No love from the media. (Spoilers for "Before Dishonor")

[Technobuilder]

Calhoun's "Death" doesn't really count in my book, he wasn't actually dead.

 

[The Nth Doctor]

And no one (as in the readers) actually thought he was dead.

 

[Therin of Andor]

Calhoun's "Death" doesn't really count in my book, he wasn't actually dead.

The characters thought he was dead for nearly three books, and some fans probably thought the worst for two.

 

[Trilliam]

"And we still haven't forgiven that Howard fellow for laying hands on our monarch!"

Wasn't that Mr P Keating, not Mr J W Howard?

ETA: BTW, The Queen's our Monarch too!

 

[kimc]

Who's a complete nobody outside of fandom..

AuntKate simply asked, "How many times can the writers go to the well (kill off a captain)" apart from Janeway - in the novels. Kirk's been killed of controversially in "The Entropy Effect" (see Starlogs of the day), and then the resurrected Kirk (from "Generations") was killed off in Shatner's "The Return", but returned in "Avenger".

Calhoun's really the only other one.

I think Spock should also be counted since technically he did hold the rank of captain.

 

[Therin of Andor]

I think Spock should also be counted since technically he did hold the rank of captain.

Spock died in a canonical movie (and its novelization). Wasn't the original query concerning deaths in TrekLit?

 

[Trent Roman]

It didn't specify. But, as I said, the only prior instance of killing off the captain is Kirk (Spock wasn't the show leader, whatever his rank), so the suggestion that it's an overused plot device doesn't work.

Fictitiously yours, Trent Roman

 

[Anthony Sabre]

Sheesh. I didn't even realize she had died. But I haven't exactly kept up with the VOY relaunch.

 

[LightningStorm]

Sheesh. I didn't even realize she had died. But I haven't exactly kept up with the VOY relaunch.

And if you had, you still wouldn't have realized it.

 

[Therin of Andor]

Sheesh. I didn't even realize she had died.

In comics, soap operas and science fiction: not necessarily permanent.

 

[Turtletrekker]

Sheesh. I didn't even realize she had died.

My point, exactly!

 

[Dayton Ward]

I didn't even know she was sick!