General Questions about Myriad Universes

[Therin of Andor]

Yes, but your average punter who isn't aware of the font of information available here, they would have no way of finding out.

I guess I started out as an "average punter', but regular references as to who was the latest ST editor at Pocket Books often used to turn up in "Starlog" magazine (early 80s), and then it almost became a game to watch out for this stuff, crosscheck with things like "Locus" (which my local SF bookshop always kept on the front counter), so I could report it in my club's ST newsletter.

If anything, the Internet, Memory Beta, etc makes it so much easier. So yeah, "average punters" couldn't care less, but when they do start wondering they stop being average - and they will seek out their own answers. Anyone with a need to know all the ins-and-outs of ST novels would own a copy of "Voyages of Imagination" and do a bit of Googling, or join bulletin boards.

 

[captcalhoun]

didn't Chang actually use the phrase 'chimes at midnight' in TUC in the transporter room scene when the Klingons leave?

 

[Marco Palmieri]

I wish Pocket would do that more then, becuase I'd love to know who edited which books. It has nothing to do with liking one editor more than another, it's mostly just out of curiosity since we hear so much about the editors here.

Forums like this are an exception. In the real world, you aren't supposed to care about the editors, or even think about them. An editor is just one of many folks behind the scenes whose job is simply to help the authors in their efforts, not share the spotlight with them.

With that in mind, I look for any excuse I can to keep my name off the books, and if it wasn't considered bad form to edit the authors' acknowledgments, I'd strike my name from those as well.

 

[Reanok]

When it comes to Brave New world there were parts of the story I liked better than others.

 

[EnochRoot]

Has any thought been given to including some of the aspects of Myriad Universes into the regular continuity? Techincally, solution to the problem posed by the Groundskeepers from Places of Exile would effect the main timeline. Also, I could see a character like Thelin existing in the regular universe and become a supporting character in Vanguard.

 

[Christopher]

Has any thought been given to including some of the aspects of Myriad Universes into the regular continuity? Techincally, solution to the problem posed by the Groundskeepers from Places of Exile would effect the main timeline.

Well, in a way, it already has affected the main timeline, since I intended it to be the explanation for why we haven't seen Species 8472 again in the main timeline since "In the Flesh." Although I did leave open the door for their return, and my hope is that if they did return in the main timeline, their portrayal would be consistent with PoE.

I'm sure it's possible that authors might choose to include main-universe versions of elements or characters from MyrU stories. But that would most likely be decided on a case-by-case basis, rather than by some systematic strategy.

 

[Marco Palmieri]

I could see a character like Thelin existing in the regular universe

I always took it for granted that he does. I've heard the notion expressed that Thelin's existence is predicated by Spock's nonexistence, but to me, it's never been an either/or proposition. There's no reason to think there isn't an Andorian named Thelin somewhere in the Federation during the era of the original series. He just doesn't serve on the Enterprise (and he apparently his life never intersected that of Kirk or Spock prior to the events of "Yesteryear," since neither of them knew who he was).

 

[JD]

Yeah, I don't really see how Spock not being born would have that big of an impact on an Andorian's exitence.

 

[Christopher]

Yeah, I don't really see how Spock not being born would have that big of an impact on an Andorian's exitence.

The stork was reassigned!

Actually, the divergence isn't Spock not being born, but Spock dying at age 7, so the stork theory doesn't, err, have a leg to stand on.

 

[JD]

Oh, yeah that's right, he died out in The Forge.