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12-29-2006, 11:51 AM
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Trek Novels into Episodes
This is (I hope) a new game. We talk about what Trek novel we think could've been turned into an awesome episode (or two). I realize that I'll have to set some ground rules:
1. No New Frontier, Excelsior/Lost Years, Stargazer, yada yada. Only novels based on mainstream Trek crews. Any number of cameos are allowed, but the main characters must be senior officers. 2. Only "regular" i.e. numbered novels. Now, I happen to love the meganovels of Peter David and Jeri Taylor as much as anyone, but those could never fit into two televised hours. This rule extends to the Shatnerverse as well. You'd need an entire SERIES to do the Shatnerverse justice. 3. "Official" Paramount-sanctioned Pocket Books only, unless a compelling reason can be offered. As a concession for afficianados of the Strange New Worlds anthologies, those stories can be nominated as a secondary category. This second category includes Strange New Worlds, the comic books, the older no-longer-remotely-capable-of-being-canon books like Spock's World (a fav of mine) and so on. To start the ball rolling, I'd like to put forward an old TOS novel called How Much For Just the Planet?
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12-29-2006, 05:08 PM
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Millenium. Always, forever and totally...Millenium. I would love to see it. The Starships...the future parts....everything...
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12-29-2006, 06:35 PM
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Yeah, Millennium is great, but I think that that falls into the "meganovels too big to fit into episodes." You'd need at least two for each book, unless you chopped out most of the lesser plotlines. I'd hate to do that. Minor plotlines are my cup of tea.
Second recommendation: Star Trek TNG: Dragon's Honor. If you haven't read this one, all you need to know is that Picard eats the most vile stuff imaginable, Riker wins an entire planet in a poker game, and Troi comes within half an inch of being abducted and made part of an emperor's harem! Who can't love that?
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mudshark: Nate's just being...Nate. Zeke: It comes nateurally to him. mudshark: I don't expect Nate to make sense, really -- it's just a bad idea. Sa'ar Chasm on the 5M.net forum: Sit back, relax, and revel in the insanity. Adam Savage: I reject your reality and substitute my own! Hanlon's Razor: Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity. Crow T. Robot: Oh, stop pretending there's a plot. Don't cheapen yourself further.
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12-29-2006, 07:38 PM
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None. I've read them. They're terrible. Diane Carey did a good job with Prove, and AC Crispin did an excellent job with Sarek, but I read an atrocious numbered AC Crispin book (or it might have been the Star Wars Han Solo Trilogy from back in the 80s) that makes me think it's a shared pseudonym.
Michael Jan Friedman is awful. His dialogue is wooden, his prose is stilted, and he's got a strange obsession with referring to every character by their full name, rank and title all at once every chance he gets. Don't get me started on The Laertian Gamble... <-- Cranky Old Man
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12-30-2006, 12:40 PM
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I think 'Vanguard' might be interesting, but it's atrociously written...
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12-30-2006, 01:22 PM
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Which ones are terrible, Sa'ar?
How about Rogue Saucer? It's one of the more obscure ones. Ro Laren arranges the theft of the Enterprise, Admiral Necheyev crashes and almost dies of hypothermia!
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mudshark: Nate's just being...Nate. Zeke: It comes nateurally to him. mudshark: I don't expect Nate to make sense, really -- it's just a bad idea. Sa'ar Chasm on the 5M.net forum: Sit back, relax, and revel in the insanity. Adam Savage: I reject your reality and substitute my own! Hanlon's Razor: Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity. Crow T. Robot: Oh, stop pretending there's a plot. Don't cheapen yourself further.
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