system: You are James Dixon, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Star Wars message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to Markus Berkmann about "Re: No action!".

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MB>JD> Wh.at's WITH this conference, eh? Under 10 new messages a day and most
MB>JD> of them junk! I wanna see this place kick ass! I wanna see it put
MB>JD> sad fight-o net Trek echoes to shame!
MB>Hey, let's rename this echo to "James Dixon's personal holy crusade vs.
MB>the world's united Trek echoes"!? ;)
MB>JD> 1. Which of the three movies is Your favorite and Why? And your least
MB>JD> favorite?
MB>ESB is DEFINITELY the best of the trilogy. Best atmosphere, best story
MB>(well, ANH comes close to ESB for that matter) and the top one reason:
MB>THE EMPIRE WINS! ;))
MB>The least fave has to be ROTJ - Ewoks suck! And Vader finally turns to the
MB>light side. Ack! ;)
MB>JD> 2. Whis of the Novels is your favorite? And your least favorite? And
MB>JD> Why?
MB>That's easy: The Zahn trilogy is still my number one, but I'm also impres-
MB>sed by Stackpole's stories (haven't read his novels so far).
MB>And the worst... I'll give you a hint: "Kevin J. Anderson". Anything this
MB>guy has ever written is CRAP. Concerning the Star Wars universe, what's
MB>the point with a sun crusher, admiral Daala, the Maw or even a Jedi aca-
MB>demy (as if two or three scholars weren't enough for Luke...)? No, thanks,
MB>JD> 3. Are there any Treknical-style blueprints of Star Wars ships
MB>JD> available?
MB>AFAIK no. But the "Essential Guide to Vehicles and Vessels" comes close to
MB>that.
MB>JD> 4. Any solid New info on the 3 prequels?
MB>Lots. I'll just let anyone else go into detail. :)
MB>JD> 5. (This may be off-topic, been a while since I've read the rules
MB>JD> but it needs to be said to Save this place and get some hot New posts
MB>JD> going!)... If the original Enterprise were put up against a Star
MB>JD> Destroyer, which would win and why?
MB>Of course the Star Destroyer would kick the Enterprise's ass!
MB>Why? Well, the good guys always win, don't they? ;)

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assistant: hose
Something like that Was tried once when I was on the DX Connection
BBS... A "Dixon Net"... Thing is the feeds and all never worked
out...and people started looking at me real funny... Right now I'm just
happy that most of the people on the NON-Star Trek echoes are generally
more mature and open-minded...
I agree 100%... I thought it something of a cop out that Vader was--to
put it crudly--not such a bad guy after all... It just shouldn't be done
with villains...
Well, I loved Zahn's and Stackpole's books but I feel you're a little
too hard on Anderson... Sure, he's gone overboard a bit but the guy's
pretty consistent and responsible for a lot of the continuity between
novels... My least favorite novel's "The Crystal Star" (so far!)...
Not in my book... Speaking of which, Treknical fandom's classic Ships of
the Star Fleet Volume 1 finally got released in the mass market... Saw
it in my local Waldenbooks on Saturday... When I think of "serious"
Treknical style prints, I think of this manual... I'd LOVE to see one
covering Imperial ships... Closest I've seen was one using a Very
similar name but being a bloody pop-up book!
Thought so...
ere,
Guess so...