Trek Lit. references in Trek shows, movies?

[Therin of Andor]

The name "Vulcan's Forge" is from the TAS episode "Yesteryear" by D. C. Fontana.

Yes, but it also dates back to a fanzine from 1969. IIRC, Fontana has mentioned that in interviews. Her use of it in TAS was a homage.

It's possibly from the zine "T-Negative", which contained "the earliest fanfic stories to feature Vulcan (not just the planet but the culture)": the Kraith shared universe. The earliest were written by Jacqueline Lichtenberg beginning in 1969... and 50 authors contributed over its publication.
http://fanlore.org/wiki/Vulcan

 

[F. King Daniel]

^If only they'd canonize telepathic frog-man Ssarsun, too!

 

[Therin of Andor]

Or...



Ambassador Si-s-s-s (click) by Therin of Andor, on Flickr

 

[F. King Daniel]

^That is probably the most obscure Trek-themed dress-up ever. Congratulations.

Are there any Agent Schaeffer pics?

 

[TheAlmanac]

The name "Vulcan's Forge" is from the TAS episode "Yesteryear" by D. C. Fontana.

Yes, but it also dates back to a fanzine from 1969. IIRC, Fontana has mentioned that in interviews. Her use of it in TAS was a homage.

No offence, but in this particular case, the name "Vulcan's Forge" isn't a huge intuitive leap to come up with, given the mythological origin. Regardless of the actual ST connection(s), I can see multiple people coming up with the name independently.

 

[Christopher]

^On the other hand, if Fontana did specifically say it was an homage, then it was an homage. Though I wouldn't mind seeing a citation for a specific interview where Fontana said as much.

 

[Iamnotspock]

I think the Thallonians from New Frontier were mentioned in Voyager weren't they? Or did I dream that?

 

[TheAlmanac]

Forgive me for being sceptical of Therin's memory on this one until/unless there's a specific interview quote...

I realise Kraith was pretty well-known at the time (okay, "well-known" by fanfic standards), but I think we've all encountered too many situations where a fanfic writer was sure that TPTB had lifted something they had come up with when that development could easily be foreseen by multiple people.

 

[Christopher]

I think the Thallonians from New Frontier were mentioned in Voyager weren't they? Or did I dream that?

You must've dreamt it, or misheard a similar-sounding species name. There's no "Thallonian" entry on Memory Alpha, and a keyword search of Chakoteya's episode-transcript site gets zero hits for "Thallonian."

 

[Therin of Andor]

Forgive me for being sceptical of Therin's memory on this one until/unless there's a specific interview quote..

Well there was something in print or online from Fontana, because the day I read it was the day I did the addition of the 1969 date on my "Toon Trek" pages. I didn't write down the reference, though, just the date she mentioned. Had the interview specified a fanfic or 'zine title, I'd have added that, too.

I have met DC, but that was long before I compiled "Toon Trek", which is about to get an overhaul, 'cos I have lots of novels on my "recently read" pile with tiny bits of paper in them marking all the TAS references.

 

[Iamnotspock]

You must've dreamt it, or misheard a similar-sounding species name.

The latter, I think. Thanks.

 

[F. King Daniel]

Sorry to bump an old thread, but I was watching Voyager's "Course: Oblivion" the other day and when Chakotay and Seven are backtracking duplicate-Voyager's records, Chakotay says something about a species trying to conscript Voyager to fight in it's war - which sounds an awful lot like the novel Battle Lines. The name of the alien species was mentioned, but I neither remember it nor have the book at hand to see if they match.

It's probably a fluke, but I kinda like the idea that Battle Lines may have actually starred the Silver Blood duplicates and not the real Voyager crew.

 

[Christopher]

The aliens mentioned in "Course: Oblivion" were the N'Kree, and it was stated that they tried and failed to conscript Voyager into their fleet. (And it was Tuvok who said it to Chakotay, not Chakotay and Seven.) According to the cover blurb for Battle Lines, the aliens there were Edesians, and they did successfully conscript Voyager into their fleet.

 

[Destructor]

It's probably a fluke, but I kinda like the idea that Battle Lines may have actually starred the Silver Blood duplicates and not the real Voyager crew.

I quite like that too! Memory... retconned!