So New Frontier is out of step like DS9 was?
I demand a one year jump ahead!
I demand a one year jump ahead!
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Thanks! Glad you liked it.
There's never been a time when everything was in step. Prior to Destiny, we had Gorkon/Klingon Empire in late 2376, DS9 at the start of 2377, Corps of Engineers in mid-'77, VGR in mid-'78, and TNG, TTN, and NF variously in '79. Now, pretty much the whole 24th century (except NF?) is post-DES, but as of their most recent books, VGR is still in mid-2381, DS9 and TTN are up to August '82, and TNG is up to spring '83. Even the Typhon Pact books, billed as a miniseries, took place variously over the span of a year and nine months, and didn't come out in chronological order.
I think you should discover a little something called humour Christopher. Now I may be wrong, but from the jist of shanejayell's post, I suspect he was making a joke at the expense of everyone who complained about the recent time jump DS9 has endured.
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I'm just starting this anthology for the first time. I bought the book ten years ago when it first came out, but I'm just getting around to it now.
So far I've read up to the Pulaski story, and I'm in the middle of it, but it was fun seeing Pulaski bring chaos to the Enterprise.
So far the Yar-Crusher story has been the stand-out. Its to bad that during Season 1 we hadn't seen more interaction between Yar and Crusher, and in a way it makes you wonder what stories might've come in the later seasons had Yar not been killed, but either stayed on the ship or transferred to another part of Starfleet and then come back.
So far I've read up to the Pulaski story, and I'm in the middle of it, but it was fun seeing Pulaski bring chaos to the Enterprise.
So far the Yar-Crusher story has been the stand-out. Its to bad that during Season 1 we hadn't seen more interaction between Yar and Crusher, and in a way it makes you wonder what stories might've come in the later seasons had Yar not been killed, but either stayed on the ship or transferred to another part of Starfleet and then come back.
I'm slowly getting through the book. I just finished the follow-up story to "Face Of The Enemy". Both it and the Yar stories have been the top 2 stories thus far.
I hope it's OK that I'm posting this in this thread. I don't feel like starting a new thread, and I don't want highjack a thread with constant posts about the stories in this.
I finished up the first story, Meet With Triumph and Disaster, this morning and I thought was pretty good. It was definitely a quieter character based story, but it was well written and I liked Holloway, so I enjoyed it. It might have had a bit more impact if Halloway was a familiar character, but it was still a good story.
As a big fan of Enterprise's Xindi storyline, I did get a kick out of the Xindi Reptilian Federation Secretary of Science and Space Exploration.
I finished up the first story, Meet With Triumph and Disaster, this morning and I thought was pretty good. It was definitely a quieter character based story, but it was well written and I liked Holloway, so I enjoyed it. It might have had a bit more impact if Halloway was a familiar character, but it was still a good story.
As a big fan of Enterprise's Xindi storyline, I did get a kick out of the Xindi Reptilian Federation Secretary of Science and Space Exploration.
Thanks! I am a big Enterprise S3 fan (or rather, I was; I haven't seen it in two decades so who knows if it would still hold up for me), but one shortcoming was that there were no sympathetic Xindi-Reptilians and no female Xindi-Reptilians, so it was my idea to put in a character who was both!
Commander Dolim was mentioned to have a daughter, we never saw her though.
I finished up Acts of Compassion earlier today, and I really enjoyed this one. I don't think we really saw much interaction between Crusher and Yar in the show, so it was nice got them paired together for this. As big fan of the Cardassians, it was also nice to see them. One of the things I've always like about tie-ins is how they can go back and give us stuff that was added later into the show in a story set earlier, and I thought this a really good job of that with the Cardassians in this story set in TNG Season 1.
Been making steady progress on this over the last couple weeks.
Among the Clouds: I liked this one a lot, Geordi has always been one of my favorite character, and I thought the alien society in planet's upper atmosphere was pretty cool.
Thinking of You: A ton of fun, teaming up Ro, Barclay and Lwaxana Troi was a great idea.
Turncoats: An nice follow up to Face of the Enemy, It was interesting to really get into Deseve's head.
Ordinary Days: A fascinating look a an alternate life for Wesley Crusher
'Twould Ring the Bells of Heaven: A nice character piece for Troi.
Friends with the Sparrows: It was nice to see the Tamarians again, and I liked the deeper dive into how their language works. And the stuff Data working on learning to deal with how the emotion chip had changed him was good too.
Suicide Note: A nice follow up to The Defector
Four Lights: It was really interesting getting to see Picard and Madred with their situation's reverse. Doing it from a first person's perspective was a great choice.
So far I've enjoyed all of the stories, obviously some more than others, but there hasn't been one I thought was outright bad.
Among the Clouds: I liked this one a lot, Geordi has always been one of my favorite character, and I thought the alien society in planet's upper atmosphere was pretty cool.
Thinking of You: A ton of fun, teaming up Ro, Barclay and Lwaxana Troi was a great idea.
Turncoats: An nice follow up to Face of the Enemy, It was interesting to really get into Deseve's head.
Ordinary Days: A fascinating look a an alternate life for Wesley Crusher
'Twould Ring the Bells of Heaven: A nice character piece for Troi.
Friends with the Sparrows: It was nice to see the Tamarians again, and I liked the deeper dive into how their language works. And the stuff Data working on learning to deal with how the emotion chip had changed him was good too.
Suicide Note: A nice follow up to The Defector
Four Lights: It was really interesting getting to see Picard and Madred with their situation's reverse. Doing it from a first person's perspective was a great choice.
So far I've enjoyed all of the stories, obviously some more than others, but there hasn't been one I thought was outright bad.
Re "Thinking of You." I should mention that combining Ro, Barclay, and Lwaxana was Marco Palmieri's idea, because he wanted all three of them represented in the anthology somewhere. He also specifically asked me for a more light-hearted story, to balance out some of the heavier stories in the book.
To give credit where it's due.
The holodeck angle was my idea, since I figured you couldn't truly publish a tribute to TNG without at least one malfunctioning holodeck story!
It might have been Marco's idea, but you did a great job writing them.
You're welcome.
To expand a bit, I struggled with the story initially, in terms of how to approach it. I started that story four or five times, and wasn't at all happy with how it was coming along.
Then I remembered my favorite bit in the mostly dreary Star Trek Insurrection, which was when Picard enters the turbolift and very sadly asks the rhetorical question, “Can anyone remember when we used to be explorers?”
For some reason, thinking of that line made me realize that what I needed to do was write this story in the first person. I ran it by Marco, who was open to the idea, and then I wrote the story. It went so much more smoothly once I decided to do first person...................................
Then I remembered my favorite bit in the mostly dreary Star Trek Insurrection, which was when Picard enters the turbolift and very sadly asks the rhetorical question, “Can anyone remember when we used to be explorers?”
For some reason, thinking of that line made me realize that what I needed to do was write this story in the first person. I ran it by Marco, who was open to the idea, and then I wrote the story. It went so much more smoothly once I decided to do first person...................................
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