I agree with Jim here. There’s nothing implausible about Spock, if we make the assumption that Spock’s genome was built from the ground up. No, Spock was not an accidental child; the odds of Vulcans and humans having compatible genetic code is only slightly less than the odds of me and Jim McCain growing moreContinue reading “The Psi Phi Project: Re(8615): Andorians seen in Trek”
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The Psi-Phi Project: Re(8561): Dissappointments
John Ordover has said in the past that Pocket was one of the last publishers to raise the prices on their books. Keeping books smaller in the page count is a way to keep those costs down. If a lower-than-average page count is done in conjunction with a slightly smaller typeface (to fit a 270Continue reading “The Psi-Phi Project: Re(8561): Dissappointments”
The Psi-Phi Project: Re(8550): Dissappointments
But it does no good to vent your spleen if you simultaneously assure them that you’ll keep buying the books no matter what they do. The only way to get the message through to them is NOT to buy the books. Otherwise, what incentive do they have to change? Ah, the Catch-22. You buy stuffContinue reading “The Psi-Phi Project: Re(8550): Dissappointments”
More on Sulu novels
From John Ordover: Yes, we could use Spock as a prop for Sulu, just as we used Picard and Spock in the first New Frontier book – but why should we?:) For the exact same reason as the NextGen angle was played in New Frontier: to draw in readers. For the same reason Picard featuresContinue reading “More on Sulu novels”
Peter David's Writing Style
O. Deus wrote: [Peter] David doesn’t do nice stories. He’s the one writer assigned to doing R-Rated ST stories which is pretty much his function. If he didn’t keep shoving in the violence and sex and betrayals, readers might begin to notice that he’s no better a writer than any of the other franchise’s pensContinue reading “Peter David's Writing Style”
The Psi Phi Project: Re(7545): Questions about next movie novelization
I imagine Simon didn’t notice that the defense of Diane Carey came from “fed up in Seattle,” and we know that Dave Galanter lives near Ms. Carey in Michigan. (Of course, now I’m trying to think of who here lives in Seattle; must be a newbie or a lurker.) That said, I stand behind everythingContinue reading “The Psi Phi Project: Re(7545): Questions about next movie novelization”
The Psi Phi Project: Re(7521): Questions about next movie novelization
Truth to tell, Yavar, I consider the Generations novelization to be a mixed case. Parts of the book were well-developed; remember that the first third of the book is set in the 23rd century. We get the final day of Kirk’s command of the Enterprise, his final moments as the ship’s master and commander (andContinue reading “The Psi Phi Project: Re(7521): Questions about next movie novelization”
The Psi Phi Project: Re(7519): Questions about next movie novelization
A friend of mine and I had a conversation on Star Trek: The Motion Picture about two years back. Knowing I was a reader of the Trek novels, he said: “Roddenberry didn’t write the novelization. Alan Dean Foster did.” I thought about it, filed that factoid away, and eventually decided that no, Alan Dead FosterContinue reading “The Psi Phi Project: Re(7519): Questions about next movie novelization”