IDW Year Four: The Enterprise Experiment #1
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Considering some of the characters involved (trying not to be spoiler-ific here) Do you think D.C. will take any of the described events from the Sherman and Schwartz' Vulcan's... books into account? Particularly in reference to certain commanders? Does anyone even know if D.C. has read these books or has a rapport with those authors?
Regardless of whether the story will or won't, I thought the first issue was great and doubtless the rest will also be awesome as well. Thank you Ms. Fontana! Thank you IDW!
Regardless of whether the story will or won't, I thought the first issue was great and doubtless the rest will also be awesome as well. Thank you Ms. Fontana! Thank you IDW!
^D.C. Fontana has always had her own ideas and notions about Vulcan society and culture, and I doubt that she's gonna reference other Trek fiction about them.
I am a he, and that is precisely what I meant.
Foravalon, you asked if anyone thought that she'd reference events from the Vulcan trilogy of books and that is what I answered. That being, imo, that DCF would not reference any events or background from those books because she has always had her own ideas in regards to Vulcan history, culture and social customs. Yes, I know that she wrote the book on Vulcans and has been very vocal on her opinions on any missteps with the character of Spock and the Vulcans. For example, her distaste for Sybok in TFF. Therefore, she has "always had notions and ideas" about Vulcan.
Not to mention that Theodore Sturgeon also contributed a great deal to Vulcan culture as seen in "Amok Time."
It just seemed like you were saying her views on Vulcan narrative were often somehow deviant from the norm, given her stature, and the role she played in the creation of what many others have subsequently built upon, it just seemed like a strange position to take. No harm no foul.
Regardless, my original comment wasn't pertaining to her contributions to Vulcan society and culture anyway, It was specifically related to a particular character that features prominently in the Sherman and Schwartz books whom it seems will also play a sizable role in the new miniseries. (hint: it ain't Spock)
Does anyone know if D.C. has a rapport with either of those authors?
Regardless, my original comment wasn't pertaining to her contributions to Vulcan society and culture anyway, It was specifically related to a particular character that features prominently in the Sherman and Schwartz books whom it seems will also play a sizable role in the new miniseries. (hint: it ain't Spock)
Does anyone know if D.C. has a rapport with either of those authors?
I met DC Fontana in the early 90s and she didn't seem to be a reader of ST novels, although she certainly had an awareness of how the various TV and licensed spin-offs and tie-ins dealt with Spock and Vulcans (and her female Romulan Commander from "The Enterprise Incident", who's had numerous fates in the licensed tie-ins). From memory of my conversation with her, DC is amused that people have sometimes ignored, chosen to overlook or were totally unaware of her Vulcanly advice in those venerable old TOS memos. She laughs when fans (and writers) assume that Vulcans only ever have sex once every seven years and is disappointed when she hears of ideas to give Spock various brothers, sisters, half-siblings, cousins.
DC was a little smug about her opportunity to insert a line about Spock being "the only offspring of Sarek" into her novel, "Vulcan's Glory", getting it into print just before Shatner's ST V controversially canonized Sybok.
ST fans read ST novels for pleasure. I really doubt that DC feels a need to follow certain ST authors' work, unless someone made it worth her while to critique a manuscript, or if she was researching a new Vulcan novel of her own and the editors wanted it to match up with something already published.
DC has sometimes been asked whether she'd ever novelize "The Secret of Vulcan Fury", the unreleased computer game of which she wrote the plot and dialogue, but it's not something she has actively pursued, and no one at Pocket has approached her with the idea, AFAIK. She's still open to writing more ST, as recently shown by her work for the fanfilm, "To Serve All My Days" and the current work for IDW Comics.
An assumption which I'm happy to say that certain writers like Peter David, Josepha Sherman, Susan Shwartz, and David Mack do not share.
Together with Fontana, All of 'em have written some very steamy non-ponfarr vulcan scenes! Good on ya mates.
And she also wrote the story for the multi-era Legacy video game.
I picked up my copy today and read it in the train on the way home. A major role for Arex - yay! - and a great, page-turning beginning for the new story arc. I loved the TOS/TAS rendition of the San Francisco airtram station, soon to be upgraded in time for TMP, I presume.
No "Quad Covers (TM)" this storyline? When I arrived at the shop, they'd put aside the Spock cover (Cover B) issue for me, but I wanted the Mr Arex and Kirk (Cover A) instead. But all the shelf copies had sold already! (Stock only arrived yesterday.) Luckily, my comic seller rummaged through the standing order boxes, found the last unclaimed Arex cover issue, and did me a swap. Too bad if the other guy preferred Arex, too.
I would very much like to see some continuation of that actually as it really added more mystery to the Vulcans for me when I thought about Vulcan Fury.
Well, I wish she would pursue it, and/or someone at Pocket would approach her. I'd love to see her do another vulcan-centric ST book.
Not long ago in an interview with TrekMovie.com (link) she said she has plans to write a new novel (with Derek Chester) and has asked Paula Block about doing The Secret of Vulcan Fury as a novel...
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