is that the one where Rimmer comes back and then thumps the boxes of explosives, thus blowing himself to kingdom come?
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is that the one where Rimmer comes back and then thumps the boxes of explosives, thus blowing himself to kingdom come?
is that the one where Rimmer comes back and then thumps the boxes of explosives, thus blowing himself to kingdom come?
Yep.
"I'm alive... I'm alive! Kryten, unpack Rachel and get out the puncture repair kit! I am al-" BOOM!
Treklit needs to conquer the romance market with Myriad Universes: Forbidden Love, an anthology featuring Kirk/Spock, Janeway/Chakotay, Kirk/Rand, Picard/Lwaxana, Janeway/Q, Spock/Chapel and the rest of the teased, aborted or imagined pairings from 40 years of Star Trek. The first Star Trek novel to use the word "nipple" 
Treklit needs to conquer the romance market with Myriad Universes: Forbidden Love, an anthology featuring Kirk/Spock, Janeway/Chakotay, Kirk/Rand, Picard/Lwaxana, Janeway/Q, Spock/Chapel and the rest of the teased, aborted or imagined pairings from 40 years of Star Trek. The first Star Trek novel to use the word "nipple"
The TMP novelization used the word nipples, and i'm sure there are others...
Bear in mind I haven't read it in about 30 years (and bought it from the scholastic book club in secondary school!) but I still remember the description when the Ilia Probe emerges from the sonic shower that more or less "her hard nipples pointing accusingly at him..."
I was very disappointed when I saw the (U-rated) movie...
That would be unnecessary...
Janeway/Chakotay has already happened (as a full-fledged romantic relationship), along with Seven/Kim, in "Places of Exile" in the first Myriad Universes book.And isn't The Killing Time (which I haven't read) supposed to feature some slashy Kirk/Spock stuff?
Considering how long-lived and huge the Trek franchise is, I'd say there's a high probability that every pairing that's ever been aborted, teased, planned or hinted at will eventually have its day, if not in a new show or movie than in a book or comic or video game, if not in the regular continuity than in an alternate universe. Troi/Riker had to wait for the TNG movies, Picard/Crusher only got their chance in the post-finale novels, Spock/Uhura shippers were rewarded by the new movie... We've even had Kira/Dukat in an alternate universe (with 'good guy' Dukat).
Barely, and only the first edition.
The "Phoenix" novels are the most slashy K/S in the licensed material.
"Barely"??
I don't think you'll find a more sexually-charged, unintentionally hilarious forced mind-meld (in the ships' botanical gardens, no less
) anywhere else.
I bet Marshak and Culbreath were green with envy
I don't think you'll find a more sexually-charged, unintentionally hilarious forced mind-meld (in the ships' botanical gardens, no less
) anywhere else.I bet Marshak and Culbreath were green with envy
It's not all about any one thing. The online blurb is misleading on that point. It's in the vein of Articles of the Federation, a broad-focused procedural about the DTI and its whole range of staffers, responsibilities, and problems, although some of those problems play a larger, more ongoing role in the story than others.
SUS has been a concern of mine here, but the way I figure it is: SUS is when various different things get brought together randomly, when there's no good reason for it. But the DTI's whole purpose is to investigate any and all temporal phenomena and situations that the Federation encounters, so they'd have a valid reason to be connected with any given time travel episode or film. Also, since I'm trying to knit the body of ST temporal mechanics into a reasonably consistent overarching model, there are cases where a phenomenon from a particular episode could be encountered in a wholly separate context. So there's good reason why a book taking a wide-ranging look at the DTI's actions and responsibilities might be expected to include a lot of episode and movie references without it being a gratuitous or unbelievable case of Small Universe Syndrome. Call it Connected Universe Syndrome.
kkozoriz1
Fleet Captain
I was referring to the idea of red matter being used in Yesterday's Enterprise. If it were used like that, tying into episodes where it's not necessary then it would be SUS. There already was an explanation for the time anomaly, albeit a brief one, so red matter would simple be unnecessary.
I really like the character of Elias Vaughn but I was getting tired of him showing up and it seemed that EVERYONE knew him at some point and he was involved in ALL the big events in some way. I was "this" close to saying "oh no, not him again" at one point. I understand that he was put into all those stories to give him background and show just how long he's been in Starfleet but there were so many in such a short span that it was becoming ridiculous.
I really like the character of Elias Vaughn but I was getting tired of him showing up and it seemed that EVERYONE knew him at some point and he was involved in ALL the big events in some way. I was "this" close to saying "oh no, not him again" at one point. I understand that he was put into all those stories to give him background and show just how long he's been in Starfleet but there were so many in such a short span that it was becoming ridiculous.
^ You've mentioned this before, and I don't really understand it. He was in two Lost Era books and The Battle Of Betazed; that was three appearances outside of DS9, (up until the book next year anyway). For a 100 year old intelligence officer, having been involved in 3 important incidents (now 4) seems to not at all strain believability, yes?
kkozoriz1
Fleet Captain
It was more the timing that the coincidence of his appearances. It seemed that you couldn't swing a dead tribble without hitting Vaughn, no matter what time period you were in. Add in the fact that it seems that almost all the major characters have met him or know him and it felt like "LOOK! He's been around a long, long time! And he knows lots of important people!" was being pushed.
In Serpents among the Ruins there's two SI agents, one of which just happens to be Vaughn. In The art of the Impossible, he's there again, along with a ton of other characters. Add in the appearances in books set in the present in novel continuity and it just felt like every time your turned around, there was Vaughn. It would have worked better if it was spread out a bit more. Like I said, I like the character but it was getting to be "What, him again?" there for a couple of years.
In Serpents among the Ruins there's two SI agents, one of which just happens to be Vaughn. In The art of the Impossible, he's there again, along with a ton of other characters. Add in the appearances in books set in the present in novel continuity and it just felt like every time your turned around, there was Vaughn. It would have worked better if it was spread out a bit more. Like I said, I like the character but it was getting to be "What, him again?" there for a couple of years.
^^
Re: DTI.
I am expecting things like "Ok, turns out the Borg were a result of a Big Temporal Incident we didn't previously know about" or the fact that Archer had a number of temporal run-ins, but only in the context of taking note of them and explaining how they affect the timeline as a whole.
Which sort of makes seeing who you'll make into the antagonist and interesting question to wait for.
Re: DTI.
I am expecting things like "Ok, turns out the Borg were a result of a Big Temporal Incident we didn't previously know about" or the fact that Archer had a number of temporal run-ins, but only in the context of taking note of them and explaining how they affect the timeline as a whole.
Which sort of makes seeing who you'll make into the antagonist and interesting question to wait for.
There are some things I did in DTI:WTC that I know are going to make people cry "Small Universe Syndrome!" But I think most of them are justified. After all, when you're dealing with time travel, with different factions and their various travels and agendas overlapping, that would pretty much tend to create Small-Universe Syndrome for real. (If there were time travel, you'd probably end up getting temporal flash mobs around the signing of the Declaration of Independence, the bombing of Pearl Harbor, etc. Not to mention the constant torrent of time travellers trying to off Hitler -- and the other time travellers trying to stop them.) You can even see this in Enterprise, where Archer ends up getting embroiled with three unrelated factions trying to alter history for separate reasons.
That WikiHistory story is great!
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