Characters or situations you'd like to see in the books?

[Vastator]

Well the one thing of course I am looking forward to seeing is the Enterprise era Romulan War stuff. I would really like to see some memorable figures from both the Coalition and the Romulan Star Empire. I also hope we see Valdore quite a bit as I quite like the character. Cool space battles, perhaps Reman shocktroopers being involved to help explain how come Earth never saw a live Romulan, Section 31 working in the background, Trip learning more and more about Romulan society, Romulan ships exploding rather then let themselves be captured... its all good

 

[ialfan]

Well the one thing of course I am looking forward to seeing is the Enterprise era Romulan War stuff. I would really like to see some memorable figures from both the Coalition and the Romulan Star Empire. I also hope we see Valdore quite a bit as I quite like the character. Cool space battles, perhaps Reman shocktroopers being involved to help explain how come Earth never saw a live Romulan, Section 31 working in the background, Trip learning more and more about Romulan society, Romulan ships exploding rather then let themselves be captured... its all good

Indeed. The rumored romulan war trilogy in 2009 is highly anticipated by me as is the novel this fall leading up to it. :thumbsup:

 

[Christopher]

...perhaps Reman shocktroopers being involved to help explain how come Earth never saw a live Romulan...

That's a nice idea, except it's hard to reconcile with Spock's line in "Balance of Terror" that "no human, Romulan, or ally ever saw the other." I think the only way it can work is as a pure space war, with any attacks on planets being orbital bombardments -- or extraorbital ones like we saw in The Good That Men Do.

 

[Triskelion]

Spock could have been wrong, or just incompletely informed....
He was after all only one man. With a bowl haircut.

 

[hellsgate]

The U.S.S. Mandela is a Legacy-Class starship designed by Kaden & Galen of SciFi-Meshes.Com at "Star Trek: New Worlds".
http://www.freewebs.com/startrekprotector/Protector in Dry Dock 2.jpg

Secondly, the U.S.S. Voyager-A (Vivace-Class)

http://bridgecommander.filefront.com/file/USS_Voyager_A;73486

 

[Geoff Thorne]

The U.S.S. Mandela is a Legacy-Class starship designed by Kaden & Galen of SciFi-Meshes.Com at "Star Trek: New Worlds".
http://www.freewebs.com/startrekprotector/Protector in Dry Dock 2.jpg

Secondly, the U.S.S. Voyager-A (Vivace-Class)

http://bridgecommander.filefront.com/file/USS_Voyager_A;73486

The VIVACE class looks a lot like the picture i had in my head for the Anansi in my story in PROPHECY & CHANGE.

Sweet!

 

[JoeZhang]

Spock could have been wrong, or just incompletely informed....
He was after all only one man. With a bowl haircut.

Maybe a battle did occur when they met face to face but it was such a horror that it was hushed up by both sides.

Dr. Phlox was eaten by two reman shocktroopers! (sadly that's not going to happen...)

 

[Turtletrekker]

Spock could have been wrong, or just incompletely informed....

I'd sooner believe that Data would be wrong or forget something than I would for Spock. If the information was anywhere in the official historical record, Spock would know about it. He's Spock, after all.

Of course, the "incompletely informed" bit works as he (and just about everybody else) was obviously unaware of Section 31's activities during the Romulan war.

 

[captcalhoun]

maybe they did see Romulans, but never lived to tell the tale...

 

[Vastator]

Indeed. The rumored romulan war trilogy in 2009 is highly anticipated by me as is the novel this fall leading up to it. :thumbsup:

Is that the Kobyashi Maru one? Cause if so then I think I'm going to get that as well, I read Enterprise era, Klingons and Romulans which seemed to somewhat to have hooked me onto it.

That's a nice idea, except it's hard to reconcile with Spock's line in "Balance of Terror" that "no human, Romulan, or ally ever saw the other." I think the only way it can work is as a pure space war, with any attacks on planets being orbital bombardments -- or extraorbital ones like we saw in The Good That Men Do.

maybe they did see Romulans, but never lived to tell the tale...

I was thinking that myself actually, I mean possible scenario's then for Reman shocktroopers is perhaps Starfleet MACO's (do MACO's still exist by the time of the Romulan War?) boarding a disabled Romulan ship and attempting to take it over and fighting Remans while the Romulan commander sets it to self destruct. Or perhaps the Romulans invade a Human or other Coalition member colony using Reman soldiers while taking the spoils of war back to Romulus? Wouldnt be the first time the Romulans have taken captives I mean remember Tasha?

Not against a space war but personally I would like to see some infantry warfare and think it would be a nice and might give an opportunity to highlight more on Reman culture and stuff. Plus would be cool to see the Romulans taking out the lighting on their ships or enemy installations as both a terror weapon and in order for the Remans to gain the benefit of their sight while denying the enemy theres. Might not happen but one can dream... *sigh*

Mind you that doesnt preclude the chance of Trip learning about the Remans on Romulus. Doubt he would want to go to Remus unless he got imprisoned or something but we have see that Remans are taken out of the mines to serve as bodyguards or as soldiers.

Also what battles were fought in the war anyway? I just know of the Battle of Cheron which is where I think the Romulans lost the battle.

 

[Dayton Ward]

And the Orions: In a Mirror, Darkly had at least one green Orion woman as bridge crew on the ISS Avenger: since she wasn't running the ship those pheromones can't be as all-powerful as depicted in Bound (at least, not all the time).

On the other hand, it's the Mirror Universe. Everybody's already banging everybody, anyway.

 

[hellsgate]

Hmmm....interesting. I hadn't thought about Erika Benteen in ages. I could see her as a plausible/feasible X.O. for Dr. Pulaski, the newest "Captain" aboard the Legacy-Class U.S.S. Mandela, just after the Dominion War in 2379/2380. Thoughts? Feelings? Opinions? In pro-fic circles, I could see her as Chakotay's intermediary/temporary X.O. aboard the Vivace-Class U.S.S. Voyager-A.

I have no idea what any of that means.

There is no "Voyager-A," and I've never heard of the "Vivace-class" (why name a ship class after a musical term? is there also a Dolce-class? an Allegro-class?). The original Voyager's doing just fine, thanks. The phrase "just after the Dominion War in 2379/2380" is a contradiction in terms, since the war concluded at the end of 2375. Finally, from (at least) 2377-2379, Dr. Pulaski was doing research at the Phlox Institute (as established in both the novel A Time for War, a Time for Peace and the eBook Progress) and stated in the former book that her days of serving on ships were long behind her.

Also, why is "captain" in quotes?

Thank you for those points of reference ("A Time For War" & "A Time For Peace", & E-Book: "Progress".)

But in my own fan fiction, its never a good idea for anyone to say anything about serving on starships, especially writing a story in such a way as to imply or outright confine yourself to believing its long behind a character ..... especially in Star Trek.

Look at Kirk & his bunch, (as the line from the Godfather movie went,) "just when you think you're out, they drag you back in."

I put Captain in quotes as I'm still mentally juggling how I'm going to compose the story.

Spoiler: story

Part of me is thinking she should take command of the ship as a temporary c.o. as its regular c.o. is following orders from a superior officer, elsewhere. (example: Captain Morgan Bateson, temporary c.o. of the U.S.S. Enterprise-E, "Ship Of The Line" by Diane Carey.)

Another route I'm thinking of taking is this.

Spoiler: story

Pulaski is somewhat harangued into assuming command of a state of the art starship with upgraded Infirmary by Starfleet Command as they're acutely short of qualified & deserving officers. The Titan's gone (temporarily) missing at this point & the Admiralty are pretty much crapping themselves.

The situation becomes especially poignant, after the Mandela incurs several casualties during a post-Dominion War mission. They were taking on vigilante "minute-men" style Cardassian rogue operatives that are having an exponentially difficult time with Federation/Starfleet allies hanging around in their space.

Erika Benteen is offered the Executive Officer Position as she's been demoted to Lieutenant Commander after the Admiral Layton situation on Earth, having to grovel & profusely apologize her way back into the fleet. Knowing full well that Starfleet Command isn't exactly in a position to turn her away. She ends up on the U.S.S. Mandela as more or less a "out of sight, out of mind" solution, or "better the devil you know". If she fails to redeem herself & atone for her past decisions, she's profoundly aware she'll spend the rest of her life peeling potatoes in the New Zealand penal colony kitchen and / or scrubbing toilets.

 

[Christopher]

^^Please don't discuss fan fiction ideas in the Trek Literature forum. For legal reasons, professional authors can't read unsolicited story ideas. There is a Fan Fiction forum which is the appropriate place for such discussion.

 

[BrotherBenny]

Getting us back on track, there are so many stories to be told about former captains of the Enterprise; 20 years of Captain April for a start, more Harriman and Sulu from the E-B, and Garrett on the E-C.

Just what was Commodore Wesley up to after "The Ultimate Computer"

What happened to Daystrom? Did he redeem himself to get an Institute named after him?

And there's just tons more from The Lost Era(TM) (more than mentioned above anyway) I'd love to see more in-depth work on the Tzenkethi - where is that Sisko novel anyways?

 

[Christopher]

^^Daystrom had already solidified his place in history with duotronics; that's what would've gotten him an institute named after him. Like most geniuses, his greatest work came when he was young, and he struggled to duplicate it later in life. Multitronics for him was like the unified field theory was for Einstein, a failed and misguided attempt to top his earlier work. Except that Einstein's unified field theories didn't go berserk and kill hundreds of people...

(Or did they?)

(No... I guess they didn't.)

 

[David R. George III]

Getting us back on track, there are so many stories to be told about former captains of the Enterprise;...more Harriman and Sulu from the E-B...

I've had some thoughts about the command crew I created for the Enterprise-B...

 

[BrotherBenny]

Doesn't the fact that he inadvertently became a mass murderer negate that particular brilliance?

I saw the episode today, so it's really fresh in my mind. I wouldn't want to name a place after someone who might have been a genius in his youth and then killed hundreds of people with a failed experiment later in life - before going into a mental breakdown (although I suppose you could say that geniuses are in such a state already).

David, I think I speak on behalf of everyone here when I say...to hell with our orders...I mean, pitch it!!!!

 

[Christopher]

^^Well, Einstein's work led directly to the atomic bomb. Alfred Nobel's invention of dynamite has certainly been responsible for a great many deaths, either from war, murder, or accident. Arguably what M5 did was also a tragic accident.

 

[BrotherBenny]

^^Well, Einstein's work led directly to the atomic bomb. Alfred Nobel's invention of dynamite has certainly been responsible for a great many deaths, either from war, murder, or accident. Arguably what M5 did was also a tragic accident.

But they were both indirectly responsible for hundreds or thousands of deaths. Daystrom was directly responsible, firstly for imprinting his own engrams onto the circuits, not doing anything to disable the M5 after the ore ship was blown to kingdom come and not doing anything until a Federation starship was all but destroyed. It was up to the computer killer to deal with the situation.

 

[JoeZhang]

Daystrom is in at least one book.. it's.. em.. yeah.em.. you know the one...