Stargazer and Titan? :D

[danielsf]

Hi, I am 17, and I have just started to get into reading star trek novels, the ones I am most fond of are the stargazer and Titan series. But, I would like to know if anyone knows whether they have both been canceled, because there doesn't seen to be any future plans on both from what I can find. (I don't know anything about how publishing companies work, like do they even cancel books, like TV studios cancel tv show? On that note, I miss Stargate universe, dam syfy) I really am loving both series, so I was hoping that someone may know something about their futures please? Thanks

 

[DorkBoy [TM]]

Stargazer has been dead for a while. I don't think it's coming back anytime soon. If ever.

Titan is still ongoing unless I missed something. Even if there aren't any announced upcoming titles, I wouldn't worry, it's a very popular series.

I like both of these a lot too.

 

[danielsf]

Stargazer has been dead for a while. I don't think it's coming back anytime soon. If ever.

Titan is still ongoing unless I missed something. Even if there aren't any announced upcoming titles, I wouldn't worry, it's a very popular series.

I like both of these a lot too.

Thank you

 

[Christopher]

The schedule is rarely worked out more than about 18 months in advance, and it can take a while for projects that have been commissioned to get announced to the public. And there's no regular schedule for any of these series. So just because there's nothing in a particular series listed in the upcoming schedule announcements, that doesn't mean it's been "cancelled."

As for Stargazer, my understanding is that the plan there was to do a 6-book series (following the "pilot" novel The Valiant) and then potentially do more later if the situation warranted it. We got the limited series, but no further volumes were ever commissioned.

 

[ryan123450]

There is also Reunion, part of Requiem, and Death in Winter though.

 

[Julio Angel Ortiz]

You could also look at The Buried Age, whose first part is something of a conclusion to the Stargazer series. There's also the story "Darkness" from Tales From the Captain's Table which features a post-Stargazer Picard steal dealing with the loss of his ship, and the same volume also features a tale with Riker and Troi on their honeymoon before he takes command of Titan (and features another Titan crewmember, but I don't want to ruin it).

The TNG novel Q&A has two chapters featuring Titan and the Voyager novel Full Circle features a scene with Tuvok and Troi aboard Titan.

 

[ryan123450]

A very poignant scene. If you're looking for a trilogy that is very much worth the money, the 3 Kirsten Beyer Voyager books are it.

 

[CaptainDonovin]

A very poignant scene. If you're looking for a trilogy that is very much worth the money, the 3 Kirsten Beyer Voyager books are it.

Agreed. Those 3 (Full Circle, Unworthy, Childern Of The Storm) are very good & have made Voyager exciting again.

 

[DorkBoy [TM]]

Also, just in case you missed it, the latest Titan novel wasn't actually labeled "Titan." Sieze the Fire, one of the Typhon Pact books, is actually the latest Titan novel in the series. They decided to brand all of these novels as "Typhon Pact" even though they are really standalone stories in their respective series and not really an interconnected crossover series.

Most people seem to agree that it was one of the weaker books in the series. But if you're looking for more Titan you might have missed that one.

 

[Greg Cox]

I don't know anything about how publishing companies work, like do they even cancel books, like TV studios cancel tv show?

To answer your question, publishing doesn't really work like tv. There are no "seasons" or "cancelations," really. If a book series is working, you just keep signing up new books until:

1) The books stop selling, so you don't sign up any more.

2) The author gets bored and wants to do something else.

3) The editor who championed the series moves to another company, and the new editors have other plans.

4) In the case of media tie-books, the deal with the movie or tv people expires . . .

Generally, any books that are in the works will get published. Only under extreme circumstances will publishers "cancel" books that have already been bought and paid for. They'll just decide not to do any more if the first few books don't sell.

 

[bfollowell]

They decided to brand all of these novels as "Typhon Pact" even though they are really standalone stories in their respective series and not really an interconnected crossover series.

Yeah, sort of like the old Gateways series or Section-31 series.

- Byron

 

[DS9Continuing]

They decided to brand all of these novels as "Typhon Pact" even though they are really standalone stories in their respective series and not really an interconnected crossover series.

Yeah, sort of like the old Gateways series or Section-31 series.

Not quite the same - those were still branded with each series' specific logo as well as the umbrella crossover title. It was still Star Trek: Section 31: The Next Generation: Rogue and Star Trek: Gateways: Voyager: No Man's Land. They were identifiable as the individual series.

The Typhon Pact books weren't - they were just Star Trek Typhon Pact: Seize the Fire, for example. That was probably a necessity, because only two out of the four actually focused on existing series - TNG and Titan. One was DS9-ish-cum-Aventine (which doesn't have an official "series") and one was DS9-ish-with-general-political-stuff.

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[DorkBoy [TM]]

They decided to brand all of these novels as "Typhon Pact" even though they are really standalone stories in their respective series and not really an interconnected crossover series.

Yeah, sort of like the old Gateways series or Section-31 series.

Not quite the same - those were still branded with each series' specific logo as well as the umbrella crossover title. It was still Star Trek: Section 31: The Next Generation: Rogue and Star Trek: Gateways: Voyager: No Man's Land. They were identifiable as the individual series.

The Typhon Pact books weren't - they were just Star Trek Typhon Pact: Seize the Fire, for example. That was probably a necessity, because only two out of the four actually focused on existing series - TNG and Titan. One was DS9-ish-cum-Aventine (which doesn't have an official "series") and one was DS9-ish-with-general-political-stuff.

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Yep. That's more or less what I was thinking. And that's why I worried he might have missed that book.

If I remember right though, there was a page internally with the series logo someplace. Either at the beginning or after the end. At least the two DS9 ones did. I remember thinking it was odd because it was more of a Trek book with DS9 characters than a DS9 book.

It felt like they were taking the branding cue from Destiny even though they are much more in series. Destiny really was a massive every series crossover.

Also I agree with the Voyager recommendation. If you liked Titan and Stargazer, the latest Voyager books are like that. A starship and crew boldly going and so forth. Even if you didn't like Voyager, you will like these, trust me.

 

[Julio Angel Ortiz]

They decided to brand all of these novels as "Typhon Pact" even though they are really standalone stories in their respective series and not really an interconnected crossover series.

Yeah, sort of like the old Gateways series or Section-31 series.

Not quite the same - those were still branded with each series' specific logo as well as the umbrella crossover title. It was still Star Trek: Section 31: The Next Generation: Rogue and Star Trek: Gateways: Voyager: No Man's Land. They were identifiable as the individual series.

The Typhon Pact books weren't - they were just Star Trek Typhon Pact: Seize the Fire, for example. That was probably a necessity, because only two out of the four actually focused on existing series - TNG and Titan. One was DS9-ish-cum-Aventine (which doesn't have an official "series") and one was DS9-ish-with-general-political-stuff.

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Although at the end of Zero Sum Game, it gives a blurb that says "The story of Deep Space Nine will continue" (or something like that), which in my mind made it part of the DS9 relaunch. So I wound up considering that and Rough Beasts part of the DS9 series.

 

[danielsf]

Thanks for all the replies, I am really glad to hear that Titan will properly come back.