Time to revive an old thread, methinks. I got home from work today to find a cardboard box waiting for me. This is what was inside ...
Cool. I'm really looking forward this one. Sometimes it's nice to get an old fashioned stand alone series era adventure. I just wish we could get some for some of the other series.
The timing of this is really perfect for me, because I just started rewatching TOS all the way through on Netflix. I think this will be the first time I've ever actually watched all of the episodes in order.
^If you're watching them in the order they're listed on Netflix, you're not watching them in order. For some reason, the trend in recent years has been to order them per their original airdates rather than their production order. The production order works better overall (especially in the early first season).
I, too, am anxiously awaiting this book. In my opinion, there can never be too many McCoy-centric stories out there.
I'm definite ly looking forward to getting this book.It's nice to have a tos standalone it's been along time since we had a novel where McCoy gets an important part of the storyline.
I'm really looking forward to this book. I just finished rewatching TOS and now I'm hungry for some new TOS reading material.
Why does it take longer for my comp copies to cross one state line than it does for Michael's to cross the Atlantic? That's the question I ask myself every day as I come home and my stairwell is empty. Anyway, I thought this might be fun for folks to see. It's the book's "Mission Roster": U.S.S. Enterprise, NCC-1701 Bridge Staff Lieutenant Hikaru Sulu, acting commanding officer Lieutenant Nyota Uhura, chief communications officer Lieutenant John Farrell, navigator Lieutenant Manjula Rahda, helm officer Lieutenant Esteban Rodriguez, science officer Ensign Ali Harper, engineer (subsystems monitor) Petty Officer (second class) Tina Lawton, duty yeoman Medical Staff Doctor Leonard McCoy, chief medical officer Ensign Christine Chapel, head nurse Ensign Zainab Odhiambo, nurse Ensign Cheryl Thomas, nurse Lieutenant Clifford Brent, medical technician Ensign Magaly Messier, medical technician Chief Petty Officer Robert Abrams, medical technician Miscellaneous Staff Lieutenant Vincent DeSalle, assistant chief engineer Lieutenant David Galloway, security officer Lieutenant Ryan Leslie, security officer Lieutenant (junior grade) Hayden Singh, engineer (auxiliary control) Ensign Homi Padmanabhan, science officer (spatial physics) Shuttlecraft Columbus, NCC-1701/2 Captain James T. Kirk, commanding officer Lieutenant Commander Salvatore Giotto, chief of security Lieutenant (junior grade) Niall Rawlins, science officer (geology) Ensign Pavel Chekov, chief science officer Ensign Karen Seven Deers, engineering officer Petty Officer (first class) Fatih Yüksel, science officer (exobotany) Crewman (first class) Y Tra, security guard Shuttlecraft Hofstadter, NCC-1701/3 Commander Spock, commanding officer Lieutenant Commander Montgomery Scott, chief engineer Doctor Jabilo M’Benga, medical officer Lieutenant Karl Jaeger, science officer (geophysics) Lieutenant (junior grade) Mariella Kologwe, security officer Ensign Antti Saloniemi, science officer (archaeology & anthropology) Petty Officer (third class) Cron Emalra’ehn, security guard
Chapel an ensign? I thought she was a lieutenant. And with Chekov aboard but Galloway alive, I suppose this must be second-season. You went with Ryan as Leslie's first name? Memory Beta calls him "Ed Leslie" and I was going to go with that in Forgotten History, though I'm not sure of the source for it. But I see we both went with "Vincent" as DeSalle's first name (per the Star Trek Concordance), as opposed to "Michael" for the Mirror Universe version in The Sorrows of Empire. (I went with "Vincent Michael DeSalle" -- I figure his Mirror self favored the middle name.)
She never displayed rank stripes, as far as I was able to find, which would make her an ensign. Or after Galloway's resurrection. Yeah, we took "Ryan" from Crucible. I did "Vincent" just 'cause it lodged itself in my head correct years ago; I hadn't known its source until we started writing and I looked it up. (Also I think just using the actor's first name is a boring way of naming a character.)
He was never called Galloway in dialogue in "Turnabout Intruder," just in the credits. As far as I'm concerned, that guy was Johnson.
Heck. Mr. Leslie apparently died in "Obsession"--only to show up a couple eps later, as if nothing happened. (Apparently, there was a cut scene in which it was established that he wasn't dead, just "mostly dead", as Miracle Max said in Princess Bride--and he recovered by the end of the ep...?)
There seems to have been a promotion between TOS and TAS. Both Memory Alpha and Startrek.com support this, so we went with it. This is also why Giotto isn't called Barry in this novel.
I agree about the corniness of using the actor's first name, but I was wondering what the sources were for Leslie's various first names. Memory Beta isn't clear on that. But Memory Alpha says the following: Oh yeah, I remember now -- there's a bit in "The Naked Time" where Spock apparently addresses Paskey as "Ryan." Although it's odd that Spock would address a crewman by his first name. And it seems that none of the sources for Leslie's first name are part of the main novel continuity, so it's pretty much up for grabs. And "Ryan"'s the only one that has anything resembling a canonical basis. But if you ask me, he looks more like a Frank than a Ryan. (I think I've heard "Ryan Francis Leslie" proposed somewhere. Although on second thought, that might've been something from my own personal story notes some years back.)
I love it when the writers give us this stuff. It just makes everything seem more connected. I'm really looking forward to reading this. D (for download) - 7 days.