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[Deranged Nasat]

Hi everyone.

I hope this is acceptable here; it certainly relates to Trek lit , although if it isn't I apologise.

Just a quick note to say, that for those who visit the Tv Tropes website, it finally has a lengthy Trek lit section under the title of "Star Trek Expanded Universe". I thought it about time Trek got equal billing there with Star Wars .

 

[Rosalind]

:: groan ::

not "expanded universe"

 

[Christopher]

Yeah, I'm not happy seeing that term applied to Trek fiction, because it implies a nonexistent equivalence with the way Star Wars tie-ins are handled.

 

[David cgc]

Well, then you can make a case to change the name.

Yes, I know it's easy to find, but we're all a bunch of spoiled children on the internet, and we like our hypertext.

 

[Christopher]

Holy cow, that article's badly in need of attributions. There are so many characters and plot points mentioned without any reference to which books they're from, so the uninitiated are going to be totally lost reading that.

 

[David cgc]

Yeah, that's kind of how they roll, there. Usually the examples on the trope pages (as opposed to the subject pages) are a little more detailed, but it's not unusual to have one-world examples for in the subject pages.

 

[TheAlmanac]

Yeah, I'm not happy seeing that term applied to Trek fiction, because it implies a nonexistent equivalence with the way Star Wars tie-ins are handled.

TVTropes applies the term Expanded Universe to all media tie-ins.

 

[JD]

Holy cow, that article's badly in need of attributions. There are so many characters and plot points mentioned without any reference to which books they're from, so the uninitiated are going to be totally lost reading that.

Yeah, I looked over that, and I didn't understand half of the references.

 

[seigezunt]

Somebody needs to open a can of Steve Roby on these people.

 

[Dayton Ward]

Noodle Incident: The Tellarite Story in the Corps of Engineers series(though we do get a reasonable number of details, much remains nebulous)

Heh.

For those who might be curious, a few years ago I actually did write "the Tellarite Story." Don't know if it will ever appear anywhere, but one never knows....

 

[Therin of Andor]

For those who might be curious, a few years ago I actually did write "the Tellarite Story."

The other Tellarite gag I loved was - I think in the DS9 "Millennium" trilogy? - when the stained glass mural at Quark's, often seen on the show, was said to be a portrait of a Tholian admiral. The image was often greeted, by title, as Quark arrived at work each day.

But later it was revealed that

Spoiler: Quark's artwork

was... a male Tellarite reproductive appendage.

 

[Deranged Nasat]

:: groan ::

not "expanded universe"

Yeah, I'm not happy seeing that term applied to Trek fiction, because it implies a nonexistent equivalence with the way Star Wars tie-ins are handled.

I know, I know, I hate it too, but that's the term they use for all franchises over there. Those who frequent the site and its contributors use that term anyway. So I chose to go with it, for their sake

Holy cow, that article's badly in need of attributions. There are so many characters and plot points mentioned without any reference to which books they're from, so the uninitiated are going to be totally lost reading that.

Yeah, that's kind of how they roll, there. Usually the examples on the trope pages (as opposed to the subject pages) are a little more detailed, but it's not unusual to have one-world examples for in the subject pages.

Yeah. I've been lost many, many times on many of their pages, but that's how it always seems to work over there. This article's in keeping with their way of doing things, more or less. Which is the point, really. I was aiming to replicate their usual style.

 

[Deranged Nasat]

Noodle Incident: The Tellarite Story in the Corps of Engineers series(though we do get a reasonable number of details, much remains nebulous)

Heh.

For those who might be curious, a few years ago I actually did write "the Tellarite Story." Don't know if it will ever appear anywhere, but one never knows....

You can count me among the curious

 

[Steve Roby]

Somebody needs to open a can of Steve Roby on these people.

"Do you have Steve Roby in a can?"
"Yes, we do."
"Well, why don't you let him out, then?"

Someone else remembers that Prince Albert tobacco gag, right?

 

[mbruno]

The other Tellarite gag I loved was - I think in the DS9 "Millennium" trilogy? - when the stained glass mural at Quark's, often seen on the show, was said to be a portrait of a Tholian admiral. The image was often greeted, by title, as Quark arrived at work each day.

But later it was revealed that

Spoiler: Quark's artwork

was... a male Tellarite reproductive appendage.

, that's funny.

 

[Geoff Thorne]

Frankly I'm pleased the Seleneans made such a strong showing and that aMershik got a nod.

 

[Deranged Nasat]

Frankly I'm pleased the Seleneans made such a strong showing and that aMershik got a nod.

Well, I like Seleneans and aMershik.

 

[Christopher]

I find it amusing that in the "Blue and Orange Morality" category, about species that aren't evil but have alien moral systems, fully 4/7 of the examples are my creations. Predictable, aren't I?

 

[Sci]

Holy cow, that article's badly in need of attributions. There are so many characters and plot points mentioned without any reference to which books they're from, so the uninitiated are going to be totally lost reading that.

It's TVTropes. They don't do attribution most of the time -- it's a wiki of evaluations and opinions as much as it is facts.

 

[seigezunt]

I keep reading this as "Toupees."