Aye, I really like Niven, too. Ringworld, Crashlander, The Mote...
Brining it back to Trek, if anyone has ever watched the animated Trek series from the 70s might have noticed that Niven wrote an episode. "The Slaver Weapon" is a re-purposed Niven story that even features the Kazinti (in pink uniforms).
I didnt know this... Larry Nivon is one of my all time fav writers. This is good news
'The Mote in God's Eye' is one of my fav Sci-Fi books.
Hail Nivon!
Yep. I remember reading Protector. It was my first Larry Niven book. Must have been about 30 years ago now.
Wow, me too. I read all the Known Space books and the moties one though I like puppeteers more. Kind of stopped reading for a long while until a few years ago, I read the latest Ringworld novel "Fate of Worlds" (pretty good, wraps up a lot). The "Man-Kzin Wars" series seems to continue endlessly so I didn't keep up with it past the first few novels though I love cats. Yes, I remember reading the "Slaver Weapon" book , then later catching up with the cartoon episode. (Slavers were Tnuctipn if I recall ) I like how ED is kind of in between Asimov's completely alien-less galaxy and Niven's handful of aliens while leaning more to Asimov's human empire and principalities. Though I was a fan of of ST, TOS , I don't wish ED to be like Star Trek or Star Wars with thousands of different aliens.
Everything points that Star Trek will follow SW since apparently this is what new generation (haaha) wants, I personally dont get that.
I never thought that I will say "Hmm I miss Jar Jar Binks" eather but here we are.
First two new Trek movies I honestly enjoyed as a movies, but the last one with space surfing and non stop silly action was just stupid and had nothing to do with what I concider ST.
I guess no one cares about exploring, philosophy, science, solving problems with out kickin, and smart dialogues anymore.
And new TV series is not Trek for me eather, it does not exist. Those are not real Klingons!
I hear you. With the new treks and ST: D , hard to admit to almost wishing things were at least back to "Enterprise" days.
It makes me wonder if there will ever be an exploratory themed movie like ST:TMP ever again, or it may literally take centuries for society to appreciate or make that kind of movie again - or we'll be in space anyways by that time, haha. ST: D, while I tried to enjoy the show playing at being trek, it kind of left a sickened , sullied feel in the end. And how many times do they have to pull of "jumping or tackling into transporter beaming" stunts..
As for the return of Picard, yes!, and bring back Shatner as nexus-or-whatever revived Adm. Kirk while they're at it, lol.
