Yeah, if it was the same page size, it was probably the paperback in a library re-binding.
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Yeah, if it was the same page size, it was probably the paperback in a library re-binding.
This is the oddest one I've seen. They even changed the title. Does anyone know the publisher and year?
I know that we've moved on from this pleasant interlude, but I have only one (I think) more thing to add. The material from No
Place to Hide actually appeared in only four of the first five broadcast episodes, The Derelict not containing any at all. Your count of newly filmed material remains correct at 80%, but certainly Smith and the Robot didn't appear in all of it, as there was quite a bit of exposition added to the Robinson's journey from the ship, heading for warmer climes. Smith did play an important role in the Hungry Sea of course, but for the most part his place in that episode and the preceding one was to bitch, moan, and proclaim the Robinson's demise, at periodic intervals.
By the way what is your take on the identity of Aeolus 14 Umbra? Merely a terrestrial competitor to the U.S. in this desperate race to the stars, or perhaps, as has been posited more than a few times, alien operatives seeking to prevent humans venturing into space?
As it happens, I just mentioned that very thing less than ten minutes ago in the LiS remake thread. But that wasn't relevant to the specific point I was trying to make here, so I simplified.
The latter is the version from the '90s comic, which I pretty much accept as "headcanon," as they say. Although the original series pretty clearly intended them to be a foreign, probably Eastern bloc government. It was stated explicitly in the pilot narration that rival nations were battling to be the first to master the stars.
It could have been, but we're talking a long time ago so I can't recall specifics. To my eye at the time it looked like something you could have bought in the store, but I never encountered another hardcover edition anywhere after that. And trying a Google search for a hardcopy edition of TMoST I come up with nothing.
Since the title's different, could it be a foreign edition?
Oh wait, Memory Alpha says it's a 1991 release from Titan Books, which is a UK company.
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Yep, that's the one I bought. I hadn't realized the title was wrong, I just went for the authors names.
Here is the backside for you:
Anything else you want me to check? The content should be the same, right?
I assume that the writers of that back cover copy meant clothes buttons...TOS had no shortage of the other kind.
Here is the backside for you:
Anything else you want me to check? The content should be the same, right?
Sweet backside, thanks!
Did this edition include the two full photo sections?
Does this web image look like a hardcover to anyone else?
Edit: I think I see the problem. My impression was that the binding was convex, like a hardcover. But now I'm seeing it as concave like a paperback. It flipped on me.
Edit: I think I see the problem. My impression was that the binding was convex, like a hardcover. But now I'm seeing it as concave like a paperback. It flipped on me.
Here is the backside for you:
Anything else you want me to check? The content should be the same, right?
Sweet backside, thanks!
Did this edition include the two full photo sections?
Yes, there are two sets (32 pages each) of black and white photographs, the first set of props and characters, the second of promotion pictures and behind the scenes.
So I take it I have the full content and don't need to worry about missing out.
What happens at warp factor 8??? I don't recall anything special being mentioned about warp 8.
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My copy (10th printing, July 1972) says "field mechanisms."
Mine is the one with eight film frames on the back cover, including the one with Kirk and Nomad.
^ Mine actually says that, too. That was my mistake. Fixed in post. Thanks.
And yet later in second season the Enterprise went to Warp 9 without much concern. Maybe this came after the Kelvans and Nomad's tampering so that Scotty learned enough to allow the ship to go faster. And in third season the ship goes Warp 14 without flying apart.
That and the beatings it took suggests the Constitution-class were apparently tough ships.
That and the beatings it took suggests the Constitution-class were apparently tough ships.
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Be nice if the TNG writers had written the Enterprise-D that way instead of it seemingly having a warp core breach if you looked at it funny
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