Back Cover Blurb and cover for New Frontier: Blind Man's Bluff

[Turtletrekker]

I agree. New Frontier was at its best when was a series about a crew on a ship.

 

[nickyboy]

I agree. New Frontier was at its best when was a series about a crew on a ship.

Agreed

 

[JB2005]

Perhaps we'll see a return to this at some point? IIRC there's never been a mention of USS Trident outside of the New Frontier books?

 

[captcalhoun]

Gateways, the concluding story in the rip-off book ... sorry, the book of novellas.

 

[JD]

Perhaps we'll see a return to this at some point? IIRC there's never been a mention of USS Trident outside of the New Frontier books?

I was wondering if perhaps that was why he went so far with the attack on the Trident in Treason. Maybe he was starting to work on narrowing down the number characters in the series.

 

[captcalhoun]

also, wasn't Trident name-checked in Q&A?

 

[tenmei]

I'm sure there was a name-drop of both Excalibur and Trident in Destiny too, wasn't there?

 

[Trilliam]

Perhaps we'll see a return to this at some point? IIRC there's never been a mention of USS Trident outside of the New Frontier books?

I was wondering if perhaps that was why he went so far with the attack on the Trident in Treason. Maybe he was starting to work on narrowing down the number characters in the series.

We can only hope.

 

[captcalhoun]

I'm sure there was a name-drop of both Excalibur and Trident in Destiny too, wasn't there?

Excalibur certainly was. it was a whole little thing about them destroying a cube with technobabble torpedoes.

 

[jedimaster]

I'm sure there was a name-drop of both Excalibur and Trident in Destiny too, wasn't there?

Excalibur certainly was. it was a whole little thing about them destroying a cube with technobabble torpedoes.

Specifically, the Excalibur managed to destroy the cube attacking starbase 343 by rigging a salvo of torpedos with MPIs (molecular phase inverters), each at a different frequency, enough made it through the Borg shields to destroy them. However, the Excalibur was crippled in the process, which is why they were not present at the Asure Nebula.

However, no mention was made of Trident, so we don't know whether they were called in and destroyed.

 

[Janos]

This really doesn't interest me one bit.

I think the stories for NF are once again getting more and more outrageous.

Why does every story need to be about something going horrifically wrong and shaking the very foundations of the Federation or Starfleet.

What about having a good old adventure yarn?

While I've still been enjoying the series overall, I do somewhat agree with you here. The last few years worth of stories have definitely been several steps down in quality from the earlier ones. IMO they've gone from awsome to Ok. I still like the characters, and I've liked the stories enough that I'll continue with the series as long as it's around, but I will not be at all disappointed if this is the last book.

While it is outrageous at times, I find NF to be one of the most unique in tone ST series out there. I laugh and snicker at many moments in the book. Without out a doubt NF is an adventure, but is an adventure series that focus on its characters and in trying to be an entertaining and fun read. It does that every time IMHO.

 

[BrotherBenny]

This really doesn't interest me one bit.

I think the stories for NF are once again getting more and more outrageous.

Why does every story need to be about something going horrifically wrong and shaking the very foundations of the Federation or Starfleet.

What about having a good old adventure yarn?

While I've still been enjoying the series overall, I do somewhat agree with you here. The last few years worth of stories have definitely been several steps down in quality from the earlier ones. IMO they've gone from awsome to Ok. I still like the characters, and I've liked the stories enough that I'll continue with the series as long as it's around, but I will not be at all disappointed if this is the last book.

While it is outrageous at times, I find NF to be one of the most unique in tone ST series out there. I laugh and snicker at many moments in the book. Without out a doubt NF is an adventure, but is an adventure series that focus on its characters and in trying to be an entertaining and fun read. It does that every time IMHO.

NF is nothing more than a novelized fanwank comic in tone, and dare I say it, substance. I understand poking fun at Trek and looking at its lighter side, but NF seems to go way overboard 99% of the time, and it just ends up as poor slapstick comedy.

 

[Therin of Andor]

NF is nothing more than a novelized fanwank comic in tone, and dare I say it, substance. I understand poking fun at Trek and looking at its lighter side, but NF seems to go way overboard 99% of the time, and it just ends up as poor slapstick comedy.

It also outsells most other ST novel series, so we don't all agree it is fanwank or "poor" slapstick comedy.

 

[Steve Roby]

It also outsells most other ST novel series, so we don't all agree it is fanwank or "poor" slapstick comedy.

I seem to recall John Ordover once saying that NF outsold several other Trek series at the time, but he's been gone for many years now. Has anyone said anything about NF sales in the last five or six years?

 

[Therin of Andor]

I seem to recall John Ordover once saying that NF outsold several other Trek series at the time, but he's been gone for many years now. Has anyone said anything about NF sales in the last five or six years?

"New Frontier" sales were strong enough to make the move to first-release hardcover, followed by a MMPB reprint a year later. When Pocket started to shy away from hardcovers altogether, "New Frontier" went to trade, followed by a MMPB reprint a year later. I would think that if sales were not too good, they'd have slipped back to MMPB-only instead of going to trade.

 

[Trilliam]

They lost the "OMG! I can't wait for the next installment" feeling back with "Restoration" for me.

 

[Technobuilder]

I miss McHenry.