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Happy Trektober Everybody
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Happy Trektober! Hey looks it's Invasion. That series, especially the DS9 book, had a big influence on me growing up.
Yeah? Can you talk about it? I remember reading the first three and liking TOS one (the Klingon ship's captain being an immigrant Vulcan was memorable), being underwhelmed by TNG one, and giving up after the DS9 one. The idea of an ancient demon species was interesting. Actually, I remember thinking it was nonsense at the time (like the gangsters in "A Piece of the Action" or the casino in "The Royale") but now find it intriguing. Poor Dax!
I only remember a little about the TOS and TNG one in that the Furies had either taken the form or created the form of things in our past that "modern" Star Trek people had a visceral reaction to when seen onscreen. Spock or Picard felt scared or violently ill when looking at the Furies just on the viewscreen. Some guy who sacrificed himself in the TNG one ended up in the Delta Quadrant and returned in the Voyager one.
The DS9 one though had the crew encountering a frozen version of the Defiant which had been sent back in time 5000 years to the initial Fury confrontation with the Unclean and ended up in Earth's Oort cloud frozen in a comet. There were two Galaxy class ships, the Mukaikubo and the Breedlove, amongst the forces mustered to Starbase 1 on the edge of the solar system which was a huge deal at the time. "Seeing" two Galaxy's together was unheard of. The interesting thing to me is how with unlimited budget it was still small scale. The Mukaikubo later arrives to reinforce DS9 but it's already been destroyed enroute and only her carcass is found with the entire crew dead! Onboard the frozen Defiant they found something like the half-mangled body of Sisko in some kind of stasis pod along with the still surviving Dax symbiont. I can still picture Sisko there with a chunk taken out of his midsection. They kind of go into more detail about the Unclean and how they go around eating up people and storing their minds/brains in each unit so that everyone is kind of stuck in a living nightmare just kind of forced to go on for thousands of years and forced into servitude to this virus of a race. The reunion with Dax and Jadzia and their ending was heartbreaking. It was great seeing the DS9 crew dealing with what, for all they know, could be a real or alternate future and whether they can avoid it.
The Voyager one had Voyager encountering the Furies in present day in the Delta Quadrant who are going to be moving their entire planet to the Alpha Quadrant to wage war on the guys there. The issue for Janeway was as she figured out who they were and what was going to happen and if she could stop them. I do remember an interesting sequence where they kept trying different plans for how Voyager could stop this ship from launching or blow it up or something, and they keep changing variables and each encounter becoming more and more dangerous and they have no success until they realise that the only way to stop the Furies will end up destroying Voyager.
I owned the DS9 book on it's own for several years without any context of the bigger story around it and would often reread parts. I loved the idea of a race from millennia ago coming back in the modern day to wage war on the galaxy, whether it was Furies or the Unclean. It felt very epic. As a kid I kept using the name Furies in my own sci-fi stories for a race that had time travelled from the past to to battle the present day species. I have or had the ommibus of all the books somewhere.
The DS9 one though had the crew encountering a frozen version of the Defiant which had been sent back in time 5000 years to the initial Fury confrontation with the Unclean and ended up in Earth's Oort cloud frozen in a comet. There were two Galaxy class ships, the Mukaikubo and the Breedlove, amongst the forces mustered to Starbase 1 on the edge of the solar system which was a huge deal at the time. "Seeing" two Galaxy's together was unheard of. The interesting thing to me is how with unlimited budget it was still small scale. The Mukaikubo later arrives to reinforce DS9 but it's already been destroyed enroute and only her carcass is found with the entire crew dead! Onboard the frozen Defiant they found something like the half-mangled body of Sisko in some kind of stasis pod along with the still surviving Dax symbiont. I can still picture Sisko there with a chunk taken out of his midsection. They kind of go into more detail about the Unclean and how they go around eating up people and storing their minds/brains in each unit so that everyone is kind of stuck in a living nightmare just kind of forced to go on for thousands of years and forced into servitude to this virus of a race. The reunion with Dax and Jadzia and their ending was heartbreaking. It was great seeing the DS9 crew dealing with what, for all they know, could be a real or alternate future and whether they can avoid it.
The Voyager one had Voyager encountering the Furies in present day in the Delta Quadrant who are going to be moving their entire planet to the Alpha Quadrant to wage war on the guys there. The issue for Janeway was as she figured out who they were and what was going to happen and if she could stop them. I do remember an interesting sequence where they kept trying different plans for how Voyager could stop this ship from launching or blow it up or something, and they keep changing variables and each encounter becoming more and more dangerous and they have no success until they realise that the only way to stop the Furies will end up destroying Voyager.
I owned the DS9 book on it's own for several years without any context of the bigger story around it and would often reread parts. I loved the idea of a race from millennia ago coming back in the modern day to wage war on the galaxy, whether it was Furies or the Unclean. It felt very epic. As a kid I kept using the name Furies in my own sci-fi stories for a race that had time travelled from the past to to battle the present day species. I have or had the ommibus of all the books somewhere.
Trektober, that's what we're going with? I liked Spocktober more.
Seems to he more General Trek to me. Spock was in the show before he was in the books.
Another point for Spocktober.
It’s not about books? There’s an image from a TNG episode, TMP concept art, and a publicity photo from Gene Roddenberry’s: Andromeda in there. Plus maybe a fan-made poster of the original Spock concept or something.
Also, this thread could be about anything spooky in Trek, not just Spock.
The idea came to me when as I was reviewing novel covers I noticed three with devils and metaphysical subject material, and I was still in the early years.
Plus TMP and...shoot, I should have included a pic from TFF, too...are about doing without God.
Clearly the work of...I dunno...
Also, this thread could be about anything spooky in Trek, not just Spock.
The idea came to me when as I was reviewing novel covers I noticed three with devils and metaphysical subject material, and I was still in the early years.
Plus TMP and...shoot, I should have included a pic from TFF, too...are about doing without God.
Clearly the work of...I dunno...
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It's not about books? There's tons of book images, and discussion of book series. It's not like your opening post was super clear.
In any event, if I misunderstood, my apologies.
We can ask @trampledamage to send it back to GTD if that's what you want.
In any event, if I misunderstood, my apologies.
We can ask @trampledamage to send it back to GTD if that's what you want.
Yeah, I think that would be best. I’d like the conversation to meander to anything spooky-related and/or anything from the images above. Original Spock “energy-absorption plate” anybody? Thanks!
Okey-dokey - Thanks for visiting Trek Lit, young thread - back home to GTD you go!
Apparently, Star Trek Timelines is using the term "Spocktober".
I never understood the "you look just like Satan" thing. He's got greenish skin and pointed ears, not really the traditional view of the Devil or demons in the 1960s. His eyebrows, perhaps, and I get that he was originally supposed to be a red-skinned Martian.
The show just went out of its way (including creating that Spock-like Satan image on Omega IV) to tell us that he looks so Satanic.
The show just went out of its way (including creating that Spock-like Satan image on Omega IV) to tell us that he looks so Satanic.
I initially thought similarly, but I think it’s easy to be thrown by the lack of horns and red skin. Devils are often portrayed with pointed ears and sinister brows, and occasionally (and famously) with sickly greenish skin. Vulcans aren’t an easy one-to-one comparison, but they can be disquieting to people steeped in a certain imagery. Plus they can read your mind, smash metal with their bare hands, and come from planet Hell. But by its true that they only have green blood...not green spit.
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