PAD's run on Supergirl was one of the most interesting and thought-provoking things I've ever read. His Aquaman run was amazing. Young Justice and Spyboy always made me laugh.
The Best of Peter David
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I hope I have the correct book. Treason. If not, it's the one where Selar keeps getting asked for relationship advice. It was very funny.
Q-in-Law
Sir Apropos of Nothing series.
This Modern King Arthur series
The Captain's Daughter
Vendetta
I hope I have the correct book. Treason. If not, it's the one where Selar keeps getting asked for relationship advice. It was very funny.
Q-in-Law
Sir Apropos of Nothing series.
This Modern King Arthur series
The Captain's Daughter
Vendetta
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Should have added earlier that my favourite comics work of his was his lengthy run on The Incredible Hulk (in particular the stories he did with the Grey Hulk), the Sin-Eater story in Peter Parker, the Spectacular Spider-Man, and all of his work on X-Factor. I usually gravitate more towards DC than Marvel, but in PAD's case, I enjoyed his Marvel work much much more than that he did at DC (I realise I'm supposed to love The Atlantis Chronicles, but it never really did much for me).
They didn't identify it specifically, but during an interview with TrekCore Henry Alonso Myers and Akiva Goldsman said that
Trelane being Q's son was inspired by Q-Squared
There's also the fact that Q-Squared held that Trelane was Q's illegitimate son, which luckily made it fit perfectly with VGR's eventual Q plotline, but I don't think that precludes Trelane being aware of that enough to call Q "dad" one-on-one, even if he knows his legal Dad is Bart La Rue, and the four of them just keep their arrangement quiet publicly, because of the scandal. I think that fits with what Q alluded to Picard. Plus, you know, Q is a lying liar who lies.
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Does he ever actually lie?
It's nice to have an official acknowledgement of novels as inspiration for Trek canon.
Okay, the costume thing makes no sense, though, because Trelane in "Gothos" was cosplaying as a Napoleonic-era general, so why would he dress the same way if he's on a "wedding planner" kick? That's just prioritizing superficial continuity porn over story logic, like pretty much everything else in the episode.
Maybe that's just how the audience saw him? None of the in-story characters saw him as such, so maybe his appearance in the Napoleonic garb was a nod, a nudge and a wink to the audience. I mean, they clearly wanted us to know who he was supposed to be, and what easier way to convey that information without outright calling him Trelane?
And I'm not defending the episode. In fact I pretty much consider it the show's first real dud and an unnecessary connecting of canonical dots akin to the augment virus, but how Trelane dressed didn't even enter into my criticisms.
And I'm not defending the episode. In fact I pretty much consider it the show's first real dud and an unnecessary connecting of canonical dots akin to the augment virus, but how Trelane dressed didn't even enter into my criticisms.
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We can agree it was a dud. If the only things people have to say about an episode pertain to its continuity links to a show from nearly 60 years ago, that's not much of an episode.
That explains why I thought Rhys Darby looked like Michel Ney. Between that and Chapel's new MPDG cut, it was a strange episode...
