2026 Novel Releases

[Christopher]

That's a fair point, I was just thinking of it purely from the point of few of the show's producers teases the fans with the hint at the possibility of resolving an old plot thread.

I doubt it will be anything more than a throwaway allusion. Nor should it be; the show should be about developing its own characters and their era, not tying off dangling threads from decades ago our time and centuries ago their time. Star Trek needs to stop building on its past and return to expanding its future, and Starfleet Academy, as the furthest forward series in the franchise, is the show that should do that.

 

[Laura Cynthia Chambers]

If they'd made up a new mystery instead of using Sisko's return, would it be a Chekov's Gun (now someone has to follow up on that someday) or a throwaway line ("Did Einstein, Kazanga, or Sitar of Vulcan produce new and revolutionary theories on a regular schedule?")

 

[Christopher]

If they'd made up a new mystery instead of using Sisko's return, would it be a Chekov's Gun (now someone has to follow up on that someday) or a throwaway line ("Did Einstein, Kazanga, or Sitar of Vulcan produce new and revolutionary theories on a regular schedule?")

Look, the Sisko poster is just an on-set graphic. The text was probably written by the art department, not actually scripted. It's unlikely to be any kind of plot point, or to have any relevance beyond the few seconds it's onscreen.

 

[Therin of Andor]

Yep, and people in 1979-82 were writing angry letters to magazines about how the movies weren't "real Trek" and should be ignored.

Before the movies, fans mostly just got angry at how bad season 3 was.

I joined a local Australian fan club in 1980 and became its president in late 1983. I had the chance to read lots of back issues of the newsletter from before I came a member -- and found quite a few pages of fan vitriol about Filmation's TAS, long before it had started airing in the USA.

If they'd made up a new mystery instead of using Sisko's return...

You mean like The Red Angel or The Burn? Lotsa fans hated those. Haters gotta hate, I guess.

 

[Therin of Andor]

And as many of you know, I get really angry when my favorite characters are ruined and/or killed off. I just don't accept that.

So every favourite character (of yours) becomes immortal, or leads a charmed life, wherein they somehow survive every obstacle placed before them, even into old age?

I don't accept that.

@JD , I'm going to assume you replied from the previous page before you saw my reminder on this page, but please note that this is not the place for this discussion, and (for all thread participants) I don't want this particular tangent to continue. Thank you.

@Denise , I also suspect that you replied before seeing my reminder. I would ask please that if people would like to have a discussion about Jack the Ripper, that maybe Miscellaneous would be a better place.

EDIT: Me too, sorry. I am only just working my way through the middle of the thread. Eeek.

 

[Christopher]

I would say that what "ruins" a character is just putting them on a pedestal and refusing to let anything bad or painful happen to them. Characters are defined by how they solve problems, face hardships, and cope with the pain of their mistakes and failures. We wouldn't love them if they never did anything to earn our love. We wouldn't care so much about Kirk if we hadn't seen him fail to save Gary Mitchell or Edith Keeler or Miramanee or Spock. We wouldn't care so much about Picard if we hadn't seen him get himself stabbed in the heart through his youthful hubris or struggle with his inability to express love for Beverly or bear the unbearable trauma of being violated by the Borg and forced to use his knowledge to murder thousands of fellow officers.

 

[Laura Cynthia Chambers]

@Therin of Andor More like substituting "Sisko" and the "Emissary" for some other disappeared object/person(s) and mystery fate (a lost treasure ship, a war hero, a species)

 

[Ronald Held]

Broken record poster wants more 2026 TOS/Movie era novels.

 

[JD]

I would say that what "ruins" a character is just putting them on a pedestal and refusing to let anything bad or painful happen to them. Characters are defined by how they solve problems, face hardships, and cope with the pain of their mistakes and failures. We wouldn't love them if they never did anything to earn our love. We wouldn't care so much about Kirk if we hadn't seen him fail to save Gary Mitchell or Edith Keeler or Miramanee or Spock. We wouldn't care so much about Picard if we hadn't seen him get himself stabbed in the heart through his youthful hubris or struggle with his inability to express love for Beverly or bear the unbearable trauma of being violated by the Borg and forced to use his knowledge to murder thousands of fellow officers.

Wow, I never really thought about it before, but Kirk really did go through a lot of loss, especially if we had his brother and son to that list.

 

[Laura Cynthia Chambers]

Kirk's sister-in-law and his unborn child, too.

 

[thribs]

Been a bit dry with Star Trek books lately. The SNW ones don't really interest me.

 

[thribs]

I think Picard has the most obvious potential for novels since there are a lot of gaps between it and the last time we saw the legacy characters that fans want to see filled, and also plenty of opportunities to explore the new characters' histories, not to mention gaps between seasons.

Rather have post ones. I don't need to remember the dark times before that.

 

[tenmei]

Been a bit dry with Star Trek books lately. The SNW ones don't really interest me.

Rather have post ones. I don't need a remember the dark times before that.

I quite like the "planet of the week" SNW ones, lost interest in the Picard and DISCO ones because they didn't read like missing episodes.

 

[Therin of Andor]

@Therin of Andor More like substituting "Sisko" and the "Emissary" for some other disappeared object/person(s) and mystery fate (a lost treasure ship, a war hero, a species)

Well, you know what would happen if they did that: "You know, this would have been the perfect opportunity to resolve the mystery of Sisko's disappearance."

Writers write the story that they wish that they could read/see/hear.