And I use that emoticon not because I'm laughing, but because that is the closest to my current shade of green.
Data: "It is...it is green."
Orci & Kurtzman pick favorite Trek novels
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Data: "It is...it is green."
^Why quote Data's line from "Relics" instead of the Scotty line from "By Any Other Name" that it was a callback to?
best destiny was shit. PD is awesome. haven't read the other two. (sorry chris)
Because it sounded funnier in my head in that moment.
That occurred to me.
I'd say that they have a 50% success rate with their list of novels here. PD and ExM were both excellent, in their very different ways. BD was okay - it's probably my favourite Carey novel, but that's kind of damning it by faint praise. Having said that, the bits with young Kirk were the best part of it, so I suppose that's not a bad influence to have on a movie dealing with, er, young Kirk.
SW I found very disappointing, if only for the reason that it had an intriguing premise and I usually like Duane's novels. For my money, Sarek by AC Crispin was a much better novel covering relatively similar territory and would have tied in nicely with this movie.
Still, good to see that they are taking note of Trek lit.
I'm thrilled that "Ex Machina" was on their reading list. Loved it, even though CLB killed off one of my old fanfic regulars!
If it ever gets reprinted, I'd love to see it coupled in an omnibus with TMP's novelization.
If it ever gets reprinted, I'd love to see it coupled in an omnibus with TMP's novelization.
Way to go Chris...
To think, if they read the little shout out in front of it, they must have seen how trekbbs helped out, if ever so little... Perhaps they will lurk around here.
To think, if they read the little shout out in front of it, they must have seen how trekbbs helped out, if ever so little... Perhaps they will lurk around here.
I'm sure they already do.
I'm always waiting to see a trek insider step out from behind the curtain and turn out to be a major TNZ troll on here. That would be great.
There are a few Trek insiders on TrekBBS, though not necessarily in this forum. Rick Sternbach, Mike Okuda, and Andrew Probert all post on Trek Tech and some of the other boards. And I think Mike Sussman has shown up on the BBS occasionally.
and of course there's the Infamous Chase Masterson Debacle...
Emh banned her because he thought she wasn't the real deal.
You can see (part of) the story unfold here.
You should also take a look at his profile picture.
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Funny, I have it completely the other way 'round. Loved SW and have reread it many times, didn't so much care for Sarek.
