Which clearly flew completely over my head. :)

But you can like Shakespeare and the classics AND enjoy trashier stuff, too. Depends on your mood.

Sometimes you want to watch HAMLET V. Sometimes you want to watch THE BIG SLEEP. Or SHARKTOPUS.

My DVD collection is large; it contains multitudes. :)

I don’t know. How exactly the “black and white filter” works was not really the point of the story or a “significant” aspect of the plot. It’s magic STAR TREK science, just like the universal translators.. You don’t want to think about it too hard.

Hell, trying to throw a lot of technobabble at the joke would probably…

I beg to differ. The greatest Worf moment in Star Trek history is from the Robin Hood episode:

“I am NOT a merry man!”

I think that may have been one of T’Pol’s ancestors, although my memory of that episode is fuzzy . . ...

I’m still confused. Gawker doesn’t publish the STAR TREK novels; Pocket Book does. And I was never supposed to do the other novels in the trilogy; the plan all along was that we would divide up the work so that all three novels could be published this summer in time for the 50th anniversary.

The Legacies trilogy was…

On other hand, one has to imagine that, even among Vulcans, some individuals would be more emotional than others—by Vulcan standards—just as not all humans have the same temperament. Only the true adepts of Kolinahr had fully purged all of their emotions—and the fact that discipline exists as an ideal to aspire to…

While D.C. Fontana deserves all the praise she’s getting, we should note that STAR TREK, to its credit, employed a number of female writers back in the sixties, including Margaret Armen, Jean Lisette Aroeste, and even Shari Lewis!

Thanks. No immediate plans to tackle ENTERPRISE at the moment, which is mostly in Christopher Bennett’s capable hands these days.

I’m actually doing revisions to a LIBRARIANS novel this evening . ....

More trivia: Barrett also played the madam of a robot bordello in the original WESTWORLD.

Moved to the Concourse? I’m afraid I don’t know what that means.

The various books and comics have not been 100% consistent on that front, but we address the issue of her name in the new books, where she goes by “Una” when she’s not simply “Number One.”

Thanks! It occurs to me that, as it happens, all of the 4400 books were written by me, Dave Mack, Dayton Ward, and Kevin Dilmore—the same team as on the new Trek trilogy!

So we’ve obviously worked together before . ... .

Even if Pike complained about having a female yeoman! :)

No, but I got him to autograph an omnibus collection of the trilogy once! :)

The bit about Number One providing the computer’s voice is from “The Rift” by Peter David, which I reference in the new book. The other stuff, as I recall, is hinted at in Peter’s “New Frontier” novels . . ..

Yep. And those are still probably my best-selling Trek books, for which I give all credit to Q . . . :)

Not yet. ENTERPRISE is actually the only flavor of STAR TREK I haven’t written yet. I’ve mostly been concentrating on TOS in recent years.

1) I believe that ep was titled “Disaster.”

Coordinating with the other three writers was both fun and challenging, especially since we were all basically writing the books at the same time. Trust me, there were LOTS of emails involved . . . :)