DS9 Millennium

[JD]

The game was made. It's called The Fallen, and it was released in 200 for the PC and Mac. I've only played a one or two level demo though, do I don't know much about it. All I can remember was that I did horribly at the demo, but at the time I didn't really play a lot of PC games.

 

[Therin of Andor]

Margaret Clark is mentioned by name in the Acknowledgements of TFoTN as having been the Reeves-Stevenses editor

Margaret's specialty at that time was the non fiction ST stuff Pocket was publishing (calendars, guide books, etc). Previously, she had been at DC Comics and was probably(?) the Reeves-Stevens' editor for the graphic novel version of Shatner's "The Ashes of Eden", or is the timing wrong? I don't have my copy at hand.

The game was made. It's called The Fallen, and it was released in 200 for the PC and Mac.

I was checking out the wiki entries for that earlier. David Mack is a credited writer on that, but I seem to recall the Reeves-Stevens worked on it as their trilogy was being developed.

 

[DS9forever]

The Fallen isn't as good as Elite Force and suffers from lacking Avery Brooks and Colm Meaney not returning to voice Sisko and O'Brien. However, it does have an interesting Tomb Raider-vibe, with Sisko, Worf and Kira being playable characters.

 

[Christopher]

^But it did get Kevin Michael Richardson as Sisko, which is a pretty neat consolation prize (if you're an animation buff). I'm not a video-game player, but I'd be interested to hear his Sisko.

 

[Relayer1]

Now, we just to fill the TOS era with more series

And you know what ? RonG IS right !

 

[Brikar99]

^But it did get Kevin Michael Richardson as Sisko, which is a pretty neat consolation prize (if you're an animation buff). I'm not a video-game player, but I'd be interested to hear his Sisko.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yma3x8qHttw

Sisko starts talking about 2 minutes 50 seconds in...

 

[Christopher]

Hmm, I would've expected better from Richardson. He did a really good Keith David impression in The Spectacular Spider-Man. (David played Tombstone in one episode, then Richardson took over, and it was a while before I noticed the change.) Here it doesn't sound like he's trying to emulate Avery Brooks at all, or even give much of a performance. Seems like it was a rush job. Michael Gough (the voice actor, not the guy who played Alfred in the Batman movies) doesn't sound much like Colm Meaney either -- similar voice, and he does the accent okay, but the delivery isn't there.

Wow, that was crude CGI. But hey, Dave Mack wrote the script!

 

[ATimson]

Wow, that was crude CGI.

If I remember correctly, the space scenes were all done in-engine, rather than being prerendered CGI. And the narrator said that the game couldn't use his computer's video card, so it was trying to limp along without it. From the looks of things, it did a better job than I thought it would have.

 

[Captaindemotion]

I very rarely play computer games of any type but FWIW, I loved this game and finished it as every player; I've since bought other games and not played them beyond the first level.

 

[Brikar99]

Wow, that was crude CGI.

If I remember correctly, the space scenes were all done in-engine, rather than being prerendered CGI. And the narrator said that the game couldn't use his computer's video card, so it was trying to limp along without it. From the looks of things, it did a better job than I thought it would have.

I don't believe the game had any pre-rendered scenes - everything was done with the game engine itself.

 

[DigificWriter]

I just finished Inferno. I liked it, although it did seem to get bogged down narratively in places, which make it the weakest book in the trilogy.

I did like the reversal of roles of sorts with Jadzia being worried about Worf dying because it was a nice bit of commentary on her forthcoming (in-universe) death that works primarily because it was written after the conclusion of DS9 proper.

I mentioned in my reviews of the other books that the story felt much more like a Myriad Universes tale than something meant to be an official part of the mainstream DS9 novelverse continuity, and I stand by that analysis for Inferno as well. The Epilogue especially felt like something outside of the existing DS9 novelverse continuity, although, with a tiny bit of rationalization, it certainly could fit within the parameters of the main DS9 novelverse timeline.

I'm not sure how I'd rank the trilogy as a whole or in comparison to some of the other multi-part epics we've gotten in the 12 years since the trilogy's original publication, but I did enjoy it.

 

[BrentMc]

I have this trilogy in my collection, but have not read it. I was going to ask how people liked it. Now that I see a lot of you liked it I will have to bump it up in my to-read list.

 

[MikeS]

I'll ask a really dumb question. Why is it called DS9:Millenium? As far as I recall the story takes place in the 2370's, not 3000 or 2000 (which is when it was written)

 

[F. King Daniel]

They jump forward in time to to 2399.

 

[MikeS]

They jump forward in time to to 2399.

That is not a millennium (Thousand year intervals).

 

[F. King Daniel]

Good point.

*double checks*

It's actually 2401, but thats still the turn of a new century and not a millennium....

 

[Christopher]

I'll ask a really dumb question. Why is it called DS9:Millenium? As far as I recall the story takes place in the 2370's, not 3000 or 2000 (which is when it was written)

The concept of the millennium is often associated with the Biblical Apocalypse. In fact, the association is so close that apocalyptic beliefs are often called millennarianism or chiliasm (from the Greek for a thousand). So the term "millennium" is figuratively associated with the end of the world or the advent of Heaven on Earth. So it had a thematic relevance to the events of the trilogy, beyond its literal numerical meaning.

Plus there's also the little fact that it was published in the year 2000.

 

[MikeS]

Plus there's also the little fact that it was published in the year 2000.

That is as may be, but it is not usual for a work of fiction title to reference where/when it was written. A book title usually conveys to the potential reader what is within. You're "millennarianism" explanation is a good one and one I am willing to accept until told otherwise by the authors.

 

[Christopher]

Plus there's also the little fact that it was published in the year 2000.

That is as may be, but it is not usual for a work of fiction title to reference where/when it was written. A book title usually conveys to the potential reader what is within.

Yeah, but the millennium wasn't exactly a usual year. And it's perfectly possible for a title to have two or more meanings, including an external meaning as well as one relevant to the story. It's pretty obvious that it's not a coincidence if a book published in 2000 is titled Millennium. After all, the authors would've known perfectly well that it would be published in that year, and it stands to reason that they would've chosen its story emphasis accordingly.

 

[MikeS]

Plus there's also the little fact that it was published in the year 2000.

That is as may be, but it is not usual for a work of fiction title to reference where/when it was written. A book title usually conveys to the potential reader what is within.

Yeah, but the millennium wasn't exactly a usual year. And it's perfectly possible for a title to have two or more meanings, including an external meaning as well as one relevant to the story. It's pretty obvious that it's not a coincidence if a book published in 2000 is titled Millennium. After all, the authors would've known perfectly well that it would be published in that year, and it stands to reason that they would've chosen its story emphasis accordingly.

It's a good job you don't write on your loo then...

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