Yeah, but why hasn't he been part of the Star Trek party since A Singular Destiny?
Another Lit Wish List Thread
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Yeah, but why hasn't he been part of the Star Trek party since A Singular Destiny?
And if I'm remembering correctly his first Scattered Earth novel will be out soon, too.
I haven't read every post in the thread, so my apologies if I am repeating something that someone else has said. My wish is less focused on what we are getting than it is on how we get it.
One thing that drags my anticipation and enjoyment of Trek novels is the often excruciatingly long wait between books that are tied together story-wise. I enjoyed the living daylights out of every Vanguard novel I have read, and yet I know I miss some references in each subsequent book to previous events because it's been so long since I read the book the allusion hearkens back to. Same thing goes for the DS9 relaunch.
I would prefer to see entire years dedicated to a specific setting, at least as far as major releases go. I would be very happy with an ENT year, a TOS year, a TNG year, a DS9 year, and a Voyager year. You promise six-to-eight full novels a year, with four to six one-off or loose continuity stories (perhaps a Myriad Universe collection, a DTI story, a one off in-series story from one of the flamiliar parts of the franchise, and a nuTrek story, if approved) to get up to your twelve hardcopy books a year quota. This could be augmented with eBooks of course.
Each run of books would be planned out enough to have a few (or a lot) of plot threads running through it, to run a definite point of time, and to have a definate ending or at least pausing point that folks will remember. The next year could tie in (for example, when a TNG run ends, a DS9 series could cover events in the same or shortly-thereafter timeframe).
This would help folks (I think) and would give us something to look forward to. I don't know about others, but when I get into a TNG mood, I want TNG stories. When I get into a DS9 mood, the same.
Anyway, that's my wish. Perhaps a more reasonable request is 4 books a year tied to a specific section of the franchise, alterating over five years, with the rest of the books as standalones.
Rob+
One thing that drags my anticipation and enjoyment of Trek novels is the often excruciatingly long wait between books that are tied together story-wise. I enjoyed the living daylights out of every Vanguard novel I have read, and yet I know I miss some references in each subsequent book to previous events because it's been so long since I read the book the allusion hearkens back to. Same thing goes for the DS9 relaunch.
I would prefer to see entire years dedicated to a specific setting, at least as far as major releases go. I would be very happy with an ENT year, a TOS year, a TNG year, a DS9 year, and a Voyager year. You promise six-to-eight full novels a year, with four to six one-off or loose continuity stories (perhaps a Myriad Universe collection, a DTI story, a one off in-series story from one of the flamiliar parts of the franchise, and a nuTrek story, if approved) to get up to your twelve hardcopy books a year quota. This could be augmented with eBooks of course.
Each run of books would be planned out enough to have a few (or a lot) of plot threads running through it, to run a definite point of time, and to have a definate ending or at least pausing point that folks will remember. The next year could tie in (for example, when a TNG run ends, a DS9 series could cover events in the same or shortly-thereafter timeframe).
This would help folks (I think) and would give us something to look forward to. I don't know about others, but when I get into a TNG mood, I want TNG stories. When I get into a DS9 mood, the same.
Anyway, that's my wish. Perhaps a more reasonable request is 4 books a year tied to a specific section of the franchise, alterating over five years, with the rest of the books as standalones.
Rob+
KRAD's been focusing on his original stuff recently which will, hopefully, make him more money than the ST stuff does. That said, i'd love to see his return to ST in any way.
Ughhh. Ship of the Line was horrible. The launch of the Enterprise-E deserved so much better than Diane Carey.
Ship of the Line sucked, Diane Carey rocks, the two are separate. the E launch could have been done so much better
That's what I always felt too. Then I got my hands on the Complet Comic Collection DVD. There are literally dozens and dozens of adventures in that era. If only I had time to get around to reading them. lol
Yeah, I'm really looking forward to reading the second DC series, which seems to be set mostly in that era. I have the CCC DVD too, and once I get through the complete run of the first series, I plan on continuing on to the second. I especially love that the brought back Saavik (to replace Sulu?).
Yep, Saavik returns to the Enterprise during Sulu's first mission as captain of the Excelsior.
For those comics to fit, one has to ignore that, barring Sulu, everyone was semi-retired for at least three years prior to STVI. Just sayin'.
Also, Diane Carey's Starfleet Academy videogame novelization fits between V and VI. Sulu and Chekov are hanging around the academy teaching while waiting for Excelsior to be readied for it's mission (kinda like Pike and Spock were in STXI)
Also, Diane Carey's Starfleet Academy videogame novelization fits between V and VI. Sulu and Chekov are hanging around the academy teaching while waiting for Excelsior to be readied for it's mission (kinda like Pike and Spock were in STXI)
@JD I'm with you. Despite that being a relatively short time I would have liked to have had a couple of novels with one of the Enterprise-A's last missions.
How's that?
In the comics Sulu leaves and the rest of the Enterprise crew continue going on TOS-style missions. They even team up with Excelsior once or twice.
In STVI, in the briefing scene, McCoy didn't even know Sulu was captain of the Excelsior.
Oh, I though you meant that the comics implied that the crew was semi-retired. Well, I hadn't ever noticed that the film implied that. I haven't seen it in quite some time though. At any rate, the comics don't seem to go all the way up to the film, at least as far as Memory-Beta claims. I suppose there's some wiggle room as far as about 2291-2293 goes.
Actually I like to look at McCoy's rather unusual question about Sulu's absence, as him asking why he isn't present at the briefing due to Excelsior being the first ship to respond to the disaster not that he didn't know he was Captain of the ship. I suspect as well it was meant to be a little fourth wall/meta joke.
