TOS eps Ever referenced again?

[Therin of Andor]

Re: TOS# 75 THE WAY TO EDEN
As you can tell, there have been quite a few Tiburonians in all of the different book series. They actually seem to be a fairly popular race for guest characters.

Tongo Rad, the Catullan, was a fun guest character in a DC Comics arc, where the free-spirited, young hippy had turned into an adult, suit-wearing, fussbudget of an administrator. (And his name was actually "Herbert"?)

The Catullans are mentioned in novels a few times - in one of the Marshak/Culbreath novels ("The Prometheus Design" or "Triangle") they mistake the race for Caitian, I think, because they mention a Catullan's cat-like eyes.

After the "ST Encyclopedia" rendered the race as "Catuallan", that spelling was usually the one used in further references, even in "Star Trek Star Charts". Anyone know what spelling the script of "The Way to Eden" used?

 

[Geoff Thorne]

My stories THE SOFT ROOM (in SNW 6) and CONCURRENCE (SNW 8) are directly connected to two TOS episodes but I can't say which ones without spoiling the stories.

 

[RobertScorpio]

I've been doing a little project; connecting episodes that seem to have contributed a story idea, character, overt/covert reference, or even throw-away line, to the novel, comic, game or other Star Trek item that built on it.

Surprisingly, for the amount of spin off stuff TOS has generated over 40 years, I can't connect these episodes with any further mention. Can anybody help me out?

TOS# 56 SPECTRE OF THE GUN [the Melkot
TOS# 58 THE PARADISE SYNDROME (Preserver planet Miramanee
TOS# 60 AND THE CHILDREN SHALL LEAD [Triacus children???
TOS# 61 SPOCK'S BRAIN [Sigma Draconis civilization
TOS# 62 IS THERE IN TRUTH NO BEAUTY? (Miranda Jones, Medusans, Ambassador Kollos
TOS# 67 PLATO'S STEPCHILDREN [Alexander, Sahndara system
TOS# 68 WINK OF AN EYE [Scalos
TOS# 70 LET THAT BE YOUR LAST BATTLEFIELD (Cheron, Ariannus)
TOS# 72 THE MARK OF GIDEON [Gideon
TOS# 75 THE WAY TO EDEN ( Dr Sevrin, Tiburon, Irina)
TOS# 30 CATSPAW [extragalactic alien creatures
TOS# 6 THE MAN TRAP [M-113 civilization, McCoy and Nancy and Robert Crater

Maybe not..but THE BIG BANG references TOS all the time...and thats good enough for me..

Rob

 

[David R. George III]

I've been doing a little project; connecting episodes that seem to have contributed a story idea, character, overt/covert reference, or even throw-away line, to the novel, comic, game or other Star Trek item that built on it.

Surprisingly, for the amount of spin off stuff TOS has generated over 40 years, I can't connect these episodes with any further mention. Can anybody help me out?

TOS# 56 SPECTRE OF THE GUN [the Melkot
TOS# 58 THE PARADISE SYNDROME (Preserver planet Miramanee
TOS# 60 AND THE CHILDREN SHALL LEAD [Triacus children???
TOS# 61 SPOCK'S BRAIN [Sigma Draconis civilization
TOS# 62 IS THERE IN TRUTH NO BEAUTY? (Miranda Jones, Medusans, Ambassador Kollos
TOS# 67 PLATO'S STEPCHILDREN [Alexander, Sahndara system
TOS# 68 WINK OF AN EYE [Scalos
TOS# 70 LET THAT BE YOUR LAST BATTLEFIELD (Cheron, Ariannus)
TOS# 72 THE MARK OF GIDEON [Gideon
TOS# 75 THE WAY TO EDEN ( Dr Sevrin, Tiburon, Irina)
TOS# 30 CATSPAW [extragalactic alien creatures
TOS# 6 THE MAN TRAP [M-113 civilization, McCoy and Nancy and Robert Crater

Ronny is correct in noting that I referenced every single Star Trek episode, animated episode, and film through the course of my Crucible trilogy. To wit...

"The Man Trap": Sulu's botany avocation is referenced in Provenance of Shadows.

"Catspaw": the Pyris system is referenced in The Star to Every Wandering.

"Spectre of the Gun": Melkotians are referenced in Provenance of Shadows, and one even appears in my Deep Space Nine novel Twilight.

"The Paradise Syndrome": Miramanee is referenced in Provenance of Shadows.

"And the Children Shall Lead": Marcos XII is referenced in The Fire and the Rose.

"Spock's Brain": McCoy's performing a brain transplant is referenced in Provenance of Shadows.

"Is There in Truth No Beauty?": Medusans are referenced in The Fire and the Rose.

"Plato's Stepchildren": Platonius is referenced in Provenance of Shadows.

"Wink of an Eye": the Scalosians are referenced in The Fire and the Rose.

"Let That Be Your Last Battlefield": Ariannus is referenced in The Fire and the Rose.

"The Mark of Gideon": Vegan choriomeningitis is referenced in Provenance of Shadows.

"The Way to Eden": Catulla is referenced in The Fire and the Rose.

These are not necessarily my only references to these episodes, either in the Crucible trilogy or in my other Trek novels. Hope this helps.

 

[Turtletrekker]

My stories THE SOFT ROOM (in SNW 6) and CONCURRENCE (SNW 8) are directly connected to two TOS episodes but I can't say which ones without spoiling the stories.

Those two stories just scream "trilogy". Any chance of another follow-up?

 

[JD]

"Spectre of the Gun": Melkotians are referenced in Provenance of Shadows, and one even appears in my Deep Space Nine novel Twilight.

Where does the Melkotian appear in Twilight? I just finished my second reading of it (I'm rereading the entire DS9R from MG on in preparation for Fearful Symmetry) and the name sounds familiar from it but I cannot place where it was in the story.

 

[David R. George III]

^ Page 345, penultimate paragraph, which begins, "A distinctive-looking woman..."

 

[Geoff Thorne]

My stories THE SOFT ROOM (in SNW 6) and CONCURRENCE (SNW 8) are directly connected to two TOS episodes but I can't say which ones without spoiling the stories.

Those two stories just scream "trilogy". Any chance of another follow-up?

God, I wish. I have some notions but I'm not sure they fit with the direction the line is taking right now.

Maybe with Voyager.

Hmmmm.

 

[JD]

^ Page 345, penultimate paragraph, which begins, "A distinctive-looking woman..."

Ah, ok thanks. Actually all I wanted was a description of the scene that it was in, but this works too.

 

[David R. George III]

^ Well, then, the Melkotian woman is at the bar when Quark flirts with Treir in front of the woman for whom he truly has romantic feelings.

 

[JD]

Ah, cool thanks. Now that I think about it, I think I do vaguely remeber wondering what a Melkotian was.

 

[foravalon]

So I'm guessing the lovely lady of Melkot has a body then, and isn't just a mouthless floating head?

 

[Christopher]

So I'm guessing the lovely lady of Melkot has a body then, and isn't just a mouthless floating head?

If so, I'd think it'd have to be an illusory body. Unless there's more than one species of Melkotian. The one we saw in "Spectre of the Gun" was pretty clearly nonhumanoid:

http://memory-alpha.org/en/wiki/Image:Melkot.jpg

 

[David R. George III]

^ To quote myself (if that's permissible in polite society):

A distinctive looking woman at the far end of the bar signaled to Treir with a wave. Treir walked over to the woman--tall, with a rough, grayish skin, a long, narrow neck, and strikingly luminous eyes--and took her order for a refill of her drink.

 

[Christopher]

^^Yeah, but the problem is, that head, neck, and eyes are the whole Melkotian. There's no body underneath, nothing that could be described as womanly. Nor is there a mouth.

 

[foravalon]

She could drink from the tentacles I suppose.