Seriously?
I understand some people not liking the more recent New Frontier novels, but this seems a little severe. And what's your problem with Mueller?
Also, it's "Robin" not "Robyn"
Things you'd like to see in the novels
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Seriously?
I understand some people not liking the more recent New Frontier novels, but this seems a little severe. And what's your problem with Mueller?
Also, it's "Robin" not "Robyn"
Echoing a previous poster, I always wondered what happened to Aquiel Uhnari. Wonder where she'd be posted now.
KRAD,
I thought I had heard it once on one of the shows, and when I checked Memory Alpha they said a mention was made of them in "Firstborn".
http://memory-alpha.org/en/wiki/Kurn
By K'mtar, who was from an alternate future. Having said that, he said it in front of Worf, who didn't correct him, so yeah, he may have a mate and kids.
Given what happened in A Burning House, it might be worth investigating what happened to them...
I shall add them to my Netflix queue.
Incidentally, while his performance in Men in Black was outstanding, that too is hurting my ability to take him seriously for this too.
I'll do a little watching of his more serious movies and get back to you. I just like John Spencer's gruffness enough that I see him in Vanguard. Too bad he's passed away.
Seriously?
I understand some people not liking the more recent New Frontier novels, but this seems a little severe. And what's your problem with Mueller?
Also, it's "Robin" not "Robyn"[/quote]
I've never liked Mueller - since, ooh, "Once Burned". She has always just grated. I don't know why.
Robin (usually spelled Robyn here) Lefler has annoyed me since those episodes of TNG.
ETA: "Robin" is usually considered the boy's spelling.
I understand some people not liking the more recent New Frontier novels, but this seems a little severe. And what's your problem with Mueller?
Also, it's "Robin" not "Robyn"
[/quote]I've never liked Mueller - since, ooh, "Once Burned". She has always just grated. I don't know why.
Robin (usually spelled Robyn here) Lefler has annoyed me since those episodes of TNG.
ETA: "Robin" is usually considered the boy's spelling.
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Well, fair enough, I guess.
It's not as if PAD's Lefler has much at all to do with TNG's. As far as I can tell, he borrowed the name and that's about it.
It is the same character. PAD just made her grow up a bit, but he has always been humorous with the NF series, maybe that's what was not liked.
1) More Federation politics! I eagerly await 'A Singular Destiny'. I find the set-up and workings of the Federation, such a large interstellar organisation, to be fascinating.
2) I would love to see more of life on Earth and the inner worlds of the UFP. We've actually seen relatively little of Earth in the 24th century, outside of San Francisco. 'Star Trek' always seemed to show a rather unusual living arrangement on Earth - lots of the places never seemed to have much technology in them. It'd be nice to explore this, though I recognise that it's unlikely because on the paraside that is Earth there probably isn't all that much story potential, beyond whenever there's a DS9-style challenge to that paradise.
3) 24th century Romulus is crying out for greater examination, I think. I also think it's crying out to be rescued from some of the blandness that was injected into it by 24th century Trek. I know Diane Duane has done a lot of work with 22nd century Romulus to inject colour and life into them, and I look forward to reading 'Bloodwing Voyages' when I get around to it, but I had hoped the TNG-Relaunch could do for Romulus what the DS9-Relaunch has done for Cardassia and give it sophisticated depth.
4) I think some of the novels should also continue the work started in DS9 to test the idea of the 24th century paradise. I don't mean that they should involve mass destruction, but just that our favourite characters continue to have their principles challenged. Ira Steven Behr was always very clear that his efforts on DS9 were to explore the paradise of the Federation and its limits. I think part of why DS9 is so compelling is that, through challenging the accepted precets of the Trek Universe it actually helps to strengthen them. It provides a depth of plausibility to the rest of the Trek Universe because we see the inevitable dark side of paradise.
2) I would love to see more of life on Earth and the inner worlds of the UFP. We've actually seen relatively little of Earth in the 24th century, outside of San Francisco. 'Star Trek' always seemed to show a rather unusual living arrangement on Earth - lots of the places never seemed to have much technology in them. It'd be nice to explore this, though I recognise that it's unlikely because on the paraside that is Earth there probably isn't all that much story potential, beyond whenever there's a DS9-style challenge to that paradise.
3) 24th century Romulus is crying out for greater examination, I think. I also think it's crying out to be rescued from some of the blandness that was injected into it by 24th century Trek. I know Diane Duane has done a lot of work with 22nd century Romulus to inject colour and life into them, and I look forward to reading 'Bloodwing Voyages' when I get around to it, but I had hoped the TNG-Relaunch could do for Romulus what the DS9-Relaunch has done for Cardassia and give it sophisticated depth.
4) I think some of the novels should also continue the work started in DS9 to test the idea of the 24th century paradise. I don't mean that they should involve mass destruction, but just that our favourite characters continue to have their principles challenged. Ira Steven Behr was always very clear that his efforts on DS9 were to explore the paradise of the Federation and its limits. I think part of why DS9 is so compelling is that, through challenging the accepted precets of the Trek Universe it actually helps to strengthen them. It provides a depth of plausibility to the rest of the Trek Universe because we see the inevitable dark side of paradise.
Have you READ the DS9 relaunch??? It continues the themes and flawed characters beyond what was left behind. Best series of books in the galaxy.
I certainly have, and I love it! But I think it would also be nice to see its example stretched a little beyond the DS9-R to other sectors of the Trek Universe. I don't think the DS9 experiment (which is also part of why it's ostracised a series) should be limited, but expanded to include more aspects of Trek.
The best TNG books in a while are David Mack's 'A Time To...' duology and KRAD's conclusion to the series, and I think they took that DS9 challenge and made it work for TNG. I think that shows it's more than possible for TNG to engage in this same kind of exploration as DS9.
The 24th-century Romulans have pretty much been the purview of Josepha Sherman & Susan Shwartz in their Vulcan's ____ series. That's probably why they haven't been featured as much in other series. However, we do see some major things happening in Romulan politics in Articles of the Federation and A Singular Destiny.
Lwaxana would probably insist on introducing Janeway to a nice, relaxing mudbath.
At the end of Federation, there is a lovely and haunting passage about a future starship taking the great leap into exploring beyond the Milky Way. The time is in an indeterminate future, but likely several centuries at least -- if not a couple of thousand years. It would be marvelous to have a novel that explores what the crew of that ship found.
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