boyajian@akov68.DEC (Jerry Boyajian) (06/28/84)
> Age of Enterprise: > ------------------ I'd like to know where you got your dates. If it's the STAR TREK SPACE FLIGHT CHRONOLOGY, I won't buy it. That's not an official part of the canon, any more than any of the novels or comic books. > Oriental Vulcans & Temple Nymphs: > --------------------------------- Who ever said that they *were* virgins? We're all just using the term "Vulcan Vestal Virgins" because it's alliterative, and that's what they reminded us of. The point is that they looked out of place, regardless of what the reason for them might have been. <Well, I can really only speak for myself, but I believe that the others feel the same way.> > New stories: > ------------ > > David Gerrold as released new editions of his work (the World of Star Trek, > The Galactic Whoolpool, The Trouble With Tribbles). And Bataan will be > publishing new stories about the old Enterprise. I wonder what is going on?? Well, it's certainly true that a new (revised) edition of THE WORLD OF STAR TREK has been released, and that a new printing of THE GALACTIC WHIRLPOOL <not "Whoolpool"> has been released, though I haven't seen a new edition of TROUBLE WITH TRIBBLES. But so what? It isn't necessarily Gerrold's doing. After all, Bantam <I assume that this is what you meant by "Bataan"> is reprinting *all*, or most, of its STREK novels. And I find it hard to believ that Bantam is going to be releasing *more* new stories. Back in 1979, before the release of STAR TREK -- THE MOTION PICTURE, Paramount signed an exclusive contract with Pocket Books/Simon & Schuster for the latter to publish new STREK material. The only things that didn't fall under this contract were the books, etc. that had al- ready been published by Bantam, Ballantine, et al. The only books released by anyone other than Pocket/S&S after this contract went into effect were Gerrold's THE GALACTIC WHIRLPOOL and Kathleen Sky's DEATH'S ANGEL, and those only because they had already been contracted for when Bantam still had the publishing rights to STREK. * As far as I know (and I keep a fairly close eye on the sf publishing scene), the contract with Pocket/S&S is still in effect, so only *they* can issue new STREK material. Note: THE WORLD OF STAR TREK is an interesting excep- tion, since it was published by Bluejay Books. It could be that Gerrold or Bluejay acquired the rights from Ballantine. * It's interesting to note that in the introduction to Howard Weinstein's THE COVENANT OF THE CROWN, Gerrold mentions that eventually he'll get around to finishing his STREK novel. What makes this strange is that Gerrold's book was published *before* Weinstein's! (Oh, and it's obvious from context that he's referring to TGW, and not a second novel.) > Genisis - a sin?? > ----------------- > > The creation killing the creator idea was fine, but what is this stuff > about David's Sin anyway?? But the creation *didn't* kill the creator! If that were the case, David would have been killed in a geologic upheaval (or something similar), and not from a Klingon knife. --- jayembee (Jerry Boyajian, DEC Maynard, MA) UUCP: {decvax|ihnp4|allegra|ucbvax|...}!decwrl!dec-rhea!dec-akov68!boyajian ARPA: boyajian%akov68.DEC@DECWRL.ARPA