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"A Fistfull Of Datas" was pleasant, low-maintanence fun I thought. The Royale was awful, although it fails the "bad holodeck story" criteria by, er, not involving the holodeck.
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quote:But DS9 often made lemonaide from TNG's lemons. Lwaxanna was even cool on DS9 and that's really saying a LOT.
Agreed about TNG. None of the episodes with Lwaxana waould have been worth the money without her.
But you don't like DS9 either? Or only the first two seasons?
Uh. You misunderstand! I LOVE DS9! I even really like their first season. I was pointing out "DS9 often made lemonaide from TNG's lemons."- that's a american euphemism meaning taking something distasteful or bad and making something cool.
I dig DS9 (all of it), about 70% of TNG, 40% of Voyager, probably 50% of TOS and 80% Enterprise. I'll take some heat for not being a big TOS fan but while I aknowledge it was groundbreaking for it's time, it's just not for me.
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I think you'll take a lot more flak for liking "Meridian", myself.
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Still not convinced that the Borg are related to V'ger. I understand that this was a plot point in one of the William Shatner and Reeves-Stevens Star Trek novels. Did I overhear wrong in a thread at SCN?
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i found the way it was presented reasonable..
the story from that Shatner novel is that the Borg didn't assimilate the Voyager 6, since it wasn't organic.. they just enhanced it and sent it on its way.. the probe carried the communications protocol of the Borg unimind hive, but was not part of it or in communication with it.. therefore, the Borg never knew what happened to V'Ger and the Decker-Ilia event is completely unknown and unrelated to any stage of the Borg's evolution.
So basically, V'Ger was not Borg.. but the machine planet it found was Borg..
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Jesus! You're serious about Shatner being allowed to write anything!?! Worse still, it's published and PEOPLE BUY IT!?! Next thing you know, Kid Rock will win the Pulitzer.
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quote:Originally posted by Jason Abbadon: Jesus! You're serious about Shatner being allowed to write anything!?! Worse still, it's published and PEOPLE BUY IT!?! Next thing you know, Kid Rock will win the Pulitzer.
Shatner doesn't write squat. His name is just a franchise. All his books are ghost written.
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Well he needs better ghosts, that's for certain! Thank god that Pocket books does'nt consider his stories part of their mainstream continuity. Bad enough John Vornholt is still allowed to write multi-part crossover crap (like Genesis Wave) wherein Picard saves the entire Federation/Galaxy/Universe on a yearly basis so predictable that Jean-Juc should be sporting tights and a cape by now and hailing from Krypton.
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quote:Originally posted by MrNeutron: Shatner doesn't write squat. His name is just a franchise. All his books are ghost written.
Funny, I heard that because of the size of his ego, hiring a ghost writer would be unthinkable to him.
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he cowrites.. he basically described the writing process where he goes to Gar and Judy's house, they sit down and plot out the books ending, Shat tells them what he wants Kirk's focus/theme to be, an then they write it..
he originally claimed to be the sole writer, but contradicted himself when he admitted he had never watched TNG, DS9 or VGR yet was writing detailed stories mixing characters from each.
oh, and i like them.. maybe im mellowing in my old age, but i think that i cant really get mad about Star Trek anymore.. its a source of enjoyment, not stress... if Shat wants to write over-the top ridiculous ego gratifiers, i dont really get upset.. besides, as with any book, reading it and decoding that it is cheesy is half the fun..
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Phhht. I'll bet he's writing Kirk to be either Q or Jesus next. Mabye both: he'll be called Quesus.
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