Online Petition Bring Back Kathryn Janeway!

[Brit]

Do you want to read NG books without Picard?

Absolutely. Picard's an old poop. I'd love to see someone new in command of the Big E. That said, I'm partial to Captain Riker and the U.S.S. Titan.

Then I think we understand each other. If you like Captain Riker, then I hope you get books to read, I have the same desire to read books about Janeway and to be able to read them with hope for a future that is not one as some kind of disembodied Q pet.

Brit

 

[TEACAKE'S PLEATHER DOME]

disembodied Q pet.

That is SO vomitous.

 

[Adm_Hawthorne]

disembodied Q pet.

That is SO vomitous.

Yes, irritates me every time I think about it.

 

[F. King Daniel]

I don't think Janeway's a pet for Q. I think she's been ascended to Q (Stargate-style) and now has all their powers.

She is now JaneQuay, and all those aliens who pissed her off over the years are royally screwed. Every last one of them .

 

[Adm_Hawthorne]

Nah, she's not that malevolent. She may go visit Neelix, though...

 

[Brit]

I don't think Janeway's a pet for Q. I think she's been ascended to Q (Stargate-style) and now has all their powers.

In that case, it won't be long until she is back. I don't think she would like being a Q, and with the powers she wouldn't have to stay one either. Actually that's the theme of my "Janeway Lives" fic written last year. It's linked on the Pathfinder site. LOL, and the site owner sent me Australian chocolate for writing it.

Brit

 

[nx1701g]

So how many people signed?

 

[Udat]

eh 10 million.

 

[T'Girl]

eh 10 million.

I just looked.

eh, one hundred and thirty-three.

 

[Saquist]

Signed and ready...not get the petition over the Gateworld and Trek.com

 

[Lynx]

Of everything Star Trek, nothing have made me so dissapointed as the current direction of the books.

There was a lot of things I was and still am dissapointed with in Voyager's seasons 4-7. Too much character destruction and scenarios I didn't like.

Naive and blue-eyed as I am, I thought that the books would correct some of the worst and most unpopular things from the series and that it would be a revelation to read the books and the adventures there.

But what we got is three important crewmembers missing for different reasons and then Janeway is killed off. How rude and insulting!

It's strange that when it comes to suggestions about restoring and bringing back certain characters, then it's a lot of humming and hawing about "canon" and how such moves must fit into the ongoing "relaunch" scenarios. But when it comes to character destruction, then there's no problem with any "canon" or anything like that. Just waste them and replace them with some no-no character.

When I read a Voyager book, I want to read about Janeway and the crew from the series, not some bogus crew. The same for TOS, TNG and DS9 books too.

 

[DonIago]

Then read books set in the period before Voyager returns to the AQ, or fan-fiction. There's nothing inherently making published novels "better" in any case.

 

[Adm_Hawthorne]

That's what most of us do, in fact. However, I think it's safe to say that we're allowed to be frustrated that the "official" books don't support what seems like an obvious thing.

No Janeway = Not a Voyager book

 

[DonIago]

I wasn't really talking about No Janeway in and of itself so much as Lynx's specific concerns.

Also, I don't think that's really a fair argument...you didn't hear DS9 fans arguing that no Sisko invalidated the DS9 books...or rather, I didn't...

 

[Hartzilla2007]

I wasn't really talking about No Janeway in and of itself so much as Lynx's specific concerns.

Also, I don't think that's really a fair argument...you didn't hear DS9 fans arguing that no Sisko invalidated the DS9 books...or rather, I didn't...

Heck Sisko was gone for 4 years and since he came back basically just a recurring guest character for 11 years and I haven't heard any complaints from the fans.

 

[Lynx]

Then read books set in the period before Voyager returns to the AQ, or fan-fiction. There's nothing inherently making published novels "better" in any case.

That's exactly what I'm doing! I have all the Voyager Season 1-3 books and I find them excellent, all of them. Some of the stories are actually better than the TV episodes.

I do read and write some fanfic too. There's a lot of good fanfic to find out there. My only complaint is that many of those stories are so short (except for my own).

However, it would be very nice to find some new and entertaining book from time to time too, just like it was in the good, old days when every new Voyager book was something to look forward too.

Right now I'm re-reading my favorite "The Black Shore" for the umphteenth time.

Or like The Prophets should have stated: "You exist here!"

 

[Defcon]

No Janeway = Not a Voyager book

Aren't comments like that devaluing the Voyager series coming from a Voyager fan?

If a series is so dependent on one character that it looses its identity when that character isn't featured in it anymore, that kind of implies that the series hadn't much going for it in the first place, isn't it?

 

[Lynx]

No Janeway = Not a Voyager book

Aren't comments like that devaluing the Voyager series coming from a Voyager fan?

If a series is so dependent on one character that it looses its identity when that character isn't featured in it anymore, that kind of implies that the series hadn't much going for it in the first place, isn't it?

Could you imagine a TOS book without Kirk? It wouldn't be the same, would it?

The main characters, especially the leading main character is an essential part of the whole story, the whole Voyager saga. For most of us it was the characters who really made us like Voyager. Just compare with the current Stargate Universe which is: good scenario+lousy characters=uninteresting series.

Voyager without Janeway and the other main characters is not Voyager anymore, it's a different series where the name of the ship is the only common with the real Voyager series, our favorite series.

 

[Saquist]

Of everything Star Trek, nothing have made me so dissapointed as the current direction of the books.

There was a lot of things I was and still am dissapointed with in Voyager's seasons 4-7. Too much character destruction and scenarios I didn't like.

Naive and blue-eyed as I am, I thought that the books would correct some of the worst and most unpopular things from the series and that it would be a revelation to read the books and the adventures there.

But what we got is three important crewmembers missing for different reasons and then Janeway is killed off. How rude and insulting!

It's strange that when it comes to suggestions about restoring and bringing back certain characters, then it's a lot of humming and hawing about "canon" and how such moves must fit into the ongoing "relaunch" scenarios. But when it comes to character destruction, then there's no problem with any "canon" or anything like that. Just waste them and replace them with some no-no character.

When I read a Voyager book, I want to read about Janeway and the crew from the series, not some bogus crew. The same for TOS, TNG and DS9 books too.

I didn't realize it...
Janeway is dead?

 

[F. King Daniel]

^Read Before Dishonor and judge for yourself.