Thank you, DS9 Relaunch

[foravalon]

::whew:: well that's really all that needs to be said on that subject...

 

[Therin of Andor]

foravalon said:
The Andorian parts are some of the best stuff!

I'm with you! But then, I'm very biased. (And Heather Jarman named a park for me.)

what was really boring to me was all that crashed shuttle business on the planet in that first Mission Gamma book, yeah I liked the book and all but it Draaaaged. It's like, find out what's going on on the planet already! Life's short!

While he was Down Under, I told David George that, although I liked his "Twilight" just fine; it was well written, but I felt like I'd been on my own "Mission: Gamma" at the end. The book took me - literally - three months to read, which was ironically supposed to be the entire journey time of the actual Mission: Gamma. (The book coincided with a change of job and a sudden loss of a lengthy daily commute, but it did take a lot of effort to read that one.)

 

[Tirius]

^^^
I liked the Andor plot very much, too. I think the Worlds of DS9 story was a really good bit of world building, necessary as Andor was the only culture of the six not featured extensively in the (DS9-era) tv series.

 

[DS9forever]

Its not that I dislike the Andorian subplot, I just prefer the already established races in DS9. Paradigm was a fantastic read.

 

[BrotherBenny]

KRAD said:

Sorry to disappoint Marco, but Morris is nowhere near stocky enough.

You mean the same Phil Morris who already played a Jem'Hadar in the brilliant "Rocks and Shoals"? That Phil Morris?

What about The Rock?

I'd rather hire, y'know, an actor....



ETA: Or, uh, y'know, what Christopher said regarding Morris......

Granted he played a Jem'Hadar but they were stranded with rationed White and so would have been thinner than usual

What about Mark Dacascus? He's a Van Damme-style actor but could work

 

[Christopher]

^^Mark Dacascos as a Jem'Hadar? It's Iron Chef Dominion! "Tonight's secret ingredient is... Ketracel white!! For the fifty-seventh time in a row!"

 

[BrotherBenny]

Christopher said:
^^Mark Dacascos as a Jem'Hadar? It's Iron Chef Dominion! "Tonight's secret ingredient is... Ketracel white!! For the fifty-seventh time in a row!"

You haven't said it couldn't work

 

[ClayinCA]

JD said:
I've had him as my "mental actor" for Tarannie for quite a while now

"Tarannie"?

Would this be the lovable moppet Jem'Hadar who comes to the Alpha Quadrant as an orphan, only to be adopted by Daddy Warbucks...?

As far as who might "play" Taran'atar, I always pictured Tony Todd, as though he was finally "promoted" into a series regular role. But I can definitely see Phil Morris in the part.





"Tarannie"...?

 

[flandry84]

The character of Vaughn has quickly become one of my favourites-given his age,experience and history as a spook,Vaughn seems to have the chops to deal with the type of troubles that plague DS9.
I know that it has been adressed in other threads but I hope that Pocket don't let the relaunch lose momentum.

 

[phrog]

what was really boring to me was all that crashed shuttle business on the planet in that first Mission Gamma book, yeah I liked the book and all but it Draaaaged. It's like, find out what's going on on the planet already! Life's short!

Wow, I just couldn't disagree any more if I tried. Twilight is a fantastic work in my eyes, and easily one of the highest points in a relaunch full of high points.

I will say that like several other people, I found that some of the Andorian stuff really dragged. Not to the point that I didn't like the stories or was turned off completely by it, but something about the way Jarman wrote those segments/stories really stuck out when I hit them. And I liked her Captain's Table Kira entry quite a bit, so I'm not sure just what it is that makes her Andorian writing feel like I'm hitting the skids.

 

[KRAD]

^ Well, Heather's also written two S.C.E. eBooks (Balance of Nature and 10 is Better Than 01) and a Voyager novel (String Theory: Evolution), and a few more short stories (in Prophecy and Change and, with Jeffrey Lang, Tales of the Dominion War), all of which are Andorian-free, so that might be a good way to judge.

 

[JoeZhang]

The only thing I never understood about the mission gamma books (and it's not a spoiler as such) - where did space for cabins come from on the Defiant? and where did they fit the science labs?

 

[Smiley]

They showed cabins on the series, so there's obviously space for them. As for the science labs, who knows? They might have refitted existing compartments.

 

[The Nth Doctor]

And it's not like we saw every single cubic foot of the ship's interior during the show.

 

[Trent Roman]

JoeZhang said:
The only thing I never understood about the mission gamma books (and it's not a spoiler as such) - where did space for cabins come from on the Defiant? and where did they fit the science labs?

The refitting of the Defiant for more exploratory purposes is dealt with in Twilight, and takes place in the three-month gap between the first and second parts of that novel.

Fictitiously yours, Trent Roman