Bring back...long lost TrekLit characters!

[F. King Daniel]

What TrekLit characters from long past would you like to see reappear one day? No story ideas, just who you'd like to return. Here are my picks…


Captain Sejanus
The Captain’s Honor ended with the Magna-Roman crew of the USS Centurion going rogue and flying off to parts unknown. A future confrontation was teased, but it never materialized.

The M’Dok
The renamed Kzinti, also from Captain’s Honor. If the Federation can no longer feed starving planets, how are they gonna have ships spare to enforce the Kzinti/M’Dok demilitarization?

Captain April
First captain of the 1701 Enterprise, from Final Frontier and Best Destiny. Kindly idealist Brit who never had the heart to fire the phasers.

The Bickleys
The B-shift Enterprise-D conn-and-ops husband-and-wife bickering Bickleys, from the first DC TNG comic series. They argued. They dressed like superheroes. It’ll never, ever happen but I’d love to see them again on the Enterprise-E in the post-Countdown comic series.

 

[Defcon]

Captain April
First captain of the 1701 Enterprise, from Final Frontier and Best Destiny. Kindly idealist Brit who never had the heart to fire the phasers.

There will be a Captain April novel named The Millennium Bloom in 2010, written by Mike W. Barr.


Not sure if they qualify as long lost, but I would like to see the Even Odds and its crew (Rising Son) again.

 

[F. King Daniel]

Captain April
First captain of the 1701 Enterprise, from Final Frontier and Best Destiny. Kindly idealist Brit who never had the heart to fire the phasers.

There will be a Captain April novel named The Millennium Bloom in 2010, written by Mike W. Barr.


Not sure if they qualify as long lost, but I would like to see the Even Odds and its crew (Rising Son) again.

Brilliant! :-)

 

[Claudia]

I'd love for Zar from the Yesterday books to reappear. I was really disappointed when the announced new trilogy got canceled a few years back. But I definitely don't want to open some kind of Pandora's box about the reasons etc.

And though that's not a TrekLit-only character, I'd also enjoy to have Gary Mitchell reappear in a future Trek-novel. "My Brother's Keeper" ranks among my favourite Trek-books, the only other novel I remember that's about this early phase of TOS is "Strangers from the Sky"... I yearn for more. MyrU offers plenty of opportunities to explore AUs after all. *g*

 

[Paris]

They haven't been gone long (they were in the second Titan novel), but I would like to see The Neyel again. An offshoot of humanity that evolved in a completely different environment. They interested me...

I'd also like to see more of some of the Stargazer crew like Gilaad Ben Zoma and Cole Paris. I haven't read the last two Stargazer books by MJF (I'm kind of saving them), so i'm not sure if Cole even survives, but Ben Zoma is the Captain of the USS Hedderjin. I know he was in Death in Winter, and a short story in Tales of the Dominion War, but i'd like him at least get a mention by someone other than MJF. I'd also like to see Cole Paris interact with the rest of his family, as from what we've heard, several of them were in Starfleet. Maybe Tom Paris tells someone some of his family history in a short story anthology or even in a Voyager book.

And, that's great news regarding Captain April's book in 2010 . It will go right there on my shelf beside Pike's Burning Dreams...

 

[LightningStorm]

Not sure if they qualify as long lost, but I would like to see the Even Odds and its crew (Rising Son) again.

Most definitely! 100% this!

 

[Therin of Andor]

Thala, the blind Andorian girl adopted by Selar in "TNG: The Eyes of the Beholders". A bit of retconning needed as, since that book came out, Selar transferred to Excalibur, after promising Thala she was giving up starship duty, and now has a son - and then there's another huge development in "Treason". We've also learned of the Aenar, a blind sub-species of Andorian, so there's some interesting possibilities there.

I'd love someone to start using Xon (ex "Phase II") in novels.

 

[Allyn Gibson]

I'd like to see Arla Rees, from the Millennium trilogy, make a return in the post-finale DS9 novels.

 

[Christopher]

Might be nice to follow up on some of the cadets from The Best and the Brightest.

 

[Csalem]

Might be nice to follow up on some of the cadets from The Best and the Brightest.

That was my thought when I saw the thread title!

 

[William Leisner]

The Bickleys
The B-shift Enterprise-D conn-and-ops husband-and-wife bickering Bickleys, from the first DC TNG comic series. They argued. They dressed like superheroes. It’ll never, ever happen but I’d love to see them again on the Enterprise-E in the post-Countdown comic series.

Guards! Seize him!!

I had wanted, back before the line went on hiatus, to bring back the Imperial Klingon Engineers from Kevin Killiany's SCE: Orphans. They were an interesting bunch that could have been a lot of fun to play with.

 

[ClayinCA]

I'd love for Zar from the Yesterday books to reappear. I was really disappointed when the announced new trilogy got canceled a few years back. But I definitely don't want to open some kind of Pandora's box about the reasons etc.

And though that's not a TrekLit-only character, I'd also enjoy to have Gary Mitchell reappear in a future Trek-novel. "My Brother's Keeper" ranks among my favourite Trek-books, the only other novel I remember that's about this early phase of TOS is "Strangers from the Sky".

Count me in for both of those. I'm not sure I would have wanted a whole 'nother three books about Zar, but one more would have been great, maybe set farther along in Spock's lifespan.

And I always thought there was some potential in a return for Gary Mitchell. I know his powers were depleted/nullified at the time Kirk caused him to be hit by all those rocks, but this was the same guy who took a phaser rifle burst to the chest a few moments before...

Might be nice to follow up on some of the cadets from The Best and the Brightest.

That would be great. Maybe some of them could turn up on the Enterprise-E, or on Titan or Voyager...?

 

[JD]

I'm reading through the Starfleet Academy comics on the DVD collection, and love to see some of the other characters pop up. We know they are in continuity thanks to Pava being on Titan, so I wouldn't be that weird to see Decker or T'Priel (if she sticks around, I haven't gotten the issues resolving her issues yet) pop up on one of the ships we follow. I'd be happy even if Pava just mentioned where they were serving and they were up to.
Oh, and another vote for the Even Odds crew.

 

[Greg Cox]

Captain April
First captain of the 1701 Enterprise, from Final Frontier and Best Destiny. Kindly idealist Brit who never had the heart to fire the phasers.

There will be a Captain April novel named The Millennium Bloom in 2010, written by Mike W. Barr.
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There was also an April story (by yours truly) in STAR TREK: ENTERPRISE LOGS.

 

[Christopher]

(Responding to JD: ) Well, just because a character from the comics shows up in the books, that doesn't mean the events of the comics necessarily happened in the main book continuity. It's an homage, using a fictional character in a different work of fiction. Starfleet Academy is a good series, but it has some questionable things continuity-wise, like a story where a character is in a transporter buffer for four days even though the safe limit is more like eight minutes except in extraordinary circumstances. And its handling of Talos IV in the "Telepath War" arc is incompatible with Burning Dreams.

Of course, there's no reason the other characters couldn't be added to the book continuity. But it's a case-by-case matter.

 

[The Laughing Vulcan]

Bring back Omne!

 

[JD]

(Responding to JD: ) Well, just because a character from the comics shows up in the books, that doesn't mean the events of the comics necessarily happened in the main book continuity. It's an homage, using a fictional character in a different work of fiction. Starfleet Academy is a good series, but it has some questionable things continuity-wise, like a story where a character is in a transporter buffer for four days even though the safe limit is more like eight minutes except in extraordinary circumstances. And its handling of Talos IV in the "Telepath War" arc is incompatible with Burning Dreams.

Of course, there's no reason the other characters couldn't be added to the book continuity. But it's a case-by-case matter.

Oh, ok I see. I was more interested in the characters than the events aways.

 

[DS9forever]

Cregger Lor Mowlanish Dor Crixa Tel, a Human from a lost colony who helped O'Brien destroy the Argolis sensor array in the Sacrifice of Angels Dominion War novel. Last seen being assigned the the Defiant's security team.

 

[Trent Roman]

I'd like to see Arla Rees, from the Millennium trilogy, make a return in the post-finale DS9 novels.

The character is probably too much damaged goods after what she did in the third book. Which is a shame, because I thought she was an interesting character in the first two books, or at least had an interesting take on Bajor, but any character that appeared now, after what happened to her in book three, wouldn't be that Arla Rees anyway.

Fictitiously yours, Trent Roman

 

[ClayinCA]

Bring back Omne!

GUARDS!