Latest acquisition!

[Therin of Andor]

Some recent book purchases and a new (customized) action figure arrival to the collection:
The Andorian Bookworm by Ian McLean, on Flickr

The international eBay seller accidentally sent me two "Batman '66" Bookworm figures and forgot the King Tut, and it was less complicated to organize a replacement Tut and negotiate keeping the extra Bookworm for his outfit. (Well, that's my excuse.)

 

[JD]

Google Play's book store has a ton of books marked down today. I didn't get any Trek books, but I did get Greg Cox's novelizations of Godzilla, The Dark Knight Rises, and Man of Steel, all for between $1-$4. I got a whole bunch of other stuff, but none of it is Trek related.

 

[Greg Cox]

Google Play's book store has a ton of books marked down today. I didn't get any Trek books, but I did get Greg Cox's novelizations of Godzilla, The Dark Knight Rises, and Man of Steel, all for between $1-$4. I got a whole bunch of other stuff, but none of it is Trek related.

Enjoy.

 

[JD]

I'm sure I will. Are you going to be doing novelizations for BvS or Suicide Squad?

 

[Therin of Andor]

Warped by Ian McLean, on Flickr

Just arrived! "Warped: an engaging guide to the never-aired 8th season" of "Star Trek: The Next Generation", based on @TNG_S8 by Mike McMahan, illustrated by Jason Ho. Thanks Galaxy Bookshop, Sydney, Australia.

 

[Kilana2]

The Fall 3 - A Ceremony of Losses/Auf verlorenem Posten

 

[Markonian]

Just arrived! "Warped: an engaging guide to the never-aired 8th season" of "Star Trek: The Next Generation", based on @TNG_S8 by Mike McMahan, illustrated by Jason Ho. Thanks Galaxy Bookshop, Sydney, Australia.

What is the word to the right of "Vulcan" on the stand? I can't make it out.

 

[Therin of Andor]

What is the word to the right of "Vulcan" on the stand? I can't make it out.

"Vulcan Leader". He was distributed in small numbers compared to other polystone statues in that series, and mainly limited to Australia, so when I saw him in a "Closing down" sale in 1999, I pounced.

 

[Markonian]

What is the word to the right of "Vulcan" on the stand? I can't make it out.

"Vulcan Leader". He was distributed in small numbers compared to other polystone statues in that series, and mainly limited to Australia, so when I saw him in a "Closing down" sale in 1999, I pounced.

Thank you for the info. It is amazing how much memorabilia exists and existed, when you only ever see Star Wars in the shops.

 

[Therin of Andor]

It is amazing how much memorabilia exists and existed, when you only ever see Star Wars in the shops.

From the time of TNG's heights of popularity - Season Three thru to "First Contact" - there was Trek stuff everywhere.

Also people forget that, for almost a decade after "Return of the Jedi", there were few new action figures or novels for "Star Wars".

 

[Greg Cox]

I'm sure I will. Are you going to be doing novelizations for BvS or Suicide Squad?

No immediate movie novelizations on the horizon.

I'm concentrating on a LIBRARIANS tie-in novel right now, and have an X-FILES story due out in March. (I also have a PLANET OF THE APES story in the works.)

Thanks for asking.

 

[Leto_II]

Which Planet of the Apes continuity, Greg (if you can tell us, that is)? Thought Greg Keyes did a phenomenal job with his Dawn prequel novel last year, set in the new movie-timeline.

 

[Defcon]

Which Planet of the Apes continuity, Greg (if you can tell us, that is)? Thought Greg Keyes did a phenomenal job with his Dawn prequel novel last year, set in the new movie-timeline.

I'm not Greg, but it's the classic Planet of the Apes continuity:

The book will feature 16 tales based on the classic films and live-action television show, and will be released during the lead-up to the next movie, War for the Planet of the Apes, hitting theaters in July of that year.

This is from a more extensive blogpost by the editor on the publisher's site:

http://hassleinbooks.blogspot.de/2015/10/prose-of-apes-guiding-planet-on-its.html

 

[Christopher]

I don't think the TV series falls into quite the same continuity as the movies, because the chronology is different and the humans haven't lost the ability of speech. Then again, the movies can only very loosely be said to be in continuity with one another anyway.

There's also the DePatie-Freleng animated series that combines elements of the movies (Cornelius, Zira, Zaius, underground mutants), the live-action series (General Urko), and the original book and early movie plans (a 20th-century-equivalent ape society with cars and TV, though behind us in aviation and weaponry).

 

[Leto_II]

I don't think the TV series falls into quite the same continuity as the movies, because the chronology is different and the humans haven't lost the ability of speech. Then again, the movies can only very loosely be said to be in continuity with one another anyway.

The Apes TV series (the live-action one, that is) might be said to fall into the "pre-interference" timeline (the one that occurred before Cornelius and Zira altered Earth's history, and the "split" occurred with Caesar), because we see Virdon and Burke uncovering evidence that Earth's civilization fell at some point in the 26th Century, which would be consistent with Cornelius's Senate testimony in the third movie.

Plus the TV show takes place at least 900 years before the 1968 film, which would hypothetically give the descendants of the humans on the series plenty of time to become mute by the time Colonel Taylor arrives.

This website has a pretty good breakdown of this theory:

http://www.netcomuk.co.uk/~pdownes/potatv/potatv_time.html

 

[Christopher]

Plus the TV show takes place at least 900 years before the 1968 film, which would hypothetically give the descendants of the humans on the series plenty of time to become mute by the time Colonel Taylor arrives.

Yet the TV series includes Dr. Zaius as a character, and I think it alludes to a previous visit by a 20th-century astronaut. So it's supposed to be after the movie even though the date is earlier and the details are changed.

It's normal for TV adaptations of movies to rejigger the continuity -- like the Starman series pushing the events of the movie back from the '80s to the '70s so Starman could have a teenage son in the present, or Men in Black: The Series ignoring K's retirement. Generally it's best to treat them as alternate timelines, or just alternate fictional interpretations.

 

[Markonian]

Generally it's best to treat them as alternate timelines, or just alternate fictional interpretations.

In such cases I employ the method of "double-think": perfectly accept what you're presented with in each instance as valid while watching it. For considering continuity when the show is offscreen, mentally favor one or the other.

 

[Therin of Andor]

New Trek stuff by Ian McLean, on Flickr

This week, the final parts of the Star Trek/Green Lantern comic crossover and a Mirror Universe story, both from IDW and set in the regular JJverse timeline. And yes, the alternate cover for the latter is unrelated "Archie"-inspired Trek art.

The book, "The Enterprise NCC 1701 and the Model Maker" (170pp., 2015), tracks the history behind the original filming model of the USS Enterprise by Dick Datin's daughter, N. Datin McDonald. Contains rare b/w pics and official memos.
http://www.amazon.com/The-Enterprise-1701-Model-Maker/dp/1518644880

 

[Reanok]

I finally got my copy of Greg Cox's Child of Two worlds I can't wait to find time to finally read this book.

 

[Trekkiegirl12]

I've preordered Ascendance Deep Space Nine by David R. George III.