Comments on: Alan Dean Foster To Write Sequel Book To Star Trek Movie

By: GaryS

GaryS — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 07:02:17 +0000

LogIcal.
Flawlessly Logical.

By: J383

J383 — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 00:56:49 +0000

The movie adaption novel was horrible and dry.

Alan Dean Foster also wrote the screenplay for the Motionless Picture. No wonder.

By: Christine

Christine — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 21:40:43 +0000

Hm… What to say…

“YAY!” seems fitting. ^__^

And #108, tons of sites do that. Half the time it seems automatic. And Amazon is a huge retailer, and they always have it, so why not?

By: Sarah

Sarah — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 01:50:53 +0000

#108 JWolf
“please get out of Amazon’s back pocket. ”

Many sites link to amazon because if you buy a book through that link, then the original site gets some pennies. If this is what trekmovie does to bring in some money to help bring us this site, why on earth would you complain about it?

Amazon simply is the ‘de facto’ link for online book purchases and has been for the entire history of online book purchases.

By: Dom

Dom — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 22:43:18 +0000

113. Bob Tompkins . . .

And I so typed the same comment as you while you were in the process of posting!!! ;)

By: Dom

Dom — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 22:20:45 +0000

108. JWolf

It’s advertising! We don’t live in a communist collective yet, thank God! As a rule, each time someone orders an item going via the linked site, this site makes money off it!

If B&N or anyone else wants to be linked, they have to pay for it!

By: AJ

AJ — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 14:05:43 +0000

108:

It’s extremely common to post direct links to Amazon, and, yes, the site makes money every time you use one of those links to make a purchase. It’s also quite convenient.

Getting angry about it is like seeing that your show is “brought to you by Toyota,” and you like Nissans. So what? Nissans are still out there.

By: Dom

Dom — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 12:50:35 +0000

85. garen: ‘Yes, of course The Temple of Doom was technically a prequel to Raiders. However the term “prequel” wasnt popularized….or really used at all….until The Phantom Menace.’

Actually, I’ve been familiar with the term most of my (34 year) life. The first usage of the word I recall was with Butch and Sundance: The Early Years.

The Star Wars ‘prequels’ were just another usage of an old term, as far as I knew.

The most annoying usage of ‘prequel’ is when people refer to a film’s predecessor in a series as a prequel: saying TWOK is a ‘prequel’ to TSFS, for example!

By: P Technobabble

P Technobabble — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 12:49:54 +0000

Wikipedia has a good entry for the term prequel.

By: Bob Tompkins

Bob Tompkins — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 03:07:05 +0000

The movie ‘Butch and Sundance- The Early Days’ starring Tom Berenger and William Katt as Butch and Sundance was the first film that was actually billed as a prequel, way back in 1979—

It was lame, like a lot of prequels are.