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Not just Bagey, not just assorted evil AI escapees from Daystrom security, but assimilated Klingons and Binars too.

Fun!

And perhaps a win for Rutherford?

Just realized that pricing is shown only in the body of the email.

Here’s a screenshot.

Thanks for asking.

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One of the things that I consider most important about these sales is that the discount is being borne by the retailer and the publisher.

The contracted tie-in writers still get their full (if small) payment per book. Author @DavidMack@wanderingshop and others have confirmed this point in social media posts.

So, it’s your opportunity to get Treklit content at affordable prices while still ensuring creators are compensated.

Here’s a completely different take.

What if the purpose is to attract new audiences to the franchise who have different tastes than the existing core?

To do that, having an established rapper embrace the franchise and play an original character in Fortnite, makes sense from an outreach point of view.

The franchise doesn’t exist just to serve older folks like me who’ve watched everything since 1966, nor will it survive if it focuses on appealing to the fans who were drawn in by the 90s Berman era shows.

I rather like that they’re following the current Canadian naval custom of naming warships after major cities. The real life HMCS Vancouver and Toronto are currently serving Halifax-class frigates. The HMCS Toronto’s registry number is 333.

Thanks for the confirmation of the Toronto as Parliament-class and the registry number.

With a more complete CGI model, I wasn’t quite sure of the class on a single watch.

So now I know that all those books that I gifted to our kids are becoming out of print collectors items.

Cool? Not cool?!

Is there anyone else here that feels that Patrick Stewart is violating the spirit of the SAG-AFTRA strike with his book promoting interviews?

While it’s likely his publisher wanted a fall release for the Christmas gift market, it seems really inappropriate that he’s out pitching how he wanted his show to end (with his real life wife getting another voice credit) or stories about TNG behind the scenes.

SAG members have been constrained from talking about the franchise in convention panels, or promoting their new shows, but he’s out there selling his book based on his career in the IP and distracting from Lower Decks which needs all the boost it can get.

It’s not making me admire Stewart, and settled any question of buying his book for the negative.

Disquieting nonetheless.

Lower Decks has successfully brought in new viewers to the franchise and led them into other shows. It’s also held viewers who just signed up for Picard.

As the most successful digital animated comedy on Paramount Plus in 2022, and with animated comedies being a key attractor for younger viewers, it seems like the show shouldn’t be at risk.

It’s not like they can get another animated Trek comedy off the ground in less than two full calendar years. More Lower Decks is successfully threading the needle between attracting new young viewers and pleasing older core fans. The Very Short Trek experiment was largely a failure with all but narrow slice of American fans in a narrow demographic. It showed that comforting those fans will alienate those they already have.

I find this [Relaunch Litverse reading order flowchart ] (https://www.thetrekcollective.com/p/trek-lit-reading-order.html?m=1 )super useful. It hasn’t been updated to include the final Coda trilogy that crosscuts pretty much everything.

The Relaunch Litverse continued a bit after the new shows started to wrap up the political storyline and some of the other sequences. A trilogy called Coda concluded that timeline. Most fans have mixed feelings about it.

Una McCormack has one more book ‘The Missing’ which is the Pulaski one I mentioned.

The IP holder is the owner of the intellectual property and franchise rights. This shifted over time with the Viacom breakup then more recent. For a while Paramount had the movie rights and CBS the television rights. Simon & Schuster basically licenses from them to contract tie-in writers for hire. The IP rights from all the books stay with the IP holder. What the writers can do is limited by what the IP holder will allow the licensee.