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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Timo: [QB] [QUOTE]Actually, are you referring to "The Good That Men Do?"[/QUOTE]Uuuuuh. Yes, I am. :o I truly regret buying that one, but I have no problem with either [i]Last Full Measure[/i] or [i]Burning Dreams[/i], both of which feature this as such acceptable piece of necromancy. Trip could definitely be a-kicking despite "TAtV", but the why and how given by Mangels and Martin are less than satisfactory IMNSHO. [QUOTE]I'm sure the author probably didn't even know what a Daedalus-class Federation starship was.[/QUOTE]Ditto. But I'm happy it turned out that way. It fits perfectly my perverse view of the history of the [i]Daedalus[/i] class! That is, the class as such precedes ENT by that much. The prototype, a competitor to the NX program, shuns dilithium and instead uses polaric ion cascades � la VOY "Time and Again" for liberating the power of antimatter, much like [i]Daedalus/D's Children[/i] says. But she is a failure, blowing up and giving a bad rep to all polaric ion experimentation, and the class already under construction is named after the second ship [i]Horizon[/i] instead (as in [i]Spaceflight Chronology[/i]). The four or so surviving ships (as suggested by [i]Last Full Measure[/i]) serve with indistinction, propelled by an inferior conventional warp drive. After the Romulan war, the honor of the class is restored, as the vessels are turned into survey ships for the exploration arm of the new Federation Starfleet (their onboard equipment modified as per [i]Starfleet: Year One[/i]). More keels are laid, too, allowing some to persist until 2196. The original class name is readopted, leaving [i]Horizon[/i] free for the later [i]Ships of the Star Fleet[/i] class of that name. And yeah, I like all the books mentioned above, plus a bunch of other Trek novels of similar or better writing. It's just this particular Mangels&Martin retcon that I majorly dislike. Timo Saloniemi [/QB][/QUOTE]
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