Too many TOS novels?
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That's because you're thinking like an author - it's all about character development, plot and a satisfying resolution.
All we fanboys want is a coherent continuity...
Speak for yourself. Coherent continuity isn't worth a damn if the characters and events are boring.
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Nah. It all happened. All of it. Even the stuff that contradicts the other stuff. "Spock Must Die!", "Final Frontier", "Federation", "The Lost Years", "Ex Machina", "Death's Angel", "Demons"...
That's because you're thinking like an author - it's all about character development, plot and a satisfying resolution.
All we fanboys want is a coherent continuity...
....all melding together with a massive dose of Broad Strokes.
That's because you're thinking like an author - it's all about character development, plot and a satisfying resolution.
All we fanboys want is a coherent continuity...
Speak for yourself, all I want is entertaining stories.
That's right, I want an entertaining story that contradict's itself intra-chapter. Honestly, there is so much Trek history, I rather have a non-5yr story, or a non-TOS centric story but involves the crew like Cast No Shadows to explore the other areas of Star Trek.
I would like to have them try the 'lower decks reboot' again. I don't know why they abandoned it. Poor sales? 
I would like to have them try the 'lower decks reboot' again. I don't know why they abandoned it. Poor sales?
Well, it did seem like the concept was altered considerably from the initial announcement and what made it to the shelves. A lot of back pedaling happened, because suddenly the books were not very "lower decks" at all. Maybe someone feared poor sales, or there was early concern that the readers' expectations for any TOS novel is always a clear focus on Kirk/Spock/McCoy?
A retelling of TOS history, as seen through the eyes of "lower decks" crew and characters played in the series by one-off day players - John Kyle, Angela Martine, Security Chief Giotto, Carolyn Palamas, Ensign Garrovick, etc., all slowly building as characters - seemed like a great idea. It's why I excitedly started up a web page to track the lower deck appearances:
http://www.reocities.com/therinofandor/TOScrew.html
(now unable to be edited, since it was preserved by Reocities after the demise of Geocities)
The resulting three published trilogies, which seemed to take their lead from the previous "My Brother's Keeper" trilogy, ended up being not-that-different to the regular TOS novels. The first six books even ended up with large portraits of Kirk and Spock on the covers, almost like then-editor John Ordover had been ordered to cover up for any perceived change of POV.
I loved that a secret background was revealed for a one-shot redshirt, Matthews, who had already been killed off onscreen in "What Are Little Girls Made Of?"
Opportunities were missed to not track certain characters through their canonical experiences we already knew. For example, the first trilogy had the very beginnings of romance between Angela Martinez and Robert Tomlinson, but the next trilogy ended up being set immediately after "Balance of Terror", so Tomlinson is already dead.
Another weird move was including archaeology & anthropology officer Carolyn Palamas in the first trilogy (excellent!), but then having a featured character in the next two trilogies called Leslie Parrish (ie. name dropped for the actress who had once played Palamas). It was kinda hard not to envisage this character as anyone but Palamas, even though she was a security guard.
It's a shame this concept didn't emerge/evolve in the ways some of us first imagined it might.
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Cluck Norris...
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Therin,
If you go to www.geocities.ws and claim http://www.geocities.ws/therinofandor/ as yours, you will have full editing rights again.
I had the same thing happen when geocities died. But I found this geocities.ws site, claimed my site, and added magic mesh information to it.
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It seems it won't matter. Reocities and Oocities will stay static archive sites but, now that I've reclaimed the "therinofandor" URL shortcut, a previously also-static version has been reactivated. Thanks NotLKH.
Whilst I still think that there are too many TOS stories, I may have to make an exception.
I am currently reading A Choice of Catastrophes and am loving it - especially as it has padded the crew out somewhat rather than just being the normal cast.
It's an interesting new angle and comfortably familiar at the same time !
I am currently reading A Choice of Catastrophes and am loving it - especially as it has padded the crew out somewhat rather than just being the normal cast.
It's an interesting new angle and comfortably familiar at the same time !
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