Out in 2011 - Star Trek: A Choice of Catastrophes

Discussion in 'Trek Literature' started by MichaelS, May 3, 2010.

  1. Rush Limborg

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  2. MichaelS

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    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 ...
     
  3. Turtletrekker

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  4. JD

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    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.
     
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    Well ain't that just perdy!! :bolian:

    Can't wait to get into that one, need some good TOS to read.
     
  6. JD

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    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.
     
  7. Christopher

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    ^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).
     
  8. JD

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    Oh, ok I'll remember that, thanks.
     
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    I, too, am anxiously awaiting this book. In my opinion, there can never be too many McCoy-centric stories out there. :)
     
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    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.
     
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    I'm really looking forward to this book. I just finished rewatching TOS and now I'm hungry for some new TOS reading material.
     
  12. Stevil2001

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    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
     
  13. Christopher

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    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.)
     
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    ^ It's the little things you gotta pay attention to...
     
  15. Stevil2001

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    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.)
     
  16. Christopher

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    He was never called Galloway in dialogue in "Turnabout Intruder," just in the credits. As far as I'm concerned, that guy was Johnson.
     
  17. Rush Limborg

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    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...?)
     
  18. MichaelS

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    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.
     
  19. Christopher

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    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.)
     
  20. BrotherBenny

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    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.