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New novels taking place during the series?

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We have new novels that take place during TOS but will we ever get new novels that take place during TNG, DS9, VOY, or ENT?

What I'd like to see.

VOY: Mire stories during season 1 that maybe show the crew still struggling to get along.

TNG: Something in between season 1-2 focusing on Crusher leaving and the other Engineirs.

DS9: More early stuff with Stat Fleet and Bajir clashing more Cardasdians.
 
To be frank, there's been so many novels set during all of the series, I think we could pretty much do without any more unless there is a really pressing plot reason for the choice of timeframe. Have you given any thought to how packed with events those periods actually are ?

Admittedly that is even more true of TOS and they are still being written, but enough is enough - there's plenty of other eras / periods about which not much is currently known to fill in...
 
It has been done post-relaunch for some of the series... Voyager had the String Theory trilogy and DS9 has Hollow Men... It's a little different for TNG and later, where post-series novels are possible, so I'd rather see output there than novels set previously during their run.
 
Relayer1 said:
To be frank, there's been so many novels set during all of the series, I think we could pretty much do without any more unless there is a really pressing plot reason for the choice of timeframe. Have you given any thought to how packed with events those periods actually are ?

Admittedly that is even more true of TOS and they are still being written, but enough is enough - there's plenty of other eras / periods about which not much is currently known to fill in...
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I don't know. I think there are a lot of books set within the series that are intended to just be standalone episode style novels, that's true. Lots of random extra-episode-style stories. But I think there are still a lot of open holes that could really have stories written into them - a la Crusher leaving, the rotating main Engineers, early Voyager, just like GalaxyClass1701 mentioned - about which we know very little. I think you could write like 7 books set in TNG's first season alone, just from dealing with all the strange awkwardness that was going on in the production then.

I think approaching each TV series the same way the Lost Era was approached - taking references and missed opportunities and turning them into stories - could result in a lot of neat in-series books still being published. (Sort of like what Distant Shores, Prophecy & Change, and The Sky's The Limit did.)

I do agree that I wouldn't want to see a lot more novels like the average numbered novel published, though. I'm seeing a lot of those coming up for TOS and I'm just so not interested.
 
I hope that when they do revisit the TNG TV era, they do some backfilling with Miranda Kadohata, as "A Choice of Catastrophes" recently did for TOS with DS9's Whatley.
 
Thrawn said:
Relayer1 said:
To be frank, there's been so many novels set during all of the series, I think we could pretty much do without any more unless there is a really pressing plot reason for the choice of timeframe. Have you given any thought to how packed with events those periods actually are ?

Admittedly that is even more true of TOS and they are still being written, but enough is enough - there's plenty of other eras / periods about which not much is currently known to fill in...
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I don't know. I think there are a lot of books set within the series that are intended to just be standalone episode style novels, that's true. Lots of random extra-episode-style stories. But I think there are still a lot of open holes that could really have stories written into them - a la Crusher leaving, the rotating main Engineers, early Voyager, just like GalaxyClass1701 mentioned - about which we know very little. I think you could write like 7 books set in TNG's first season alone, just from dealing with all the strange awkwardness that was going on in the production then.

I think approaching each TV series the same way the Lost Era was approached - taking references and missed opportunities and turning them into stories - could result in a lot of neat in-series books still being published. (Sort of like what Distant Shores, Prophecy & Change, and The Sky's The Limit did.)

I do agree that I wouldn't want to see a lot more novels like the average numbered novel published, though. I'm seeing a lot of those coming up for TOS and I'm just so not interested.
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I'd go with there being a real need in the cases you give - filling in the gaps.

Wholeheartedly with you on the average 'numbered type' novels. We really don't need Troublesome Minds and it's ilk...
 
There are just so many little stories you can tell in one of these novels. Besides what I mentioned before:

TNG: Chief O'brians decision to switch from command to engineering.

More on Tasha

Why Polaski leaves after one year.

DS9: Maybe an SCE story on the rebuilding of Bajor.

More Gamma Quadrant!! For a station right next to a worm whole the didn't go there much.
 
Michael and I once started outlining a book set after "The Neutral Zone" where a lot of the changes happened: Crusher's departure, Geordi's transfer, O'Brien's transfer, and so on.

We called it The End of Skorts.
 
I have to admit, as much as I love the relaunch books, it would be nice to see books set during the series again, especially ones like the examples given by GalaxyClass1701. Steve Mollman, I'd read The End of Skorts in a heartbeat. Especially if you keep the title. :devil:
 
I'd love an anthology for each of the 24th century series with 10 or so short stories telling us whatever happened to so-and-so. There are so many interesting guest characters in each series that I would love to see our current crop of great authors fill in those blanks.

Top of my personal list - Mirasta Yale.
 
There seems to be something of a consensus (!) that we don't really want standalone 'extra-episode-style' stories but would like either novels or short stories filling in gaps, explaining changes and expanding on known events.

As the powers that be always do what we tell them, that's all sorted then...

: )
 
There seems to be something of a consensus (!) that we don't really want standalone 'extra-episode-style' stories but would like either novels or short stories filling in gaps, explaining changes and expanding on known events.

As the powers that be always do what we tell them, that's all sorted then....

:)
 
I do miss the "real" Next Generation crew. I miss Data. Worf as first officer and the post-Nemesis Enterprise-E newbies just don't work for me.
 
I have zero interest in more 5 year mission stories, unless it's for some particular reason, like the DTI origin story. I'd love to see more movie era books though.

TNG could do a compromise of sorts, going back to the pre-Nemesis days on the Enterprise-E. All the old characters are there, but it's a much wider playing field than the E-D days.

DS9 and Voy really need to focus on the relaunches right now, not waste schedualing space going back to old settings.

Ent I wouldn't mind either way. I think the relaunch novels have kinda been bungled and there is alot of stuff to go back and explore. So whatever.
 
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