Would anyone like to see a book series about the Columbia crew that takes place before the ship was ambushed by the Romulans?
Columbia NX-02
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I think it would be hard to even come close to the incredibleness of their story from Destiny (my favorite part of the trilogy and possibly the whole last decade of Treklit overall), so... I mean, maybe, they're a good crew, but they were created to tell that story, and it's so much bigger than anything you could tell prior that it just mostly seems pointless. Lots of other crews with ongoing adventures.
I wouldn't mind seeing them feature a bit in The Romulan War though.
I wouldn't mind seeing them feature a bit in The Romulan War though.
I have read it but I find the Columbia crew fascinating and I would like to know more about them.
They can't, IIRC they skipped the Romulan war because of the events of Destiny.
No, they're still available for the first year of the war, a period that will no doubt be covered in the upcoming The Romulan War novel.
^Actually they do miss the "war" part of it. Columbia takes part in the 2155-2156 hostilities leading up to it in the Enterprise novels. But in Destiny Hernandez herself states Earth was not yet at war, backed up by various sources stating the war starting in 2156 shortly after her disappearance.
that's what I thought, maybe that will be the catalyst, on of Earth's Ships of the Line being "destroyed" by the romulans.
Hmm, I guess that's one way of interpreting it. But I've been assuming that the book The Romulan War would pick up pretty much where Kobayashi Maru left off, and would resolve the Columbia cliffhanger from the end of KM. So while the ship might vanish somewhere midway through the novel, I'd expect it to be present at least in the early portions. I don't know what they're actually planning for the book, though.
Should be interesting what they do with the Columbia. I hope there is a small appearance, even if its a cameo. I wonder if this is what starts the war myself now too.
Columbia is in books one & two, her captain & crew in three.
Wasn't the NX-O2 taken down by the Jem'Hador? and was later discoverd on a desert planet? (info taken from, ships of the line calender book)
It was discovered on a desert planet in the Gamma Quadrant, but it wasn't taken down by the Jem'Hadar. That image in the calendar directly inspired the Columbia storyline in Destiny. The caption in the SotL book suggests the possibility of an early Dominion incursion as a speculative explanation for the mystery, but it's only a speculation, and Destiny debunks the hell out of it.
It would be nice to honor shuttles whose designs were obviously stolen from the Americans and which never made it to space?
Leaving aside the somewhat unfair dismissal of the differences that were found in the Russian orbiter design (and those of the Energiya booster and the AN-225 shuttle transport -all three of which were,sadly, denied the chance to truly shine), Buran did make it into orbit in 1988...
...which is more than can be said for OV-101, I might add.
...which is more than can be said for OV-101, I might add.
Fair enough on Buran, though it was an unmanned orbit.
But it seems to me that the Soviet shuttle design was an obvious attempt to copy and improve the US shuttle design. Energia seems like it was an actual accomplishment, on the other hand.
Of course, I'm weary of naming anything after vessels of an institutionally corrupt, tyrannical government responsible for more deaths than Adolf Hitler in the first place.
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