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Prime Timeline Trek had New Zealand be the target of the Xindi attack 
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Angry_Ed posted:Section 31 wanted a cloaking device gently caress, there's a novel that reveals that to be the reason! And it ties into the Omega molecule because of course it does!
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Jun 22, 2021 20:12
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New Zealand saw the bullshit coming with WW3 and just noped the entire island into deep space in search of a better planet.
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Jun 22, 2021 20:26
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Watching the TNG episode 'Dark Page'. It's kind of a snoozer, too bad. It has Kirsten Dunst, she plays a child.
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Jun 22, 2021 20:46
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Big Mean Jerk posted:New Zealand saw the bullshit coming with WW3 and just noped the entire island into deep space in search of a better planet.
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Jun 22, 2021 22:04
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Marshal Radisic posted:gently caress, there's a novel that reveals that to be the reason! And it ties into the Omega molecule because of course it does! Which is exactly why I said that
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Jun 22, 2021 22:18
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John F Bennett posted:Watching the TNG episode 'Dark Page'. It's kind of a snoozer, too bad. It's alright. I like Lwaxana AND spooky stuff.
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Jun 22, 2021 22:25
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8one6 posted:A couple of years ago someone edited the picture of Spock's family from Yesteryear to add Sybok and Michael, and then someone else added Spocko but I can't find the later one anymore. Leaving out Giant Spock? For shame.
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Jun 22, 2021 23:27
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Maybe the next show should just be a spinoff full house/step by step/brady bunch/family matters/etc etc family sitcom about the spock family and the 50 spock kids.
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Jun 23, 2021 01:46
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Too Many Spocks! (Too many Spocks!)
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Jun 23, 2021 02:17
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Please Step On Me, Giant Spock
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Jun 23, 2021 02:27
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HD DAD posted:Please Step On Me, Giant Spock Which 70s zine does this story appear in?
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Jun 23, 2021 03:26
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It does appear to give anything legitmacy you basically put spocks dad having hosed its mom. So I eagerly await our horta spock brother, our TACOMP spock brother, and of course our catgirl spock brother.
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Jun 23, 2021 03:37
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F_Shit_Fitzgerald posted:I'll say this about Omega Glory: I think presenting the other captain as a 'dark' version of Kirk who ignores his oath and causes a Prime Directive dilemma is pretty well done. But "Yangs" and "Coms" and Shatner yell-quoting the constitution is awful and ridiculous. That sort of flag-waving in Star Trek doesn't sit well with me and makes me really uncomfortable. Geez, it's like a mid century American tv show written by a WWII vet or something!
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Jun 23, 2021 03:54
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F_Shit_Fitzgerald posted:I'll say this about Omega Glory: I think presenting the other captain as a 'dark' version of Kirk who ignores his oath and causes a Prime Directive dilemma is pretty well done. But "Yangs" and "Coms" and Shatner yell-quoting the constitution is awful and ridiculous. That sort of flag-waving in Star Trek doesn't sit well with me and makes me really uncomfortable. Yeah but that part gave us one of the best ytmnds so you win some, you lose some https://wethepeople.ytmnd.com
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Jun 23, 2021 04:29
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Marshal Radisic posted:gently caress, there's a novel that reveals that to be the reason! And it ties into the Omega molecule because of course it does! it hurts to think that this got published because people eat this poo poo up
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Jun 23, 2021 06:55
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jeeves posted:I honestly think that writing is the most expensive/important thing for current media that producers just belittle or under pay. It's true
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Jun 23, 2021 08:29
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John F Bennett posted:Watching the TNG episode 'Dark Page'. It's kind of a snoozer, too bad. Yeah that's a bad one
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Jun 23, 2021 08:33
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Were there any good Star Trek tie in novels? All I can think of is that one book with the TOS crew reminiscing about their experiences with the Kobayashi Maru.
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Jun 23, 2021 11:41
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HIJK posted:Were there any good Star Trek tie in novels? All I can think of is that one book with the TOS crew reminiscing about their experiences with the Kobayashi Maru. The one where Picard fucks Storm from the X-Men
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Jun 23, 2021 11:45
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nice
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Jun 23, 2021 11:49
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8 episodes in on S7 of DS9. It's gotten a lot weirder and in my opinion, better. Looks like it will finish strong.
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Jun 23, 2021 12:09
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HIJK posted:Were there any good Star Trek tie in novels? All I can think of is that one book with the TOS crew reminiscing about their experiences with the Kobayashi Maru. https://www.amazon.com/Stitch-Time-Star-Trek-Space/dp/0671038850
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Jun 23, 2021 13:18
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Quote is not Edit: Every once in a while I think about getting a physical copy but the cheapest one on Amazon is $90.
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Jun 23, 2021 13:21
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I enjoyed the Captain's Table books. Captains go to a special captains-only magical transuniversal bar and tell tall tales of their journeys? Yes please! My favorite thing were the seafaring captains who nodded along, politely supportive yet baffled, as the starship captains went on about Vulcans and Romulans and Kazon and poo poo
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Jun 23, 2021 14:08
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8one6 posted:Quote is not Edit: Every once in a while I think about getting a physical copy but the cheapest one on Amazon is $90. I don't remember which thread it was but a fine goon actually mailed me their copy of this a while back, I was absolutely floored by the generosity Fwiw my wife re-reads it once every few months, so it must be pretty great
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Jun 23, 2021 16:42
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Just watched "Ensign Ro" and it's always funny seeing the proto-DS9 stuff that's slightly off. Brown mutton-chop cardassians, the weird trills that can just use human bodies like it ain't no thing. In this episode they constantly refer to "the Bajora" and it's weird.
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Jun 23, 2021 17:23
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HIJK posted:Were there any good Star Trek tie in novels? All I can think of is that one book with the TOS crew reminiscing about their experiences with the Kobayashi Maru. Most of what I remember as “good” probably falls squarely into the “…for a trek novel” category but with that said: TOS: Prime Directive How Much For Just The Planet is a surprisingly decent comedy TOS story. Final Frontier/Best Destiny tell a quasi-connected story about what the Enterprise did before even Pike got her. The New Earth series actually does the “wagon train to the stars” thing - also the actual title of the first book - with a giant convoy of ships heading out to establish a new colony and what happens after they get there. TNG/DS9 I don’t actually remember a lot of these but, Vendetta thinks up a decent backstory for the doomsday machine. The Millennium series for DS9 is an “altered timeline” story that of course resets at the end but does some good stuff before the inevitable. People already mentioned A Stitch in Time.
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Jun 23, 2021 17:45
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My fav part of Ensign Ro is when she corrects Picard on her name and he apologizes and doesn't make that mistake again. He even gets diplomatic brownie points with another Bajoran for using their name correctly!
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Jun 23, 2021 18:03
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Minidust posted:Just watched "Ensign Ro" and it's always funny seeing the proto-DS9 stuff that's slightly off. Brown mutton-chop cardassians, the weird trills that can just use human bodies like it ain't no thing. In this episode they constantly refer to "the Bajora" and it's weird. I just came up with new headcanon that they adjusted the Universal Translator from "Bajora" to "Bajorans" after more cultural information started to leak out from under the Obsidian Veil
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Jun 23, 2021 18:45
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John F Bennett posted:Watching the TNG episode 'Dark Page'. It's kind of a snoozer, too bad. TNG Season 7 did way too many episodes revealing dark/secret/tragic things about [main character]'s past and/or family. Looking over the episode list, I see Interface, Dark Page, Inheritance, The Pegasus, Homeward, Sub Rosa, Eye of the Beholder*, Firstborn, Bloodlines... enough already! * The Enterprise is a main character, fight me
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Jun 23, 2021 19:05
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Brawnfire posted:I enjoyed the Captain's Table books. Captains go to a special captains-only magical transuniversal bar and tell tall tales of their journeys? Yes please! Everyone sighs and gets ready for a headache when the mind whale captains phase in and start thoughtcasting about their latest adventures in the Freudian Abyss of the Negaconscious ¡QQᴞ#🧚♀️ Driftway.
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Jun 23, 2021 19:16
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Powered Descent posted:TNG Season 7 did way too many episodes revealing dark/secret/tragic things about [main character]'s past and/or family. Is it really Trek if you don't know that Ensign Nohbadie had to kill grown men just to get enough space rats to eat when they were a kid?
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Jun 23, 2021 19:27
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McSpanky posted:Everyone sighs and gets ready for a headache when the mind whale captains phase in and start thoughtcasting about their latest adventures in the Freudian Abyss of the Negaconscious ¡QQᴞ#🧚♀️ Driftway. HHHYYOOO SEE I AM NOT ACTUALLY A "CAPTAIN" AS SUCH WWHHEEEE HAVE A VERY ADVANCED COMMAND STRUCTURE CALLED A METAPOD HHHHHMMMMM BUT IF IT HHEELPS YOU TO THINK OF ME AS A CAPTAIN, IT APPROXIMATES MY RANK THOUGH I STILL AM FAR MORE IMPORTANT THAN HYYOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
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Jun 23, 2021 19:38
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Some of Diane Duane's books are good. One of her TOS novels got turned into the TNG episode "Where No One Has Gone Before", she wrote a pretty good TNG mirror universe book called Dark Mirror, and her "Spock's World" and "Rihannsu" novels did a lot to flesh out the Vulcans and Romulans.
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Jun 23, 2021 19:57
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Epicurius posted:Some of Diane Duane's books are good. One of her TOS novels got turned into the TNG episode "Where No One Has Gone Before", she wrote a pretty good TNG mirror universe book called Dark Mirror, and her "Spock's World" and "Rihannsu" novels did a lot to flesh out the Vulcans and Romulans. I've only read "Spock's World" of those, but I liked it. I've been meaning to get to the Rihannsu books since I've always heard good things about them.
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Jun 23, 2021 21:04
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Epicurius posted:Some of Diane Duane's books are good. One of her TOS novels got turned into the TNG episode "Where No One Has Gone Before", she wrote a pretty good TNG mirror universe book called Dark Mirror, and her "Spock's World" and "Rihannsu" novels did a lot to flesh out the Vulcans and Romulans. That's because Diane Duane loving owns, I need to read her trek novels now.
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Jun 23, 2021 22:31
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Epicurius posted:Some of Diane Duane's books are good. One of her TOS novels got turned into the TNG episode "Where No One Has Gone Before", she wrote a pretty good TNG mirror universe book called Dark Mirror, and her "Spock's World" and "Rihannsu" novels did a lot to flesh out the Vulcans and Romulans. Dark Mirror was really fun and I was disappointed when the DS9 Mirror Universe stuff effectively retconned it. Troi as some telepathic Stasi agent stomping around the mirror Enterprise bringing people in for thoughtcrimes was some cool poo poo.
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Jun 24, 2021 02:08
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Shyrka posted:Dark Mirror was really fun and I was disappointed when the DS9 Mirror Universe stuff effectively retconned it.
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Jun 24, 2021 03:30
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I read the 80s novels but gave up after awhile--the non canon nature made them glorified fanfiction. But the more recent Vanguard novels were cool--a series about a TOS era Starbase near uncharted/contested space, a bit like DS9 but with a TOS aesthetic. There was a whole series with a storyline and characters with arcs and development. This what I'd like to see more of in Star Trek and other franchise tie-in fiction: original content exploring other facets of the universe and using the setting as a springboard instead of just fanwank doomed to be decanonized by a throwaway line in the live action.
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