[New Frontier] What Do You Think?

I think Diane Dunane was responsible for the Horta security guard... talk about someone who's Trek writing I just can't stand... :shudder: I mean come on, I will have a floating crystal snowflake in Starfleet and a talking Dolphin, but they will essentially act human. Oh how alien! Bah...

And as to Uhura being able to speak many languages, don't forget that comic genius moment (sarcasm) in Trek 6 (as you all know my fav) where they have to get out the old (ancient) hard bound English to Klingon dictionaries to fool the border station.

Back to Peter David. I am rereadng my DC Movie Era comics right now, and as you may know the second series was written by David. Is it just me or does this guy hav no clue about Star Trek? All his new alien races belong in Star Wars or Farscape. Especially the honred devil navigator girl. Sheehs... and don't even get me started on the Worthy... who ever called this guys writing fanfic was dead on the money.

Oh, and Jellico a jerk? I don't know, all my friends (who were raised on TOS and not TNG) thought he was a refreshing change of pace who acted a lot more like a commanding officer instead of the team facilitator Picard could be.

YMMV

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Originally posted by AslanC

Oh, and Jellico a jerk? I don't know, all my friends (who were raised on TOS and not TNG) thought he was a refreshing change of pace who acted a lot more like a commanding officer instead of the team facilitator Picard could be.

YMMV

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Exactly.

Feh. I like the books. They don't take themselves too seriously.

Unfortunately, some folks just can't STAND anybody not taking Star Trek as seriously as they do.

NF is all about fan faves. That's why all the characters who crossed over from TNG were popular, yet rather undeveloped characters.

As for Kebron and Soleta, they were characters from PD's Starfleet Academy books. Worf's classmates. (Put a Klingon in Starfleet! How fannish is that??)

Or the new characters, Arex and M'Ress, the popular animated characters who would likely never have appeared outside of animation, unless it was a book.

(Personally, I wish he had the right to bring in Niven's Kzin, but apparently he doesn't)

Anyway, I'm in the minority, I know. But I don't care, so :p

:D

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Originally posted by First of Two
Feh. I like the books. They don't take themselves too seriously.

Unfortunately, some folks just can't STAND anybody not taking Star Trek as seriously as they do.

NF is all about fan faves. That's why all the characters who crossed over from TNG were popular, yet rather undeveloped characters.

As for Kebron and Soleta, they were characters from PD's Starfleet Academy books. Worf's classmates. (Put a Klingon in Starfleet! How fannish is that??)

Or the new characters, Arex and M'Ress, the popular animated characters who would likely never have appeared outside of animation, unless it was a book.

(Personally, I wish he had the right to bring in Niven's Kzin, but apparently he doesn't)

Anyway, I'm in the minority, I know. But I don't care, so :p

:D

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Opinions, again vary. I would only point out that as far as not taking Trek seriously, there were many episodes that didn't take themselves seriously and were quite hilarious, so, at least in my case, that has nothing to do with NF.

In fact, to be quite honest, having read Peter David's other work, I was actually expecting the humor. I was expecting light hearted. So, that's really not a factor in my case.


Strictly Speaking

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(Personally, I wish he had the right to bring in Niven's Kzin.

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This is quite possibly the only thing that would turn me against the series.

Aw. Cmon! The kitties rule! Who wouldn't like to see a platoon of Kzinti take on a squad of Jem'Hadar?

"Victory is-- RIPSNARLROARRAIIGH!!"

Not the TAS kzin, though. They just looked pathetic, in those miscolored pink outfits and spaceships.

I mean the "known space" Kzin. The 8-foot-tall, 800-pound intelligent tigers with attitude problems and voices like Ron Perlman.

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I mean the "known space" Kzin. The 8-foot-tall, 800-pound intelligent tigers with attitude problems and voices like Ron Perlman.

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Yeah. And they're also all named "Vincent." :D

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Aw. Cmon! The kitties rule! Who wouldn't like to see a platoon of Kzinti take on a squad of Jem'Hadar?

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Uhmm, ME! And why, because cross pollenation is good in gardening, but not literature. Trek is in the Trek universe, The Man-Kzin War is in that universe, and never the twain shall meet.

Besides if they did, Trek would become a TV adaptation of the silly Wing Commander movie.:rolleyes:

Jellicoe was a jerk. He was not a nice guy. But, I did like him, and I didn't think he was a bad CO, quite the opposite. He got the job done, just without the touchy-feely niceties. And when he had to, he swallowed his own pride to do it (ergo, going to Riker).

Peter David never got that, and continues to make Jellioce out to be a obnoxious ass, and a bad leader. Which he isn't, IMO.

As for taking Trek too seriously, there may be some truth there, but that has nothing to do with my dislike of NF. I just hate the weak writing weakly-disguised by "clever" fanboy references.

Each to their own. If you like it, more power to you. It's not to my taste though.