Yesterday's Enterprise

[BaloksPuppet]

I just finished rewatching "Yesterday's Enterprise" for about the hundredth time. I really find it difficult to believe that it's been 18 years since I first saw that episode - geez, talk about time travel.

Anyway, have the events of the alternate timeline been addressed in Trek Lit? I'm referring to the time period between Narendra III and the events of "Yesterday's Enterprise" in the timeline in which the Enterprise-C disappeared. I can't remember any novel that dealt with that (but my memory isn't that great). I'm wondering if that comes up in one of the Myriad Universes anthologies or if it's treated in some short story somewhere. I don't need story details, just a pointer to the title. I'm mostly wondering why Picard and Riker seem not to get along, and I guess that's been a mystery to me for nearly half my life now.

 

[Trent Roman]

I don't believe this is really what you're looking for, but Peter David's Q-Squared deals, in part, with a variant on the timeline from Yesterday's Enterprise, one where Picard arrived too late to send their counterpart back. It does not, however, provide much in the way of historical detail.

Fictitiously yours, Trent Roman

 

[BaloksPuppet]

I read Q-Squared back around the time it first came out, but I don't remember many details. I'll have to up its priority on my re-read list for next year.

 

[JeremyW]

All I can really see from the various forms of literature is what happened when the Enterprise-C returned to the past (and covering the events that led to it) in the beautifully written novel, Vulcan's Heart, and there is a direct reference to Narendra III in The Art of The Impossible and in Star Trek Destiny: Gods of Night, although I won't tell you how it's referenced in Destiny...there are spoilers abroad!

However, the closest thing you want out of that list is Vulcan's Heart, and Q-Squared is a good read too regarding some of these events...

 

[BrotherBenny]

However, both of those take place in the RL. I'm not sure that anything has been done in the myriad universes regarding that particular diversionary point.

 

[Christopher]

Nope... to date, the only Myriad Universes novel based on an alternate timeline previously established in the series is The Chimes of Midnight, which is in "Yesteryear"'s alternate timeline where Spock died at age 7 and Thelin of Andor was Kirk's first officer.

 

[Allyn Gibson]

A story I wrote for an early Strange New Worlds contest featured the Worf and Sisko from the "Yesterday's Enterprise" timeline. It was part "Enemy Mine," part Les Miserables, and explained why the Enterprise was in the vicinity of Archer IV. It wasn't very good.

 

[BaloksPuppet]

I thought about it a little more last night and I think there are some references to that timeline in Imzadi II: Triangle, but they're all Tasha Yar related if I'm not mistaken. I have read Vulcan's Heart and Art of the Impossible. The Destiny series is at least two months down the line on my reading list, so thanks for no spoilers.

Hmm, it seems a little surprising to me that the events of that lost timeline haven't been fleshed out more. Perhaps in the future.

 

[TGTheodore]

A story I wrote for an early Strange New Worlds contest featured the Worf and Sisko from the "Yesterday's Enterprise" timeline. It was part "Enemy Mine," part Les Miserables, and explained why the Enterprise was in the vicinity of Archer IV. It wasn't very good.

And I pitched a story to TNG which sort of "fixed" the whole Sela thing. I wrote the proposal after one of the TNG producers told me during a pitch that creating Sela was not one of the better ideas he'd/they'd ever had.

Didn't sell, of course ..

--Ted

 

[BryanSorensen]

i didn't think the Sela idea was that bad, they just needed to explain a little better how the whole timeline thing got all screwy and all of the sudden Tasha's daughter was a major influence in the Romulan Empire

 

[LutherSloan]

i didn't think the Sela idea was that bad, they just needed to explain a little better how the whole timeline thing got all screwy and all of the sudden Tasha's daughter was a major influence in the Romulan Empire

Yes, it didn't really make much sense on screen. I remember the novel 'Vulcan's Heart' at least explaining where Sela came from.

 

[nx1701g]

i didn't think the Sela idea was that bad, they just needed to explain a little better how the whole timeline thing got all screwy and all of the sudden Tasha's daughter was a major influence in the Romulan Empire

I always assumed her rise to power was a fluke. The Romulans seem like a race that wouldn't approve of alien races mating with Romulans. It would distort their bloodline.

 

[TGTheodore]

I believe in one of the episodes she revealed she was raised by her father, a Romulan general. That probably had a wee bit to do with her rank in the Romulans forces.

--Ted

 

[PaulSimpson]

I believe in one of the episodes she revealed she was raised by her father, a Romulan general. That probably had a wee bit to do with her rank in the Romulans forces.

--Ted

Bob Greenberger's written an interesting article for the next Star Trek Magazine about Sela, incorporating her screen and other appearances, and comes up with some intrguing theories about her. It's going with a Denise Crosby piece that concentrates on Tasha.

Paul

 

[EmperorKalan]

Anyway, have the events of the alternate timeline been addressed in Trek Lit? I'm referring to the time period between Narendra III and the events of "Yesterday's Enterprise" in the timeline in which the Enterprise-C disappeared. I can't remember any novel that dealt with that (but my memory isn't that great).

There aren't any that treat it directly (with the quasi-exception of Q-Squared), so none address the Picard/Riker issue you saw, but most of the books that touch the period around the time of the battle do tend to implicitly set the stage for the alternate timeline (i.e., after decades of relying on Federation assistance after Praxis, the Empire is no longer dependent on outsiders)

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

I believe in one of the episodes she revealed she was raised by her father, a Romulan general. That probably had a wee bit to do with her rank in the Romulans forces.

--Ted

Also I heard it said that Sela's half human parentage actually could make her *more* trustworthy within the Empire - i.e. she would not be as likely to be as cunning, treacherous, sneaky, etc. as a full blooded Romulan would be.

 

[Christopher]

Also I heard it said that Sela's half human parentage actually could make her *more* trustworthy within the Empire - i.e. she would not be as likely to be as cunning, treacherous, sneaky, etc. as a full blooded Romulan would be.

But that's based on the absurd assumption that cunning and treachery are racial traits rather than cultural or personal traits. Any Romulan who'd think humans are intrinsically less capable of deceit and intrigue doesn't know much at all about human history.

 

[Sci]

Also I heard it said that Sela's half human parentage actually could make her *more* trustworthy within the Empire - i.e. she would not be as likely to be as cunning, treacherous, sneaky, etc. as a full blooded Romulan would be.

But that's based on the absurd assumption that cunning and treachery are racial traits rather than cultural or personal traits. Any Romulan who'd think humans are intrinsically less capable of deceit and intrigue doesn't know much at all about human history.

To say nothing of the fact that Romulans are the same species as Vulcans -- a race that we know to possess honour and treachery in amounts equal to Humans.

 

[Data Holmes]

What I want to know is why there isn't a bigger segment of the trek books dealing with "alternate histories" like this...

 

[Christopher]

What I want to know is why there isn't a bigger segment of the trek books dealing with "alternate histories" like this...

Well, we just had two Myriad Universes volumes come out, with a third already on the schedule for next year, and IDW is doing some MyrU material in comics as well. So there's already a bigger such segment than there has been at any time in the past.