Books about Voyager's pre-Endgame journey home?

[Gojirob]

In other words, something about the Voyager that took 23 years to get back, and from which Admiral Janeway emerged, determined to save her friends by cutting it down?

 

[Defcon]

In other words, something about the Voyager that took 23 years to get back, and from which Admiral Janeway emerged, determined to save her friends by cutting it down?

I'm not sure if you're asking if there are such books already, or if you ask if books like this are on the schedule, but since the answer to both is the same, I guess it doesn't really matter:

No such books exist or where announced so far AFAIK. There will be a Voyager novel by Christopher L. Bennett in the Myriad Universes TPBs but I don't think it will deal with this specific alternate universe/timeline.

 

[Cicero]

Might it have been touched on a little in the Endgame novelization? (I didn't read it, so I don't know, but adaptations often include extra material.)

 

[Defcon]

Might it have been touched on a little in the Endgame novelization? (I didn't read it, so I don't know, but adaptations often include extra material.)

Mhh, not that I can remember. It's some time since I read it, though, so I might just have forgotten it if their was some material about their long way home.

 

[Cicero]

^ It was a long shot, anyway. Extra material seems to have been present less and less over the years (except in Diane Carey's Dominion War books, where it directly replaced television content in several parts).

 

[Defcon]

^ It was a long shot, anyway. Extra material seems to have been present less and less over the years (except in Diane Carey's Dominion War books, where it directly replaced television content in several parts).

Some of the best examples how a Star Trek novelization should look like IMHO are Relics and Far beyond the Stars, both adding a lot to the televised episodes.

 

[Species7582]

Might it have been touched on a little in the Endgame novelization? (I didn't read it, so I don't know, but adaptations often include extra material.)

Mhh, not that I can remember. It's some time since I read it, though, so I might just have forgotten it if their was some material about their long way home.

AFAIK, nothing about their 23year journey was added in the novelization.

 

[Cicero]

^ It was a long shot, anyway. Extra material seems to have been present less and less over the years (except in Diane Carey's Dominion War books, where it directly replaced television content in several parts).

Some of the best examples how a Star Trek novelization should look like IMHO are Relics and Far beyond the Stars, both adding a lot to the televised episodes.

I remember being very disappointed when I watched Relics when I was little; it felt like they'd filmed only half the story. (In those days, I didn't realize that the novels were expanded, rather than the episodes contracted.)

 

[Christopher]

^ It was a long shot, anyway. Extra material seems to have been present less and less over the years (except in Diane Carey's Dominion War books, where it directly replaced television content in several parts).

Some of the best examples how a Star Trek novelization should look like IMHO are Relics and Far beyond the Stars, both adding a lot to the televised episodes.

That's because those were novelizations of hourlong episodes, requiring that the books contain roughly as much original material as adapted material to keep them from being extremely short. Naturally, novelizations of 2-parters require much less added material to meet the desired length.

Another noteworthy novelization of an hourlong episode is VGR: Flashback by Diane Carey. It adds a neat Kes subplot and a subplot about the dangerous attempts to collect the fuel source from the nebula, and it adds a lot more character depth to the climax of the episode's plot (which was the weakest aspect of the episode, being basically "the Doctor technobabbles a virus to death").

And then of course there are Alan Dean Foster's TAS adaptations, all of which added considerably to the scripts for the 22-minute episodes of the show. Particularly the last four volumes, which only adapted one episode each followed by a longer, original follow-up story by Foster. In fact, Log 10 adds three new stories, one preceding the episode, one during it, and one after it, and the actual episode adaptation takes up only 3 out of 16 chapters.

 

[Gojirob]

I was asking about either or, but it seems the answer is neither nor.

'Unification' had some pretty good extras, IMO. The parts about the Klingon captain added to things a bit, as did Sela's private memories.

 

[Tino]

I also l liked "All Good Things" very much. They added some nice stuff there with Guinan and LaSalle.

 

[LightningStorm]

Might it have been touched on a little in the Endgame novelization? (I didn't read it, so I don't know, but adaptations often include extra material.)

That would have been nice. But it definitely didn't, and I hated the book for it, it felt like absolutely nothing was added at all (the little that was, was some small thoughts of each of the characters here and there).

I'd say for anyone looking to read Endgame... Don't, unless you read fast enough that you could read the entire book quicker than the episode could play out.

 

[OmahaStar]

This may not be taken well, but here goes.

It's about time for Keith Decandido to write an actual Voyager novel. Now, before anyone starts jumping down my throat ... to my knowledge, he hasn't done it yet. He's had several stories involving Voyager crews, but none set on Voyager in the Delta Quadrant. There was the mirror universe, and with Gateways there was an itty bit that sort of relates with the dumping ground, and then there's the Distant Shores story about the family back home.

I want an honest-to-Gene story set during the tv run, with the Voyager crew, in the Delta Quad, written by Keith. Hey, I can dream.

 

[BlazerBoy]

You and me both, Mitch. Hell, I'd want KRAD to write my obituary.

 

[Therin of Andor]

You and me both, Mitch. Hell, I'd want KRAD to write my obituary.

But we'd have to kill you first.

 

[Christopher]

No, obituaries are written ahead of time so that they'll be ready to go into print when needed.

So you could kill him later.

 

[KRAD]

It's about time for Keith Decandido to write an actual Voyager novel. Now, before anyone starts jumping down my throat ... to my knowledge, he hasn't done it yet. He's had several stories involving Voyager crews, but none set on Voyager in the Delta Quadrant. There was the mirror universe, and with Gateways there was an itty bit that sort of relates with the dumping ground, and then there's the Distant Shores story about the family back home.

You forgot The Brave and the Bold Book 2 -- which also takes place prior to "Caretaker."

I want an honest-to-Gene story set during the tv run, with the Voyager crew, in the Delta Quad, written by Keith. Hey, I can dream.

But -- but -- but -- then the streak will be broken!!!!!!!

 

[OmahaStar]

It's about time for Keith Decandido to write an actual Voyager novel. Now, before anyone starts jumping down my throat ... to my knowledge, he hasn't done it yet. He's had several stories involving Voyager crews, but none set on Voyager in the Delta Quadrant. There was the mirror universe, and with Gateways there was an itty bit that sort of relates with the dumping ground, and then there's the Distant Shores story about the family back home.

You forgot The Brave and the Bold Book 2 -- which also takes place prior to "Caretaker."

Thanks for proving my point.

I want an honest-to-Gene story set during the tv run, with the Voyager crew, in the Delta Quad, written by Keith. Hey, I can dream.

But -- but -- but -- then the streak will be broken!!!!!!!

I'll take my chances. And based on comments in this thread, I'm not the only one.

 

[foravalon]

This may not be taken well, but here goes.
I want an honest-to-Gene story set during the tv run, with the Voyager crew, in the Delta Quad, written by Keith.

Even if it's only a novelization of "Prophecy", but told from the Klingon's perspective?

 

[LightningStorm]

You and me both, Mitch. Hell, I'd want KRAD to write my obituary.

lol. KRAD can write the obituary, so long as David Mack writes the news article about how the death happened.

But yeah, KRAD I agree it's time to break the streak and give the fans what they want -- DQ Voyager stories.