Popularity (i.e. commercial appeal) trumps rank.
The Autobiography of Mr. Spock by... Una McCormack?
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Popularity (i.e. commercial appeal) trumps rank.
Fair enough. I guess I'm just looking forward to the Sisko book (which is me getting ahead of myself, I haven't even read the Kirk and Picard books yet).
I think it could be fun...always great in those comic book Who's Who entries to see the writer try to sum up messed up comic book runs.
In fairness, it was published in 1805 so not a bad price for a 200 year old book. Heck, it is older than Star Trek.
Quick! Some one call Dulmur and Lucsly to investigate!
As tempting as it would be to say 'Saavik,' these days that seems a little too obvious. If it was me, I'd swerve it and say it was the Romulan Commander from 'The Enterprise Incident,' who reunited with him during his ambassador years. There's a nice space of years between the Tomed Incident and the Narendra III Incident that allows that. (She, of course, somehow gets killed during the latter.)
And could make for good backstory for his quest in later years to reunite Romulus and Vulcan
I've honestly never gotten the appeal of the Romulan Commander from TEI. She's never struck me as someone that Spock would be attracted to for second, largely because she's so easily fooled throughout the entire episode. Intelligence should be Requirement #1 for a possible Spock love interest, I think.
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How I feel about Michael Burnham.
I still haven't finished S2 of DSC, so the jury is still out for me on that.
They escape to the very distant future.
I'd say that Spock is probably the most well known character in the entire franchise. I have a feeling that if you stopped any random person on the street, they would have at least a vague idea who Spock is, even if they had never watched a single episode of any of the Star Treks.
Nicholas Meyer said in his TWOK commentary that he started the movie on a closeup of Spock's ear because he figured that was the one element that everyone knew from Star Trek.
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Exactly, yeah. We need a reason to write-off The Final Frontier, but Spock's Brain gets a pass?
And Spock is the most recognisable character from the series for the general public. Stop a stranger in the street, ask them what they know about Star Trek, and they'll probably say "the dude with the ears".
Unless they think Darth Vader is from Star Trek.
In retrospect, I kind of wish they'd just stuck with that. Or at the very least, waited to undo it until the Enterprise novel storyline actually got to 2161, so Trip could've been part of the crew during the Romulan War instead of dangling on the end of 31's fishing line for years.
How does a fictional person wrote an autobiography?How is it an autobiography is someone else writes it?
The same way Jessica Fletcher did with all those Murder She Wrote books.
I don't think Sybok is a character that detracts anything from Mr. Spock because there's plenty of ways of handling Sybok's character that could have been interesting. Also, bluntly, it's not like there isn't an Occam's Razor of writing him into Star Trek's literary canon.
"Sybok is Spock's half-brother from Sarek's arranged marriage that all Vulcans go through. Sarek and his wife divorced because they didn't work out but Sybok was raised by his mother. He grew up to be an incredibly powerful psychic but mystical and manipulative."
There, done.
"Sybok is Spock's half-brother from Sarek's arranged marriage that all Vulcans go through. Sarek and his wife divorced because they didn't work out but Sybok was raised by his mother. He grew up to be an incredibly powerful psychic but mystical and manipulative."
There, done.
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Which was kinda confusing. That program was set in 2161, but Trip’s death was faked several years before that. Did section 31 create several years of life for Trip in the official records?
How is it an autobiography is someone else writes it?
Because it's a fictional autobiography, the conceit of which is that it's being written -- in the first-person -- by the fictional character.
"I still remember the first time I met Dr. McCoy" as opposed to "Spock first met Dr. McCoy when . . . ."
