If you could change one thing...
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I think he may have known that and is being...artificially obtuse.Making his point subtly and not directly, as it were.
No. I haven't heard of this title until today. I don't follow the comics as closely as the novels, but I do sometimes read the trades when they come out. I take it, Countdown hasn't been republished collectively yet? maybe that's why I haven't heard of it.
Ah, sorry.
No, it was republished collectively just under a year ago.
This is really kinda of an more obscure one and pathetic as well, but I would go back and undo all those stories where the writers had an event happen that causes the personalities of the established characters to be changed. To me that just smacks of sloppy writing because the authors didn't understand the characters so they wrote them the way they wanted to instead of the way they were supposed to be.
^I don't think that's true. The characters change during the course of the tv series' (Bashir, Seven, Data), so why couldn't they in the novel continuations? As we grow, we change.
...unless it's a one-off story with a reset switch at the end. But the only one like that I can think of was Ship of the Line, where Picard loses it.
Oh, and Avenger, when Spock loses it.
...unless it's a one-off story with a reset switch at the end. But the only one like that I can think of was Ship of the Line, where Picard loses it.
Oh, and Avenger, when Spock loses it.
This is actually what I meant, I don't mean character growth which I approve of greatly. I think this might better clarify, stories where an anomaly causes characters to differ greatly from the established norm only to be reset back to normal. I seem to remember reading several of the early TOS numbered books and coming across back to back stories, thanks to gaps in my collection, that used an event to alter the personalities.
Now I am going to have to actually go back to read and make sure I am whining about the correct thing... otherwise I am whining for no good reason.
I think he may have known that and is being...artificially obtuse.
No. I haven't heard of this title until today. I don't follow the comics as closely as the novels, but I do sometimes read the trades when they come out. I take it, Countdown hasn't been republished collectively yet? maybe that's why I haven't heard of it.
Ah, sorry.
No problem, and thanks to all you guys for the heads up. I'm off to Amazon.
Cosigned.
Aside from adding my support for the un-layoff Marco bit, the one thing I'd change is to do more standalone books and fewer continuity books. Sometimes I just want to read (or write) a new adventure with the crew I know and love on the TV show set during the run of the TV show.
Gimme more TV-era TNG and DS9 novels.
Gimme more TV-era TNG and DS9 novels.
Amen, Brother!
If I could change one thing, (it's a big one), I would change the fact that DS9 seems destined never to hit the big screen. That final 9-episode story arc at the end of Season 7 of DS9, in my opinion, showcased just how deep that show could be, and how amazing the writing and acting performances were. With all of the material that has been amassed with the DS9 'Reboot' in the novels, with the re-commitment to explore the Gamma Quadrant, the return of Sisko, the exploration of Vaughn's character and his relationship with Prynn....the possibilities are endless. I would give my left foot to see a solid DS9 movie come to fruition, but I know that it never will.
Am I the only one who thinks that Avery Brooks never donning a Star Trek uniform again, is a travesty of epic proportions!?!?
Nardpuncher
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I agree.
I've said ot many times around the TrekLit forum and that it would be nice to have all the TNG crew back together once in a while.
It's bound to happen eventually. It's tie-in literature. It's bound to go back to the original thing it's tying into eventually. I just hope it doesn't take the fall of the relaunch series' beforehand.
I, for one, absolutely disagree with this one. I think DS9 would make for great movie(s), but I also think Avery Brooks is one of the worst actors I've ever seen. I thought that back before I actually watched the show when I'd only seen the random odd episode, I continued to think that when I actually went back and watched the show from the beginning, still thought so after having seen up to season 4 (though his acting had gotten better than it was in season 1), continued to think so even by the end of season 7 even as I liked the Sisko character, and now in 20/20 hindsight I still think he's aweful.
In my never-going-to-happen-wishful-thinking world, I'd like a DS9-R movie that is much like the books where Sisko isn't really in it at all and other characters take center stage.
I never stopped to consider this from an author's perspective before, but I would read these novels for the very same reason that you would like to write them.
There's no reason it should. That's been my point all along. TOS bounces around the different eras of it's time frame (three novels this year alone have done so), so why can't the others?
