HANG ON, THEY DID WHAT?
Mar. 4th, 2009 04:59 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lizbeeSO APPARENTLY CAPTAIN JANEWAY WAS KILLED OFF WITHOUT FANFARE IN A STAR TREK NOVEL? NOT EVEN A VOYAGER NOVEL BUT A TNG ONE? BECAUSE PETER DAVID DIDN'T LIKE HER, AND POCKET BOOKS WANTED TO "SHOCK" PEOPLE?
YOU CAN'T GO AROUND DOING THAT TO MY FAVOURITE CAPTAIN! IT'S JUST--
*WEEPS*
NOT THAT THE BOOKS ARE CANON OR ANYTHING, JUST, WHAT?
YOU CAN'T GO AROUND DOING THAT TO MY FAVOURITE CAPTAIN! IT'S JUST--
*WEEPS*
NOT THAT THE BOOKS ARE CANON OR ANYTHING, JUST, WHAT?
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Date: 2009-03-04 07:25 am (UTC)That was not a good start.
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Date: 2009-03-04 08:58 am (UTC)I stopped reading X-Factor soon after that.
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Date: 2009-03-04 06:24 am (UTC)(it is much like I refuse to believe that the Star Wars books ever killed off character M and character C)
Edited for HTML fail.
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Date: 2009-03-04 06:36 am (UTC)WHAT!??
Fail, Peter David. I liked ye once, but YOUR BOOK WILL NOT BE CANON!!!
I just read the spoilers for some of Uhura's scenes in the new movie. WHY DO THE PTB NOT UNDERSTAND MY SERIES.
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Date: 2009-03-04 06:40 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-03-04 06:40 am (UTC)Authors need approval to kill a major character or make any major change, so it wasn't just the author, it was TPTB as well.
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Date: 2009-03-04 06:45 am (UTC)That's what I heard, anyway, because I haven't read them yet.
Also it was David Mack. I should really correct that anon on
ETA: My proof: Read it and weep. (http://memory-beta.wikia.com/wiki/Kathryn_Janeway)
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Date: 2009-03-04 03:00 pm (UTC)Yeah, I've found that the ST books in the familial collection I read the most are the ones by the female authors (Duane, McIntyre, A.C. Crispin...)
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Date: 2009-03-04 10:00 am (UTC)That said, I think the new Voyager relaunch author is going to try to make it better:
"When the U.S.S. Voyager is dispatched on an urgent mission to the planet Kerovi, Captain Chakotay and his first officer, Commander Thomas Paris, must choose between following orders and saving the lives of two of those dearest to them. B'Elanna Torres and her daughter, Miral, are both missing in the wake of a brutal attack on the Klingon world of Boreth. With the aid of their former captain, Admiral Kathryn Janeway -- as well as many old friends and new allies -- Voyager's crew must unravel an ancient mystery, placing themselves between two warrior sects battling for the soul of the Klingon people ...while the life of Mirl hangs in the balance. But these events and their repurcussions are merely the prelude to even darker days to come. As Voyager is drawn into a desperate struggle to prevent the annihilation of the Federation, lives are shattered, and the bonds that were forged in the Delta Quadrant are challenged in ways that none could have imagined. For though destiny has dealt them crushing blows, Voyager's crew must rise to face their future ...and begin a perilous journey in which the wheel of fate comes full circle."
Unfortunately, I think she's going to treat the first couple of relaunch novels as canon, and, my god did they suck.
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Date: 2009-03-04 01:01 pm (UTC)On the other hand, people still read Star Trek novels? ;)
(J/K!!!)
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Date: 2009-03-04 01:42 pm (UTC)ONLY THE AUTHOR WHO CAME UP WITH THAT EVENTUALLY DECIDED IT WAS LAME.
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Date: 2009-03-04 02:56 pm (UTC)Goes to show some tie-in novels really are just crackfic that somehow accidentally got published.
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Date: 2009-03-04 03:00 pm (UTC)/eta: and I totally missed the Louise Brooks thing. I thought she'd be more like Diana Rigg in the "Mrs Bradley Mysteries", i.e. visibly the elder stateswoman in a Mary Tamm sort of way.
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Date: 2009-03-04 06:26 pm (UTC)Did they put her in a fridge, too, for extra irony?
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Date: 2009-03-05 04:31 am (UTC)SAY WHAT? That is NOT ALLOWED. Janeway is more awesome than all the other captains combined, and Peter David can just die now. I'm taking his books to Goodwill.
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Date: 2009-03-09 11:02 am (UTC)I'm so thankful for all the alternate timestreams and temporal jiggery-pokery that goes on in Star Trek.
Did. Not. Happen.