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He didn't land on Telamon in the novel. He and Wilford stand in the CIC of the Intrepid, watching and talking to Wilford's biohazard team ON Telamon. Blair doesn't go there.

EDIT: But, the Intrepid DOES jump into Telamon...to interdict and quarantine the planet, the prevent the spread of the biohazard. There's a bunch of scenes where Blair wrestles with the issue of the crew's morale when they start shooting down the transports full of pleading...but infected...colonists. Therefore, if Blair landed, he wouldn't come back up. The Intrepid would shoot him down.

There's a bunch of differences...Blair getting the crap beaten out of him by Seether, Maniac's intervention, Manic being a lot more command-worthy than in the game, very little Catscratch, Blair and Sosa, etc. I mean, a bunch of differences. Especially the Confederation being in pretty bad shape...Earth and the Inner Worlds, at least.

[Edited by Nep Parth on 05-26-2001 at 21:47]
 
"canon"

Where book and game contradict, the game takes precedence. Therefore, Blair did land on that planet in the Telamon system, and did return. A stupid thing to do, perhaps, given the unknown (at the time) nature of the problem, but, hey, it worked for Kirk. ;)

(Well, ok, save for things like "Mirror, Mirror"...)
 
It still sucks that Kirk got killed by a stupid BRIDGE! But I'll stop talkinga 'bout that, since I'm suppossed to be "careful" about talkinga about OTHER sci-fi universes :)
 
I'll never forget how much I wanted to pummel Catscratch Carter for getting Sosa! I just wanted to rend him for so much as lookin at her! Grrrrrrr!
 
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Originally posted by Death
Where book and game contradict, the game takes precedence. Therefore, Blair did land on that planet in the Telamon system, and did return. A stupid thing to do, perhaps, given the unknown (at the time) nature of the problem, but, hey, it worked for Kirk. ;)

(Well, ok, save for things like "Mirror, Mirror"...)
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Well at least we didn't see the 'Random Ensign Effect' that we always used to see in Star Trek :D
 
But there's two game versions of Blair going down to Telemon...one in a Lance (Dragon) and one in a Vindicator.

So, where the game and the book contradict, the game takes precedence...but what happens when there's two versions of the game? Like the Lexington? The book has him disabling the Lex (yes, with a torpedo, but he still disables and doesn't destroy the thing).

Wonder what happened to the Telemon survivors? They couldn't leave, as the Gen-Select was, apparently, highly contagious...at least, in the book...
 
The whole Telamon part of the novel was negated to me, because I think the game does take precedence. It was a neat little story about them attacking the civilians coming off the planet, but then they should have attacked Blair and Co. coming off the planet too. And since, at least to me, the game is right, that would have never happened.
 
But Blair didn't go to or come off of Telemon in the novel.

No one but Wilford's Biohazard team went to Telemon. Which makes more sense...frankly, compared with two different stories in the game and one story in the novel, I'd go with the novel. I mean, are we supposed to believe that Blair and Dekker and all of Dekker's team were suitable subjects for the Gen-Select Bioweapon to not kill them?...though, considering Blair's the best ace on this side of the galaxy and Dekker's team was a bunch of crack marines...
 
I rather think that the disease wasnt contagious after a certain amount of time. The bombs hit, did their thing, and became inactive.
 
It wasn't disease, it was nanobots. Micro robots, I believe.

Originally posted by Death
Where book and game contradict, the game takes precedence.
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I'm glad you said that, because I once took it as LOAF saying that, but I think it may have really been Earthworm. Anyway, you also have to look at the context of the contradiction. Like the Austin-being-a-Gettysburg-or-an-Exeter issue.
 
Fine the nanobots became ineffective and stopped working after a certain period of time after their original release.
 
It was Earthworm.

As for the Telamon stuff -- clearly Blair landed... but common sense, and the novel, dictate that there must have been some sort of quarantine beforehand. As I already said, we analyzed this one in very exact detail just a little while ago.
 
Originally posted by Nep Parth
So, where the game and the book contradict, the game takes precedence...but what happens when there's two versions of the game? Like the Lexington? The book has him disabling the Lex (yes, with a torpedo, but he still disables and doesn't destroy the thing).
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You can leach the Lex in the game - she'll still go down, but you won't kill 'er.

[As for the Gettysburg...well, the Gettysburg can be a modified Exeter, right? :)]

[Edited by Bob McDob on 05-28-2001 at 01:10]
 
When you add several hundred metres to a ship's lenght, that's a bit too much for your average 'modifications' :).
 
Originally posted by Quarto
When you add several hundred metres to a ship's lenght, that's a bit too much for your average 'modifications' :).
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Well...she can be a LARGE Exeter, right? :D
 
Well yes, she can resemble an Exeter (since we know nothing about what she looks like)... but it would be a very, VERY large Exeter :D.
 
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