cosmictuesdays replied to your post:

Is this the Ferengi novella?

No! It’s “Abyss”, a Section 31 novel starring Bashir. Written by David Weddle, DS9 story editor, and Jeffrey Lang, Trek author. It’s a MESS.

The only goddamn thing this writer is getting right is Quark.

WHY

We had this big board that were the Star Trek clichés. After every pitch session, because we were taking endless amounts of writers coming to pitch, the writers would all sort of gleefully go to the cliché board and we would log how many of the Trek clichés we heard that day: Data becomes man, Data becomes god, they discover a planet and the planet is alive…there were just all these categories and we would just tally each one to keep ourselves sane.

–Ron Moore, on writing for TNG

cosmictuesdays asked:

"Barlowe’s Guide to Extraterrestrials" is well worth picking up. Some of the things he doesn't get quite right according to the source material's descriptions, like the Guild Steersmen - they don't have so many fingers and toes as he painted them - and all of them are astounding, just the same.

God, I just want this so very, very much. It’s the ultimate fanart compilation.

Woudn’t it be fascinating to see something similar done for Trek? Incorporating both standard interpretations–eg. the variations in Cardassian scaling, Trill spots, Bajoran ridging–and the more creative versions like subspacecommunication et al create? ‘How It Could Be’, sort of deal. With Tribble internal anatomy–everybody’s internal anatomy! Ferengi upper and lower lungs! Trill pouches! Vulcan heart placement!

God, now, see, that is a coffee table book I want incredibly hard.

Reference is made to the absence of the Enterprise crew in the Star Trek/X-Men crossover Planet X, when Worf, visiting the Enterprise, apologizes for not waiting for them, saying that there was no time due to Alexander needing to leave in a short time. Captain Picard, however, assures Worf that he understands, and the entire senior staff toasts Worf’s marriage in a private celebration of their own shortly before the arrival of the X-Men.

You Are Cordially Invited (episode) - Memory Alpha, the Star Trek Wiki

so i was reading the memory alpha page and what the fuck star trek
what the actual fuck