You bring up some really good points that hadn't occurred to me there.
I don't think it's impossible for this to be overcome (I've certainly seen less plausible or advisable get-togethers in real life, and the characters have had over fifteen years to develop a different dynamic), but it behooves the tie-ins to depict/explain why Brahms would be interested later in light of these circumstances.I could give a damn what it means for La Forge, what I don't get is why Brahms would be in any way interested in someone who, in essence, cyberstalked her, using his holographic blow-up doll to try to flirt with her, and then when she finds out about the blow-up doll and is (justifiably) pissed, he gets all self-righteous that she was so meeeeeeeeeeeean to him because he was just trying to be friendly, when what he was really trying to do was get in her pants by pretending to be compatible with her.
As it stands, it feels more like the idea just originated from the two having a prior connection on TNG without taking the specifics of that connection into account.
It mentions the Genesis Wave incident as the last time they saw each other; it doesn't mention that Leah's husband died during it.But yes, Brahm's husband died in the Genesis Wave and I remember a brief mention of that incident in IFM to that (I mainly remember it because I believe it was the last time the Genesis Wave books have been mentioned to date).
Also it has its origins in the mention in "All Good Things..." that La Forge married (perhaps just a) Leah.As it stands, it feels more like the idea just originated from the two having a prior connection on TNG without taking the specifics of that connection into account.
It mentions the Genesis Wave incident as the last time they saw each other; it doesn't mention that Leah's husband died during it.
As much as I love IFM, it's role in the novelverse is a bit odd. It takes a whole bunch of characters puts them in new roles and has them go on a big adventure, and then afterwards everyone just goes back to their old positions and it's like it never happened. For a while it seemed like it was not really part of the novelverse, but I think a few books have referred back to it recently.Still, I remember it as a decent story, in 2 parts. Some of the characters he brought on I agree with Stevil did not seem to match the current continuity. He made some brief mentions of how Barclay ended up on the ship, and something about Nog as well. But yeah, Ogawa felt like she didn't belong in the sense that I think she would have had to be 2 places at once.
As much as I love IFM, it's role in the novelverse is a bit odd. It takes a whole bunch of characters puts them in new roles and has them go on a big adventure, and then afterwards everyone just goes back to their old positions and it's like it never happened. For a while it seemed like it was not really part of the novelverse, but I think a few books have referred back to it recently.
As much as I love IFM, it's role in the novelverse is a bit odd. It takes a whole bunch of characters puts them in new roles and has them go on a big adventure, and then afterwards everyone just goes back to their old positions and it's like it never happened. For a while it seemed like it was not really part of the novelverse, but I think a few books have referred back to it recently.
Yeah, like I said, it feels like the set-up for a new ongoing series-- but it's not even that the other books undermine that, it undermines itself with the big resets at the end. I'm curious to see how it all fits together (to the extent that it does) going forward.Yeah, technically it's part of the relaunches but it's sort of it's own story. I think it references Christopher Bennett's DTI book that came out the next month I believe or maybe it was vice versa (I remember the author gave Christopher an acknowledgement because I think he gave him some tips about his story so IFM didn't contradict anything from the DTI story, or something to that effect).
Yeah, like I said, it feels like the set-up for a new ongoing series-- but it's not even that the other books undermine that, it undermines itself with the big resets at the end. I'm curious to see how it all fits together (to the extent that it does) going forward.
In Indistinguishable from Magic there's no big ties to the DTI books, but it does use the same "closed timelike curve" terminology as the DTI books (though that's a real term, introduced to Star Trek by the Millennium trilogy). I've only read the first chapter of Forgotten History so I can't speak to any other connections yet.
Thanks, Jens. I doesn't seem like Dave's Blake 7 guidebook ever happened, alas.By the way, if anyone is interested I did an Interview with David around the time of the release of IfM:
http://unreality-sf.net/2011/04/10/david-a-mcintee-interview-2/
It was pretty clearly written to be part of the Novelverse, it was just that the books after it ignored it for a while. We did eventually get a few references to it, but there was a short time where there was some question about whether or not it was still considered part of the Novelverse.Yeah, technically it's part of the relaunches but it's sort of it's own story. I think it references Christopher Bennett's DTI book that came out the next month I believe or maybe it was vice versa (I remember the author gave Christopher an acknowledgement because I think he gave him some tips about his story so IFM didn't contradict anything from the DTI story, or something to that effect).
It was pretty clearly written to be part of the Novelverse, it was just that the books after it ignored it for a while. We did eventually get a few references to it, but there was a short time where there was some question about whether or not it was still considered part of the Novelverse.
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