Cover Copy for Myriad Universes and These Haunted Seas

[danjamesb]

A location shoot in Therin Park, perhaps?

That would be tricky after recent events, surely?

 

[trampledamage]

^^Well, since the BB was presumably launched in 1996, those "people [we]'ll know" might not necessarily be fictional...

I know -- it's us! With Khan's Augments taking over the world, a brave cadre of Star Trek writers escape the Earth in a starship designed and built by Sternbach and Okuda, in order to keep the dream alive.

I'd buy that story!


ETA: okay, that's just damn bizarre - I've no idea why one smilie insists on being mis-spelled, it's just the graphic in the editing page...

 

[Therin of Andor]

It will be interesting to see what the next book excerpt will be in Star Trek magazine 12.

PaulSimpson just hinted that I'll be thrilled, so I guess it's THE CHIMES AT MIDNIGHT by Geoff Trowbridge.

 

[Therin of Andor]

That would be tricky after recent events, surely?

If you're talkin' recently rumoured eBook catastrophe, that won't count until the hardcopy comes out.

 

[Defcon]

That would be tricky after recent events, surely?

If you're talkin' recently rumoured eBook catastrophe, that won't count until the hardcopy comes out.

I know that was meant as a joke, but do you really want to open the Pandora's box of the eBook/paper book dispute yet again?

 

[Therin of Andor]

I know that was meant as a joke, but do you really want to open the Pandora's box of the eBook/paper book dispute yet again?

Hey, if Therin Park is now known as "Andor: Ground Zero" I don't think I wanna know. Yet.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

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.

Yours is Places of Exile, isn't it? Is the "war zone" spoken of in the synopsis, one we've heard of before?

Spoiler: VOY

Is it Krenim space from 'Year of Hell'? Or is it a reference to the Borg?

 

[Christopher]

Yours is Places of Exile, isn't it? Is the "war zone" spoken of in the synopsis, one we've heard of before?

Spoiler: VOY

Is it Krenim space from 'Year of Hell'? Or is it a reference to the Borg?

I think there are enough clues in the synopsis to give you the answer.

 

[JD]

^ Because I'm insufferably curious, would you be amenable to writing, in spoiler code, who those characters are?

Fictitiously yours, Trent Roman

Spoiler: Excerpt of A LESS PERFECT UNION

The excerpt features a 176-year-old T'Pol and Captain Christopher Pike.

Spoiler: Another ALPU character

They also refer to President Carter Winston

 

[William Leisner]

Spoiler: Another ALPU character

They also refer to President Carter Winston

Spoiler: the previous spoiler

Actually, that's Prime Minister Winston (following the precedent established in The Good That Men Do).

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

Damn. I hear the phrase "A Less Perfect Union" and I STILL think of Schoolhouse Rock!

 

[Reanok]

These books are really going to be something I've been looking forward to getting . Alot of interesting stories I'm really curious to see how the characters decisions affected them and others as well.

 

[Sci]

Spoiler: Another ALPU character

They also refer to President Carter Winston

Spoiler: the previous spoiler

Actually, that's Prime Minister Winston (following the precedent established in The Good That Men Do).

A Less Perfect Union is sounding better and better...

Spoiler: the previous spoiler

Though, to be completely anal retentive, I believe that the first story to establish that the head of government of United Earth is a Prime Minister rather than a President was "Eleven Hours Out" from Tales of the Dominion War.

 

[JD]

Spoiler: Another ALPU character

They also refer to President Carter Winston

Spoiler: the previous spoiler

Actually, that's Prime Minister Winston (following the precedent established in The Good That Men Do).

Bah, that's what I get for going by memory alone. (Wow, I get way to much use out of this head-to-wall smilie.)

 

[Geoff]

It will be interesting to see what the next book excerpt will be in Star Trek magazine 12.

PaulSimpson just hinted that I'll be thrilled, so I guess it's THE CHIMES AT MIDNIGHT by Geoff Trowbridge.

Your guess is correct... although, as I recall, the chosen excerpt doesn't really feature Thelin in any active role.

Perhaps Paul knows something that I don't...

 

[William Leisner]

Spoiler: Another ALPU character

They also refer to President Carter Winston

Spoiler: the previous spoiler

Actually, that's Prime Minister Winston (following the precedent established in The Good That Men Do).

A Less Perfect Union is sounding better and better...

Spoiler: the previous spoiler

Though, to be completely anal retentive, I believe that the first story to establish that the head of government of United Earth is a Prime Minister rather than a President was "Eleven Hours Out" from Tales of the Dominion War.

Spoiler: all the other spoilers above

You're probably right. But what I was specifically referring to was Martin & Mangels establishing that Nathan Samuels was in fact Prime Minister, though he wasn't called that on-screen. I had pondered following Starfleet: Year One instead, giving Earth a president and assuming Samuels was Foreign Minister or somesuch, but decided against in the end.

 

[Sci]

Spoiler: the previous spoiler

Actually, that's Prime Minister Winston (following the precedent established in The Good That Men Do).

A Less Perfect Union is sounding better and better...

Spoiler: the previous spoiler

Though, to be completely anal retentive, I believe that the first story to establish that the head of government of United Earth is a Prime Minister rather than a President was "Eleven Hours Out" from Tales of the Dominion War.

Spoiler: all the other spoilers above

You're probably right. But what I was specifically referring to was Martin & Mangels establishing that Nathan Samuels was in fact Prime Minister, though he wasn't called that on-screen. I had pondered following Starfleet: Year One instead, giving Earth a president and assuming Samuels was Foreign Minister or somesuch, but decided against in the end.

Spoiler: The stuff above

Aaaahh, gotcha. Though I would point out that it's not inconceivable that United Earth has both a president and a prime minister -- Israel, Ireland, Germany, and Italy all do, for instance.... But that's getting completely off-topic.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

Aaaahh, gotcha. Though I would point out that it's not inconceivable that United Earth has both a president and a prime minister -- Israel, Ireland, Germany, and Italy all do, for instance.... But that's getting completely off-topic.

That's always been my understanding as well. (Sorry for the hatchet editing I just did, but I had to get rid of all that damn spoiler code, since none of it actually WORKS! )

United Earth could have its PM as head of both state and government (where do we have that on our Earth? I forgot ), or it could be mixed. We know it's not pure presidential, though (like the US), since UE has Ministers.

 

[Defcon]

Spoiler: The stuff above

Aaaahh, gotcha. Though I would point out that it's not inconceivable that United Earth has both a president and a prime minister -- Israel, Ireland, Germany, and Italy all do, for instance.... But that's getting completely off-topic.

Spoiler: the above

O.K., I admit this is just nitpicking since I know what you mean, but actually Germany has a chancellor and a President on the Federal level. We only have prime ministers on the state level.

 

[Sci]

Spoiler: Stuff

Aaaahh, gotcha. Though I would point out that it's not inconceivable that United Earth has both a president and a prime minister -- Israel, Ireland, Germany, and Italy all do, for instance.... But that's getting completely off-topic.

Spoiler: More stuff

That's always been my understanding as well. (Sorry for the hatchet editing I just did, but I had to get rid of all that damn spoiler code, since none of it actually WORKS! )

United Earth could have its PM as head of both state and government (where do we have that on our Earth? I forgot ), or it could be mixed. We know it's not pure presidential, though (like the US), since UE has Ministers.

Spoiler: Things

Well, I'm not sure how United Earth could have a Prime Minister as both head of government and head of state. Every Parliamentary form of government I know of requires a separate, usually ceremonial or mostly-cermonial (with reserve powers) head of state, whether it be monarch or president. As I implied above, my inclination is to assume that United Earth has an elected President who appoints the Prime Minister on the basis of who can command the support of the majority of the UE Parliament, based upon the references to UE President Lydia Littlejohn in Starfleet: Year One and SCE: The Future Begins and to UE Prime Ministers in "Eleven Hours Out," The Good That Men Do, and, now, A Less Perfect Union. But that's just me.

Spoiler: The stuff above

Aaaahh, gotcha. Though I would point out that it's not inconceivable that United Earth has both a president and a prime minister -- Israel, Ireland, Germany, and Italy all do, for instance.... But that's getting completely off-topic.

Spoiler: the above

O.K., I admit this is just nitpicking since I know what you mean, but actually Germany has a chancellor and a President on the Federal level. We only have prime ministers on the state level.

Spoiler: Minutiae

Yes, yes, I know. And the formal name for the Irish PM is actually the Taoiseach, and the Italian PM's formal title is President of the Council of Ministers, and the Scottish one is called the First Minister, etc. But it's really just different names for what is essentially the same thing.