Starfleet Year One
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I never read the book but it would be easy enough to read and enjoy. Just imagine it as a Parrellel dimension to the usual Star Trek Canon...and if you're one of those people that isn't fond of Enterprise you can just imagine Enterprise as being the alternate universe.
You can always just pretend that Captain Dan Hagedorn is actually Archer, if you don't mind him not necessarily getting quite as much credit as Archer might be expected to.
Watch this space, I guess...:
http://startrek.wikia.com/wiki/Starfleet:_Year_One
I didn't get terribly hooked by the monthly instalments but, when they were collected into one omnibus, with extended and a few brand new scenes and characters, I really enjoyed it.
I'd don't see it's incredibly out-of-kilter with ENT, especially from the distance of time, when my memory of most of the SFY1 characters and events have blurred. Sure, the dates don't match up but it wouldn't take too much tweaking to imagine Archer's Earth Starfleet career matching up somewhere before the events of a UFP's Starfleet in SFY1.
If MJF ever does a SFY2, I'd love to see him have a go at doing SFY1.2 as well, and making everything come together with now-known canonical events. Maybe the Temporal Cold War caused some of the differences?
"Strangers from the Sky" and "The Final Reflection" have both featured ST characters reading works of historical fiction and noticing that these published works, using real-world characters and events didn't quite match up with actual history. Fun, fun, fun. Not to mention "The Good That Men Do" vs "These Are The Voyages..."
BTW, I just updated all the titles of novels and reprints that contained SFY1 serial chapters; the Memory Beta page had lots of holes!
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Maybe Archer was too valuable to be placed in the warzone?? Or he was on diplomatic missions shorting up support for Earth??
Or maybe Archer isn't considered particularly messianic, even if he has some public recognition value, and the people in the late 2150s and early 2160s are more familiar with those captains who performed recent war heroics? Just because Archer did such heroics earlier on doesn't mean he would get a chance to repeat them during the Romulan War, even if he was present at the battlefront.
The failure to mention familiar ships and people in SF:Y1 isn't very serious IMHO, as plenty of ships and people do get mentioned in a realistic manner. If the dialogue only rotated around the biggest heroes of mankind, then I might expect Archer and the Enterprise to get a name-drop. But the dialogue is largely about a bunch of young UE skippers who end up being chosen for the UFP Starfleet program, and we have no particular reason to expect that old heroes would end up there. Chuck Yeager wasn't destined to become a Mercury astronaut, either...
Perhaps the book gives the impression that the new Starfleet has no extant ships apart from the Christophers, and will have no new ships save for the Daedalus class, but that's just an impression. Other types might well be in service, including Archer's NX-01, but the book isn't about those. It's specifically and narrowly about captains who fly Christopher warships and help (re?)design the Daedalus for exploration use.
I'd actually hate to see Archer name-dropped in a v1.2 rewriting of the book, as his presence or absence isn't really relevant to the book's events.
Timo Saloniemi
The failure to mention familiar ships and people in SF:Y1 isn't very serious IMHO, as plenty of ships and people do get mentioned in a realistic manner. If the dialogue only rotated around the biggest heroes of mankind, then I might expect Archer and the Enterprise to get a name-drop. But the dialogue is largely about a bunch of young UE skippers who end up being chosen for the UFP Starfleet program, and we have no particular reason to expect that old heroes would end up there. Chuck Yeager wasn't destined to become a Mercury astronaut, either...
Perhaps the book gives the impression that the new Starfleet has no extant ships apart from the Christophers, and will have no new ships save for the Daedalus class, but that's just an impression. Other types might well be in service, including Archer's NX-01, but the book isn't about those. It's specifically and narrowly about captains who fly Christopher warships and help (re?)design the Daedalus for exploration use.
I'd actually hate to see Archer name-dropped in a v1.2 rewriting of the book, as his presence or absence isn't really relevant to the book's events.
Timo Saloniemi
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Just type your post and highlight the spoilerish parts. Then click on the spoiler button above the text window (the smilie with the x as the mouth). A box will pop up where you can put what the spoiler is about, then click O.K. and that's it.
Ah, cool, thanks.
Let's just say I found the answer to the whole "who gets to be captain of the badass new ship?" question kinda dumb, if I recall correctly:
Then again my memory could be playing a joke on me.
Let's just say I found the answer to the whole "who gets to be captain of the badass new ship?" question kinda dumb, if I recall correctly:
All six of them decide to be co-captains! ARGH!!! Not Logical!
Then again my memory could be playing a joke on me.
How I remember it is...
Shumer was chosen to be the Captain, and they all made a unified decision to support him.
Its definitely worth a read. Its not his best effort but I'd give it 6 out of 10.
I did too. It's been seven years since I read it, so I don't remember much, but I do remember being fond of it.
I recommend it.
From what I remember it was ok.
Not great, but ok
Not great, but ok
Duplicate post!
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I got into it from the full length version rather than the monthly bits - and it stuck in my memory hence the article in the recent Star Trek Magazine. I'd forgotten how much fun it was though til I reread it before commissioning the piece from Mike - definitely one of the lost gems.
Paul
You know, I didn't read the monthly versions, I would have had to buy reprints of books I already had to do that. I only read the book version, and til recently wasn't aware that it had been rewritten. Do you happen to know what was changed?
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