quote:Posted by Marco Palmieri on Friday, March 04 2005 at 16:52:39 GMT
First, I wanted to let everyone know that Taking Wing is in da house! I just received my first advance copies, and it's quite the handsome book (not to mention a fun read). It should start appearing on bookstore shelves within the next week or so.
But mainly, I wanted to give everyone a quick update on the Starship Titan Design Contest.
- Unfortunately, despite my efforts to open the contest to fans worldwide, participation will be limited, like the Strange New Worlds contest, to residents of the United States and Canada, excluding Quebec, for the same reason: the differences in the laws governing contests that exist in different countries.
- The contest will officially commence at 12:00am Eastern Time on March 29, 2005. It will close at 11:59pm Eastern Time on August 15, 2005. A winner will be announced in October, 2005.
- The winning design will be printed in the pages of an upcoming Titan novel, and used as the basis for cover art on the same book. The winning designer will be credited on the book's copyright page.
- All submissions must be made electroncially, via email.
- The contest judges will include the Star Trek editorial staff at Pocket, together with Star Trek designers Doug Drexler, Michael Okuda, and Rick Sternbach; Associate Producer, Star Trek: Enterprise Dave Rossi; Senior Director of Licensed Publishing for Viacom Consumer Products Paula M. Block; and Manager of Licenced Publishing for Viacom Consumer Products John Van Citters.
As announced previously, the complete contest rules are printed in the back matter of Taking Wing, and they'll also be posted on the Simon and Schuster website on March 29, 2005.
quote:Posted by Marco Palmieri on Friday, March 04 2005 at 16:52:39 GMT [...] - Unfortunately, despite my efforts to open the contest to fans worldwide, participation will be limited, like the Strange New Worlds contest, to residents of the United States and Canada, excluding Quebec, for the same reason: the differences in the laws governing contests that exist in different countries.
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Er...you could always have one of us submit it for you.
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Are their any guidelines anywhere that designs have to work within (i.e. How old the ship should be, it's size relative to established vessels, etc.)
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I think the idea is that contestants have to read the first book, or at least exerpts from it, and go nuts from there. So, we'll get to look at a lot of variations on a theme, or something like that.
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Since this is the novel realm, we probably stand a good chance that Titan as described avoids *some* of the pitfalls a movie-introduced Titan would dive into. Here's hoping the description will exclude at least the following:
I'd be happy with five out of six... Or even four out of six.
At the same time, I'm hoping the writers will include a hook specifically for the designers, something like "Riker marveled at the unprecedented design of the shuttlebay; his every muscle and nerve itched to take a shuttle for a spin from that curious thing" or "the ship's silhouette reminded Riker of that fantastic old Earth aircraft in one of the family scrapbooks Picard had been 'sharing' with him ever since hitting his (frankly rather annoying) midlife crisis".
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Unless it IS what they're lookig for. Heck, pseudo-kinda-sorta retro is in these days...
Personally, all I really care for is that she be BIG. I'm not talking huger than E-D (though that wouldn't be hideous), but bigger than what we've been given these last few series. They've been trending smaller since TNG (E-E, Voyager, Defiant, Pre-E), and I think it's time to throw the notion into reverse. Give us something that's, well, titanic.
quote:They've been trending smaller since TNG (E-E, Voyager, Defiant, Pre-E), and I think it's time to throw the notion into reverse. Give us something that's, well, titanic.
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1. Most important rule of technological advancement - make things smaller, to the point you just think 'does it really need to be that small?' Sadly it seems only the japanese have caught onto that rule.
2. The Titans were not themselves actually 'titanic' as you use the word, they were the same size as the Olympians IIRC, the meaning of titanic as something preposterously huge has only arisen since the Titanic that sunk. They were actually the original gods born of heaven and earth, the youngest and their leader - Chronos is the father of Zeus who eventually supplants him with the Olympian pantheon. Most of the myths seem to involve the son castrating the father as part of taking his place. Those crazy greeks.
3. Re: the exclusion, I have only one phrase - bum-clouds. Not that I'd win, but it's highly unjust that the majority of the worlds population can't enter.
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Those crazy greeks.
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