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Spoilers PRO: Escape Route by Cassandra Rose Clarke - Review Thread

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Star Trek: Prodigy TM is a brand-new animated series streaming on Paramount+ and airing on Nickelodeon! Don't miss this thrilling, original middle grade novel starring the Protostar crew!

The crew is on their way to Starfleet. Their shuttle is cramped, and everyone is cranky. That's when Murf spots a moon that isn't on their charts. Murf really wants to go there, so the crew decides to make a stop to stretch their legs and get some supplies.

But a small detour turns into a big dilemma when the inhabitants of the moon ask Murf to stay with them. The rest of the crew begins to wonder if this is a sign. Could it be time for each of them to go their separate ways?

https://www.simonandschuster.com/bo...a-Rose-Clarke/Star-Trek-Prodigy/9781665921206
 
I hadn't realised this novel has come out. There's no eBook version, so I'll order myself one printed on paper and bound together?

The first couple of pages are up on Amazon: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Escape-Rou...swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1695661653&sr=8-1

Here, the "shuttle craft" (sic) goes unnamed but we know from the show it's the Protostar-type Shuttle 06. It looks different on the cover but we can chalk it up to either artistic license or parts moving around.
Protostar type shuttlecraft.jpg Shuttle.jpg

I'm looking forward to engaging with what is currently the final-ever published Star Trek: Prodigy product!
 
As I recall, I liked Ms. Clarke's prior ST opus (I gave it a 10, and I've apparently read it twice), so I'm looking forward to this one.

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Hmm. Two other Prodigy books out (one of them also by Ms. Clarke), and they'll be available as a boxed set next month. 160 pages each, according to B&N -- more novellas than novels, but then again, I've got the complete Bobbsey Twins series of youth novels (including the "lost" books that never made it to the purple edition I grew up with, and both the original and "purple" versions of the two that were rewritten beyond recognition for the "purple" edition), and they're all fairly short.
 
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hbquikcomjamesl said:
Two other Prodigy books out (one of them also by Ms. Clarke), and they'll be available as a boxed set next month. 160 pages each, according to B&N -- more novellas than novels
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IIRC, these are aimed at 8 - 12 year olds, which explains the length. (Much like, I assume, the youth novels you mentioned.)
 
Arrived today, finished over the afternoon. Voted outstanding. Can't believe this is the final release of PRO story content.
 
Markonian said:
Can't believe this is the final release of PRO story content.
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Never say final. Think about the fifth seasons of Babylon 5 and Get Smart. And I'm sure there are other examples of series that started on one network and ended up on another.

Still no sign of this opus (or the boxed set that's inexplicably 2 cents more expensive than the sum of the individual book prices) locally.

But I do have the other two. Not thrilled with the typography. Would have liked it better, set in whatever face Pocket normally uses for ST novels. Or Garamond. Or Baskerville. Or Century Schoolbook. Could be worse: could have been set quadded left, instead of justified.
 
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And I'm sure there are other examples of series that started on one network and ended up on another.
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Yup, plenty. The Bionic Woman and Buffy the Vampire Slayer spring to mind; also Airwolf. There were also a number of series that were cancelled by networks and revived in syndication, like Fame and Viper. And there are the multiple revivals of Mystery Science Theater 3000 and Futurama on different platforms.
 
Dunno how I could have forgotten The Bionic Woman, given that I'm pretty sure I saw every episode. (On the other hand, I went out of my way to avoid the 2007 reboot.)

And I also regularly watched Fame. And while I don't think I ever saw a complete episode of the one CBS season of The Paper Chase, I watched the Showtime revival regularly.
 
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Dunno how I could have forgotten The Bionic Woman, given that I'm pretty sure I saw every episode. (On the other hand, I went out of my way to avoid the 2007 reboot.)
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Good choice. I'd barely even call it a reboot, since aside from using the title and the main character name (which they failed to credit Kenneth Johnson for), it had nothing in common with the original beyond the broad concept of, well, a bionic woman. Which isn't necessarily a bad thing if what you come up with instead is worthwhile in its own right, but in this case, it wasn't.
 
We seem to be in complete agreement. Be afraid. Be very afraid.

(And for the record, I always preferred Alan Oppenheimer's Rudy Wells [from most of The $6M Man] to both the Martin Balsam version [from the pilot] and the Martin E. Brooks version [from the debut of Jaime Sommers], but that may simply be because I don't think I've seen Oppenheimer in any role without immediately liking him in it. And I always preferred Richard Anderson's Oscar Goldman to Darren McGavin's Oliver Spencer. I don't know why, but for some reason, Oscar Goldman kind of reminds me of Dr. Asten [John S. Ragin, who had a one-shot role in TNG], from Quincy, and vice versa.)
 
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I always preferred Alan Oppenheimer's Rudy Wells [from most of The $6M Man] to both the Martin Balsam version [from the pilot] and the Martin E. Brooks version [from the debut of Jaime Sommers]
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Well, of course.

A bit of a correction, though: Oppenheimer played Rudy in Jaime's introduction as a guest character in 6M$M. Brooks took over when Jamie was brought back from the dead and spun off into her own series. The flashback clips in "The Return of the Bionic Woman" show Oppenheimer as Rudy, so it's a bit jarring when Brooks plays him in the episode proper (and they initially frosted the top of Brooks's hair to make him look sort of bald-ish to ease the transition).

I think there's also an Oppenheimer-Rudy episode that has a flashback clip of Balsam-Rudy operating on Steve.


And I always preferred Richard Anderson's Oscar Goldman to Darren McGavin's Oliver Spencer.
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It's interesting to compare Oscar in the Glen Larson-produced pilot movies to Oscar in the regular series. Oscar started out in the movies as the same kind of character as Spencer (who was just a renamed version of Oscar Goldman from the novel), a ruthless, cold government spook that Steve worked for reluctantly and had an adversarial relationship with. But in the series, they started writing the character to fit Anderson's personality, so Oscar turned into a teddy bear and Steve's best "pal."

And we should probably be talking about this somewhere else than a Prodigy thread...
 
Very true. I might be reading the two previous PRO novels, except that I started re-reading A Flag Full of Stars, to refresh my memory of the Tarsus IV flashback.
 
No idea when the present opus will actually become available locally (although I could always piggyback it on an Amazon order, I suppose), but I have begun Ms. Clarke's other PRO opus. Kind of simplistic and explanation-heavy, even for a children's novel (and I still occasionally break out a Bobbsey Twins book, and regularly watch Mister Rogers' Neighborhood!), but it does nail Pog's "pronoun trouble."
 
Finally started it. Apparently a lot has happened since the mid-season cliffhanger of the Protostar having been turned into a weapon to destroy Starfleet.
 
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