Q-Squared?
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Actually, we had John deLancie at a ST convention a few weeks after he'd recorded the audio for "Q-Squared", and he was telling us what the story was about.
IIRC, William Campbell had only recently bobbed up again as a regular guest at ST conventions (following "Blood Oath" for DS9, which had aired in March 94), and de Lancie got to meet him at a US convention. The host of the convention decided that Q should meet Trelane onstage. Suddenly, the script for the audio production (or PAD's manuscript for the novel?, published July 94) was brought out and there were Q and Trelane reading their lines side-by-side for the US-based audience.
This anecdote led us Aussies to believe that they were both on the actual audio production but, when it came out, it was de Lancie only, so I still don't know if Campbell recorded his Trelane bits, and they weren't working out properly, or if de Lancie meant only that Campbell had presented some excerpts with him live, but not for Simon & Schuster Audioworks.
Certainly, the budgets for the audios are, by their nature, very tight, and it's usually hard for them to afford more than one narrator.
It's possible that they did record an audio version together, but that it ran afoul of the same licensing issue that nearly scuppered the Q-in-Law audio; namely, that the license covers a reading of the book, not a dramatization of the book. It was because Majel was Mrs. Roddenberry that Q-in-Law flew. William Campbell doesn't have pull like that.
^ True. I know for a time Simon & Schuster "no longer held" the license for full dramatization, perhaps about the time the "Captain Sulu" CDs failed, and then the CD-ROM game license went to "Starfleet Academy"'s Interplay.
^^Not that the Captain Sulu audios were actually full dramatizations -- more like half-dramatizations. There were no scenes of actual dialogue between characters -- just successive solo narrative passages treated as log entries or transmissions or recordings, with sound effects added. It was sometimes rather awkward, structurally.
really? where is it? i must have missed it.
sgsmitty said:
Correct, I have not read it yet. Starting it today as a matter of fact.
Ah, good - I thought that might be the case, so I went with the spoiler codes. Glad everyone else did too
Yep. And, even in the early days, the Takei/Nimoy and Doohan/Nimoy narrator combos had no interplay at all.
I recall once emailing John Ordover asking if Interplay's "Starfleet Academy" would get the Audioworks treatment, like "Klingon" and "Borg" had made use of dialogues from those CD-ROM games, but he said that they "no longer" had the license for full-cast dramatizations. Sounds like Paramount was floating such a product as a separate license, so far with no takers.
Or maybe the "Spock vs Q" products came under that umbrella? They were essentially made by de Lancie's "Alien Voices" team and distributed by Simon & Schuster Audioworks.
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He was the Continuum's dutiful little boy now, cleaning up all their messes. First Trelane, now the philosopher.
as was indicated in the first section from Q's perspective when he mentions the philosopher is imprisioned in a comet.
I want to read it again soon. It's definitely one of my favorites out of the 60 or so that I've read.
It was brilliant. Any novel containing a large section of nonsense is good in my book.
Horses have behooves.
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