Interesting.
I had thought at first but figured they'd save it for an episode not a novel
Discovery prequel novel: Desperate Hours
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To be fair, this has happened before. I mean, there are all the "Pass-the-torch" characters. Plus, TNG did several remakes or riffs of TOS episodes. And DS9 had the various TNG cameos across season 1.
But I agree that the should should stand on its own, even though I fully expect Spock--if not the whole entire Enterprise crew--to show up at some point. Hopefully, it won't be until late into season 2.
But I agree that the should should stand on its own, even though I fully expect Spock--if not the whole entire Enterprise crew--to show up at some point. Hopefully, it won't be until late into season 2.
$12 for the Kindle version? No thanks.
How so? Isn't the very fact that he also pestered two other 24th century lead characters proof positive that nobody is safe, and that nobody gets preferential treatment, even?
We don't even know if Picard was the first skipper to fall victim to his attentions. Some of his antics are of the sort that you'd not really wish to report to your superiors.
...It's up to books like this one, with an alternate or parallel set of heroes, to decide whether the Starfleet of Kirk is big or small. Sure, Kirk seemed to be on first-name basis with awfully many of the colleagues he met. But it might be that it was just Kirk's universe (that of frontier starship skippers) that was small (and sadly devoid of women, too). Burnham might well live and work in a bigger sub-universe of the Starfleet of the day.
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I view the Federation during TOS to be more like the European Union, a co-op of still relatively independent members. Starfleet would be like the European Space Agency, also a co-op, but you still Vulcan, Andorian fleets etc. just as in Europe there still exists the German Aerospace Center, UK Space Agency etc. which have their own agendas, and projects.
During TNG onward the Federation, and Starfleet, seems more like the USA.
During TNG onward the Federation, and Starfleet, seems more like the USA.
Well, Q visited DS9 because his traveling buddy Vash had gone there, not because he specifically wanted to mess with that crew. Voyager got itself mixed up in Continuum politics by freeing "Quinn." I thought the explanations to get him on those shows made sense. (Granted, I don't think any of Q's DS9/VOY shows were anywhere near as good as the TNG one -- save for "Death Wish" [VOY], but that's something different.)
Speaking of Which one of my favorite Q scenes is this
Can't be. In one of the trailers, Georgiou says Burnham has been her first officer for seven years. The book is supposed to be about her earning the job.
The Author himself said it takes place one year before Discovery.
The trailer or the blurb on the back is wrong then.
In the trailer says she served under her for 7 years, not that she was first officer for 7 years.
Okay. Must have misremembered. But I wonder how one year as XO makes her qualified for command...
Here's the description from the back cover:
An all-original novel based upon the explosive new series on CBS All Access
Aboard the Starship Shenzhou, Lieutenant Michael Burnham, a human woman raised and educated among Vulcans, is promoted to acting first officer. But if she wants to keep the job, she must prove to Captain Philippa Georgiou that she deserves to have it.
She gets her chance when the Shenzhou must protect a Federation colony that is under attack by an ancient alien vessel that has surfaced from the deepest fathoms of the planet’s dark, uncharted sea.
As the menace from this mysterious vessel grows stronger, Starfleet declares the colony expendable in the name of halting the threat. To save thousands of innocent lives, Burnham must infiltrate the alien ship. But to do so, she needs to face the truth of her troubled past, and seek the aid of a man she has tried to avoid her entire life—until now.
So it's set aboard the Shenzou during the beginning of Burnham's time as it's first officer.
"Talked about you having your own command ..." Not literally getting it the next day - maybe just giving her additional duties, putting her in more positions to pass more command tests, get more centre seat hours. She'd have gained a lot of leadership skills as Second Officer (and Science Officer, or whichever department she was in charge of) that being First Officer and a command candidate might not have been that much of a jump.
Why debate this now? The show premieres next month -- we'll find out the actual answers then, and presumably these fragments will make sense once we know the context.
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