2026 Novel Releases

[Enterprise1701]

The solicitation blurb for The Peacemakers strongly implies it will be different interpretation from IDW's recent Star Trek comic series, which is no great surprise. However, this does serve as an interesting contrast to Firewall, which offhandedly pointed out Harry Kim was off doing something, though I do not know if that was a specific nod to the contemporary IDW comics or to the author's own hope for another novel.

 

[Greg Cox]

What it boils down to is if there are no plans to create new Kelvin TV/film content, then anything a writer may decide to do with the Kelvin characters (for now, and aside from plots similar to non-Kelvin Trek productions) is possible.

No plans can become plans down the road, however.

When I wrote an original UNDERWORLD novel inbetween the first and second movies, I was instructed to do a prequel, in large part to avoid stepping on the toes of the second movie which was still in development. At the time, there were no plans to go backward in time to do a prequel onscreen.

Jump ahead to the third movie, Rise of the Lycans, which was (surprise!) a prequel movie that completely contradicted my earlier novel -- written and approved long before Rise of the Lycans was a gleam in anyone's eyes.

So I ended up in the peculiar position of novelizing movie that rendered my previous novel apocryphal. This resulted in at least one hilarious Amazon review:


"GREG COX: MAKE UP YOUR MIND!"

 

[Laura Cynthia Chambers]

During the writing process, they're free to create without knowing any details of future plans or feeling the weight of the imminence of impending future plans.

 

[ClayinCA]

Huh. Y'know, it seems all so long ago now, but it actually took less than a decade from the conclusion of Star Trek: The Next Generation in 1994 for Star Trek: Stargazer novel series to debut in earnest in 2002. I wonder if Captain Philippa Georgiou will need that long to get a dedicated prequel series.

Heck, I'd still like some more Stargazer novels, even now.

 

[The Wormhole]

Admittedly, since the Stargazer series only covered Picard's first year or so in command, there's still twenty-plus years more or less wide open. Of course, the number of openings for such a novel in the annual line-up these days isn't so wide open, so...

 

[Christopher]

Admittedly, since the Stargazer series only covered Picard's first year or so in command, there's still twenty-plus years more or less wide open.

I think it was actually just six months, one month per novel.

 

[Ronald Held]

Would there ever be a market for those novels, versus more Picard ones?

 

[USS Firefly]

Would there ever be a market for those novels, versus more Picard ones?

I would prefer Stargazer (lost era) novels over picards books, so here's one

 

[Enterprise1701]

I would prefer Stargazer (lost era) novels over picards books, so here's one

Given the disastrous Section 31 streaming film's attempt to launch a new Rachel Garrett actress circa 2324, I wonder if anyone at CBS-Paramount also has any idea in the pipeline to find Patrick Stewart's Chris Pine-Paul T. Wesley.

Now that I think about it, I feel sad Kacey Rohl landed terrible circumstances just as Alden Ehrenrich and Donald Glover did, though Joonas Suotamo has had a bit more luck.

 

[USS Firefly]

Given the disastrous Section 31 streaming film's attempt to launch a new Rachel Garrett actress circa 2324, I wonder if anyone at CBS-Paramount also has any idea in the pipeline to find Patrick Stewart's Chris Pine-Paul T. Wesley.

Now that I think about it, I feel sad Kacey Rohl landed terrible circumstances just as Alden Ehrenrich and Donald Glover did, though Joonas Suotamo has had a bit more luck.

Well I prefer lost Era books over Star Trek shows so I have no problem with that. I had more fun reading any Splinter timeline book then any of the new Star Trek tv shows

 

[Ronald Held]

More TOS/Move era books. YMMV.

 

[Cloud]

Red Alert! Deep Space Nine on the horizon....

The Peacemakers|Paperback

An all-new novel based on the landmark TV series Star Trek: Deep Space Nine.It’s five years since the end of the Dominion War. Jake Sisko is back on Earth after a long journey round the Gamma Quadrant, finishing up his book about what life is like out there after the...

www.barnesandnoble.com

 

[JD]

We've already known about that one for a while now.

 

[thribs]

Just read the synopsis to Defy Fate and it sounds like it could relate to Star Trek Coda in some way. If so it would be easily the most interesting sounding Picard novel to date.

 

[The Wormhole]

The novel itself is most certainly legit. The only thing questionable is the release date, I wouldn't be too surprised if it were delayed a month or two. After all, SNW Ring of Fire, the upcoming TOS Identity Theft and Picard To Defy Fate have all had their release dates postponed by a month or two from the date that was originally announced, so a delay with this novel wouldn't be unprecedented.

And my prediction turns out to be correct. Amazon now shows The Peacemakers postponed until September 15. The print version, anyway. Curiously the e-book version is still listed as August 4, though maybe they just haven't gotten around to updating the change for that?

 

[David cgc]

So, there's kind of a new Star Trek novelverse story, but also not?

Let me explain.

During the 2020 lockdown, Una McCormack started writing a third Cardassia Prime novel to conclude the storylines from The Crimson Shadow and Enigma Tales, called The End of This Day's Business. Well, given it was specwork and the novelverse was superseded by new on-screen material, it was obviously unpublishable in addition to not being completed before paying work came around. It was put on the shelf unless and until there was time and space for her to finish it off, though she has said some character and thematic elements of it were reflected in Second Self.

In what I'll choose to describe as a peculiar coincidence, a story called The End of This Day's Business which concludes the Cardassian plotlines from The Crimson Shadow and Enigma Tales, is being posted in installments on the Archive of Our Own on-line fan-fiction repository by a poster with the username Eleta_Preloc, with one chapter and two epilogues still remaining to be uploaded as I write this. Because of TrekLit's rules against posting story ideas and fan-fic, I won't link directly to The End of This Day's Business by Eleta_Preloc on an Archive of Our Own dot Org or posting a full-on review and discussion thread (unless maybe we make a general thread to talk about all the "lost" novels that were eventually posted on-line like Music of the Spheres and the original version of A Flag Full of Stars), but I knew everyone would be interested in this window into what might've been.

 

[Stevil2001]

So, there's kind of a new Star Trek novelverse story, but also not?

Let me explain.

During the 2020 lockdown, Una McCormack started writing a third Cardassia Prime novel to conclude the storylines from The Crimson Shadow and Enigma Tales, called The End of This Day's Business. Well, given it was specwork and the novelverse was superseded by new on-screen material, it was obviously unpublishable in addition to not being completed before paying work came around. It was put on the shelf unless and until there was time and space for her to finish it off, though she has said some character and thematic elements of it were reflected in Second Self.

In what I'll choose to describe as a peculiar coincidence, a story called The End of This Day's Business which concludes the Cardassian plotlines from The Crimson Shadow and Enigma Tales, is being posted in installments on the Archive of Our Own on-line fan-fiction repository by a poster with the username Eleta_Preloc, with one chapter and two epilogues still remaining to be uploaded as I write this. Because of TrekLit's rules against posting story ideas and fan-fic, I won't link directly to The End of This Day's Business by Eleta_Preloc on an Archive of Our Own dot Org or posting a full-on review and discussion thread (unless maybe we make a general thread to talk about all the "lost" novels that were eventually posted on-line like Music of the Spheres and the original version of A Flag Full of Stars), but I knew everyone would be interested in this window into what might've been.

It's finished now; you can download the whole story in a single EPUB for convenient Kindle reading. It's almost 60,000 words long, so a full-length novel.

 

[The Wormhole]

Currently scheduled for November 24, TOS Echoes in Eternity by David Mack.

An epic new novel celebrating the 60th anniversary of Star Trek: The Original Series!

THREE LIVES
A child mourns the mother she’ll never know; a scion of privilege falls into disgrace and yearns to redeem his sullied name; and a young Starfleet officer who dreams of a life lived amidst the stars receives his first starship command...each of them unaware that the threads of their lives are fated to be eternally intertwined.

THREE DECADES
On the surface of barren world KX-1 lies a secret fallen from the stars. But this desolate planet is accessible only during brief intervals, many years apart, thanks to its complex orbit between two black holes, whose fearsome gravities bend space and time. To unravel its mysteries will be the work of not one mission but three, carried out over the course of twenty-seven years.

ONE DESTINY
As flaring tensions place innocent lives in peril, three souls who have no reason to trust one another must put aside their fears and suspicions to embrace the possibility of a grander cosmos than they’ve ever dared to imagine, one in which all that we do in life echoes in eternity….

 

[icelus]

It's finished now; you can download the whole story in a single EPUB for convenient Kindle reading. It's almost 60,000 words long, so a full-length novel.

Where can we get a copy of it?

 

[David cgc]

Where can we get a copy of it?

I reiterate:

I won't link directly to The End of This Day's Business by Eleta_Preloc on an Archive of Our Own dot Org