2026 Novel Releases

[Christopher]

That's a fair point, I was just thinking of it purely from the point of few of the show's producers teases the fans with the hint at the possibility of resolving an old plot thread.

I doubt it will be anything more than a throwaway allusion. Nor should it be; the show should be about developing its own characters and their era, not tying off dangling threads from decades ago our time and centuries ago their time. Star Trek needs to stop building on its past and return to expanding its future, and Starfleet Academy, as the furthest forward series in the franchise, is the show that should do that.

 

[Laura Cynthia Chambers]

If they'd made up a new mystery instead of using Sisko's return, would it be a Chekov's Gun (now someone has to follow up on that someday) or a throwaway line ("Did Einstein, Kazanga, or Sitar of Vulcan produce new and revolutionary theories on a regular schedule?")

 

[Christopher]

If they'd made up a new mystery instead of using Sisko's return, would it be a Chekov's Gun (now someone has to follow up on that someday) or a throwaway line ("Did Einstein, Kazanga, or Sitar of Vulcan produce new and revolutionary theories on a regular schedule?")

Look, the Sisko poster is just an on-set graphic. The text was probably written by the art department, not actually scripted. It's unlikely to be any kind of plot point, or to have any relevance beyond the few seconds it's onscreen.

 

[Therin of Andor]

Yep, and people in 1979-82 were writing angry letters to magazines about how the movies weren't "real Trek" and should be ignored.

Before the movies, fans mostly just got angry at how bad season 3 was.

I joined a local Australian fan club in 1980 and became its president in late 1983. I had the chance to read lots of back issues of the newsletter from before I came a member -- and found quite a few pages of fan vitriol about Filmation's TAS, long before it had started airing in the USA.

If they'd made up a new mystery instead of using Sisko's return...

You mean like The Red Angel or The Burn? Lotsa fans hated those. Haters gotta hate, I guess.

 

[Therin of Andor]

And as many of you know, I get really angry when my favorite characters are ruined and/or killed off. I just don't accept that.

So every favourite character (of yours) becomes immortal, or leads a charmed life, wherein they somehow survive every obstacle placed before them, even into old age?

I don't accept that.

@JD , I'm going to assume you replied from the previous page before you saw my reminder on this page, but please note that this is not the place for this discussion, and (for all thread participants) I don't want this particular tangent to continue. Thank you.

@Denise , I also suspect that you replied before seeing my reminder. I would ask please that if people would like to have a discussion about Jack the Ripper, that maybe Miscellaneous would be a better place.

EDIT: Me too, sorry. I am only just working my way through the middle of the thread. Eeek.

 

[Christopher]

I would say that what "ruins" a character is just putting them on a pedestal and refusing to let anything bad or painful happen to them. Characters are defined by how they solve problems, face hardships, and cope with the pain of their mistakes and failures. We wouldn't love them if they never did anything to earn our love. We wouldn't care so much about Kirk if we hadn't seen him fail to save Gary Mitchell or Edith Keeler or Miramanee or Spock. We wouldn't care so much about Picard if we hadn't seen him get himself stabbed in the heart through his youthful hubris or struggle with his inability to express love for Beverly or bear the unbearable trauma of being violated by the Borg and forced to use his knowledge to murder thousands of fellow officers.

 

[Laura Cynthia Chambers]

@Therin of Andor More like substituting "Sisko" and the "Emissary" for some other disappeared object/person(s) and mystery fate (a lost treasure ship, a war hero, a species)

 

[Ronald Held]

Broken record poster wants more 2026 TOS/Movie era novels.

 

[JD]

I would say that what "ruins" a character is just putting them on a pedestal and refusing to let anything bad or painful happen to them. Characters are defined by how they solve problems, face hardships, and cope with the pain of their mistakes and failures. We wouldn't love them if they never did anything to earn our love. We wouldn't care so much about Kirk if we hadn't seen him fail to save Gary Mitchell or Edith Keeler or Miramanee or Spock. We wouldn't care so much about Picard if we hadn't seen him get himself stabbed in the heart through his youthful hubris or struggle with his inability to express love for Beverly or bear the unbearable trauma of being violated by the Borg and forced to use his knowledge to murder thousands of fellow officers.

Wow, I never really thought about it before, but Kirk really did go through a lot of loss, especially if we had his brother and son to that list.

 

[Laura Cynthia Chambers]

Kirk's sister-in-law and his unborn child, too.

 

[thribs]

Been a bit dry with Star Trek books lately. The SNW ones don't really interest me.

 

[thribs]

I think Picard has the most obvious potential for novels since there are a lot of gaps between it and the last time we saw the legacy characters that fans want to see filled, and also plenty of opportunities to explore the new characters' histories, not to mention gaps between seasons.

Rather have post ones. I don't need to remember the dark times before that.

 

[tenmei]

Been a bit dry with Star Trek books lately. The SNW ones don't really interest me.

Rather have post ones. I don't need a remember the dark times before that.

I quite like the "planet of the week" SNW ones, lost interest in the Picard and DISCO ones because they didn't read like missing episodes.

 

[Therin of Andor]

@Therin of Andor More like substituting "Sisko" and the "Emissary" for some other disappeared object/person(s) and mystery fate (a lost treasure ship, a war hero, a species)

Well, you know what would happen if they did that: "You know, this would have been the perfect opportunity to resolve the mystery of Sisko's disappearance."

Writers write the story that they wish that they could read/see/hear.

 

[Lynx]

So every favourite character (of yours) becomes immortal, or leads a charmed life, wherein they somehow survive every obstacle placed before them, even into old age?

I don't accept that.



EDIT: Me too, sorry. I am only just working my way through the middle of the thread. Eeek.

And I don't accept your statement!

Right now I'm sick and tired of seeing my Star Trek favorite characters in books and even some series.being killed off, humiliated, destroyed, turned in to monsters, aged wrecks or into uninteresting no-no's with uninteresting "lives" while I have to stand characters from series which I despise starting to take up place in the books.

If you love character destruction, then it's your problem. I don't!

And the worst thing is that it will take away the joy and happiness I once felt when I was reading the Star Trek books.

 

[Avro Arrow]

And I don't accept your statement!

Right now I'm sick and tired of seeing my Star Trek favorite characters in books and even some series.being killed off, humiliated, destroyed, turned in to monsters, aged wrecks or into uninteresting no-no's with uninteresting "lives" while I have to stand characters from series which I despise starting to take up place in the books.

If you love character destruction, then it's your problem. I don't!

And the worst thing is that it will take away the joy and happiness I once felt when I was reading the Star Trek books.

I have already spoken up in the thread twice indicating that this topic was out-of-bounds for this thread, and yet you have returned to it. I realize you were basically goaded into it, but you could have chosen to ignore it, like you did for the last go-round, and you did not. I am therefore issuing a thread reply ban for the rest of the month of November.

So every favourite character (of yours) becomes immortal, or leads a charmed life, wherein they somehow survive every obstacle placed before them, even into old age?

I don't accept that.



EDIT: Me too, sorry. I am only just working my way through the middle of the thread. Eeek.

Therin, you have put me in a very difficult spot here. I have already indicated, twice, that I didn't want this argument to continue in this thread. I realized you apologized, but once you did catch up in the thread, you had the option to delete the post, and you did not. As staff members, we have to set an example about following the rules of the board. In this instance, you goaded another member into replying to a post on a topic that the forum mod had already asked twice to drop. I can't just keep giving friendlies forever, and It seems unfair to me to sanction Lynx in isolation. Therefore I am also giving you a thread reply ban, assuming the software will allow me to do that for a fellow staff member. I will update the post if the attempt is not successful.

ETA: As I feared, the board software will not allow a reply ban for someone on staff. As a professional courtesy, I would ask that you respect the intended reply ban, and refrain from posting in this thread from now (ie- do not reply to this post) until December 1. Thank you.

For both posters, comments to PM. For everyone else, let's please continue with the thread topic.

 

[JD]

I quite like the "planet of the week" SNW ones, lost interest in the Picard and DISCO ones because they didn't read like missing episodes.

If Somewhere to Belong is anything to go by, it looks like the Discovery books are headed more in that direction, and the Picard books seem to be a mixture of backstory, between season and now post-series stories. The more arc heavy nature of Discovery and Picard make it harder to do books set during the series since you can't just randomly pop in new stories between episodes like you can with the other series. They did at least giving some gaps between seasons where they've squeeze in stories like Second Self, Stargazer, and Somewhere to Belong.

 

[XCV330]

If Somewhere to Belong is anything to go by, it looks like the Discovery books are headed more in that direction, and the Picard books seem to be a mixture of backstory, between season and now post-series stories. The more arc heavy nature of Discovery and Picard make it harder to do books set during the series since you can't just randomly pop in new stories between episodes like you can with the other series. They did at least giving some gaps between seasons where they've squeeze in stories like Second Self, Stargazer, and Somewhere to Belong.

I really would enjoy more Discovery books set on Shenzou. I enjoyed the ones that were written , so far.

 

[Ronald Held]

Would not be disappointed if there were no more DSC books. Uncertain about how many more PIC books there might be. In the near term, I expect SNW, TOS and SFA.

 

[Enterprise1701]

I really would enjoy more Discovery books set on Shenzou. I enjoyed the ones that were written , so far.

Huh. Y'know, it seems all so long ago now, but it actually took less than a decade from the conclusion of Star Trek: The Next Generation in 1994 for Star Trek: Stargazer novel series to debut in earnest in 2002. I wonder if Captain Philippa Georgiou will need that long to get a dedicated prequel series.