^Plus the new New Frontier TPB.
Announcing STAR TREK: DTI and other CLB news
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I thought the last Typhon Pact was January?
ETA- oh, just looked and they're both January
Good news! 
I always look forward eagerly to your books, and the subject sounds fascinating.
I suppose this is you giving Star Trek time-travel and temporal mechanics the same treatment "Orion's Hounds" gave cosmozoan life in Trek, or "The Buried Age" gave Trek archeaology? Or your overall tying-it-all-together approach to actual galactic, er, "geography" (fuzzy brain can't remember correct word at present)?
You've dealt with the physical galaxy, then with its history, and now you need to assimilate time itself?
I always look forward eagerly to your books, and the subject sounds fascinating. I suppose this is you giving Star Trek time-travel and temporal mechanics the same treatment "Orion's Hounds" gave cosmozoan life in Trek, or "The Buried Age" gave Trek archeaology? Or your overall tying-it-all-together approach to actual galactic, er, "geography" (fuzzy brain can't remember correct word at present)?
You've dealt with the physical galaxy, then with its history, and now you need to assimilate time itself?
Hmm, I'll just say that I consider that an entirely valid, if incomplete, interpretation of how the DTI operates. And as I said, I have no interest in approaching a time-travel story in the conventional way. Which is why focusing on the DTI appealed to me.
I also agree completely with this. I'm always happy to explore the civilian side of the Federation. And most of the extant material about DTI treats it as a federal agency rather than a military one. Which is not to say they wouldn't have Starfleet assistance in some form...
I suppose this is you giving Star Trek time-travel and temporal mechanics the same treatment "Orion's Hounds" gave cosmozoan life in Trek, or "The Buried Age" gave Trek archeaology? Or your overall tying-it-all-together approach to actual galactic, er, "geography" (fuzzy brain can't remember correct word at present)?
You've dealt with the physical galaxy, then with its history, and now you need to assimilate time itself?
It's... what I do.
Freakin' fantastic news. Dulmer and Lucsly were excellent characters in an excellent episode.
I think I quite like the sound of this
Dulmer and Lucsly. Mulder and Scully. Of course. Didn't notice that before.
It sounds very interesting though, and I am curious about how you will approach the many "flavours" of time travel that we have seen.
It's also good to see that the novels will continue to experiment with more unconventional story ideas.
It sounds very interesting though, and I am curious about how you will approach the many "flavours" of time travel that we have seen.
It's also good to see that the novels will continue to experiment with more unconventional story ideas.
Yeah. Just announce the next two Vanguard books and Rise Like Lions, and I'll be feeling like the Trek line is totally back on track.
Its probably the most original idea I've heard in a while. I hope the author is able to capture Dulmer and Lucsly's unique personalities. "Joke?" "Yeah". "We hate those too". 
That's the intent, but somehow it ended up being spelled "Dulmur" in the script, not "Dulmer." And that's also what StarTrek.com and Memory Alpha use, as well as the novelization of "Trials and Tribble-ations." So I'm going with that spelling. (Which should confuse the Memory Beta folks, since their entry spells it "Dulmer" to be consistent with his other prose appearances to date.)
Also, it's pretty clear from the way the actors play their parts (though not so evident in the script) that Lucsly is the senior agent; Dulmur defers to him somewhat and isn't as knowledgeable of certain things. So there's no real Mulder/Scully parallel besides the names.
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I've never seen a single episode of the show, so I wouldn't know. It just looked so obvious when I saw the names written down.
I've never seen a single episode of the show, so I wouldn't know. It just looked so obvious when I saw the names written down.
I'm sure they'll just chalk it up to alternate timelines...
Quick, Christopher, spite them by introducing within your novel a time-travel clause that prevents them using that very explanation! You now control the "alternate timeline" mythology.
You must use this power only for good, of course.
Ah, but the Star Trek Encyclopedia uses the Dulmer spelling.
^The Encyclopedia also refers to Nella Daren as "Neela," even though (unlike Dulmur/Dulmer) that's completely inconsistent with how it was pronounced onscreen. It's not infallible.
It's... what I do.
It's... what you've already done.
And will do.
And, with a quick slingshot around the sun, you can do it again.
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Ummm, I didn't write that.You've dealt with the physical galaxy, then with its history, and now you need to assimilate time itself?
It's... what I do.
It's... what you've already done.
And will do.
And, with a quick slingshot around the sun, you can do it again.
