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So what are you reading now? (Part 3)
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Can't complain about that. Enjoy!
I dunno... sounds to me like you couldn't care less.
Greg, it fits in with this thread since you were actually reading the manuscript.
As for me, I just finished reading Unspoken Truth (4/5) and will now finish CSI: Blood Quantum before moving on to Naomi Novik's Empire of Ivory and Victory of Eagles.
As for me, I just finished reading Unspoken Truth (4/5) and will now finish CSI: Blood Quantum before moving on to Naomi Novik's Empire of Ivory and Victory of Eagles.
I just finished The Valley of Fear, a Sherlock Holmes story. I'm about to start on CSI: Brass in Pocket. After that I'm going to read another Holmes story, His Last Bow.
I forgot to mention that I finished the second ST: Mere Anarchy novella, The Center Cannot Hold by Mike W. Barr. It was pretty good, although I didn't like it quite as much as the first story, Wardimore's Things Fall Apart.
I'm in the mood for fantasy once I finish up with some of the other stuff I'm reading. So I was wondering which you guys think I should read, Forgotten Realms: Starless Night by R.A. Salvatore, Eragon by Christopher Paolini, or Mort by Terry Pratchett?
I'm in the mood for fantasy once I finish up with some of the other stuff I'm reading. So I was wondering which you guys think I should read, Forgotten Realms: Starless Night by R.A. Salvatore, Eragon by Christopher Paolini, or Mort by Terry Pratchett?
The Best of Trek #12 arrived this morning.
TBoT quote of the day: "Mr. Spock...is an emotionally retarded individual with serious difficulties relating to reality"
TBoT quote of the day: "Mr. Spock...is an emotionally retarded individual with serious difficulties relating to reality"
I imagine a collection of The Best of Trek quotes would be quite entertaining to look at with today's perspective...
I'm sure there are a tonne of retroactively ironic quotes in them--statements along the lines of, "It's not as if we'll ever see a Klingon in Starfleet," to give a random hypothetical example.
Strange but true. Most of the books I read these days won't be coming out for a year or so!
Just finishing up Dayton Ward's The Last World War & the short Texas Pride: A Tale of The Last World War. Love this one. Hope to start Counterstrike this weekend.
Finished Voyager/Section 31: Shadow. Not bad, a nice little "plot of the week" episode. I honestly can't recall, did Section 31 ever actually show up on VOY?
Started Q-in-Law. How in blue hell did the TV producers never think to make this happen on screen?
Started Q-in-Law. How in blue hell did the TV producers never think to make this happen on screen?
No.
Re: Forced Mind Meld?
It barely made it as a novel. Supposedly (according to Voyages of Imagination) it took Majel Rodenberry herself storming the Paramount offices to get it published.
It barely made it as a novel. Supposedly (according to Voyages of Imagination) it took Majel Rodenberry herself storming the Paramount offices to get it published.
The Star Trek Spaceflight Chronology 1980-2188. I've wanted this for years. I love the artwork.
Some random thoughts:
The USS King Charles looks like an Enterprise-era Vulcan ship without the ring.
I remember the Tritium from the cover of the old Kobayashi Maru novel.
The ringship Enterprise looks great. How they fit 950 people into a 300m tube (and the ring, which I assume was originally 2001-style habitation) is beyond me!
I'm sure I remember an old Horizon-class cruiser cropping up in either A Singular Destiny or Losing the Peace.
I remember Mann-class ships from The Final Reflection.
The USS Moscow's saucer reminds me of the Kelvin's. It would fit in perfectly as part of the fleet in that era.
Again - great artwork.
Some random thoughts:
The USS King Charles looks like an Enterprise-era Vulcan ship without the ring.
I remember the Tritium from the cover of the old Kobayashi Maru novel.
The ringship Enterprise looks great. How they fit 950 people into a 300m tube (and the ring, which I assume was originally 2001-style habitation) is beyond me!
I'm sure I remember an old Horizon-class cruiser cropping up in either A Singular Destiny or Losing the Peace.
I remember Mann-class ships from The Final Reflection.
The USS Moscow's saucer reminds me of the Kelvin's. It would fit in perfectly as part of the fleet in that era.
Again - great artwork.
I read Double, Double this week. It's a good yarn with androids and Romulans, and it could have worked as a two-parter or movie pretty easily. It also contains a reference to the Laurential system. Is that a real star somewhere? I find it hard to believe that the movie writers cherry-picked the reference from this story.
Laurential? The one in the movie was the Laurentian system. There's no real star of either name, but "Laurentian" is a pretty common name, generally referring to things associated with the St. Lawrence River and its region. So coincidence is quite possible.
I figure the writers were making a subtle reference to the Laurentian Abyss, which features in the Transformers films.
It was a reference to Transformers' Laurentian sea, where the baddie bot was dumped at the end.
EDIT: Damn, beaten to it!
But then again Bob Orci does read loads of Trek novels. The early version of the script at IMDB scripts has a Spock's World "Cthia" reference.
EDIT: Damn, beaten to it!
But then again Bob Orci does read loads of Trek novels. The early version of the script at IMDB scripts has a Spock's World "Cthia" reference.
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Thanks, could have been interesting, seeing how Janeway would deal with it on her own.
Wow, I've got VotI, but I've barely scratched the surface of all the stories. Seems like it would have been such an easy sell for an episode.
Is this like super-rare, eBay only? Or kinda rare, occasionally shows up in used bookstores? I've heard it mentioned over the years, but I don't think I've actually ever come across it.
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Finished Q-in-Law, kinda dragged with the aliens, but the final showdown would have been spectacular to see onscreen.
Starting the Q Continuum trilogy next.
Yeah, it's been out of print for a long, long time, and though it's largely been "overwritten" thanks to the spin-off shows and the post-TMP films, it's still a favorite of mine.
Allow me to geek out on the book a bit.
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