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Dunno if I could name one, but my top tier includes:



Uhura's Song

Prime Directive

Except that Geoff Mandel didn't write it.

I co-wrote the text. ;)

And, actually, I and my partner did the writing in about 2 and a half weeks.

We borrowed from a lot of sources, including...

I'm going to just jump in in the middle here, and this seems like a good place to do it. :)



The problem with phase pistols vs. lasers is exactly the same one TOS faced in 1965: the weapons...

I never really did, fully, because it already had a number of assumptions and conjectures that I disagreed with. More recently, since the last edition of the Chronology, there has been both the...

No plans for me to be on board for that at this time, but I'd love to help if they could use me. :)

Best,
Alex

Thanks! Much appreciated.



Both Jon and I believe in trying to honor a designer's ideas, wherever it's feasible and reasonable to do so.



This was the impression we got from Alex Jaeger's...

Not to mention mine. ;)

Best,
Alex

The earlier iterations of the text that Jon and I submitted had a number of additional elements, some of which we'd hoped might get through and others we were pretty sure would get zapped out. For...

Heck, Steve, I figure the least I can do is talk to folks about the book. :)

And before you go feeling too small and insignificant, I can tell you I've lost track of how much money I spent buying...

You're very welcome, and no offense taken. :)

The main point I wanted to make was that in no way was anything Jon or I did intended to diss Messrs. Sternbach or Okuda. Really, they've both been a...

Eric, I have to say thanks for the kind words. :)

I'm hardly the only one, though, and I'm not sure I've done more for tech than anyone except Mr. Sternbach. Trek tech, even fan tech, is a big...

While it's certainly possible that the book may find itself contradicted, I daresay it's not likely, at least on-screen, for a couple of reasons: 1] We very carefully limited (or in some cases, had...

Thanks, Dan. Much appreciated. :)

I'll try to answer some comments in this and other posts as best I can, and give a bit of perspective on a few things. It was an interesting experience to write...

How so?

I gotta say here, I have been watching, and when you come right down to it, if one is counting just what was on-screen, rather than what licensees and fandom developed, they haven't...

I think it's obvious that they couldn't do the new show using 1960s filming tech and stylings. It obviously wouldn't work. And amidst all this gloom-and-doom, I"m going to sound an upbeat note by...

I could easily imagine, assuming the show is starting in 2151 and running 7 seasons, that it could wrap up as the Romulan War is getting started.

Then there could be an Enterprise movie focusing...

Indeed, please don't. There are quite a few of us who enjoy *all* aspects of Trek, and that includes both the novels and the RPG materials.

The general feeling on the topic in question was that...

Couple of comments...

1] Regarding canon. So far, they have not violated anything canonical in any major way (with the possible but as yet unconfirmed timing of the Cochrane recording). Klingon...

There is a lot of reworking of the opticals, including digital cleanup of existing footage and entirely new footage using Foundation's Lightwave model of the Enterprise.

Some of that new footage...

Sure, but it's fairly safe to conclude that the Alpha/Beta Quadrant border isn't evenly bisecting UFP space, especially in the TNG era.



I'm likin' it. ...

Ahh, the others chime in from time to time. http://www.trekrpg.net/Board/ubb/smile.gif



Yup. It's slow enough that we can't get everywhere in a few days, and fast enough that most of the...

Although even at the revised distance, using 129.2 as the modified chi average, the E-D could get back from Deneb to the encounter with the Tsiolkovsky in enough time for the stardates to make sense....

I bought 'em back in '80, and I've pretty much used 'em as my benchmark for "how it works", at least for its ca. 2271 snapshot, ever since. Sometimes it feels like I've darn near memorized the...

If I'm recalling right, didn't "Realm of Fear" establish that a study in 2209 or thereabouts of transporter psychosis lead to a upgrade of the pattern buffer equipment so that that malady was soon a...

True, but conditions in which there was that kind of density over distances any greater than a couple of light-years would be exceedingly rare. The 1,500 figure was given as holding in "dense dust...