DS9 lags now!!

[KRAD]

Theres alot of time in the universe, more than enough for someone to read Captain Kira's reaction to voyager coming home ("who?")

Keep in mind, Voyager's last port of call before disappearing was Deep Space 9, so Kira would be aware of the ship, especially since DS9 would be the coordinating spot for the search for the ship after its initial disappearance....

 

[Idoliside]

Theres alot of time in the universe, more than enough for someone to read Captain Kira's reaction to voyager coming home ("who?")

Keep in mind, Voyager's last port of call before disappearing was Deep Space 9, so Kira would be aware of the ship, especially since DS9 would be the coordinating spot for the search for the ship after its initial disappearance....

Fair point, in which case I change it to "and this effect bajor...how?"

 

[myselfeneye]

Heheh, I've always found it funny how people in a show or other type of series always remember everyone they've ever met and every incident that ever happened to them. So, naturally, Kira would remember Voyager...but she shouldn't. Then again, we don't even know if she personally handled their arrival or departure or was even on the station--or even awake--at the time!

Now as far as Melora's appearance in Gemworld...it doesn't mean anything to me as far as crossovers/cameos are concerned unless the events tie-in a little more directly to DS9 somehow. For instance, does she talk to Julian over subspace or get a letter/message from him, or send one, or anything along those lines?

 

[historypeats]

The only disadvantage with the time-lag that I can think of is that we know that nothing hugely, OMG-WTF-is-that?! major will happen to the galaxy (such as, for example, the upcoming 'Destiny' trilogy promises to be - or at least has been hyped up to be) in the upcoming DS9 Relaunch novels until they synch up with the forward-progressing storyline.

However, is that such a bad thing? That kind of stuff should be held back until there's a real hunger for it. The DS9 Relaunch can tell excellent stories that wouldn't have any major impact on the galaxy around them, and so would mean that it wasn't referenced in novels set further down the line like Titan or the TNG Relaunch.

Seriously. It seems like many recent Trek novels have either threatened a planet (or universe!) with obliteration - or actually have gone through with it. After the eighth planetary destruction or so, the impact is somewhat lessened. I appreciate that DS9 tells "smaller" stories, and I sincerely hope we get some quieter books in the post-Destiny world. (This may just be my preference, since many of my favorite Trek episodes are somewhat more intimate in scale - and I've enjoyed most of the more "epic" fare we've been served.)

 

[donners22]

After "Stone and Anvil", PAD deliberately jumped "New Frontier" three years so he could refer back to the "missing" years and fill in the mysteries over time.

I'm just reading those two post-Stone & Anvil books again and am loving some of the references to events.

However, has it been clearly stated he would go back to flesh out those gaps? I thought the foreword made it very clear that the series would be going forward from its new setting, rather than back.

I've not seen any of the comics (unfortunately), and have no idea of the new novel's plot.

 

[donners22]

Seriously. It seems like many recent Trek novels have either threatened a planet (or universe!) with obliteration - or actually have gone through with it. After the eighth planetary destruction or so, the impact is somewhat lessened.

I wholeheartedly agree with that. I was reading a book recently (Before Dishonour?) where there was a list of all the recent galactic disasters that had devastated the Federation, and it was almost comical.

It's getting to the point where it'll be like the Dragonlance series in the modern age - I would half expect most of the world's population to just kill themselves rather than have to go through yet another devastating war...

 

[Thrawn]

After "Stone and Anvil", PAD deliberately jumped "New Frontier" three years so he could refer back to the "missing" years and fill in the mysteries over time.

I'm just reading those two post-Stone & Anvil books again and am loving some of the references to events.

However, has it been clearly stated he would go back to flesh out those gaps? I thought the foreword made it very clear that the series would be going forward from its new setting, rather than back.

I've not seen any of the comics (unfortunately), and have no idea of the new novel's plot.

You know how almost all of the early New Frontier books start with a "THEN" section, or some kind of flashback? And Stone And Anvil had half the book dedicated to the past? That was part of the initial goal of the series - to create a series of books that worked both in the explaining of backstory and in the ongoing narrative. All the characters were seeded with events from their pasts that would take a long time to come out... and it worked, it took 6 years, 17 books, and a novella for it to all be revealed.

So when he skipped three years in the future, it was with the goal of re-creating a similar feel - lots of history in the mean time to explore in recollections and hints, as the ongoing narrative continues.

 

[Baerbel Haddrell]

Not all has been revealed from early NF, but most. Nevertheless, I agree with you.

"Treason" is certainly an interesting title that gets my attention. I am hoping for more in the "Stone and Anvil" style, a mix of past and present coming together.

 

[JD]

Yeah, that would be cool, because so far we really haven't gotten much of the new backstory. I really hope we get to find out how Mac and Jellico became friends, because there has got to be an interesting story behind that.

 

[Trent Roman]

I imagine it started when Jellico finally went to that long-delayed appointment with his proctologist...

Fictitiously yours, Trent Roman

 

[JD]

^To get the stick removed?

 

[Trent Roman]

More like a didgeridoo, in Jellico's case.

Fictitiously yours, Trent Roman

 

[donners22]

There was a line about sending an away team up Jellico's butt, as I recall (to find out what had crawled up there and died). Don't think I'd want to see that depicted, somehow...

 

[Therin of Andor]

There was a line about sending an away team up Jellico's butt, as I recall (to find out what had crawled up there and died). Don't think I'd want to see that depicted, somehow...

Where did that Ensign Janos get to?

 

[Baerbel Haddrell]

Yeah, that would be cool, because so far we really haven't gotten much of the new backstory. I really hope we get to find out how Mac and Jellico became friends, because there has got to be an interesting story behind that.

I read somewhere recently that PAD supposedly announced that if he gets the chance for another NF comic series, that will be the topic. I keep crossing fingers that this will happen.

Maybe the chances are good because I also read that "Turnaround" is already seen as very successful.

So far I am still waiting for the last issue so that I can`t comment yet if it was also very successful to me - in spite of the fourth issue I wasn`t too happy with.