Jim Phelps
watches Voyager AFTER 51030
Member # 102
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Remember Ensign Janeway from "Man of the People" (TNG). She was in the science department on the Enterprise-D in 2369, and was in a counseling session with Troi while she was under the influence of Ambassador Alkar (before she turned old and everything). Very interesting...a relation to Kathy?
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What did Kathy's kid-sister end up doing? You people SO have to read Mosaic and Pathways... Pathways is a fantabulous book. Probably one of my fave Trek books.
Andrew
------------------ "Who wouldn't be the one you love Who wouldn't stand inside your love." - Stand Inside Your Love, The Smashing Pumpkins
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I read Mosaic and enjoyed it. It didn't quite have the freshness of the more innovative Trek books of the likes of Duane or Hambly or Vornholt, who aren't afraid to write "outside the box" - Taylor is probably too much "inside" the currently aired forms of Trek to be able to paint a wider picture. Her book seemed, um, "petty" in comparison to many others because of her strict adherence to what was already known to the audience.
But Taylor isn't half as bad in this respect as, say, Friedman, who seems to say very little of his own. Nor is Taylor a second Peter David: her books do have a lot of fun references to canon trivia, but those aren't of the deliberate "see what *I* know, ain't that clever?" type...
Of "Pathways" I only know a detail I gleaned when browsing it in the bookstore - there's a character from my native Finland in it! Never mind that "Bruno" went out of fashion as a first name a century ago, "Katajavuori" is a solid Finnish family name. And Tom Paris went and got the poor guy killed... No wonder there aren't any Finns in aired Trek - those would have borrowed a shuttle, gone to Delta quadrant and killed Tom in a drunken haze already.
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Well, if the name went out a century ago, couldn't it have come back? I mean, if the guy were named "Timo", wouldn't we wonder why that name had managed to stay around for so many centuries? It actually makes more sense to use a name that's out of style, to show that one is awre that "stylish" names change over the years.
'Course, it would also be nice if they would start making up names, rather than giving every human a name that's around now. I'm talking about the show now, of course. Though I don't suppose we can expect a whole lot of originality from those writers, can we? :-)
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The day Trek features characters named Fizz Odensodenblocker is the day I tear out both my eyes.
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Well, we've had a Berlinghoff Rassmussen. I thought that was a sufficiently unusual name. We need more of those. :-)
------------------ "Numerous painful experiences can be caused by having (and especially using) a large penis." -J. Ralf Lenz, president, Large Penis Support Group
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