Another Lit Wish List Thread
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I'd like to see a novelization of the original script that eventually became DS9's "Trials and Tribble-ations". AFAIK, David Gerrold wrote it...
It was a "Piece of the Action" sequel featuring TNG. Picard and crew visit Iotia and see that it has turned into a 'Starfleet planet' styled after the TOS era! Everyone wears TOS Starfleet uniforms, communications are on Starfleet frequencies, etc. Picard and crew are put on trial for being "Anti-Kirk".
There was a comic during Marvel's run that did that particular story, actually. It was the last issue of the 'Unlimited' series, which were double-sized issues.
I'd like to see a novelization of the original script that eventually became DS9's "Trials and Tribble-ations". AFAIK, David Gerrold wrote it...
It was a "Piece of the Action" sequel featuring TNG. Picard and crew visit Iotia and see that it has turned into a 'Starfleet planet' styled after the TOS era! Everyone wears TOS Starfleet uniforms, communications are on Starfleet frequencies, etc. Picard and crew are put on trial for being "Anti-Kirk".
There was a comic during Marvel's run that did that particular story, actually. It was the last issue of the 'Unlimited' series, which were double-sized issues.
This was also in Shane Johnson's nonfiction-fiction book Worlds of the Federation.
I'd like to see a novelization of the original script that eventually became DS9's "Trials and Tribble-ations". AFAIK, David Gerrold wrote it...
It was a "Piece of the Action" sequel featuring TNG. Picard and crew visit Iotia and see that it has turned into a 'Starfleet planet' styled after the TOS era! Everyone wears TOS Starfleet uniforms, communications are on Starfleet frequencies, etc. Picard and crew are put on trial for being "Anti-Kirk".
There was a comic during Marvel's run that did that particular story, actually. It was the last issue of the 'Unlimited' series, which were double-sized issues.
I'll be sure to check that one out.
Believe me, I would fall upon my bat'leth if I didn't have children who need a father. I thoroughly enjoyed IFM and wish that story could be told. I have felt sooooooooooo bad for the last day for costing a writer work and possibly depriving everyone of a good story.
It's not your fault. There have been several times I've had to go through two or three versions of a post in these kinds of threads before I had a something general enough to post. Sometimes it can be hard to tell if what you have is a story idea or something more general.
My wish list:
1) An ENT anthology, with stories set before, during, and after the series. 2011 is the tenth anniversary of ENT and it deserved greater exposure than just one book. Already too late now for this anniversary but would be great to have one produced in the next few years.
2) A follow up to Mirror Ke Hovath's multidimensional transporter from Warpath and Fearful Symmetry. The one that if completed would have allowed people to visit other universes besides the Prime and Mirror Universe. And there is already a book brand for stories featuring parallel universes. It would be awesome if TPTB could somehow put those two together hint hint...
3) More DS9-R "season 9" books (which chronologically began with Warpath). At least two please, including the Ascendants and what's going on with the Dominion.
4) A DS9 20th Year Anniversary Where Are They Now-type anthology for release in 2013. This could be broader than the relaunch storyline and more accessible to casual fans that haven't read or can't track down the relaunch books. It could show the smaller stories that bridge The Soul Key with Rough Beasts of Empire that couldn't be crammed into an Ascendants book for example.
5) The pre-"Equinox" story of the USS Equinox.
6) A paperback version of Blind Man's Bluff that smooths over some of its rough continuity edges that should have been caught before publication in editorial. BMB contradicts far more of Treason than it does the Destiny trilogy and four brief edits in the manuscript would solve almost everything. It's been done before...
7) NF deserves a real ending, not an unresolved cliffhanger. Find some way for this to happen, be it TPB, MMPB, comic, or eBook.
8) An ending to the Challenger/Belle Terre storyline. Could just be a short story in a broad-based anthology a la Seven Deadly Sins. But despite how much I hated that story, it deserves some kind of ending.
9) More of the same with Vanguard. Don't drop the ball on that one like has happened to some other storylines.
10) A ceiling placed on the publication of TOS novels until the other series can get caught up. DS9, VGR, and ENT deserve far more publication space than they've been given in the last few years.
11) If the four Abramsverse novels are ever published, make them the second book of the month and don't wipe out 1/3 of the publication year with them.
12) More Mirror Universe after Rise Like Lions.
13) What ever happened to the USS Hera? One canon plot thread from TNG that has never been explored.
14) An ending to Marvel's Early Voyages cliffhanger somehow involving Dan Abnett and Ian Edington. Either Pocket or IDW can take this one.
1) An ENT anthology, with stories set before, during, and after the series. 2011 is the tenth anniversary of ENT and it deserved greater exposure than just one book. Already too late now for this anniversary but would be great to have one produced in the next few years.
2) A follow up to Mirror Ke Hovath's multidimensional transporter from Warpath and Fearful Symmetry. The one that if completed would have allowed people to visit other universes besides the Prime and Mirror Universe. And there is already a book brand for stories featuring parallel universes. It would be awesome if TPTB could somehow put those two together hint hint...
3) More DS9-R "season 9" books (which chronologically began with Warpath). At least two please, including the Ascendants and what's going on with the Dominion.
4) A DS9 20th Year Anniversary Where Are They Now-type anthology for release in 2013. This could be broader than the relaunch storyline and more accessible to casual fans that haven't read or can't track down the relaunch books. It could show the smaller stories that bridge The Soul Key with Rough Beasts of Empire that couldn't be crammed into an Ascendants book for example.
5) The pre-"Equinox" story of the USS Equinox.
6) A paperback version of Blind Man's Bluff that smooths over some of its rough continuity edges that should have been caught before publication in editorial. BMB contradicts far more of Treason than it does the Destiny trilogy and four brief edits in the manuscript would solve almost everything. It's been done before...
7) NF deserves a real ending, not an unresolved cliffhanger. Find some way for this to happen, be it TPB, MMPB, comic, or eBook.
8) An ending to the Challenger/Belle Terre storyline. Could just be a short story in a broad-based anthology a la Seven Deadly Sins. But despite how much I hated that story, it deserves some kind of ending.
9) More of the same with Vanguard. Don't drop the ball on that one like has happened to some other storylines.
10) A ceiling placed on the publication of TOS novels until the other series can get caught up. DS9, VGR, and ENT deserve far more publication space than they've been given in the last few years.
11) If the four Abramsverse novels are ever published, make them the second book of the month and don't wipe out 1/3 of the publication year with them.
12) More Mirror Universe after Rise Like Lions.
13) What ever happened to the USS Hera? One canon plot thread from TNG that has never been explored.
14) An ending to Marvel's Early Voyages cliffhanger somehow involving Dan Abnett and Ian Edington. Either Pocket or IDW can take this one.
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Bought that one, waiting to read it until after I've had a chance to read A Time to... and the post-Destiny TNG books.
*edits her wishlist to include this*
I loved the Challenger-crew and Chainmail, so I'd love to see more.
How Voyager got home the first time. We know from "Endgame" that it took 16 years, that Tuvok lost his marbles, Janeway fought the queen and developed new anti-Borg technology and that Seven died on an away mission (after she married Chakotay
). It's also the way to tell new Voyager stories with the original premise from the show and Janeway as captain.
We still get TOS novels after time travel rendered that series obsolete in STXI. "Endgame" did the same to Admiral Janeway's fugly pyjamas future. If one timeline still exists somewhen, so does the other.
). It's also the way to tell new Voyager stories with the original premise from the show and Janeway as captain.We still get TOS novels after time travel rendered that series obsolete in STXI. "Endgame" did the same to Admiral Janeway's fugly pyjamas future. If one timeline still exists somewhen, so does the other.
Huh... That's an interesting idea. One could even tie it in with the current VOY-relaunch story. We have no idea what became of the Equinox survivors after the episode aired. It's likely that they made it back to Earth with the rest of Voyager's crew. Some of them might still be in Starfleet, and could even be part of the new fleet that's exploring the DQ. Perhaps a novel that features them in the "present day" but flashes back to tell their story of what happened to the Equinox?
I'm really starting to wonder if you read my post
If Spock and Nero going back and changing history created an alternate timeline (nitpicky: the word "parallel" isn't actually used in the movie but it is in the novelization), Admiral Janeway's going back and changing history did too. And so also concurrently exists is the timeline from "Yesterday's Enterprise" and every other version of history visited in any Trek ever along with infinite others. According to the multiverse theory, timelines aren't destroyed, only new ones created (and "created" is a very loose term, since there are universes for every possible outcome of every event, anywhere, ever)
M'kay?
^ There should probably be a thread devoted to the alternate timeline/branching verses parallel universe debate in how it pertains to the novels moving forward. Some threads have gone off topic and hit upon it, but have then required moderator intervention.
STXI is inconclusive on what actually happened. Until XII and XIII are released, it is perhaps best to allow for multiple avenues of interpretation. I have my own preferred interpretation, which I feel makes the most sense in light of what has already been established about time travel and parallel universes, but sometimes canon ST decides to not take the avenue that makes the most rational sense.
STXI is inconclusive on what actually happened. Until XII and XIII are released, it is perhaps best to allow for multiple avenues of interpretation. I have my own preferred interpretation, which I feel makes the most sense in light of what has already been established about time travel and parallel universes, but sometimes canon ST decides to not take the avenue that makes the most rational sense.
Oh, I read you post. I think I might have just mistood you, I thought you were saying that the new movie wiped out TOS. And I would also really enjoy seeing something about Voyager's pre-Admiral Janeway time trip journey home. IMO that would be the perfect topic for a Myriad Universes story.I'm really starting to wonder if you read my post
If Spock and Nero going back and changing history created an alternate timeline (nitpicky: the word "parallel" isn't actually used in the movie but it is in the novelization), Admiral Janeway's going back and changing history did too. And so also concurrently exists is the timeline from "Yesterday's Enterprise" and every other version of history visited in any Trek ever along with infinite others. According to the multiverse theory, timelines aren't destroyed, only new ones created (and "created" is a very loose term, since there are universes for every possible outcome of every event, anywhere, ever)
M'kay?
As John Ordover once observed, VGR has far more loose ends and abandoned storylines than the other series due to its "broken" nature of production.
Homecoming (itself a broken VGR story LOL) mentions that Gilmore and Lessing made it back to the AQ but doesn't go any further in describing what happened to them legally or career wise. I've only made it that far into the VGR relaunch, but I'm guessing the books have yet to take up this thread.
