I need to give Therin another cameo in my youtube comic. Can I persuade you to pose in some compromising photos with Suzie Plakson? Then I can write in some angry Andorian sex.
Ex Machina - great novel
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I need to give Therin another cameo in my youtube comic. Can I persuade you to pose in some compromising photos with Suzie Plakson? Then I can write in some angry Andorian sex.
^You can persuade me to pose in compromising photos with her - it's just that she might require a bit more persuasion...
I'm sure she'd do it if it was integral to the part... although I don't have a blue make-up budget so maybe it's a bad idea.
Actually, that reminds me, if anybody plays Star Trek online and has the TMP uniform packet, I still need male and female action poses for future stories. You've no idea how hard it is to draw up an action scene with just screenshots from TMP...
I started playing but I still haven't mastered the controls or worked out how to make my andorian security guard wear her TMP uniform!
Actually, that reminds me, if anybody plays Star Trek online and has the TMP uniform packet, I still need male and female action poses for future stories. You've no idea how hard it is to draw up an action scene with just screenshots from TMP...
I started playing but I still haven't mastered the controls or worked out how to make my andorian security guard wear her TMP uniform!
I once emceed a ST convention with Suzie Plakson as guest. We have performed on stage together. Maybe it's a good thing I've never seen the pics or footage.
I hear it's... out there.
I already said in "what are you reading now" that "Ex Machina" is very good. That the plausibility structure has greatly improved TOS books and that the characterization does justice to the characters. Perhaps I did not realize how flat the characters were until "Ex Machina" rounded and deepened them out. Attention to technical detail comes across as more believable. It was a recent rare treat. Now I am going to get even more "real" and read "Crime and Punishment" if I can at all finish it this year. "Forgotten History," however, is high on my list.
Like many here, I too just finished reading Ex Machina and found it to be quite excellent. The characterization of the main cast was sharply authentic and the development of the new cast of background players was equally deserving of praise. Many Trek books have shown us what happens next after the Enterprise departs at the end of an episode (and this one does, too) but in Ex Machina, we find out what happened BEFORE the start of "For the World is Hollow..." as well. Boy, do we ever!
This aspect -- the delving into the past of Yonada and her people -- is what I believe puts Ex Machina into an elite class of Trek fiction. A lot of time, imagination and research went into this book and it shows on every page. I used to think that Christopher Bennett was best suited as the primary writer of the Titan series (since those were the books I most enjoyed reading from him) but now that I've read Ex Machina I may need to reassess that idea. Perhaps his talents would best be served by authoring more post-TMP Trek stories. If we're able to read more of either -- post-TMP or Titan -- in the near future from Christopher, I will be one happy reader.
In summation, great book. If you haven't read it, do yourself a favor and join the ever-growing Ex Machina renaissance by reading the hell out of this novel. You will be so glad that you did.
This aspect -- the delving into the past of Yonada and her people -- is what I believe puts Ex Machina into an elite class of Trek fiction. A lot of time, imagination and research went into this book and it shows on every page. I used to think that Christopher Bennett was best suited as the primary writer of the Titan series (since those were the books I most enjoyed reading from him) but now that I've read Ex Machina I may need to reassess that idea. Perhaps his talents would best be served by authoring more post-TMP Trek stories. If we're able to read more of either -- post-TMP or Titan -- in the near future from Christopher, I will be one happy reader.
In summation, great book. If you haven't read it, do yourself a favor and join the ever-growing Ex Machina renaissance by reading the hell out of this novel. You will be so glad that you did.
^Thanks so much!
He has written two more stories in the Post-TMP time period. The fourth Mere Anarchy novella, The Darkness Drops Again, covers several years between TMP and TWoK. Hist latest novel, and the second DTI novel, Forgotten History, covers several time periods, one of which is Post-TMP.
thanks for the info. Forgotten History is next up on my "to read" stack.
My favorite scene in the book is when Kirk is looking out at the Enterprise at the starbase and how much his love for the ship carried over from TMP. TMP was the first movie I remember seeing as a kid and was the movie that made me love Trek, not because of the characters but because of the refit Enterprise. It was such a beautiful and epic design and I could see that Kirk and I both had the same love for the ship, as if she was a graceful swan reading to spread her wings and fly. As much as I'm fond of the other ships this one still stands out as the most epic and graceful of them all. They way this book was written it was as if Robert Wise was directing a sequel, the tone he set carried over from the movie just improved upon.
Absolutely. I definitely wrote that scene as a prose evocation of the classic drydock sequence.
Wow, that's high praise.
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