StillPaisleyCat

I’d say your assumption that the writing is generally poor on tie-fiction is unfair and unfounded. If you like reading science fiction, particularly space opera, you’re missing out on some really great books.

Yes, there are some books that are clunkers, and some to-be-avoided tie-in writers, but at its best Star Trek novels are just straight up excellent science fiction.

I read extensively in the genre and I can’t say unequivocally that the quality in non-franchise science fiction is generally higher. There are regrettably a high number of unreadable but books in each crop of new and recommended Sci-fi offerings.

What I can say is that the ‘put all the toys back where you found them’ books written while shows are running are constrained by that. While it’s a genuine problem for some, books by DC Fontana, Diane Duane and Vonda McIntyre are all worth your time.

The post-Nemesis Relaunch novelverse provided a complex set of tales that were allowed to take 24th century characters and societies forward. It’s been overwritten by Picard, but there’s still a great deal of high quality content for those of us who are voracious readers. There are also some 23rd century books, including the Vanguard series, that have continued.

There was a writers strike for most of season one. A provision in the contract permitted one episode to be written for an animated show if the writer had no previous animation writing credits. So, DC Fontana reached out to TOS live action writers, to science fiction authors (Larry Niven!) and Walter Koenig (who played Chekov) to see if they would be willing to take on an episode.

As far as I know, TAS season two is the way it is because the show was canceled, but 6 episodes had already been greenlit.

Glad we’ve kept the CTV Sci-fi Channel on Bell Fibe even if I have to wait until 9 pm Thursdays for new episodes.

Between Trek and the Syfy originals, it’s still one of the main places for new television for us.

The timeline is more robust than that. We’re not in the Marvel or DC comic or EEAAO infinitely branching universes concept of a multiverse.

There can be branching events like the one that established the Kelvin universe but they are rare and take something of the order of the Romulan Supernova to create.

This is the prime universe of TOS and the other shows. It’s the same wide river of time, but the layers of temporal incursions - both seen in shows and movies and reported by temporal agents - accumulate changes. Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow confirmed this.

The key events and their sequences do not change. The kind of differences that are discernible only by deep study are not sufficiently material to be necessary to protect against.

I’m getting the “The item you are requesting is not available on Apple Music Canada” message.

I’d like to see a second season of She-Hulk too.

Both were daring in different ways. She-Hulk managed to at once be the most mould-breaking and the most comic accurate show Marvel has developed for streaming.

Canada Post has already done it for all the TOS crew, and the 90s captains, the ships.

Even the Borg had their own Canadian stamp.

Troi was on a recent stamp for the UK Royal Mail.

Well, I appreciate that perspective as long as the definition of science fiction doesn’t get so narrow that it has to fit within the scientific knowledge of a person with a bachelor’s in physics in 1975 - which it sometimes seems to.

My point is that it’s worth discussing early. That way the Sidebar can be clear, and the mods can do their thing and the rest of the members can avoid gatekeeping.

Personally, I can take or leave the wild science of Silver Age Superman comics, or Marvel. I’m not sure why anyone would consider that to be any more fantasy than Star Wars or Farscape however.

The cast includes a Grammy winner from a successful Broadway musical, another Broadway performer, and another who toured with a Gilbert & Sullivan company.

The songs were written by alternative music musicians who have successful songs in a motion picture soundtrack and have done the same for other shows.

The preconditions for them pulling this off exceptionally well are there.

For those who happily purchase Spiner’s ‘Old Yellow Eyes’ but believe that no other forms, musical or animation, are sufficiently respectful of the dignity of the franchise, we’ll just have to agree to disagree.

Thanks for bringing up the Nausicaans.

I tend to agree that the inscription would have been a warning on an object they couldn’t remove or decommission themselves.

It would seem worthwhile to consider how temporal interference from other alien civilizations or from the Temporal War may have changed the development of Nausicaans, as well as other species in the alpha and beta quadrants.

Fans often focus on humanity being a fulcrum in the temporal war, but Discovery and SNW give us a lot to ponder about other species. If honorarium is truly an element that was both significantly present in the Sol System and protective against temporal incursions, that could go a long way to explaining how humanity developed initially as far as it did without significant temporal interference.

What I also find interesting is that the Klingons on Borath had time crystals and developed understanding of how they worked under religious secrecy. We saw that they had some related technology and attempted to prevent its use. The research that was used in Voyager endgame raises questions about why the monastics on Borath were willing to let that go forward when they had prohibitions earlier.

One also has to wonder whether the preservation of the original body of Kahless and the creation of the clone involved some temporal slowing for preservation and/or some temporal interference that are responsible for the prophecy. In fact, temporal interference and use of the time crystals might explain a great deal of not only Klingon prophecy but also some of the Byzantine politics among Klingon houses.

Strange New Worlds is marvellously strong this season. I’ll also watch anything Star Trek in first run but it’s appointment television this season.

I watched Silo and liked it. Read Wool, the first book, after the season finale and found the characters thin, 2D.

I picked up the remastered DVD set of the 1970s show the Star Lost because Silo reminded me of its premise somewhat. I’m working through them.

Sorry no, it never was good. I couldn’t get through the first season even.

It had some potential. Knowing the first seasons of Star Trek are often the weakest, I gave it a solid try. But no.

I’d rather watch the second season of Space 1999 than any Andromeda if we’re looking for benchmarks of good concepts badly delivered.