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[darchildre]

So I'm reading this DS9 novel, right? It is Fallen Heroes and is pretty good - I'm enjoying it. And I'm reading along and, at one point, one of the characters thinks about having gone to see a production of The King in Yellow performed on the station.

And my immediate thoughts were 1) Doesn't the Federation have rules about maybe not performing plays that inevitably result in madness and destruction? and 2) that is why everything bad that has happened in this book has happened. I don't care what the actual reason turns out to be - the ultimate reason for all the bad things is that someone decided that it would be a good idea to summon the Tattered King.




(This is my favorite random shout out in a DS9 novel so far. Though I also really enjoyed the fleeting mention in one of the others about Ayvon of the Seven, a famous Bajoran freedom fighter.)

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[some_stars]

ahahaha oh MAN, I read your first paragraph and practically recoiled. DON'T DO THAT, GUYS. IT'S A BAD PLAN. I would love to imagine that the Federation has specific mythos-related rules, and there should be so many stories about how that came about.

(I find a certain tragic irony in the fact that if someone tried to subject Star Trek itself to that kind of mass-collaborative, entirely uncareful borrowing and expansion and revision, Paramount would sue them into oblivion. CORPORATE COPYRIGHT IS DEATH.)

[darchildre]

ME TOO. I jerked back from the kindle, all "Jesus, no, don't do that!" I'd like to think that by the time we become a truly spacefaring species, we will have learned that it's not a good idea to fuck with the Elder Gods.

I would read the hell out of Federation (and associated allies/enemies) vs Mythos stories. There should be reams and reams of those.

Let's try this again when I'm actually signed in...