Post by Kay4077 on Feb 18, 2007 9:09:59 GMT
As a fan of Star Trek in general, and Scotty in particular, I've been reading a series of novels called "Starfleet Corps of Engineers", set aboard a ship called The Da Vinci. Not to bore you with the details, but around the end of Book 6, the ship has a change of personnel forced upon her, and a new Second Officer is appointed. He's a Tellarite named Tev, and the further on into the stories I got, the more I felt that he sounded really, really familiar. He's an incredibly gifted engineer, knows it, and makes sure everyone else knows it; though as the stories move on, he also begins to appreciate his fellow-engineers and starts to form relationships with them.
At one point he looks round an old space-station and calls it "An inflamed boil on the buttocks of the universe." Sound familiar?
I'd have put all this down to my own fevered imagination, except that yesterday I had lunch with a writer friend who has seen the 'Writers Guidelines' for this series/character. In them, Tev is described as "Charles Emerson Winchester the Tellarite" !! And apparently, the Da Vinci's Captain is based on Colonel Potter, tho' I'd not picked up on that one.
If you're into Star Trek at all and would like to take a look for yourself, Tev is introduced in Star Trek Corps of Engineers: Aftermath
At one point he looks round an old space-station and calls it "An inflamed boil on the buttocks of the universe." Sound familiar?
I'd have put all this down to my own fevered imagination, except that yesterday I had lunch with a writer friend who has seen the 'Writers Guidelines' for this series/character. In them, Tev is described as "Charles Emerson Winchester the Tellarite" !! And apparently, the Da Vinci's Captain is based on Colonel Potter, tho' I'd not picked up on that one.
If you're into Star Trek at all and would like to take a look for yourself, Tev is introduced in Star Trek Corps of Engineers: Aftermath
