Thelin!
Hey, wait a minute (the thought suddenly struck me sometime last night): If Khan won, then who the heck is in the Botany Bay??? Hmm...
"Laura Palmer...wrapped in plastic..."
Yay!Evidence? What evidence?
Yeah, yeah, okay, you pegged it in my blog a few months ago. I'll bring you a cookie to Shore Leave.
Okay... I'm glad that's not the cover... I was wondering why you were going with floating heads... and with a character that doesn't even seem to feature prominently.
I just realized something else... of all these stories, mine is the only one that seems to begin with the actual point of divergence and follow more or less continuously from there. Most of these focus on timeframes decades or centuries after the divergence. (And then there's A Gutted World, which doesn't even reveal what the divergence was until midway through the story.) And only The Chimes of Midnight appears to be as specific to a single series as mine is.
But that's good, that there's such a wide mix of approaches.
But that's good, that there's such a wide mix of approaches.
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