DRGIII announced new DS9 novel on Facebook.

[Idran]

^As stated, it's just that he wants people to visit his own page and generate traffic there, so he prefers if people link to his site rather than quoting its content wholesale. The same reason most professional websites don't want their articles quoted in full but prefer to be linked to.

Which is fair enough if it was his own website, like your own who David Macks. I'm assuming you both pay for the webspace you use. As he uses Facebook, not everyone likes Facebook (I personally tolerate it and use it to orgnaise events and the like) and that's free and open to everyone, I don't think he should really be dictating what can and can not be done.

It's not a dictate, it's a request. There's a big difference.

This is like someone telling their officemates "I'm going to be late, please save me a slice of cake from the party" and someone else getting upset that they would dare bar the rest of the office from eating as they please.

 

[trampledamage]

It's not a dictate, it's a request. There's a big difference.

This is how I see it too, for me it's a matter of politeness (and I'm a Brit living in Canada, politeness is what I do ). He's asked us to link rather than copy and paste, so that is what I'd like you to do.

Other than not copying the content you can discuss it as much as you like -and repeat the title and whatever.

 

[Technobuilder]

From a Trek Reader who really got into Trek Lit (outside of the random TOS/TNG hardcovers I used to pick up in bargain bins) only because DS9 had ended and the DS9-R was going to be continuing those characters forward...

If this is 'The Ascendants' story we've been waiting for to be told, then I'll be happy.

If this isn't that, and instead another tale of Deep Space Nine, I'll be happy with that too.

Would I like the lost Ascendants arc to be written and explored? - Hell yes I would.

Does it have to be or I'm out? - No, but I'll be left wanting.

I never liked the decision to skip ahead, but I have enjoyed the series in spite of that.

The Typhon Pact stories & the events of "The Fall" have opened many new avenues to explore despite losing some characters we liked, I'm eager to see what happens.

And while I like all Trek, I tend to prefer the interconnected-ness of the larger Trek-Verse than the one off TOS planet/alien of the week stories.

For example: I really enjoyed The TOS/Seven novel Greg Cox wrote "No Time Like The Past"

 

[Enterprise1701]

I wonder if the Robinson's current mission of exploration will be covered in Sacraments of Fire or if the novel will strictly be about Deep Space 9. Do the adventures of the Robinson rightfully qualify to be under Deep Space Nine's purview? Unlike the Aventine, the Robinson seems to be based out of Deep Space 9.

 

[DGCatAniSiri]

Personally, the reason I'm so invested in getting an Ascendants novel is because the tidbits we've gotten in the DS9 stories since Destiny indicate that there were some very major events that went on in this time - something about it caused Kira to leave and become a Vedek. I still have not been able to connect the dots for my understanding of Kira's character, from where she was as of The Soul Key to her next chronological appearance in Rough Beasts of Empire, because I do not have this missing piece.

I advocate for a novel simply because I want this story to have the time that it needs to show these events, not just as flashbacks that break up the narrative of another story (this was part of my problem in Revelations and Dust, the Kira segments were so disconnected from the main focus of that novel). So that's why I want an actual novel to tell the Ascendants story.

 

[Jarvisimo]

DRG is especially fond of flashbacks and multiple narratives - I can't think of a novel by him, except for Rough Beasts, that doesn't have jumps within the text proper to different periods and times. So I bet even in a post-Fall novel we will still have flashbacks to what did happen - especially with Taran'atar and Kira and hopefully the Even Odds.

 

[DS9Continuing]

^^ Rough Beasts has flashbacks to the Tzenkethi-Federation border wars.

I selfishly don't want an Ascendants novel, simply because I want my own version to be the only version out there. But it's not like I'd actually complain if we did get that.

But then I really don't think that will happen anyway, because the writers/editors only seem interested in going forwards at this point, not backwards.

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[Enterprise1701]

Am I the only one who's really annoyed that after Revelation and Dust, A Ceremony of Losses said nothing whatsoever about Altek Dans the time-traveler nor Odo now that he could easily go home through the wormhole???!!!

 

[T'Ressa Dax]

Nope. I remember being very disappointed those characters weren't mentioned again. I'm really hoping they reappear. Suppose it'd be too much to ask that The Missing does much with either...

 

[Enterprise1701]

Nope. I remember being very disappointed those characters weren't mentioned again. I'm really hoping they reappear. Suppose it'd be too much to ask that The Missing does much with either...

I'm hoping that the title The Missing at least refers in part to Kira and Taran'atar.

 

[The Wormhole]

I doubt it. Based on the blurb, The Missing seems to be its own story. Anything involving Kira and Taran'atar or Odo and the other fella will probably have to wait until DRGIII's next novel.

 

[Enterpriserules]

We are getting, The Missing and Sacraments of Fire and it looks like there will be a follow-up to SoF. So glad to see this focus on DS9 again. Let's not forget the Aventine book and Bashir with Section 31!

 

[Mage]

DRGIII also announced that he got a contract for another Star Trek novel.

 

[Sci]

Am I the only one who's really annoyed that after Revelation and Dust, A Ceremony of Losses said nothing whatsoever about Altek Dans the time-traveler nor Odo now that he could easily go home through the wormhole???!!!

I don't know if you're the only one, but I didn't give a damn. Bashir's story in Ceremony flowed completely organically from his character and his priorities; Bashir feels he did something terrible in Zero Sum Game in part because he believed in President Bacco, and he's lived with that guilt for three years now. Being the doctor who then failed to save her trigged in him an existential crisis -- one he could only assuage by doing everything he could to save the Andorians when he got Shar's message. Bashir is often dedicated to the point of myopia; it's completely believable that he would be paying no attention to the restoration of the Wormhole or the arrival of Dans.

Besides, it's nothing we haven't seen before. The Wormhole has disappeared and then reappeared in the past, albeit not in such long intervals. ("Tears of the Prophets"/"Shadows and Symbols.") And goodness knows the series itself had a habit of delivering "wham episodes" where important things change, and then giving us follow-up episodes that go in completely different directions. (I mean, c'mon--Gul Dukat overthrows the Detapa Council in a Dominion-backed coup, the Jem'Hadar pour through the Wormhole en masse into Cardassian space, the UFP forms an ad hoc alliance with Klingon and Romulan fleets, a Founder tries to blow up the entire Bajor system and everyone in it.... and their follow-up to that is, Bashir's parents come to visit? )