Value Subtracted@startrek.websiteM to Quark's@startrek.websiteEnglish · 3 days ago‘Star Trek’ Alum Jonathan Frakes to Direct Sci-Fi Adaptation of ‘Arthur C. Clarke’s Venus Prime’variety.comexternal-linkmessage-square6fedilinkarrow-up169arrow-down11
arrow-up168arrow-down1external-link‘Star Trek’ Alum Jonathan Frakes to Direct Sci-Fi Adaptation of ‘Arthur C. Clarke’s Venus Prime’variety.comValue Subtracted@startrek.websiteM to Quark's@startrek.websiteEnglish · 3 days agomessage-square6fedilink
minus-squareValue Subtracted@startrek.websiteOPMlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·3 days agoI’m not familiar with Venus Prime - it’s apparently based on the short story Breaking Strain, which has been spun into a novel series by Paul Preuss.
minus-squareStillPaisleyCat@startrek.websitelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·2 days ago‘Venus Prime’ is the way the novelizations were branded and marketed starting with the first book ‘Breaking Strain’ in 1987. As you can see from the cover image, it was an early example of the ‘hot babe with powers’ marketing approach.
minus-squareValue Subtracted@startrek.websiteOPMlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·2 days agoBrannon Braga, eat your heart out!
minus-squareStillPaisleyCat@startrek.websitelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·2 days agoHer hair even goes white-blond as of book 2. LOL I have observed elsewhere that no women are announced in the creative team. I hope they get a strong female-presenting A-list lead who insists on EP status.
minus-squareCorgana@startrek.websitelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·3 days agoThank you for posting this. I am a big Arthur C Clarke fan and had never heard of it, and my google-fu turned up nothing.
I’m not familiar with Venus Prime - it’s apparently based on the short story Breaking Strain, which has been spun into a novel series by Paul Preuss.
‘Venus Prime’ is the way the novelizations were branded and marketed starting with the first book ‘Breaking Strain’ in 1987.
As you can see from the cover image, it was an early example of the ‘hot babe with powers’ marketing approach.
Brannon Braga, eat your heart out!
Her hair even goes white-blond as of book 2. LOL
I have observed elsewhere that no women are announced in the creative team. I hope they get a strong female-presenting A-list lead who insists on EP status.
Thank you for posting this. I am a big Arthur C Clarke fan and had never heard of it, and my google-fu turned up nothing.