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Captain’s Table Novels You’d Like See

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Please note that this thread is not intended to be a discussion of specific story ideas but a sharing of ideas about characters who could be featured in a Captain’s Table novel. Here’s my list:

Captain Morgan Bateson (USS Bozeman)
Commander Donatra (IRW Valdore)
Captain Afsarah Eden (USS Hennessy)
Captain JT Esteban (USS Grissom)
Captain Hallie Gannon (USS Bombay)
Captain Edward Jelico (USS Cairo)
Captain Walker Keel (USS Horatio)
Captain Atish Khatami (USS Endeavour)
Captain Rixx (USS Thomas Paine)
Captain George Sanders (USS Malinche)
Captain Clark Terrell (USS Sagittarius, USS Reliant)
 
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Would be interesting if they did another “Tales of the Captain’s Table” anthology, but I doubt it will ever happen. Seems to have been a concept the current editors aren’t interested in. Assuming we get more novels at all.
 
I'd maybe add Captain Ezri Dax (USS Vesta)
Captain Ro Laren (DS9)
Captain Rachel Garrett (USS Enterprise-C)
Captain T'Pol and Captain Reed from Enterprise would be interesting too

and how about Captain Willard Decker maybe during the Lost Years.

However, the last Captains Table novel was way back in 2005-and that was the anthology. I thought there was potential there but I don't see it being resurrected at this point. But these stories are nice because they could take place at any time and don't have to tie into the relaunches necessary (though they certainly can).

I was always intrigued by the Challenger story that took place after the New Earth Series (part of the Gateway series) and I had hoped those would have continued as well. The Stargazer stories are another I'd love to see resurrected as we barely scratched the surface with that (and it could be part of a continuing Lost Era saga sort of like the Terok Nor series).
 
I dunno. Now that we have Captains Georgiou and Lorca to add, I feel like there might be some possibility of adding to that tapestry.

Shame I don’t think we could squeeze in another visit from Captain Pike after the upcoming season of Discovery, since his story ended pretty close to his accident.

Maybe a Robert April story could happen, now that he had a shout-out in modern Trek.
 
Ooh, maybe even a Lorca double-header!

Maybe even have it be the MU and PU versions of a specific event, or Mirror Lorca bluffing his way through a Prime Lorca adventure he'd only read about in the logs, not knowing Prime Lorca already told that story. The right author could have a lot of fun with him constantly making minor gaffs because he doesn't fully understand how Star Trek works, along the lines of when he let slip that he didn't realize Gormagander hunting wasn't common in our universe.

God, I miss Lorca.
 
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I want to see the Captain's Table of the mirror universe, where all the mu captains who killed their predecessor go to and have a drink. And since its timey-wimey we can even have meet-ups between Forrest and Archer, Kirk and Pike, Spock and Kirk, etc. Wouldn't that be fun?
 
Damian said:
I was always intrigued by the Challenger story that took place after the New Earth Series (part of the Gateway series) and I had hoped those would have continued as well.
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I think I read somewhere that the Challenger novel in the New Earth series was intended as a backdoor pilot for a spinoff series of novels but for some reason it didn’t happen.
 
David Weller said:
I think I read somewhere that the Challenger novel in the New Earth series was intended as a backdoor pilot for a spinoff series of novels but for some reason it didn’t happen.
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That is a pretty much well known fact. I think (and someone else will have to confirm) that the reason speculated that Challenger didn't continue after the Gateways cross over is because of Diane Carey's treatment of the Broken Bow Novelisation given the proximity of those two releases.
 
DGCatAniSiri said:
Shame I don’t think we could squeeze in another visit from Captain Pike after the upcoming season of Discovery, since his story ended pretty close to his accident.
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I was confused by this at first, since Pike's accident takes place not long before "The Menagerie" in 2266, so there's plenty of time after DSC. But I guess you mean that the frame of his Captain's Table story was close to the accident, and apparently it was his first visit to the CT.
 
Dimesdan said:
That is a pretty much well known fact. I think (and someone else will have to confirm) that the reason speculated that Challenger didn't continue after the Gateways cross over is because of Diane Carey's treatment of the Broken Bow Novelisation given the proximity of those two releases.
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I thought I saw something about that myself (though I didn't know that might be the reason Challenger didn't continue). But I had heard at the time, like David, that Challenger was supposed to continue. It sort of reminded me a bit of New Frontier in the different crew and ship aspect, and the Commander, Nick Keller did remind me just a bit of Captain Calhoun (at least in the sense he was not your traditional type Captain, even eschewing the title.

A Captain's Table book or story on Nick Keller might be interesting though (however, I'm not sure he'd be let in since he was officially a Commander--not sure how important the rank is, or would they accept him as a practical captain?).

Technically anybody could write a Challenger book. Just because Diane Carey doesn't write Trek books these days doesn't necessarily mean someone else couldn't pick it up. However, I do think that's probably a pipe dream. While I would love to see it, I really don't see it coming to fruition, esp. since it's been more than a decade since the last book and it's probably largely forgotten at this point (Stargazer books are probably a bit different because they involve a familiar character, someone could pick that up and movie it forward and probably get some interest).
 
Damian said:
I thought I saw something about that myself (though I didn't know that might be the reason Challenger didn't continue). But I had heard at the time, like David, that Challenger was supposed to continue.
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"Supposed" is a little strong, I think. It was a potential new series they were trying out, and whether it continued was contingent on how well it was received by the audience.

A Captain's Table book or story on Nick Keller might be interesting though (however, I'm not sure he'd be let in since he was officially a Commander--not sure how important the rank is, or would they accept him as a practical captain?).
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Anyone who commands a ship is a captain, regardless of whether they possess the homonymous military rank. The Captain's Table in the books hosted a number of civilian captains, IIRC, so it'd probably let in captains of any rank. I think one of the books actually had dialogue spelling that out, though it's been a long time.
 
Let’s not forget the DS9 captains post-Kira.
Other suggestions: Regina Farkas. T’Pol and Reed. Va’Kel Shon? Richard Adams (PROM). Christine Vale. Kelvin Kirk, Pike and Robau.
 
Christopher said:
"Supposed" is a little strong, I think. It was a potential new series they were trying out, and whether it continued was contingent on how well it was received by the audience.



Anyone who commands a ship is a captain, regardless of whether they possess the homonymous military rank. The Captain's Table in the books hosted a number of civilian captains, IIRC, so it'd probably let in captains of any rank. I think one of the books actually had dialogue spelling that out, though it's been a long time.
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Yeah, I suppose ;). I had read the Challenger Gateway book several years after it was released and I had read online that it could have been the first of a series of books. At this point, I think it's pretty much dead in the water. I think there was potential there, considering how other similar series fared, like New Frontier and Vanguard. But it's probably been too long. A new author would have to re-familiarize the readers with the characters and since they were patrolling the area around Belle Terre some re-familiarization of that series would probably be needed.

Oh, and yeah, Keller would likely be accepted in the Captain's Table. It's Captain in practice, not in rank. I'm just finishing up the Captain's Table now so you'd think I had remembered that. Duh.
 
Christopher said:
Anyone who commands a ship is a captain, regardless of whether they possess the homonymous military rank. The Captain's Table in the books hosted a number of civilian captains, IIRC, so it'd probably let in captains of any rank. I think one of the books actually had dialogue spelling that out, though it's been a long time.
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The New Frontier novel had Calhoun allowed in the first time he "captained" some kind of tank on Xenex, IIRC, and mentioned that Alexander the Great was allowed in since he considered himself a captain of armies. Then he was kicked out for attempting to take over the bar.
 
ryan123450 said:
Would be interesting if they did another “Tales of the Captain’s Table” anthology, but I doubt it will ever happen. Seems to have been a concept the current editors aren’t interested in. Assuming we get more novels at all.
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I was thinking the same thing. Being new to the Lit-Verse, I just recently purchased the old paperback anthology. I image they could do another one or float out a few e-book novellas to see if they gain any traction with fans.

That's one thing I don't really see much in Trek - the novella. Seems like all of the shorts just get compiled or converted into IDW comic stories. Maybe there's just not enough profit in it.
 
There have been quite a few new captain's introduced since Tales from the Captain's Table.
The Vanguard/Seekers captains: Reyes, Nogura, Gannon, Terrell, Shang, Khatami, Nassir
Mueller
Vale
New Voyager Relaunch Captains: O'Donnell, Glenn, Farkas

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Riverside2233 said:
I was thinking the same thing. Being new to the Lit-Verse, I just recently purchased the old paperback anthology. I image they could do another one or float out a few e-book novellas to see if they gain any traction with fans.

That's one thing I don't really see much in Trek - the novella. Seems like all of the shorts just get compiled or converted into IDW comic stories. Maybe there's just not enough profit in it.
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Actually there are a lot of Trek e-book novellas, there were 74 SCE , 6 TOS: Mere Anarchy, 6 TNG: Slings and Arrows, 2 stand alone TNG, 1 Vanguard, 1 Typhon Pact, 3 standalone TOS, 3 DTI, 3 Quark-centric DS9, and 3 New Frontier. There was a gap of a few years after SCE series ended, but ever since 2012 we've been getting 1 - 5 ebook novellas every year (well except this year obviously).
 
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JD said:
There have been quite a few new captain's introduced since Tales from the Captain's Table.
The Vanguard/Seekers captains: Reyes, Nogura, Gannon, Terrell, Shang, Khatami, Nassir
Mueller
Vale
New Voyager Relaunch Captains: O'Donnell, Glenn, Farkas
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I'm all for more VAN stories! Great series.
 
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