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The ‘colour-blind’ director thing turns out to have been somewhat of a fan myth that took on a life of its own. Or at least a major exaggeration. It’s not a fact and shouldn’t be repeated as such.

Sutherland, the director, was colourblind, however the person making the colour choice was Irv Kaplan.

According to The Official Guide to TAS (by Harvey and Schepis), based on reports of colleagues, Kaplan was “in charge of ink and paint, colouring the various props and characters, and he would do it by himself in his office…..It was all Irv Kaplan’s call. He wasn’t listening to anyone else when he picked colors, or anything.”

Irv liked the hot pinks, purples, lime greens etc that were very much in vogue at the time. Other Saturday contemporary morning cartoons (such as Josie and the Pussycats) were using similar palettes.

I have to stan MGM’s original Robby the Robot who made his first movie appearance in Forbidden Planet (1956).

But as much as Roddenberry was inspired by Forbidden Planet, Star Trek didn’t get an mobile AI crew member until TNG.

I put out a call for viable in-universe opponents to Moopsy on Mastodon.

My own list included:

• Mellanoid slimeworms (i.e., Murf)

• Armus

• Species 8472

• Q and other transcendent beings.

Others have pointed out that Changelings don’t have bones.

Some have suggested that a Changeling might keep a Moopsy as a pet. A predator that liquified solids could have a certain morbid appeal one might imagine.

There are a couple of board game communities. At least one is very anti-Catan.

Can’t let an opportunity go past to remind everyone that Larry Niven doesn’t seem to have complained that the Kzinti ship in TAS ‘The Slaver Weapon’ was mauvish-pink.

Boimler looks unhappy and stressed in every single image where he appears.

I wonder it that will be an A, B, or C plot element?

He really seems to have reset to his most fragile with the promotion. Hope this gets resolved by end of season.

@GoodAaron@startrek.website ’s one was the one I’d been most hoping for from the time the Very Short Treks were announced, and so far it’s the only one that hasn’t disappointed me.

I have the sense that they are as a whole targeting at a very narrow audience demographic, principally of Americans who were young adults and teens in the late 90s.

I never quite got how ‘drinking poop’ preschool to 9 year-old boy humour took mainstream hold in Austin Powers (which I otherwise loved), but acknowledge it as having been a thing. I can even recognize intellectually that its in a long tradition of low humour that goes back to the ‘great fart’ of ‘The Miller’s Tale’ in Chaucer.

What I don’t get is why the folks who didn’t age out of this kind of humour seem to thing that there’s currently a huge untapped audience that’s just looking for the kind of stuff we got in the earlier VSTs.

I can only speak for those I’ve read - Iane Duane’s ‘Doctor’s Orders’ is a fine, easy read.

I loved Beyer’s ‘Children of the Storm’ but it’s in the midst of her Voyager Full Circle cycle. So it depends on whether you mind dropping in the middle of a long running series.

The Voyager String Theory trilogy is earlier in the timeline. Uneven but interesting.

Just bookmark the Simon & Schuster Star Trek ebook deals page. A new list should be posted the day after this promotion ends.

There’s also the option to signup for emails from the publisher for promotions (valid in the US only) that include other books and franchises.

I’ll continue to post the Star Trek deal links periodically here too.

See my other update comment for this post.

There are ebook and audiobook deals also for CA, UK and DE, but they have some country-specific variations.

It seems Simon & Schuster has different relationships with the various country platforms for the major ebook sellers. It seems that in some countries the promotion is on the audiobooks rather than the ebooks.

It’s usually not actually US only, just the exact $US 0.99 promotional price. (It would be great to have specific listings by country.)

In Canada, Amazon.ca typically has the same deals for $CDN 0.99 and I’ve seen the same but £ 0.99 at times on the UK site.

Checking the current Amazon Kindle prices for Canada shows the ebook deal $0.99

The UK Amazon Kindle is showing some of the books at £ 4.99, others are at 99p - but has Audiobooks for the Genesis wave showing as £0.00, that is for free.

The German Amazon Kindle de site has the ebooks also seemingly at full €8.99 for some, but others are going for free with a €0.00 listed price - including the Voyager ones - but again the Genesis Wave promotion for free audiobooks is in effect.

I’m finding Voyager less up to date for this instance and less functional than a browser view, even on mobile.

It’s a nice app but has some way to go.