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Post by thwhtguardian on Aug 7, 2019 20:48:45 GMT -5
In other news there might be a Pike/Spock series down the line which would be awesome.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 7, 2019 21:52:11 GMT -5
In other news there might be a Pike/Spock series down the line which would be awesome. I would love that ... see it in a heartbeat. |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 8, 2019 8:09:11 GMT -5
I found out recently that data is the plural of datum. One datum, two data. You can no more have a piece of data than you can have a piece of cakes.
So shouldn't Data have been called Datum?
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Post by thwhtguardian on Aug 9, 2019 15:22:44 GMT -5
I found out recently that data is the plural of datum. One datum, two data. You can no more have a piece of data than you can have a piece of cakes. So shouldn't Data have been called Datum? I think the writers discovered that same issue, as in the episode exploring his creation it was shown that the collective memories of all the colonists were stored inside of him...thus Data. |
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Post by thwhtguardian on Oct 6, 2019 6:43:05 GMT -5
New trailer for Picard and it looks great!
He named his dog Number One!
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Post by Deleted on Oct 7, 2019 20:28:58 GMT -5
New trailer for Picard and it looks great! He named his dog Number One! It's Hugh! |
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Post by EdoBosnar on Oct 8, 2019 3:01:53 GMT -5
There are no words to express how happy these Picard trailers make me. Finally: new, post-Voyager Trek stories. Love the appearance of previous characters interspersed with new ones (and every time I see 7 of 9 I can hardly keep myself from shouting "f***-yeah!" out loud), and I also love that Picard's dog is named No. 1.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 9, 2019 18:48:07 GMT -5
CBS just released this to promote their Short Treks episode "Q & A":  Love the echo of those great 80s novels. |
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Post by wildfire2099 on Oct 18, 2019 8:43:11 GMT -5
Some day I'm going to sit down and figure out which trek novels are worth reading and read a bunch... I have a few of the PAD ones, and a few sporadic others, but I feel like there is good stuff out there.
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Post by Roquefort Raider on Oct 19, 2019 9:38:46 GMT -5
Some day I'm going to sit down and figure out which trek novels are worth reading and read a bunch... I have a few of the PAD ones, and a few sporadic others, but I feel like there is good stuff out there. In my experience, the Trek novels can be very good when you’re a fan of the series and want some more of the material, especially at first. However, continuity problems crop up very fast if you read more than a few. To wit: Diane Duane created a very interesting and believable back story for the Romulans over the course of several novels. However, that backstory was ignored both by the TV and film people (which is fair enough) and by other writers. Same with the Borg: we got multiple “end of the Borg” scenarios that don’t agree with each other. Same thing with any novel dealing with the backstory of individual characters. So the Trek novels essentially consist of multiple tales set in ”parallel realities”. That’s fine, except that personally one of the things that attract me to these fantasy series is the world building: once something is established, I like to see how things can be built from there; I don’t want a soft reboot with each new novel. Peter David, whom you mention, is excellent at using each character’s “voice”. He’s not my favourite plotter, but as far as dialogs go he’s top-notch. |
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Post by thwhtguardian on Oct 20, 2019 5:17:11 GMT -5
Some day I'm going to sit down and figure out which trek novels are worth reading and read a bunch... I have a few of the PAD ones, and a few sporadic others, but I feel like there is good stuff out there. In my experience, the Trek novels can be very good when you’re a fan of the series and want some more of the material, especially at first. However, continuity problems crop up very fast if you read more than a few. To wit: Diane Duane created a very interesting and believable back story for the Romulans over the course of several novels. However, that backstory was ignored both by the TV and film people (which is fair enough) and by other writers. Same with the Borg: we got multiple “end of the Borg” scenarios that don’t agree with each other. Same thing with any novel dealing with the backstory of individual characters. So the Trek novels essentially consist of multiple tales set in ”parallel realities”. That’s fine, except that personally one of the things that attract me to these fantasy series is the world building: once something is established, I like to see how things can be built from there; I don’t want a soft reboot with each new novel. Peter David, whom you mention, is excellent at using each character’s “voice”. He’s not my favourite plotter, but as far as dialogs go he’s top-notch. Yeah, unlike the Star Wars books which tended to have some level of oversight the trek books vary from author to author with little carrying over. |
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Post by wildfire2099 on Oct 20, 2019 10:18:15 GMT -5
I see, so each author does their own thing.. that's not as good as what Star Wars did (or tried to do) with the old EU... good to know.
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Post by Duragizer on Oct 20, 2019 16:39:49 GMT -5
I prefer the discontinuity of Star Trek's EU over the exquisite corpse that passed for continuity in the Star Wars EU.
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Post by thwhtguardian on Oct 20, 2019 19:53:33 GMT -5
I prefer the discontinuity of Star Trek's EU over the exquisite corpse that passed for continuity in the Star Wars EU. It could be over used at times, like every tiny little character having some big secret history but when used more loosely to create a sense of history I think it worked well. |
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Post by shaxper on Nov 6, 2019 21:52:46 GMT -5
So I'm slowly watching The Orville, as it's essentially Next Generation with penis jokes. I'm still not sure how seriously to take it and how invested to get, but I just wrapped up Season 2, Episode 4: ""Nothing Left on Earth Excepting Fishes", and holy geez was that good. By far my favorite episode yet. I have renewed hope for the series.
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