I'm not sure he/she wants to be known but who is Lonemagpie?
The Sky's the Limit
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^^Oh, you did "On the Spot," right? I liked that one. Of course, to paraphrase Hobbes the Tiger, the thing about cats is that they automatically make anything fine art.
Click on the blue "Lonemagpie" right above the picture. It'll tell you who he is and what he's done.
David A McIntee, writer of many Dr Who things, contributor to the Star Trek Communicator and Titan's Star Trek Monthly, and on-topic for this thread, writer of "On The Spot" in The Sky's The Limit - it's the second-last story.
That's why I did a cat story...
Okay thanks. I only asked because you mentioned who have a story in Sky's the Limit and wanted to know who I was reading and sometimes people on boards want to remain anonomouys.
Mmmm... writers, not so much. Usually they like to advertise theirself and their work.
Theirselves? Themselves? I think I've lost my English... 
Dug out this thread to add my thoughts--I just finished reading this as an e-book, and I really liked it. Each story was satisfying, and the moving through ST:TNG's history (or even pre-history) worked well. I liked how the final story brought us back to Halloway, and showed that Picard, even with his long history prior to taking command of Enterprise, was allowed to see in himself the maturing and character development we as viewers/readers have appreciated. Applause to all. {ProfJonathan}
MichaelS said:
Our reasoning was that Picard took command of the ship only a very short time before "Encounter of Farpoint" (as per "All Good Things ..."), so somebody else must have been in command before him, even if the Enterprise didn't really do much before that first mission.Tino said:
The only sad thing about your story: I always thought that the Enterprise would have been offered to noone but Picard 'cause he was the best for it. Seems like we only got our second-best-captain to star in the series.
It was also partially inspired by Rick Sternbach's Star Trek: The Magazine article about the Constellation class, in which he postulates that the Stargazer began "a series of checkout flights under Captain Donald Capello". We figured that this was standard Starfleet procedure, and spun our own yarn from there.
It also has canonical precedent since Captain Willard Decker did oversee the refit of Enterprise and was slated to be it's commanding officer. That is until Admiral Kirk had his little chat with Nogura.
Thanks! I gratefully accept my share of the applause . . .
I seemed to have missed this when it came it in 2007(?). Anyhow, in reading on memory beta that a lot of the latter stories take part "between" the movies (the last 2 are epilogues to Nemesis), I was wondering what folks though about the anthology. I was also curious about what folks thought of the stories that took place during the TV seasons that are part of this book.
What I liked about some books/anthologies is that fill in facts/stories that in the end enhance my movie experience. Was that the case with some of those movie era stories in this book or the pre-Farpoint story? Did they fill in some of the blanks or expand on throwaway lines in the movies and made those lines more relevant/cool? Did some of the TV era stories elaborate on or set-up some of the cooler TV TNG episodes? I'm just curious about how "connected" these anthology stories were to the TV/movie goingson canon.
Cheerio...
What I liked about some books/anthologies is that fill in facts/stories that in the end enhance my movie experience. Was that the case with some of those movie era stories in this book or the pre-Farpoint story? Did they fill in some of the blanks or expand on throwaway lines in the movies and made those lines more relevant/cool? Did some of the TV era stories elaborate on or set-up some of the cooler TV TNG episodes? I'm just curious about how "connected" these anthology stories were to the TV/movie goingson canon.
Cheerio...
Well, I can explain the genesis of my (fifth-season) story. Marco wanted a lighter story to balance out some of the darker ones. And he also thought (correctly) that no TNG anthology would be complete without Barclay, Lwaxana Troi, and Ensign Ro. So he asked me to write him a humorous story starring those three characters.
I then convinced him that you really couldn't do a tribute to TNG without at least one story about a malfunctioning holodeck!
"C'mon, Marco! It's a TNG staple. You've gotta let me play the crazy holodeck card at least once in my career . . . ."
I then convinced him that you really couldn't do a tribute to TNG without at least one story about a malfunctioning holodeck!
"C'mon, Marco! It's a TNG staple. You've gotta let me play the crazy holodeck card at least once in my career . . . ."
I can't tell you if they worked (I am biased), but "Meet with Triumph and Disaster" and "Trust Yourself When All Men Doubt You" both spin out of a tiny throwaway line in "Tapestry," in addition to plugging the pre-"Encounter at Farpoint" and mid-Nemesis gap. "TYWAMDY" in particular deals with getting Picard's inertia/inaction that prevented him from taking action against Shinzon at the end of Nemesis.
Theirselves? Themselves? I think I've lost my English...
Pffft, that's what editors are for...
I may need to track down this anthology now. A lot of good posts around here on it. The book seems interesting.
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