As much as I love to debate about eBooks again (and I think it's a worthy debate no matter how either side feels and I think everyone knows how I feel about the issue), this isn't the place for it.
What happened to the Enterprise-B?
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As somebody once said, there are always...possibilities...
Unfortunately, if that paper edition is this new taller thinner type paperback that goes for $9.99 then it won't be a good read. I recently got my hands on one of them and found that it felt very unnatural. Almost like a bat fit to my hands. I hope Trek books don't ever go that way.
Who said that?
I'd say that if eBook sales were down on estimations, and then an emergency vacancy turned up in the hardcopy publishing schedule, a quick omnibus collection would be a no-brainer. Don't panic. There aren't going to be any long-lost, never-in-hardcopy Star Trek books as long as Pocket keeps chugging along.
Sure, the three "Captain Sulu" original audios were promoted as exclusive to audio, but they weren't all that well received - but "SCE: Starfleet Corps of Engineers" created a buzz for eBooks and they have done quite well as hardcopy reprint collections, too. The new eBooks seemed to have garnered excellent reviews. They won't remain "exclusive to eBook".
Huh? When was it announced that Pocket was definitely switching formats for ST? The "CoE" eBook reprints recently went from MMPB to trade. I really doubt future eBook collections will switch back to MMPB, and in a varied size to boot.
And, ok, your first time ever reading a larger-sized (prestige) MMPB was less than pleasant. (So was my grandmother's first ten times watching colour TV.) How different in format are these things to cause such heartache?
They are taller, thinner because of less pages, and more expensive. The print is larger. But the way they fit to the hand is not the same as it is in a regular paperback. The pages are on a different paper as well. You have to learn a new way to hold them so it feels comfortable. Plus, they've raised the price from $7.99 to $9.99. Where I'd be happy with the $7.99 normal pbook, this one is not nice. Yes, this new format is causing a problem. Causing me not to purchase them for one. And yes, if there's a book I want in that format, I will not purchase it. What I'm not yet sure of is the ebook editions. Will the increase in price cause the ebooks to also increase in price when there is no need at all? This has more implications then just a change in the size of the book.Therin of Andor said:How different in format are these things to cause such heartache?
Yes, if past experience is anything to go by. (Increases of $1 in the print price lead to a $1 increase in the ebook price, even though the publisher is only seeing $0.50 of that print price increase.) There's no reason to think that they'd do anything different with these.
FASA suggested in their RPG that the Ent-B had a long and distinguished career (also mentioned in the TNG Tech Manual), then was destroyed in the Neutral Zone Triangle (an area of space bordering the Federation, Klingons and Romulans). She fought against two rogue battleships, one Klingon and one Romulan, which were operating out of the Triangle. All three ships were damaged beyond repair. The TNG TM does not mention a specific fate for the ship.
Incidentally, I also liked FASA's suggestion that there was a controversy over making the B an Excelsior. It was considered a warship in the RPG, and one group wanted a Constellation class instead to continue the tradition of the Enterprise as an explorer. But ultimately the Excelsior won, because of heightened tensions with the Klingon and Romulan empires.
Incidentally, I also liked FASA's suggestion that there was a controversy over making the B an Excelsior. It was considered a warship in the RPG, and one group wanted a Constellation class instead to continue the tradition of the Enterprise as an explorer. But ultimately the Excelsior won, because of heightened tensions with the Klingon and Romulan empires.
Between the launches? The B was launched in 2293 according to GEN, and the C in 2332 according to the books. So 39 years.
Well, the E-A was retired after less than a decade in service, for whatever reason (unless you believe that it was a pre-existing ship that was simply renamed).
^ As was the NX-01 Enterprise, for that matter.
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but that was a pathfinder prototype and may have been expected to have only a short service life...maybe 5 years? ... before being retired and lasted 10 because of the Romulan Wars.
I assumed the B was retired, because we never heard about its destruction.
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