You might have heard — Granada Television is about to revive Sherlock Holmes for British television, rolling the clock back and looking at Holmes and Watson in the early years of their partnership. A Holmes mailing list I subscribe to has been filled with messages the past few days bemoaning this, saying on one handContinue reading “On the Young Sherlock Holmes”
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On Star Trek Series 5 Rumors
There is a rumor that the next Star Trek series will be about the 29th century timefleet. This rumor hasn’t gotten much airplay at all, but it’s out there, and some sources suggest that the “Birth of the Federation” rumor exists as disinformation to cover the timefleet scenario. My one complaint with the timefleet scenarioContinue reading “On Star Trek Series 5 Rumors”
On Justice League: The Final Frontier
Imagine this: Batman vs. Worf. Batman vs. Zak Kebron. Batman vs. Si Cwan. Okay, Batman wins all three fights. Handily. Imagine this one: Batman vs. Calhoun. Okay, Batman wins that one, too. Okay, so if there were to be a JLA/Star Trek crossover, we probably shouldn’t have it be hero vs. hero; no one canContinue reading “On Justice League: The Final Frontier”
On "Evil of the Daleks"
Thanks to a poster on rec.arts.drwho I’ve received a reconstruction of the Patrick Troughton Doctor Who serial, “Evil of the Daleks.” Disappointed in “Evil of the Daleks”? Far from it. I enjoyed it immensely. The sound quality was crystal clear, the still pictures were rock-solid, the one extant episode looked very good, and all inContinue reading “On "Evil of the Daleks"”
On Cats and Life Lessons
My cat presented me with a present this morning. Her name is Tails (due to her tail which is bent at 90 degrees about halfway up, the result of a fairly traumatic accident, I think). She’s six months old, if that. She found her way inside my garage one day in the fall and thenContinue reading “On Cats and Life Lessons”
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(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”