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Well, not as bad as EoV book 1 (Which I just started re-reading last night) where Ensign West becomes Lieutenant West in the space of a page.
Well, not as bad as EoV book 1 (Which I just started re-reading last night) where Ensign West becomes Lieutenant West in the space of a page.
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Loved the book! Finished it in three days!
T'Lana still seems out of place the in the series as a whole though. It has to be tough to create new characters for us die hard TNG people. Now I know how the TOS fans feel.
Great book and an easy read. I liked how you tied all the Q references together!!
Loved the book! Finished it in three days!
T'Lana still seems out of place the in the series as a whole though. It has to be tough to create new characters for us die hard TNG people. Now I know how the TOS fans feel.
Great book and an easy read. I liked how you tied all the Q references together!!
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I finished Q&A the other day. Loved it!! My favorite part in the whole book was "I just wanted to see you in tights, Jean-Luc."
And I actually like T'Lana. Liked her in Resistance too.
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I finished Q&A the other day. Loved it!! My favorite part in the whole book was "I just wanted to see you in tights, Jean-Luc."
And I actually like T'Lana. Liked her in Resistance too.
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That was a great line indeed.
Guess what my favorite was.
That was a great line indeed.
Guess what my favorite was.
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Started it today. So far, I've loved the various looks at the rest of the Trek universe (Titan, Gorkon, ect), and the "connect the dots" aspect of Q's encounters with Picard.
As an aside-- Keith, thanks for lifting the Talos IV death penalty! I've always hated that aspect of the Trek universe, thinking it to be a ridiculous over-reaction to visiting even a restricted world. I think that there is a cosmic symbolism that parts of the Patriot Act have been struck down in the real world at approximately the same time as the Talos IV death penalty is revealed to be lifted in the Trek universe. :thumbsup:
ETA: Was that a Firefly reference on page 69?
Started it today. So far, I've loved the various looks at the rest of the Trek universe (Titan, Gorkon, ect), and the "connect the dots" aspect of Q's encounters with Picard.
As an aside-- Keith, thanks for lifting the Talos IV death penalty! I've always hated that aspect of the Trek universe, thinking it to be a ridiculous over-reaction to visiting even a restricted world. I think that there is a cosmic symbolism that parts of the Patriot Act have been struck down in the real world at approximately the same time as the Talos IV death penalty is revealed to be lifted in the Trek universe. :thumbsup:
ETA: Was that a Firefly reference on page 69?
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I first came up with it when I was putting the proposal together, and thought it was just the perfect ending to that scene. 
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Honestly? It was my favorite line, too.
I first came up with it when I was putting the proposal together, and thought it was just the perfect ending to that scene. Not as such, no. Looking at it, I can see why you'd think so, but there wasn't any intent there. (As opposed to Mal Rennols in Enemy Territory -- now that was a deliberate Firefly reference.ETA: Was that a Firefly reference on page 69?
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'Bought the book yesterday, and finished it later the same day. An excellent read, and being the connected-universe gusher I am, I thoroughly enjoyed it.
Not many Trek authors, well - in fact not many authors at all, have the ability to make me laugh out loud. You do KRAD, well, you and peter David.
Commenting on the characters, I must say that it was really nice to get some Geordi-time. YEAH! Miranda Kadohata seems ok, but all in all she hasn't caught my interest yet. But the new security guy, Leybenzon, looks really, really interesting. For the past couple of years I've seriously been fiending to hear some more about the enlisted people in Starfleet. You kinda get the feel that a starship consists only of officers, which IMHO would never work from a chain-of-command point of view.
I seriously like the idea of Leybenzon as a grunt who has worked his way up the chain, until finally recieving a warrant commision (is that the right term in the US?). I absolutely loved the interaction between him and the rest of the senior staff regarding scientific questions. Having never been at the academy, Leybenzon knows next to nothing about the basic science stuff - really laughed my ass off when he stated something he thought was an astute observation, but the others guys kinda took for granted knowledge. That, and the promise of some great interaction between him and Worf, makes me look forward to reading more about him. Good job!
'Bought the book yesterday, and finished it later the same day. An excellent read, and being the connected-universe gusher I am, I thoroughly enjoyed it.
Not many Trek authors, well - in fact not many authors at all, have the ability to make me laugh out loud. You do KRAD, well, you and peter David.
Commenting on the characters, I must say that it was really nice to get some Geordi-time. YEAH! Miranda Kadohata seems ok, but all in all she hasn't caught my interest yet. But the new security guy, Leybenzon, looks really, really interesting. For the past couple of years I've seriously been fiending to hear some more about the enlisted people in Starfleet. You kinda get the feel that a starship consists only of officers, which IMHO would never work from a chain-of-command point of view.
I seriously like the idea of Leybenzon as a grunt who has worked his way up the chain, until finally recieving a warrant commision (is that the right term in the US?). I absolutely loved the interaction between him and the rest of the senior staff regarding scientific questions. Having never been at the academy, Leybenzon knows next to nothing about the basic science stuff - really laughed my ass off when he stated something he thought was an astute observation, but the others guys kinda took for granted knowledge. That, and the promise of some great interaction between him and Worf, makes me look forward to reading more about him. Good job!
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Wasn't that actually done in Burning Dreams?
Wasn't that actually done in Burning Dreams?
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KLOEN, that was exactly what I was going for with Leybenzon, so I'm glad that worked for you. And glad you laughed a lot.
By the way, DS9 was good about having enlisted personnel alongside the officers, and one of the things I'm proudest of in the Corps of Engineers series is that there's a good chunk of enlisted folk on the da Vinci as well.
KLOEN, that was exactly what I was going for with Leybenzon, so I'm glad that worked for you. And glad you laughed a lot.
By the way, DS9 was good about having enlisted personnel alongside the officers, and one of the things I'm proudest of in the Corps of Engineers series is that there's a good chunk of enlisted folk on the da Vinci as well.
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Nope. When BD ended, Spock was going to bring the request to the Fed council, but it was still in effect. That was why Spock had to be all sneaky in going to Talos in BD.
In the Starfleet Academy comics, Nog, Titan's Pava and the rest of Omega Squad faced the death penalty after visiting Talos in 2372. Their trip to Talos (but not their death sentence) was even mentioned in Mission Gamma: Cathedral. For now, I'm just going to assume that the controversy over the sentence depicted in the comic had something to do with the threat of the death penatly finally being lifted. :thumbsup:
Nope. When BD ended, Spock was going to bring the request to the Fed council, but it was still in effect. That was why Spock had to be all sneaky in going to Talos in BD.
In the Starfleet Academy comics, Nog, Titan's Pava and the rest of Omega Squad faced the death penalty after visiting Talos in 2372. Their trip to Talos (but not their death sentence) was even mentioned in Mission Gamma: Cathedral. For now, I'm just going to assume that the controversy over the sentence depicted in the comic had something to do with the threat of the death penatly finally being lifted. :thumbsup:
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That's pretty cool, KRAD. I was just looking on Memory Beta and it's actually 5/5 ratio of officers to enlisted in the main cast. I think that's gotta be the most enlisted main characters we have seen in a Trek series. Wait... did we even have any enlisted regulars other O'Brien in any of the onscreen Trek?
That's pretty cool, KRAD. I was just looking on Memory Beta and it's actually 5/5 ratio of officers to enlisted in the main cast. I think that's gotta be the most enlisted main characters we have seen in a Trek series. Wait... did we even have any enlisted regulars other O'Brien in any of the onscreen Trek?
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As for the da Vinci... Yeah, Blue, Faulwell, Soloman, Stevens, and Abramowitz are all enlisted, as are everyone in Corsi's security detail save Core-Breach herself.
This led to one of my favorite of many Hawkins/Stevens exchanges, from Failsafe, repeated in two completely different contexts:
No, O'Brien was the only opening-credits regular who was enlisted personnel, but plenty of engineers and security folk on DS9 (and a few on the Enterprise) were enlisted also. We also saw a bunch on TOS, particularly early in the first season, when the show actually was being produced as if there were 430 people on board instead of a dozen.
As for the da Vinci... Yeah, Blue, Faulwell, Soloman, Stevens, and Abramowitz are all enlisted, as are everyone in Corsi's security detail save Core-Breach herself.
This led to one of my favorite of many Hawkins/Stevens exchanges, from Failsafe, repeated in two completely different contexts:
Okay, it's funnier in context, but it set the tone for future Stevens/Hawkins scenes (particularly in Security and Remembrance of Things Past Book 2).
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There were a whole bunch of people with 'Crewman' rank on Voyager... most of the Maquis, I believe. And wouldn't Torres qualify as 'enlisted' since she never graduated from the Academy?
Fictitiously yours, Trent Roman
There were a whole bunch of people with 'Crewman' rank on Voyager... most of the Maquis, I believe. And wouldn't Torres qualify as 'enlisted' since she never graduated from the Academy?
Fictitiously yours, Trent Roman
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Yeah, I knew that there were alot of enlisted people who made appeances on the shows but I was talking specifically about main credits regulars.
What about Chakoty, would he have been non-commisioned too? Because I would think if he was, then it would have been better to pick someone who was officially an officer for XO, like Tuvok.
Yeah, I knew that there were alot of enlisted people who made appeances on the shows but I was talking specifically about main credits regulars.
What about Chakoty, would he have been non-commisioned too? Because I would think if he was, then it would have been better to pick someone who was officially an officer for XO, like Tuvok.
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^ Chakotay was already a Starfleet officer when he defected to join the Maquis.
Fictitiously yours, Trent Roman
^ Chakotay was already a Starfleet officer when he defected to join the Maquis.
Fictitiously yours, Trent Roman
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