So, the jokes weren't prEav'oqative enough?
Sword of Damocles available on Amazon
- Thread starter JD
- Start date
So, the jokes weren't prEav'oqative enough?
Well, I'm not getting into a punfest this evening, but I wanted to say that I read the book today (thanks to my local library having just opened a new, bigger building, it's now buying new ST books! Yay!) and really enjoyed it. It was a fun, fast read, and continued to differentiate the culture of Titan from that of Picard's Enterprise, which is a good thing. I did wonder, though, how this board's own Titan designer, Sean Tourangeau, felt about being praised in the acknowledgments and then....
Well done. {ProfJonathan}
killing him off as "Dr. Tourangeau" in the Luna incident in Ra-Havraeii's recollection to Troi. It was cute, though, how the Luna design was described as a "competition."
Well done. {ProfJonathan}
He isn't dead. Only trapped in a chair like Chris Pike.
And thank you.
It's rather a shame, though, that this one is NOT. DEAD.JD said:
You know if you think about it, it really is kinda scary how long we keep some of these jokes going.
JD said:
GUARDS!!!
You know if you think about it, it really is kinda scary how long we keep some of these jokes going.
It's actually kind of funny, I think I missed the initial round of Eav'oq jokes, so this "joke" was the one that I could think of off the top of my head.
I promise... I won't do it again.I apologize to all for making it, as William Leisner said, "NOT. DEAD."
(Now where's my list of books to read before Articles of f the Federation?)
I just went to Barnes and Noble and finally found a copy. I had to flip to p178 to see what happened to my alter ego in the trek universe.
Nice I guess the "sehlat"got me. So basically I am Pike
now stuck in a chair??? At least give me my drawing arm
to be creative.
All joking aside, thanks for including me in the story.
Nice I guess the "sehlat"got me. So basically I am Pike
now stuck in a chair??? At least give me my drawing arm
to be creative.
All joking aside, thanks for including me in the story.
Well. You made a splash and you're still alive. Who know what the future holds?
In the Viacom split, Paramount's TV division was split off from the movie division and folded into CBS Studios (though they're both still owned by the same parent corporation). Therefore, CBS has the TV rights to Trek while Paramount Pictures has the movie rights. Perhaps Titan gets both because the Titan itself and Riker's captaincy thereof were introduced in the movie Nemesis, so the series is a mix of both TV and movie concepts.
Pardon? It was my understanding that Paramount Television became CBS Paramount Television, owned by CBS, while Paramount Pictures remained the property of Viacom, with no common ownership anymore.
That's the only thing I can think. It's still odd, though, because we've seen previous Trek novels that incorporated film and TV concepts but were only copyrighted to CBS.
Nope. In fact, the company that used to be called Viacom is now called CBS Corporation, and it split off a smaller branch corporation that's called (the new) Viacom to handle its movie studios and cable/satellite networks -- hence the confusion. They are separate corporations, but Sumner Redstone is still the majority shareholder in both of them.
Well, I think it depends on whether it's part of the core concepts. For instance, currently IDW only has the comic-book rights to TOS and TNG. That prevents it from doing, say, a full-blown DS9, VGR, or ENT comic, but it's still able to use plot elements or guest characters from DS9, VGR, or ENT in its TOS or TNG comics, such as having elements of ENT's Andorians in its current Andorian spotlight issue. So analogously, the TNG novel Q&A having a single chapter set aboard Titan would be a different thing rights-wise from a full-on installment of the Titan series.
Or I could be wrong. Maybe there's another reason the Paramount and CBS logos appear together on SoD. We'll have to see what happens with subsequent books.
I got this one Thursday, started it Friday, and finished it today. Another excellent installment in the Titan series. For all the bits where the tesseract made my head hurt (and normally I like those sort of things), the handling of the characters, especially Vale, Dakal, Modan, Xin, Huilan, and (most of all) Jaza made it shine.
The amount of exploration that can be done within Titan as well as without continues to impress.
Oh, and Dakal is rapidly shaping up to be a favorite character of mine.
The amount of exploration that can be done within Titan as well as without continues to impress.
Oh, and Dakal is rapidly shaping up to be a favorite character of mine.
Dakal's pretty prominent, and though Huilan isn't, the bits where he is there are excellent.
I love Dakal. And who doesn't enjoy Huilan?
(so thanks!)
(so thanks!)
I just got SoD and even though I'm on page 16 I'm already hooked. If the rest of the book is this good, it will definitely be cementing Titan's place as my second favorite Trek series. I'm really hoping we get to learn about Dakal's background, because I've been very curious how a Cardassian ended up in Starfleet.
Here's my mini-review of Sword of Damocles:
The book started out pretty slowly, and it took almost until Part 2 for the story to have much momentum. Once it got going, though, it was a pretty entertaining story. I don't know if I fully understand the anomaly and time paradoxes even now, but the consequences to the characters were made clear. What really worked were the characters. Jaza, Dakal, and Modan were all interesting, and the other big names of the Titan crew got decent supporting roles. My rating is a 7/10.
So far, I've found the odd entries to be far more gripping than the even entries into the series. I'm not saying there's an "even number curse" on the series or anything, especially since TRK and SoD are both good reads.
Finally, the cover art is simply gorgeous.
The book started out pretty slowly, and it took almost until Part 2 for the story to have much momentum. Once it got going, though, it was a pretty entertaining story. I don't know if I fully understand the anomaly and time paradoxes even now, but the consequences to the characters were made clear. What really worked were the characters. Jaza, Dakal, and Modan were all interesting, and the other big names of the Titan crew got decent supporting roles. My rating is a 7/10.
So far, I've found the odd entries to be far more gripping than the even entries into the series. I'm not saying there's an "even number curse" on the series or anything, especially since TRK and SoD are both good reads.
Finally, the cover art is simply gorgeous.
I was surprised at first when I was realizing I was a big chunk of the way into it and thinking I haven't seen Riker yet. But the story was good and, hey, it's called "star trek: titan", not "star trek: riker" so I just rolled with it.
I really enjoyed the book and I think it was a very interesting choice to focus more on other crew members and less on Riker in this book. I wouldn't have thought of that but that's why I'm a reader, not a writer or editor.
I give the book and the artwork thumbs up.
I really enjoyed the book and I think it was a very interesting choice to focus more on other crew members and less on Riker in this book. I wouldn't have thought of that but that's why I'm a reader, not a writer or editor.
I give the book and the artwork thumbs up.Similar threads
