What unseen Star Trek event do you want to read about next? - Page 6

rahullak · January 17 2013, 03:27 AM

^Rise of the Federation would have the same characters as were present in Enterprise the TV show.

Hartzilla2007 · January 17 2013, 03:34 AM

rahullak wrote:

^Rise of the Federation would have the same characters as were present in Enterprise the TV show.

Yeah, but not the ship the show got its tittle from.

Christopher · January 17 2013, 03:41 AM

^Not the same thing. We read or watch series fiction for its characters and storylines. The ship is just a setting. There are Sherlock Holmes stories set during times when Holmes wasn't residing at 221B Baker Street, but that doesn't make them any less Sherlock Holmes stories, because they still featured the main characters.

ryan123450 · January 17 2013, 05:14 AM

While I agree with your point, Christopher, the books weren't called 221B Baker Street so that's not a perfect analogy.

Saul · January 17 2013, 05:29 AM

MatthiasRussell wrote:

I would also like to see a tale of the ring-ship Enterprise told as a primitive space travel story (and could be a great first contact tale).

I'd like to see that. We know nothing about the ship except what it looks like.

What happened to the Enterprise B?

Patrick O'Brien · January 17 2013, 09:57 AM

Christopher wrote:

Patrick O'Brien wrote:

On that note Chris, have you considered developing the Denobulan's any further in your up coming book? I enjoyed the Phlox character on Enterprise and would love to learn more about his people.

The upcoming book is already written; I'm due to get the copyedits in a couple of days. But if I get to do sequels, yeah, I've had the thought that I should visit Denobula at some point.

Congratulations on a completed book Chris

Hopefully it's success leads to more than a few sequels

Hartzilla2007 · January 17 2013, 06:02 PM

Christopher wrote:

^Not the same thing. We read or watch series fiction for its characters and storylines. The ship is just a setting. There are Sherlock Holmes stories set during times when Holmes wasn't residing at 221B Baker Street, but that doesn't make them any less Sherlock Holmes stories, because they still featured the main characters.

who gives the books their tittles.

Besides its kind of hard to claim the characters are that big in making something a Star Trek book, when a TOS changed the cast three times.

Plus the characters and storylines argument also falls apart when you remember TNG didn't have the TOS cast, DS9 only had two TNG characters, VOY didn't have the TNG or DS9 cast, and ENT didn't have the VOY, TNG, or DS9 casts and yet their still considered Star Trek.

Christopher · January 17 2013, 07:17 PM

^You're all over the place there. All you're showing is that there's no universal rule where titles are concerned, that it's an enormous mistake to confuse the label of a thing with its contents. What Greg suggested about a Holmes "spinoff" is nothing like what I'm doing with Rise of the Federation. I should know, because I wrote the darn thing. Your analogy between them is completely wrong because you're fixating on the titles rather than the content.

RoJoHen · January 17 2013, 07:43 PM

I admit I am waaaaaaaaaay (like, probably a decade) behind on my Trek Lit reading, but has anything ever been written about Spock's plan for Vulcan/Romulan Re-Unification? I always liked Spock's appearances in TNG, but when he got sucked back in time in ST09, I couldn't help thinking about his life's work that he left behind in the Prime Universe.

BillJ · January 17 2013, 07:50 PM

RoJoHen wrote:

I admit I am waaaaaaaaaay (like, probably a decade) behind on my Trek Lit reading, but has anything ever been written about Spock's plan for Vulcan/Romulan Re-Unification? I always liked Spock's appearances in TNG, but when he got sucked back in time in ST09, I couldn't help thinking about his life's work that he left behind in the Prime Universe.

Various Typhon Pact novels feature Spock on Romulus, including Rough Beasts of Empire.

Deranged Nasat · January 17 2013, 07:54 PM

BillJ wrote:

RoJoHen wrote:

I admit I am waaaaaaaaaay (like, probably a decade) behind on my Trek Lit reading, but has anything ever been written about Spock's plan for Vulcan/Romulan Re-Unification? I always liked Spock's appearances in TNG, but when he got sucked back in time in ST09, I couldn't help thinking about his life's work that he left behind in the Prime Universe.

Various Typhon Pact novels feature Spock on Romulus, including Rough Beasts of Empire.

More than that, the arc has actually been carried forward, rather than waiting in limbo.

Lee Son of Pete · January 18 2013, 02:21 AM

Relayer1 wrote:

There is already such a lot of cultural 'carry forward' that they can't really go off on a tangent. Besides which, Trek was supposed to show how WE had progressed.

A bit leeway now saves a lot of head scratching later...

Although it's neither cannon nor even hinted at, a twisted part of me always liked to think that the 'mirror universe' was our universe.

cml898 · January 18 2013, 02:56 AM

I'd love to see a definitive "Ro Laren's history" story. I've been told there are one or two versions out there about what happened on Garon II that made her such a disgrace in Starfleet at the time of her introduction on TNG, but somewhere in the DS9 post finale novels there was a scene where Vaughn told her "I know what really happened" that seemed like a tease for an eventual definitive version of that part of her history.

TJ Sinclair · January 18 2013, 03:00 AM

^I'd really like to see some of Ro's history between the Maquis and Militia. We know a little of it from Abyss, but not much.

Mr. Laser Beam · January 18 2013, 03:03 AM

Lee Son of Pete wrote:

Relayer1 wrote:

There is already such a lot of cultural 'carry forward' that they can't really go off on a tangent. Besides which, Trek was supposed to show how WE had progressed.

A bit leeway now saves a lot of head scratching later...

Although it's neither cannon nor even hinted at, a twisted part of me always liked to think that the 'mirror universe' was our universe.

Didn't see the ENT credits with the mirror Neil Armstrong planting the Terran Empire flag on the moon?

January 17 2013, 03:27 AM	#76
rahullak Fleet Captain Location: India	Re: What unseen Star Trek event do you want to read about next? ^Rise of the Federation would have the same characters as were present in Enterprise the TV show.

January 17 2013, 03:41 AM	#78
Christopher Writer	Re: What unseen Star Trek event do you want to read about next? ^Not the same thing. We read or watch series fiction for its characters and storylines. The ship is just a setting. There are Sherlock Holmes stories set during times when Holmes wasn't residing at 221B Baker Street, but that doesn't make them any less Sherlock Holmes stories, because they still featured the main characters. __________________ Christopher L. Bennett Homepage -- Updated 5/28/13 with discussion of Rise of the Federation Book 1. Written Worlds -- My blog

January 17 2013, 05:14 AM	#79
ryan123450 Commodore Location: Woodward, OK	Re: What unseen Star Trek event do you want to read about next? While I agree with your point, Christopher, the books weren't called 221B Baker Street so that's not a perfect analogy. __________________ Lost: A Chronological Experience-http://lostchronologically.yolasite.com Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit.

January 17 2013, 07:17 PM	#83
Christopher Writer	Re: What unseen Star Trek event do you want to read about next? ^You're all over the place there. All you're showing is that there's no universal rule where titles are concerned, that it's an enormous mistake to confuse the label of a thing with its contents. What Greg suggested about a Holmes "spinoff" is nothing like what I'm doing with Rise of the Federation. I should know, because I wrote the darn thing. Your analogy between them is completely wrong because you're fixating on the titles rather than the content. __________________ Christopher L. Bennett Homepage -- Updated 5/28/13 with discussion of Rise of the Federation Book 1. Written Worlds -- My blog

January 17 2013, 07:43 PM	#84
RoJoHen Awesome Location: Wherever life takes me	Re: What unseen Star Trek event do you want to read about next? I admit I am waaaaaaaaaay (like, probably a decade) behind on my Trek Lit reading, but has anything ever been written about Spock's plan for Vulcan/Romulan Re-Unification? I always liked Spock's appearances in TNG, but when he got sucked back in time in ST09, I couldn't help thinking about his life's work that he left behind in the Prime Universe. __________________ I am the Quintessential Admiral. Get ready to grow your EQUINOX BEARD!

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January 18 2013, 02:56 AM	#88
cml898 Lieutenant	Re: What unseen Star Trek event do you want to read about next? I'd love to see a definitive "Ro Laren's history" story. I've been told there are one or two versions out there about what happened on Garon II that made her such a disgrace in Starfleet at the time of her introduction on TNG, but somewhere in the DS9 post finale novels there was a scene where Vaughn told her "I know what really happened" that seemed like a tease for an eventual definitive version of that part of her history.

January 18 2013, 03:00 AM	#89
TJ Sinclair Captain Location: There and back again...	Re: What unseen Star Trek event do you want to read about next? ^I'd really like to see some of Ro's history between the Maquis and Militia. We know a little of it from Abyss, but not much. __________________ "Social harmony is not a good goal. There's plenty of social harmony in a prison camp. The individual is the smallest and most oppressed minority..." -- Diane Carey, April 2001