What stories MUST be told?

[Captain Robert April]

I think the competition now is between whether we'll see the fifth Chtorr book, Act IV of Starship Exeter's "The Tressaurian Intersection", or Issue #4 of "The Rocketeer".

 

[Allyn Gibson]

I think the competition now is between whether we'll see the fifth Chtorr book, Act IV of Starship Exeter's "The Tressaurian Intersection", or Issue #4 of "The Rocketeer".

We are getting more Rocketeer next year. Not by Dave Stevens, no, but still -- it's more Rocketeer.

IDW is doing an anthology series, like Batman: Black and White or Grendel: Black, White, and Red, except that it's not going to be in black and white.

 

[kkozoriz1]

I think a better comparison is between book 5 of Chtorr and the second coming of Jesus, currently scheduled for 2443 according to Futurama

 

[LightningStorm]

How come I get snarked at for "giving story ideas", but y'all get to toss 'em out willy-nilly?

I haven't seen any story ideas here. It's a fine line, but there is a line between specific story idea and general question about "what happened between X event that is already known and Y event that is already known".

Probably because the thread title warns authors in advance that story ideas are being discussed. Some may decide to steer clear of this entire thread as a result.

Nope, even if it was obvious in a title if there were real story ideas we'd remove 'em.

^^Plus the stuff being posted here is really vague. I wouldn't call (random example) "I'd like to read a book about the fall of the Federation" much of a story idea (it's more of a concept), but "I'd like to read a book where Picard finds the mythical sword of Xorzox that blows up Earth leading to the fall of the Federation, while President Bacco has a threesome with Riker and Troi when she should be addressing the council on the matter of illegal Tholian breadstick imports" would be.

Basically this.

 

[SicOne]

^^Plus the stuff being posted here is really vague. I wouldn't call (random example) "I'd like to read a book about the fall of the Federation" much of a story idea (it's more of a concept), but "I'd like to read a book where Picard finds the mythical sword of Xorzox that blows up Earth leading to the fall of the Federation, while President Bacco has a threesome with Riker and Troi when she should be addressing the council on the matter of illegal Tholian breadstick imports" would be.

But I've never read any of SicOne's ideas so I wouldn't know if he was treated fairly or not.

It was in a thread about a potential Myriad Universes story based upon the "Destiny" trilogy.

And, yeah, now that you put it that way, perhaps I was snarked at righteously after all.

As you were, gentlemen.

 

[LutherSloan]

The ones that I want the most:

-Some kind of Xindi followup, just explaining how they fit into the Alpha Quadrant. One problem is that they SHOULD be there according to Enterprise, but the lack of mention throughout the books (even after the Xindi arc was completed), has made things even more difficult. The Xindi received NO mention during Destiny's events, which is a problem.

-Give us SOMETHING to continue that massive cliffhanger about the Dominion. It's really bothering me that this has been either sidelined or completely ignored since the book was released.

-Founding of the Federation (as mentioned, we'll probably get that down the road after the Romulan War stuff is finished)

-WWIII chronicle of some kind

-More Enterprise-B or C stuff

-More early Federation (post 2161, but before April/Pike/Kirk)

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

How about this: A story set in the extreme-far-future of the ending of Federation (the novel). I would love to see what kind of stories could be told at that point.

 

[RonG]

My list is pretty small, as I generally wait for the Trek writers to come up with the best premises and story ideas .

There are, however, some stories I'd like to see (sooner than later):

1. The conclusion \ conflict with the Ascendants

2. The Temporal Cold War \ Future Guy \ Daniels explained in detail

3. The founding of the UFP proper

4. The Dominion post-WoDS9

 

[Therin of Andor]

What Spock Prime did after STXI (what do you mean Greg Cox already wrote it but some douchebag has put it on hold?)
What the 2009 Enterprise crew did next (what do you mean four stories have already been written...douchebag...hold... etc).

You know that if these novels had conflicted with a sequel film in even the tiniest ways, there'd have been a mass wailing and a collective gnashing of teeth.

 

[F. King Daniel]

^And you know, I don't care - and for TPTB to have authorized them in the first place they obviously didn't think so either. Any gnashing of teeth from a novel tie-in would have paled next to the permabitching the movie itself endures, anyway (as will it's sequels). A group of fans going skitz over it? Must be authentic nuTrek!

I was waiting for those books for months

 

[ProtoAvatar]

-Give us SOMETHING to continue that massive cliffhanger about the Dominion. It's really bothering me that this has been either sidelined or completely ignored since the book was released.

I had actually forgotten about the founder cliffhanger - how many years have there been since that particular story?

The temporal cold war should also be adressed - a forthcoming book 'watching the clock', apparently intends to do this.

That would be about it - rather than concentrating on established players, the books should explore new ones (I'm not a fan of small universes).

 

[F. King Daniel]

T'Pol's sexed-up, Trellium-D fueled 22nd and 23rd century ride over the edge in what would become the basis for the 24th century's famous Vulcan Love Slave stories .

(no I'm not serious, but I wonder how a novel with an old FHM pic of Jolene on the cover, photoshopped to have pointed ears and with "Vulcan Love Slave" written above, would sell )

 

[ClayinCA]

^ Well, I'd buy one.

 

[Lonemagpie]

Does anybody *really* think we haven't *all* pitched Vulcan Love Slave repeatedly, er, I mean at some point?

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

The temporal cold war should also be adressed - a forthcoming book 'watching the clock', apparently intends to do this.

Really? Where'd you hear about that? Is that an actual novel that is coming out? If so, who's writing it?

 

[David cgc]

Christopher L. Bennett's Star Trek: Department of Temporal Investigations: Watching the Clock described in this thread on this very forum.

In a universe where history could be erased, two of the most disciplined, obsessive government employees face the existential uncertainty of it all.

In a universe where history could be wiped out at any moment by time warriors from the future, misused relics of ancient races, or accident-prone starships, unflappable Agents Lucsly and Dulmur are the Federation’s unsung anchors in a chaotic universe. But when a series of escalating temporal incursions threatens to open a new front of the history—spanning Temporal Cold War in the twenty-fourth century—Lucsly and Dulmur will need all their investigative skill and unbending determination to keep the present and the future from falling into the kind of chaos they really, really hate.

The blurb is a trimmed-down version of the one I wrote at Jaime's request early in the project. I wrote it before I even wrote the outline, but it still fits. The main part that's missing is that this isn't just a book about Lucsly and Dulmur, but about the DTI as a whole.

 

[Captain Robert April]

Did we ever think up a good Who song to go with this DTI concept?

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

Christopher L. Bennett's Star Trek: Department of Temporal Investigations

Oh, THAT. I didn't know it was called "Watching the Clock".

So will this actually wrap up the TCW? Will we see Braxton, Future Guy, the Relativity, etc.?

 

[Admiral_Young]

Interesting suggestions here are mine:

-Temporal Cold War (I agree that maybe a duology or trilogy detailing it's beginning and revealing who Future Guy was would be compelling)

- USS Kelvin pre-confrontation with the Narada
-World War III novel (although the Reeves-Stevens "Federation" does cover this a little)
-Star Trek: The God Thing (probably the lost book I'd most want to read)
-Ambassador Spock book (detailing his missing years between Star Trek VI and Unification)
-Star Trek Starfleet Academy: Trial Run (the sequel to Collision Course that was canceled)
-novelization of Star Trek Starfleet Academy (the abandoned film)

 

[Therin of Andor]

^And you know, I don't care

You and I might not, but plenty hate any books to clash with canon. Even retrospectively.

and for TPTB to have authorized them in the first place they obviously didn't think so either.

Not necessarily. Different TPTBs? CBS Licensing would have authorized the go ahead on four proposals or pitches getting turned into fully-blown manuscripts, but perhaps when the final manuscripts came in it was realised (by CBS or JJ's team or both) that they fit might not be quite what JJ's team imagined.

A good example of what can happen is reading the "beyond ST II" aspects of tie-ins such as "ST II Biographies" and "ST II Short Stories". While it was great to have some post ST II stuff and the time, it was obvious that ST III had headed off on a different tangent.

With Pocket now sitting on four paid-for manuscripts, I'm fairly sure they'll eventually be salvaged.