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  1. SMS007
    We have no details on anything regarding the story. One would assume the new series takes place after Delta, but even that is unconfirmed.
  2. SMS007
    Don't forget the German-original Prometheus trilogy. I liked the first two that are out in English, though I concede not everyone may enjoy some of the fanfiction-y elements present. For my part, I am very excited for the upcoming TNG novel Available Light since it directly follows up on the Min Zife affair storyline from Section 31 - Control and TNG - Hearts and Minds, themselves continuing on from the "A Time to..." TNG miniseries from last decade. And saddened that the upcoming Picard TV series will in all likelihood override the post-Nemesis novels.
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    https://www.trektoday.com/content/2018/08/first-star-trek-books-for-2019-announced/ Yes! Pocket's novel license has finally been renewed and more Trek novels will start appearing next year! I have read all three. But, uh, I like Mack's Trek work in general. You sure you want me to go on?
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    Which stock sub-model of the VF-19 was Basara's VF-19改 modified from? Judging from the silhouette I would assume a VF-19A unit, but every other discussion here has noted that Earth doesn't let the colonies have the full-fledged 19A.
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    Yack Deculture they could have done it??!
  6. SMS007
    Is this just fanart making up a date or did Hikaru and Misa really get married on Minmay's birthday?
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    Well for my part, I hope in the next series does not end with liar ultranationalist war criminal antagonists getting away almost scot-free with all the crap they committed and feeling unrepentant about everything. Seriously, screw that ending. I loved the TV ending of Frontier because Alto blew up Galaxy's conqueror hides to dust. So cathartic.
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    Vanguard is a highly praised serialized story in my Trek circles. The DTI series is a brilliant exploration in Trek time travel and continuity. I can certainly share your criticisms of how the Voyager TV series and Janeway character was written, but I enjoy the relaunch Voyager novels with gusto. New York Times bestselling Kirsten Beyer is VERY GOOD at writing compelling stories, I assure you.
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    Here is an aggregated gallery of Summer WonFes 2018 TF photos: https://www.allspark.com/2018/07/masterpiece-hound-and-much-more-revealed-at-summer-wonder-festival/ Masterpiece Hound, Masterpiece anime Wheeljack, Encore Big Convoy, LG-EX Repugnus and Grotusque, War for Cybertron: Siege packaging, etc.
  10. SMS007
    On a related note, I am amused that in the DTI novel Watching the Clock, we get to see Lucsly and Dulmur's reaction to the events of "Endgame". Spoilers for the Destiny novel trilogy within:
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    I should mention that the DTI novel Watching the Clock closely ties into both canon and non-canon Trek story material (a talent of the author, Christopher L. Bennett), and thus it acknowledges Greg Cox's The Eugenics Wars novel duology which chronicles Khan Noonien Singh's life and interactions with Gary Seven and Roberta Lincoln. The way that The Eugenics Wars and subsequent novels dealing with 20th/21st century Trek portray it, the canon terms "Eugenics Wars" and "death toll in the millions" from "Space Seed" are retroactive umbrella labels by future generations on the many loosely-connected often hidden from the public conflicts in the 1990s revolving around the Augments. Cox's The Eugenics Wars treats many real life 20th century events as cover-ups for the "true history" of the Augments of Project Chrysalis and the Aegis's attempts to stop the Augments from running rampant on Earth. For example, India's first nuclear test in 1974 was really Gary Seven and Roberta Lincoln destroying young Khan's laboratory birthplace. Mount Pinatubo's 1992 eruption enlarging the hole in the ozone layer was in fact Khan misusing an atmospheric manipulation technology invented by the contemporary Flint (from "Requiem for Methuselah"). And the 1993 Latur earthquake in India was in fact an artificial earthquake and assassination attempt on Khan by one of his Augment rivals. As one of these authors recently pointed out on The Trek BBS (while discussing a similar TNG novel, Hearts and Minds, which deals with the later years of Mestral from "Carbon Creek"), in real life, today in 2018, people in general in the First World U.S. ignore crap that happens everywhere else on the globe. Plenty of Third Worlders are dying all the time, but First Worlders basically acknowledge no significance in their deaths. In a future wherein Earth and humankind are united as one, surely by then all historical deaths would be treated with less ethnonational bias. As for the DY-100 class Botany Bay being too advanced for real life, The Eugenics Wars treats it as a top secret project born out of the events of "Little Green Men". Then in 1996 when the so-far one-of-a-kind experimental vessel is about to undergo its first flight, Shannon O'Donnell (from "11:59") throws away her career to help Gary Seven and Roberta Lincoln steal the ship to send Khan's forces away. When you think about it, Kirk's crew would of course know about the early DY-100 program because they are not average people, they are space otakus at their jobs. Interestingly, Greg Cox has more recently written the TOS novel The Rings of Time, depicting the 2020 Saturn mission mentioned in "Tomorrow in Yesterday". In the novel, a grown-up Shaun Geoffrey Christopher thinks about how much North American/EU space exploration has suffered in terms of public popularity as of late, reflecting that even space exploration-themed TV fiction doesn't get that much attention anymore. Hopefully by the real 2020 that will have changed, but as the author has pointed out, we don't live in the First Space Age anymore. Governments could have tons of cool advanced crap but the public won’t care.
  12. SMS007
    You have read Christopher L. Bennett's Watching the Clock? Oh wow I finally meet someone else outside a Trek forum who has!
  13. SMS007
    Ugh. Every time I think about that sheer bit of stupidity in the 2009 movie, I shudder.
  14. SMS007
    Maybe this series will include a Windermerian secondary character to show how the people of the N.U.N. distrust their kind after their government’s attempt at galactic conquest.
  15. SMS007
    What do the Frontier movie Blu-Rays give as the official romanization of クラン・クラン?
  16. SMS007
    Macross 23; I'll join the local SMS garrison with VF-25 units and a very nicely-colored blue quarter Macross.
  17. SMS007
    Lol.
  18. SMS007
    Impressive! One of these days I need to get my own Frontier Blu-Rays. But, if I may inquire, is there some kind of pattern to the spellings you use? Why is "Ranka Lee" given as such but the page uses "Saotome Aruto" instead of "Saotome Alto", "Lynn Minmei" instead of "Lynn Minmay", and "Buritai" instead of "Vrlitwhai"?
  19. SMS007
    What's the SV-51Ω from? And when have Manfred Brando and Tōdō Ushio had VF-22 units?
  20. SMS007
    Is the VF-22HG Schwalbe Zwei essentially Macross Galaxy’s counterpart to Macross Frontier’s VF-19ACTIVE Nothung? Transitional test model from fourth generation to fifth generation?
  21. SMS007
    Yack Deculture that makes perfect sense!
  22. SMS007
    Is any real life inspiration known for Macross 5’s planet ラクス / Rakusu? And thus if it should be romanized as “Rax” or “Lux”?
  23. SMS007

    BANDAI DX YF-19!!

    SMS007 replied to seti88's topic in Toys

    I wonder if there are enough players of Macross VF-X2 to get Bandai to do a DX Chōgōkin of the VF-19A.
  24. SMS007
    What’s the difference between Black Rainbow and Vindirance in Macross VF-X2?
  25. SMS007
    Is it known if any NUN colonies directly adopted the redacted YF-24 Evolution specs as a mass production monkey model VF-24? Or are the redacted specs no good just on their own?
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