Posted on 04/23/2003 2:23:08 PM PDT by RightWhale
You'd think that somebody who'd never gotten caught smuggling (whether he never smuggled or never got caught) would have been more cautious.
God's teeth! Think of all the material. There is more material for an episodic TV series based on the Known Space stories than there ever was in Star Trek. It would surely be a lot better than the crap that's coming out of the current "Enterprise". I'd be in heaven.
Did you know that Known space has crossed over into the Star Trek universe? A Known Space story, The Soft Weapon, was adapted by Larry Niven for the Star Trek animated series. They substituted the crew of the classic Enterprise for the Pierson's Puppeteer Nessus and two humans, and actually used the Kzinti (!!!). it actually worked out pretty well, story wise. Of course the animation of that show was dreadful.
Since precedent has been set I've often thought of pushing Paramount to license and adapt more Known space stories (changing characters so that the original could still be used stand alone) as plots for Enterprise. They could turn the entire Man-Kzinti wars into the origin of the war with the Klingons! It could fit with the projected story arch of founding the Federation to meet this "new threat." Hell, they could even adapt the stories about early transporters (flash riots, etc.) if they wanted to. Of course Braga, et al, would never go for it. Not invented here!
I always thought the episode was based on the story "Relic of the Empire" until I did a little more research and found that it was more likely "The Soft Weapon".
I remember when I firstsaw that Trek 'toon. It was all extremely familiar.
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