Spoilers Strange New Worlds General Discussion Thread

[Unionized Elf]

Novelverse = Authorized fan fiction

It is inappropriate to refer to anything written by a professional author as "fan fiction."

 

[Detached Nacelle]

It is inappropriate to refer to anything written by a professional author as "fan fiction."

Even professionals can write something truly awful and laden with the most prototypical fanfiction tropes so it can be a valid criticism.

 

[Dukhat]

So there was no fanbase then you showed up and suddenly there was a fanbase...

I'm on to you.

Well, me and two other kids in my 7th grade homeroom, yeah.

Dennis is incredibly old. Just ask TRON.

 

[Santa Kang]

word on the street is that star trek strange new worlds season 5 will have sulu and checkoff but they will only appear in the very last episode of season 5 when captain james tiberius kirk takes over for chris pike to run the enter prize

Yeah we know. see post # 18192

 

[Mudd]

Even professionals can write something truly awful and laden with the most prototypical fanfiction tropes so it can be a valid criticism.

No, Unionized Elf is correct. Such characterizations are rhetorically incoherent.

 

[Danja]

It is inappropriate to refer to anything written by a professional author as "fan fiction."

Even professionals can write something truly awful and laden with the most prototypical fanfiction tropes so it can be a valid criticism.

I seem to recall no shortage of people calling Jack Crusher a "Gary Stu".