That was a scarey thought...

[ronny]

I'm blasting through a bunch of the old numbered ST books I got for fifty cents each a few weeks back. This morning on the way to work there was a moment where Muni slammed on the brakes in the tunnel for no apparent reason. One of my thoughts was "If this has been more serious, the last thing I would have read is this dumb ass paragraph on 'full vulcan command mode' in The Prometheus Design. NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!"

 

[Dayton Ward]

Damn, but that's funny.

 

[Therin of Andor]

I got for fifty cents each a few weeks back: The Prometheus Design.

Some would say you were overcharged...

It could have been worse. Imagine that was the book you were reading when found by aliens a la TNG's "The Royale"...

 

[ronny]

Finished.

I don't really want to bash too hard on the authors since it was people like them that kept fandom and ST alive in those years between the series and movie but damn, I'm sure glad their view of what ST books should be like isn't what we have today...

So is Trilogy any better?

 

[Christopher]

Do you mean Marshak & Culbreath's Triangle? I'd have to say no. Actually I feel The Prometheus Design is by far the best of their four novels, since it touches on some interesting philosophical ideas.

 

[donners22]

I got for fifty cents each a few weeks back: The Prometheus Design.

Some would say you were overcharged...

It could have been worse. Imagine that was the book you were reading when found by aliens a la TNG's "The Royale"...

Or, to combine the two, imagine if the last thing you were watching was "The Royale". My mother refused to watch the show for weeks after that episode.

 

[Nerys Ghemor]

I got for fifty cents each a few weeks back: The Prometheus Design.

Some would say you were overcharged...

It could have been worse. Imagine that was the book you were reading when found by aliens a la TNG's "The Royale"...

That book...infuriated me. First off--"Vulcan command mode"...what the HELL?

And then some other reasons I won't even get into because I'll just make myself mad again and I'd rather forget. BLEH.

 

[ronny]

Do you mean Marshak & Culbreath's Triangle? I'd have to say no. Actually I feel The Prometheus Design is by far the best of their four novels, since it touches on some interesting philosophical ideas.

Oops, I did mean Triangle. Guess I'm blotting it from my mind and I haven't even read it yet...

 

[JoeZhang]

So what is Vulcan command mode?

 

[Trent Roman]

It's when you don't wear any undergarments beneath your robes/catsuit. No, wait, that's Vulcan commando mode. Hmm....

Fictitiously yours, Trent Roman

 

[Steve Roby]

I don't really want to bash too hard on the authors since it was people like them that kept fandom and ST alive in those years between the series and movie but damn, I'm sure glad their view of what ST books should be like isn't what we have today...

So is Trilogy any better?

Back in 1977 I was so excited to have The Price of the Phoenix that I read it repeatedly. Every Star Trek novel was an event. Okay, sure it was weird, but it was a Star Trek novel and I was a 14 year old fanboy. The Fate of the Phoenix seemed a bit less claustrophobic and I liked it better. The Prometheus Design? By then, I was 19, and was less likely to get excited about a Star Trek book just because it was a Star Trek book. I didn't like it at all. In fact, when Triangle came out, I waited months before I finally bought it. I really didn't want to buy another Marshak and Culbreath book. But of course I bought it eventually. It seemed to me at the time to be somewhat less awful than The Prometheus Design.