Any new "new ship/crew" books on the schedule?
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There's still room for doing further Enterprise novels set during the series. There's a gap of as much as two months between the "Shockwave" 2-parter (10 months since NX-01's launch) and "Carbon Creek" (T'Pol's first anniversary aboard). And there's a lot of space in season 4; between the May 27 log entry of "The Augments" and the November 12 log entry of "Babel One" are only three stories (the Vulcan trilogy, "Daedalus," "The Observer Effect") which collectively span less than a month, so that leaves at least four and a half months' worth of room within the season.
Or you could tell stories set during "The Expanse," while NX-01 is travelling home after the Xindi attack (up to a month if we assume "The Expanse" begins right after "Bounty") or during their 7-week journey to the edge of the Delphic Expanse, something with the crew getting sidetracked from their mission or dealing with a shipboard crisis. Or something set during the six weeks between "The Expanse" and "The Xindi."
Or you could tell stories set during "The Expanse," while NX-01 is travelling home after the Xindi attack (up to a month if we assume "The Expanse" begins right after "Bounty") or during their 7-week journey to the edge of the Delphic Expanse, something with the crew getting sidetracked from their mission or dealing with a shipboard crisis. Or something set during the six weeks between "The Expanse" and "The Xindi."
They killed off the whole cast?
Well, Archer's about to become an Admiral, then an ambassador, then the President... Tucker's "officially dead", I'd imagine T'Pol will be going along with him...
The ship's being decommissioned...
It just feels like an ending...DS9/Voy/TOS/TNG all ended with questions of "What will happen next?" That book, it satisfied me as an ending! and I don't say that often!
The ship's being decommissioned...
It just feels like an ending...DS9/Voy/TOS/TNG all ended with questions of "What will happen next?" That book, it satisfied me as an ending! and I don't say that often!
Doesn't Last Full Measure take place during one of the Season 2 or 3 gaps you mentioned?
Well if they decommissioned the NX-01, maybe they can get a spiffy new ship and some new crew members like Shran, etc, and start a new five year mission afresh. This is sci-fi after all. Anything is possible. Now if they could make T'Pol - T'Pau, I for one, would love that. There's no reason no new developments can't abound. Do they have to be locked in that series? with those production values? Lol.
Regarding ENT novels, I'd like to see...
Figured I'd put that in spoiler tags in case it could be considered a story idea. I'd be pretty upset if the thing I'd like to see ends up never happening because a writer couldn't use it. 
One focusing on Reed and his dealings with Section 31, either before, during, or after his time on the NX-01 (or heck, why not all three! 
). Sort of like a sequel/prequel to the Section 31 miniseries from ten years ago.
). Sort of like a sequel/prequel to the Section 31 miniseries from ten years ago.
I'd say prequels are the way to go with Enterprise. What do we know about Archer? Born in New York, spent most of his life in San Fransisco, went to "flight school" and then became the first example of Starfleet nepotism. Did he even serve on any other ships before commanding Enterprise? His mind-blowing naivety in the early seasons suggests not.
Something like the "Mosaic"/"Pathways" novels for Voyager.
I'd also love the Archer/Scotty/beaming experiment backstory from STXI fleshed out, but that's unlikely to happen.
Something like the "Mosaic"/"Pathways" novels for Voyager.
I'd also love the Archer/Scotty/beaming experiment backstory from STXI fleshed out, but that's unlikely to happen.
Just because the NX-01 is being decommissioned (I'm assuming so, anyway, based on TATV; I've yet to read To Brave the Storm), that doesn't mean the ENT era can't continue beyond the beginning of the Federation. I doubt the founding members just dropped all of their previous baggage and everything was hunky dory between all of them from moment one. I probably shouldn't speculate since, as I said, I haven't read the second Romulan War book yet, but a new union between four sovereign worlds is bound to suffer some growing pains.
Definitely the 22nd-Century can continue past the founding of the Federation--the Federation in its infancy (only a handful of worlds) is a barely touched upon story.
Personally I would love a series of books exclusively following Captain Dax and the aventine
got my vote... loved the Destiny series and the Typhon Pact series...
Can't wait to see what else is on the horizon now
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I agree. Dax's Aventine showing up as part of another story would be fine, but we don't need another ship-based series that wouldn't be all that different from TNG or Titan adventures. One of the biggest plusses of the Vanguard series was that it was completely different. If you want something to replace it, the concept/setting should be something equally unique, not just more of the same.
Exactly my sentiments! Jadzia quickly became this 'I know so much because I'm so old' characters, and in the books Ezri quickly took this over. And I'm not just talking about Aventine, but the DS9 Relaunch as well. Such a shame...
Personally I would love a series of books exclusively following Captain Dax and the aventine
Same here. I would love some more stories involving that crew.
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