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I'm surprised I haven't seen this mentioned anywhere, but I just got my copy of the Haynes BoP manual, and it is really nice. I haven't had a chance to read through the whole thing yet, but the layout and pictures are great. I'd highly recommend that all "Flare-ites" at least look at it the next time you're in a book shop.
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There's a Bird-of-Prey Technical Manual out now?! How did I not know about this?! (Seriously, I was just lamenting to myself the other day that there haven't been any books like the TNG and DS9 Technical Manuals in recent years...)
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I'm suprised they made this as well- I thought Pocket Books had all but abandoned Trek after they nearly went out of business.
They stopped making the DS9 novels in the middle of a storyline and now they're dead to me. You hear me?!?! DEAD! (punches monitor)
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I've had a chance to read through the first part of it, and this book is really good. Overall the book is a lot different than the Haynes Enterprise manual (which to me is a good thing--I was disappointed with the previous book).
And if you guys are surprised about that, wait 'til you see what's coming out at the beginning of December. A book & multimedia package called "Federation: The First 150 Years." You can pre-order it on Amazon.
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quote:Originally posted by Jason Abbadon: I'm suprised they made this as well- I thought Pocket Books had all but abandoned Trek after they nearly went out of business.
They stopped making the DS9 novels in the middle of a storyline and now they're dead to me. You hear me?!?! DEAD! (punches monitor)
You mean....there's no more DS9 relaunch?
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Nothing. Instead they went with some assinine leap forward in time with the Typhon Pact- making Ezri captain of her own ship and tieing her story into that of the Enterprise E and the Titan- completely ignoring DS9 and everything they had been building on.
Of course, the new stuff was based on a storyline chumping the Borg yet again and eliminating them as a viable threat....so there's that.
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I've been reading the Typhon Pact books and just assumed that the next DS9 book would come eventually... Ah well. I'm rather liking them so far.
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Do they give any indication as to whta happened on DS9? Or any background of the relationship Ezri had with Bashir? Can you give us a basic synopsis on the novels without sppoiling everything?
I kinda do and dont understand the course they took- the DS9 relaunch stuff was incredible but several years behind events in the TNG books -which BTW, sucked SO bad- watch for Dr. Crusher defeating the Borg by osioning the "Royal Jelly" that Borg use to make a normal drone into a Queen. GET IT!?!? It's like they're bees! Good thing they did not grind that half baked agalgy into the dirt...fucks's sake
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I may have to buy the Omnibus editions of the DS9 relaunch- three books per omnibus...cheap too, and I sadly lost many of those novels over the years. They did some fantastic stuff- lots of great fanboy suprises and supporting characters from TNG too.
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