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Well, I guess it wouldn't hurt to throw the idea at them. Preferably wrapped around a brick with 'We want Unseen Frontier' written on it...
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Surely they'd want to have a new product... why would they just slot it into the $50 mark!?! How much was Art of Star Trek - I still bought that - and now at least two hard-covered Encyclopaedias.
How many people buy all 4 or 5 calendars each year!?!?!?! That would easily equal the price of Unseen Frontier.
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Perhaps splitting the content of the book into two books and selling one of them first for $25 to test the waters?
Too stupid of an idea? I don't know, I'm just throwing them out without any professional understanding of the printing market.
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And can I just say - I saw the Star Trek Cartography/Map book today. I don't think I'm buying this - I would by 2 more copies of the Calendar before buying this book.
Its funny how Christian Ruhl was mentioned - I remember doing a whole lot of my 'maps' on here and he was just starting his web page up at the same time. I believe I gave the Gorn - it's "Hegemony" name! LOL! And is that the fair-dinkum Breen symbol in there - the one we see on DS9?
I wouldn't have made Klingon space so bloody big. And The Federation is too skinny... and that's the whole problem which made me abandon any more map making a long time ago. We know too little of any stars. It's VERY hard to do the whole 3d galaxy on a 2d page... the Federation should really look like a smallish ball with lots of tendrils coming out of it on all sides. Wrapped in amongst these tendrils passing on either side and above and below would be the Klingons, Cardassians and Romulans. All Four powers have some sort of connection with each other - and this is very hard to achieve by having them separated on the one plane by the Federation.
Also the Tholians are way out in whoop whoop. They need to be right near the Klingons and the Romulans as several key events between the Federation and these two powers also involved or nearly involved the Tholians. Why would they care if they are further away from Earth than DS9!?!
Oh and it says that first contact with the Tholians was made (by the time) during "The Tholian Web" - Spock etc. had already prior knowledge of the race and their habits.
Oh and the book looks too busy - and confusing.
GIVE US UNSEEN FRONTIER!!
Andrew
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quote:Originally posted by AndrewR: Oh and it says that first contact with the Tholians was made (by the time) during "The Tholian Web" - Spock etc. had already prior knowledge of the race and their habits.
Well, that's not a new snafu. Pretty much anything that's ever been written about the Tholians (both canon and non-canon, and including IIRC the Encyclopedia and official website) has made the same claim. But you're right about it being heavily implied in the episode that there was prior contact.
Or, perhaps, it was just the Vulcans that had had contact with them?
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That reputation caused by the REAL first contact by Archer. GAH! And then there is the REAL first contact with the Borg by The Hansens. Maybe it was the group Hason!?!
"Resistance is Futile" "Your technology and culture will service us"
"MMMM Bop!"
"LEAVE LEAVE!!"
*Borg Cube self-implodes*.
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