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I’m not sure how the TNG novels are going to handle the Picard show but there was a mandate to keep the timeline pre-2386 (when Romulus gets blown up), so they may be able to avoid conflicting events
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Jun 23, 2019 19:14
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The DS9 ones have been okay so far. Not great literature but fine popcorn entertainment books. I tried the Voyager ones and couldn't get through the first book. The same author wrote like the first three so I just noped out of the whole thing. Really bad.
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Jun 23, 2019 19:15
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Cross-Section posted:The New Earth series is justified alone by how much the first book rags on the TMP uniforms: For genre fiction they are genuinely good books and I have zero hesitation in recommending the series in full, which is unusual for anything that gets beyond three or four. Unrelated, I don't seem to be able to inline mp4s in here but I enjoyed this.
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Jun 23, 2019 20:07
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btw, I don't suppose there's an audiobook of Stitch in Time, narrated by Robinson in character as Garak? I assume no because otherwise it would be in every hotel nightstand drawer in the civilized world.
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Jun 23, 2019 20:21
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Robinson said he would love to do it but the publisher isn't interested. E: Here's a real bad clip of him doing an in-character reading: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oB3ypKPJlV8
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Jun 23, 2019 20:26
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The lack of Star Trek audiobooks sucks.
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Jun 23, 2019 20:26
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Thom12255 posted:The lack of Star Trek audiobooks sucks. They did a fair number of them back in the cassette days. I had some Klingon book narrated in-character by the Kahless actor.
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Jun 23, 2019 20:29
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I used to have an audio version of the novelization of DS9's Emissary on cassette. I used to fall asleep to it a lot when I was a kid
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Jun 23, 2019 20:46
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Grand Fromage posted:The DS9 ones have been okay so far. Not great literature but fine popcorn entertainment books. I tried the Voyager ones and couldn't get through the first book. The same author wrote like the first three so I just noped out of the whole thing. Really bad. She is in the writer’s room for Star Trek Discovery
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Jun 23, 2019 20:55
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davidspackage posted:I would love to read a Stitch in Time. Wish I could find a reasonably priced paperback, I don't really want to buy an e-reader for it. Assuming you're talking about a Kindle since that's where the ebook seems to be available. If you have any other device (iOS, Android, Windows, Mac), just install the Kindle app and boom, you have a Kindle.
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Jun 23, 2019 21:08
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FlamingLiberal posted:Yes Kirsten Beyer does those I checked and it was the Christie Golden one Homecoming that I got halfway through before deleting.
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Jun 23, 2019 21:09
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Thom12255 posted:The lack of Star Trek audiobooks sucks. Honestly, they could do worse than getting in touch with Big Finish and doing audioplays like Doctor Who has done for the last 20 years.
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Jun 23, 2019 21:19
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Grand Fromage posted:I checked and it was the Christie Golden one Homecoming that I got halfway through before deleting.
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Jun 23, 2019 21:20
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Powered Descent posted:Assuming you're talking about a Kindle since that's where the ebook seems to be available. If you have any other device (iOS, Android, Windows, Mac), just install the Kindle app and boom, you have a Kindle.  I had no idea it was that simple. Thanks!
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Jun 23, 2019 21:31
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This is discouraging but also my opinions of Voyager and those of others in this thread doesn't usually tend to align anyway, so be damned and let's see how it turns out, I guess
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I don't think I dislike Voyager as much as the general thread opinion. It was just terrible writing. She wrote the first four so I guess if you find yourself thinking the same you could try skipping those. Like here's a short summary of the plot threads: Earth is now an entirely slave based economy for some reason and is crippled when the slaves revolt, also people are getting the flu but the flu is actually Borg. Grand Fromage fucked around with this message at 21:49 on Jun 23, 2019 |
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Jun 23, 2019 21:45
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Grand Fromage posted:I don't think I dislike Voyager as much as the general thread opinion. It was just terrible writing. She wrote the first four so I guess if you find yourself thinking the same you could try skipping those. That's the start of the Voyager relaunch series?
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It appears there are more Short Treks on the way. https://www.cbr.com/star-trek-more-short-treks/ Alex Kurtzman posted:We’re doing six more of them. Two of them are animated [and] unlike the two animated shows. What I love about the Short Treks is that they are an experimental training ground, a place to experiment with different things - directors who we’ve never worked with before, tones we’ve never tried before. I'm cool with this. It's like a little teeny version of that anthology series that Discovery could have been.
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Jun 23, 2019 22:12
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I know they won’t be, but I really want the two animated ones to be the same style as TAS. You could even get Doug Jones to voice half the cast just like Doohan.
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Thom12255 posted:That's the start of the Voyager relaunch series? Yeah. No idea how any of it resolves since I didn't read on but it's like Threshold level dumb.
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Jun 23, 2019 22:31
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Grand Fromage posted:Yeah. No idea how any of it resolves since I didn't read on but it's like Threshold level dumb. Like, if it was slave holograms I guess I could see how it ties into the show with The Doctor but if it's just general slavery being okay in the Federation now lol.
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Jun 23, 2019 23:04
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If you think about it, the real slavery is not being required to perform crushing labor for your betters in exchange for subsistence-at-best wages.
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Jun 23, 2019 23:25
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Thom12255 posted:Like, if it was slave holograms I guess I could see how it ties into the show with The Doctor but if it's just general slavery being okay in the Federation now lol. It's slave holograms. Also, the borg thing turns out to be the plot of this young woman who had been horribly abused by her father, a Starfleet officer, was psychologically damaged by it and started a plot to become a borg queen.
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Jun 23, 2019 23:33
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I mean we already knew that the EMH Mark 1s had been repurposed as slave laborers. The show ends with the Doctor unable to legally establish that he was a person. By the far the most moral captain in all of Starfleet decided that a humane fate for Holo-Moriarty was trapping him and his girlfriend forever in a procedurally generated YouTube video. That villain’s backstory is unfortunate, but there’s a fair bit of stuff in Trek like that already. The hologram stuff sounds like something consistent with stuff we already know from this world.
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Epicurius posted:and started a plot to become a borg queen. as one does
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happyhippy posted:There's a comic of him going back in time via sun slingshoting too. I'm trying to remember who's ship they end up on, but I think he also picks up M'Ress and Arex from The Animated Series for his crew. Also Number One from TOS.
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Nodosaur posted:I mean Man, Picard trapped him in No Mans Sky.
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Thom12255 posted:Man, Picard trapped him in No Mans Sky. That was a good Black Mirror episode.
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The_Doctor posted:Honestly, they could do worse than getting in touch with Big Finish and doing audioplays like Doctor Who has done for the last 20 years. I think BF does some Star Trek but it's like licensed fiction with new characters. Which is too bad, because so many of the actors are still alive and would be willing--just look at how many did fan films.
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MorgaineDax posted:I'm trying to remember who's ship they end up on, but I think he also picks up M'Ress and Arex from The Animated Series for his crew. Also, Number One turned out to be an immortal godlike being who's physical body was destroyed by the Greek gods and inhabited the ship's computer. Her daughter was Robin Lefler, who was also on the crew (she's the character in TNG played by Ashley Judd who dated Wesley in that episode where that mind controlling game took over the Enterprise). It's a very stupid series.
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Grand Fromage posted:Yeah. No idea how any of it resolves since I didn't read on but it's like Threshold level dumb. But basically it takes place after the events of the Destiny books (which got rid of the Borg) and Starfleet has tasked Janeway with taking a fleet into the Delta Quadrant to confirm the Borg are really gone. The fleet’s ships are outfitted with functional quantum slipstream drives so they can get back to the Alpha Quadrant in weeks if needed.
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what the hell was the point of the enterprise being able to separate? it just didnt ever get used and it just seemed like a dumb loving idea.
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TheDiceMustRoll posted:what the hell was the point of the enterprise being able to separate? it just didnt ever get used and it just seemed like a dumb loving idea. it was too expensive to shoot and wasted like five minutes of potentially exciting screen time on a really boring effects shot. I think we only saw it separate twice.
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They just kind of wanted it to be a plot element that the ship could split in half when trouble strikes — the idea dates back to TOS though it never made it to primetime on that show. To be cynical about it, the idea of shooting an effects sequence that can be reused like that whenever the situation is serious probably makes the accountants happy. But it ultimately didn’t end up getting used much because shooting with the separated saucer/hull sections was prohibitively expensive.
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TheDiceMustRoll posted:what the hell was the point of the enterprise being able to separate? it just didnt ever get used and it just seemed like a dumb loving idea. Also, and I don't think they were necessarily wrong, the main bridge doesn't look conducive to big action scenes. It's like a big living room meant for having debates about the nature of life and poo poo like that. But Patrick Stewart is really what sells the ship to ship confrontations so it was fine. But yeah, the lower half without the saucer looks dumb whereas the saucer looks fine. But true story, I had not remembered seeing the saucer separate before when I saw Generations as a kid. And I did think the saucer separation there felt like a big deal.
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TheDiceMustRoll posted:what the hell was the point of the enterprise being able to separate? it just didnt ever get used and it just seemed like a dumb loving idea. They planned to use it far more frequently but it was too expensive.
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Big Mean Jerk posted:They did a fair number of them back in the cassette days. I had some Klingon book narrated in-character by the Kahless actor. I have the audiobook version of The Kobayashi Maru (the TOS story not the later ENT story) on tape. Starring James Doohan as everybody.
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Jun 24, 2019 06:04
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Just like the cartoon!
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Grand Fromage posted:They planned to use it far more frequently but it was too expensive. But that that point, it was already filmed and could have been stock footage. I suspect the bigger reason was just that it turned out to be boring as hell once actually put into a sequence instead of tension-building.
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