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The Destiny Trilogy (spoliers, obviously)

Is the dislike of the pregnancy subplots a male dislike or what?

Not for this male. I had no problem with it -- heck, I was the one who had Riker and Troi first talk about starting a family, and the one who wrote the book establishing Crusher's pregnancy (although in that case it wasn't my idea).

It is a bit of a coincidence about the timing of their respective pregnancies. In fact, it's more of a coincidence than it might appear; Dave estimates that Deanna got pregnant on or about December 2, 2380, and I estimate that Beverly got pregnant on or about December 11, 2380. But we didn't plan the timing that way, so it's a coincidence in reality, and that makes me okay with it being a coincidence within the story. (Although the birthdates will be different, since a human-Betazoid hybrid fetus would develop at a different rate than a fully human fetus.)

And I don't find it problematical that both couples decided to start families at about the same time. I mean, to some extent, it was Will and Deanna's marriage that prompted Picard and Beverly to get out of their rut and become a couple, so a certain synchronicity is understandable. Indeed, I like the parallel -- even though they're following separate career paths now, their lives are still connected.
 
^ Heh...at my old job, we had five women all announce they were expecting within weeks of one another. The "there must be something in the water" jokes continued well after they had come back from their maternity leaves.
 
I also had no problem with the pregnancies. TBH I hadn't even noticed that they lined up that way until someone mentioned it here. I think when I was reading the books, I was just going along with the events and didn't really think to much about stuff like that.
 
i didn't really think it was a coincidence because of the fact the SoD established R/T had been trying for a kid for a while and Destiny explicated the fact that it involved a lot of IVF/gene therapy whathaveyou, so P/C's pregnancy occuring at the same time was random confluence.
 
I loved the trilogy, I actually couldn't stand to put Lost Souls down in the last third, since I kept wanting to know what was next.
I don't mind the pregnancies either, I like the parallel. Now if both had it easy and both had boys or both girls, then I'd roll my eyes a bit. But they're two separate couples, Troi had problems, and the babies aren't the same gender. So I'm fine with it.
 
Better hope the respective kids don't hook up when they reach adulthood. Then the Picards and Rikers would be in-laws. :lol:[/quote]

Heh, now wouldn't that be fun...
 
Just getting towards the end of Destiny (British publication dates are a month later), and had a query/observation for David Mack if he drops in here...

Halfway through book one, Commander Lynley and Lt-Cdr Havers are handling the watch, Worf says... would I be right in guessing that Lynley is a tall English aristocrat who would, ideally, be played by Nathaniel Parker, and Havers is a short, rather chippy British woman played by Sharon Small?

And... a slight criticism - is there a smirking plague on the loose? It was the chapter endings in volume two that made it obvious (Chapter one: "[Picard] sipped his tea and smirked." Chapter two: "Hernandez couldn't help but smirk." Chapter seven: "Worf smirked."). Everyone's at it, and it feels wrong for some characters. Riker smirks. Kirk smirked. Worf smirks very, very occasionally. Garak... well, if Garak and George W Bush got to the finals of a smirking contest, and 43 was making a deliberate effort to smirk, Garak would still win easily. But Picard... nah. Not him.
The thing is, you give Garak a world class smirking moment at the end of the ambassadors' meeting with President Bacco, but it's sort of lost in the flood of smirks from everyone else... sorry about striking a negative note, but it's one of those things which, once you've noticed it, distracted from the book - I found I was subconsciously looking out for the next smirk...
 
Halfway through book one, Commander Lynley and Lt-Cdr Havers are handling the watch, Worf says... would I be right in guessing that Lynley is a tall English aristocrat who would, ideally, be played by Nathaniel Parker, and Havers is a short, rather chippy British woman played by Sharon Small?
Correct.

And... a slight criticism - is there a smirking plague on the loose
I have actually received several e-mails from fans saying the same thing, so you are not the first person to bust my chops about this. It has been noted. And I am, frankly, utterly sick of hearing about it, and will endeavor to have killed the next person who complains about it.
 
^ YET MORE EVIDENCE THE AUTHORS NEVER LISTEN TO THE FANS!!!!11 :rolleyes:

(I kid, I kid. :lol:)
 
Halfway through book one, Commander Lynley and Lt-Cdr Havers are handling the watch, Worf says... would I be right in guessing that Lynley is a tall English aristocrat who would, ideally, be played by Nathaniel Parker, and Havers is a short, rather chippy British woman played by Sharon Small?
Correct.

And... a slight criticism - is there a smirking plague on the loose
I have actually received several e-mails from fans saying the same thing, so you are not the first person to bust my chops about this. It has been noted. And I am, frankly, utterly sick of hearing about it, and will endeavor to have killed the next person who complains about it.

I take it then that I was wise not to have included a suggestion about having a swear box-style 'smirk box' on your desk next to the keyboard next book round? (Sorry).

To counter that bit of negativitity, I thought the whole feeling of 'tumbling to disaster' in the Columbia bits at the end of book one was one of the best bits of narrative I've read recently, in tie-ins or mainstream SF.
 
I'm amazed Dave got away with that many smirks.
Walkin' a fine line, there, pal. Don't get on my list... ;)

As for the "Smirk Jar," I actually have this posted on the wall next to the computer where I write:

OnNotice2.jpg
 
I'm amazed Dave got away with that many smirks.
Walkin' a fine line, there, pal. Don't get on my list... ;)

As for the "Smirk Jar," I actually have this posted on the wall next to the computer where I write:

OnNotice2.jpg

My day job's in journalism, and the thing I dread when an issue comes back from the printers is spotting my 'phrase of the week', the one that's got stuck in my head and turned up in half the stuff I've written for a few days.
 
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^ Then you'll be heartbroken to learn there will be none whatsoever in my original novel The Calling, nor in Promises Broken, my novel of The 4400. And I'm on track to have no appearances of "stygian" in Star Trek Vanguard: Precipice, either.
 
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