What unseen Star Trek event do you want to read about next?

[Patrick O'Brien]

On that note Chris, have you considered developing the Denobulan's any further in your up coming book? I enjoyed the Phlox character on Enterprise and would love to learn more about his people.

The upcoming book is already written; I'm due to get the copyedits in a couple of days. But if I get to do sequels, yeah, I've had the thought that I should visit Denobula at some point.

Congratulations on a completed book Chris Hopefully it's success leads to more than a few sequels

 

[Hartzilla2007]

^Not the same thing. We read or watch series fiction for its characters and storylines. The ship is just a setting. There are Sherlock Holmes stories set during times when Holmes wasn't residing at 221B Baker Street, but that doesn't make them any less Sherlock Holmes stories, because they still featured the main characters.

who gives the books their tittles.

Besides its kind of hard to claim the characters are that big in making something a Star Trek book, when a TOS changed the cast three times.

Plus the characters and storylines argument also falls apart when you remember TNG didn't have the TOS cast, DS9 only had two TNG characters, VOY didn't have the TNG or DS9 cast, and ENT didn't have the VOY, TNG, or DS9 casts and yet their still considered Star Trek.

 

[Christopher]

^You're all over the place there. All you're showing is that there's no universal rule where titles are concerned, that it's an enormous mistake to confuse the label of a thing with its contents. What Greg suggested about a Holmes "spinoff" is nothing like what I'm doing with Rise of the Federation. I should know, because I wrote the darn thing. Your analogy between them is completely wrong because you're fixating on the titles rather than the content.

 

[RoJoHen]

I admit I am waaaaaaaaaay (like, probably a decade) behind on my Trek Lit reading, but has anything ever been written about Spock's plan for Vulcan/Romulan Re-Unification? I always liked Spock's appearances in TNG, but when he got sucked back in time in ST09, I couldn't help thinking about his life's work that he left behind in the Prime Universe.

 

[BillJ]

I admit I am waaaaaaaaaay (like, probably a decade) behind on my Trek Lit reading, but has anything ever been written about Spock's plan for Vulcan/Romulan Re-Unification? I always liked Spock's appearances in TNG, but when he got sucked back in time in ST09, I couldn't help thinking about his life's work that he left behind in the Prime Universe.

Various Typhon Pact novels feature Spock on Romulus, including Rough Beasts of Empire.

 

[Deranged Nasat]

I admit I am waaaaaaaaaay (like, probably a decade) behind on my Trek Lit reading, but has anything ever been written about Spock's plan for Vulcan/Romulan Re-Unification? I always liked Spock's appearances in TNG, but when he got sucked back in time in ST09, I couldn't help thinking about his life's work that he left behind in the Prime Universe.

Various Typhon Pact novels feature Spock on Romulus, including Rough Beasts of Empire.

More than that, the arc has actually been carried forward, rather than waiting in limbo.

 

[Lee Son of Pete]

There is already such a lot of cultural 'carry forward' that they can't really go off on a tangent. Besides which, Trek was supposed to show how WE had progressed.

A bit leeway now saves a lot of head scratching later...

Although it's neither cannon nor even hinted at, a twisted part of me always liked to think that the 'mirror universe' was our universe.

 

[cml898]

I'd love to see a definitive "Ro Laren's history" story. I've been told there are one or two versions out there about what happened on Garon II that made her such a disgrace in Starfleet at the time of her introduction on TNG, but somewhere in the DS9 post finale novels there was a scene where Vaughn told her "I know what really happened" that seemed like a tease for an eventual definitive version of that part of her history.

 

[TJ Sinclair]

^I'd really like to see some of Ro's history between the Maquis and Militia. We know a little of it from Abyss, but not much.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

There is already such a lot of cultural 'carry forward' that they can't really go off on a tangent. Besides which, Trek was supposed to show how WE had progressed.

A bit leeway now saves a lot of head scratching later...

Although it's neither cannon nor even hinted at, a twisted part of me always liked to think that the 'mirror universe' was our universe.

Didn't see the ENT credits with the mirror Neil Armstrong planting the Terran Empire flag on the moon?

 

[Lee Son of Pete]

There is already such a lot of cultural 'carry forward' that they can't really go off on a tangent. Besides which, Trek was supposed to show how WE had progressed.

A bit leeway now saves a lot of head scratching later...

Although it's neither cannon nor even hinted at, a twisted part of me always liked to think that the 'mirror universe' was our universe.

Didn't see the ENT credits with the mirror Neil Armstrong planting the Terran Empire flag on the moon?

Yeah, but that was years after I had that idea. Like I said, I know the idea wasn't cannon.

 

[BillJ]

...and Christopher's Earth-Saturn probe...

The Rings of Time by Greg Cox

I just checked, fairly new publication. I wasn't aware. Many thanks for the tip.

All I can say is this is the best book I've read in a long time. I lost my original copy on the bus and finally broke down and recently rebought it on the Kindle.

Glad I did. Outstanding novel.

 

[Kertrats47]

The Rings of Time by Greg Cox

I just checked, fairly new publication. I wasn't aware. Many thanks for the tip.

All I can say is this is the best book I've read in a long time. I lost my original copy on the bus and finally broke down and recently rebought it on the Kindle.

Glad I did. Outstanding novel.

I hate when things like that happen. But then I take solace in the idea that maybe someone stumbled across it and is now as in love with Star Trek novels as I am!

 

[Greg Cox]

The Rings of Time by Greg Cox

I just checked, fairly new publication. I wasn't aware. Many thanks for the tip.

All I can say is this is the best book I've read in a long time. I lost my original copy on the bus and finally broke down and recently rebought it on the Kindle.

Glad I did. Outstanding novel.

Wow! Thanks so much for the kind words.

I'd been wanting to do something with Shaun Christopher for year. I'm glad I finally got to do that book!

 

[BillJ]

I just checked, fairly new publication. I wasn't aware. Many thanks for the tip.

All I can say is this is the best book I've read in a long time. I lost my original copy on the bus and finally broke down and recently rebought it on the Kindle.

Glad I did. Outstanding novel.

Wow! Thanks so much for the kind words.

I'd been wanting to do something with Shaun Christopher for year. I'm glad I finally got to do that book!

With your permission Greg, I'd like to shoot you a question about the ending in a PM?

 

[Greg Cox]

All I can say is this is the best book I've read in a long time. I lost my original copy on the bus and finally broke down and recently rebought it on the Kindle.

Glad I did. Outstanding novel.

Wow! Thanks so much for the kind words.

I'd been wanting to do something with Shaun Christopher for year. I'm glad I finally got to do that book!

With your permission Greg, I'd like to shoot you a question about the ending in a PM?

Go for it.

 

[DS9Continuing]

I'd like to read all the details about humanity's first contact with Deltans.

I established in Watching the Clock that the story Travis Mayweather told in "Bound" about his family's freighter rescuing a stranded Deltan ship was humanity's first contact with the species.

However, that doesn't rule out the possibility of exploring further early contacts with Delta if I get to do more Rise of the Federation books.

I got the impression The Mirrorball Man was thinking in rather more... salacious... terms than that.

But I suppose it could still be called Rise of the Federation...