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I don't have it for reference at the moment, but in another Peter David book the male Taggert says that he hopes his daughter will take over for him on the Repulse some day.
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quote:Originally posted by Captain Boh: As for Taggert, he didn't get a sex change, he had a daughter
Says who?
{edit) Oh, wait. "Vendetta" was a Peter David novel. That guy' fanboy spooge can rationalize that black is white, when it comes to Trek. >.<
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No shit- only Vornholt comes close (by having Picard personally save the ship/galaxy/universe/dimension/existance in every novel he writes).
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My favorite of Vornholt's was his first and second - "Masks" and "Contagion" IIRC. Was TOS's "Sanctuary" him? I enjoyed that as well. I can't remember if he wrote "War Drums" ... if that was his, it was the last good novel he wrote. Too bad, because I was really peggin' him as one of the better Trek novelists.
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TNG also lacked a dedicated blue shirt Chief Science Officer� and what; there were three science stations on the bridge along the back wall that generally went vacant. I guess they pondered Data was smart enough that he could do everything from ops.
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quote:Originally posted by Malnurtured Snay: My favorite of Vornholt's was his first and second - "Masks" and "Contagion" IIRC. Was TOS's "Sanctuary" him? I enjoyed that as well. I can't remember if he wrote "War Drums" ... if that was his, it was the last good novel he wrote. Too bad, because I was really peggin' him as one of the better Trek novelists.
It's partly POcket's fault- they have Vornholt write their annoying crossover every year and they suck harder each time- first was the "Genesis Wave" which was pretty lame (it supposes that Starfleet has kept Dr Marcus under house arrest for 85 years because she's too dangerous) then there's the "Gateways" crossover which brings grifters claiming to be Iconians to town and they manage to activate al the old Iconian gateways at once (they're trying to sell the technology). Both times it's Picard that saves the day- equally shitty is his bringing Uhura in as head of starfleet inteligence (WTF?!?) for all this time...but we just never heard of her doing spy-work before. This year, he's got Spock, Uhura nad Scotty (all a million years old and all still somehow running starfleet) together to save the Romulan Empire (just post Dominion War).
God awful shit.
Really, just read the DS9 books (which rock) and skip everything else completely.
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"So was Geordi LaForge the Enterprise's actual Chief Engineer seasons two through seven, or did he just happen to be the on-duty Chief Engineer coincidentally when all the cool shit happened?"
Well, what I was thinking was that, at first, they had multiple chief engineers. Probably because, when the class was new, they thought "oh, wow, this is our biggest ship ever; we're gonna need five people in charge just to keep engineering running". And, later on, they realized they didn't.
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See no Evil, Hear no Evil, Speak no Evil...
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Uhura was transferred to Starfleet Security in Star Trek III. Then transferred back to the Enterprise in Star Trek V. By Star Trek VI, she was teaching at the Academy.
Speaking of Uhurah - TNG didn't have a dedicated communications officer either. The job seemed to bounce between tacticl and ops.
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..and she's a damn dirty ape! (not a racial thing- she's just, y'know, really really embarassing in STV, but the whole movie's a waste aside from Deforest Kelly's performance).
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