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Bring back...long lost TrekLit characters!

Don't laugh, but I had the idea myself about ten years ago for a sequel to the Phoenix duology. Picard (and the 'gazer) versus Omne, because that would be about right for when he's emerge from the temporal loop or black hole or whatever it was he was stuck in at the end of Fate.

I never did anything with it. In retrospect, I should've written it as a Strange New Worlds story. :)
 
I for one would like to see the return of Omega Squad from Starfleet Academy. I'll be happy to throw out the "Telepath War" arc, but I'd love to find out how T'Priel and Eban turned out. :)

I think it's too bad the novels haven't really taken the opportunity to develop one particular character to give Section 31 a face in its recurring appearances. Mister Cole and L'Haan are the closest things to this.
 
I'm surprised no one has mentioned him yet, but I would like to see Berat from Betrayal again. I would also like to see Kobry, the Klingon ambassador from Strike Zone. I believe he was in a comic before that.
 
I'd like to see more of Diane Duane's writing and her Enterprise crew-folk: Harb Tanzer, Lia Burke, Naraht, etc.
 
I always liked Chief Tomson, the Enterprise security chief in several of the novels (mainly J.M. Dillard's, but I think a few other authors used her as well) for TOS before TNG came out.
 
I always liked Chief Tomson, the Enterprise security chief in several of the novels (mainly J.M. Dillard's, but I think a few other authors used her as well) for TOS before TNG came out.
I was just going to say that! Her and the other Dillard security staffers, like Stanger and Lamia, the Andorian with the celery-green eyes.
 
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.

Omega Squad was also mentioned in Mission Gamma: Cathedral, which alluded to, if not diectly mentioned, Matt Decker (something about Nog being in the squad with the great-grandson of a historic Starfleet Admiral). I would also like to see thiose characters again.

(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.
Well, the cadets trip to Talos IV, which was the set-up for the Telepathy War, was also mention in MG:Cathedral. And all we saw of Talos in SA was a Jem Hadar infested battlefield, so the cities and the Talosian civilization seen in BD might still have been there, perhaps on another continent. And even though BD mentioned something about the Talosians applying for Federation membership, to my knowledge, this has never been followed up on.


I'd like to see more of Diane Duane's writing and her Enterprise crew-folk: Harb Tanzer, Lia Burke, Naraht, etc.
Duane's Janice Kerasaurus was in SCE: War Stories, set during the Dominion War, as a veeeery old Starfleet officer. Also Terise Haleakala-LoBrutto, aka Arrhae, is mentioned as still being alive as of Nemesis in the last book of the Vulcan's Soul trilogy.
 
Francis Drake Reed, George Kirk, and Captain Robert April.

No, thanks. The characterization in Final Frontier never worked for me. George Kirk was a slight variation on his son, and the rest of the characters had one personality quirk each. One or two lucky ones also had some kind of ethnic stereotyping going on to make it seem like they had two facets to their personality.
 
May not be the right thread, as it's not about a Lit character, but has Dr. Pulaski been in any of the TNG/DS9/VOY Relaunch books?
 
May not be the right thread, as it's not about a Lit character, but has Dr. Pulaski been in any of the TNG/DS9/VOY Relaunch books?
She did put in an appearance in the SCE novella Progress, which established that she was still alive and well in 2377. I think that's the most recent we've seen her, not counting Mirror and Myriad universes.
 
Man, I haven't thought of Pulaski in ages. I'm pretty surprised that no one has bothered to mention her much at all, but I can't remember a reference..
 
I for one would like to see the return of Omega Squad from Starfleet Academy. I'll be happy to throw out the "Telepath War" arc, but I'd love to find out how T'Priel and Eban turned out. :)

+1

also Ael and the crew of ChrR Bloodwing. I know Diane had to "hit the reset button" at the end of "The Empty Chair", but I'd've paid to see what happened next if she hadn't had to.

barring that, whatever happened to T'Kir from "Debt of Honor"?
 
May not be the right thread, as it's not about a Lit character, but has Dr. Pulaski been in any of the TNG/DS9/VOY Relaunch books?
She did put in an appearance in the SCE novella Progress, which established that she was still alive and well in 2377. I think that's the most recent we've seen her, not counting Mirror and Myriad universes.

She was also in A Time for War, A Time for Peace, at the Riker's wedding in 2379.
 
The crew of the Enterprise under Pike, as established in Early Voyages. We've had Moves-With-Burning-Grace thrown in here and there, but the rest of the crew are all but forgotten. I'm espeically fond of Nano and Mohindas, but would love to see the whole gang return.

And, while he's not exactly "long lost", I'd like to see more of Kahnrah, from Klingons: Blood Will Tell.
 
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I'm with you on the Early Voyages crew. Were there any different crewmembers established in Burning Dreams?
 
I'm with you on the Early Voyages crew. Were there any different crewmembers established in Burning Dreams?

Burning Dreams didn't actually have that much on the Enterprise as far as I remember. It definitely referenced Grace, I think if it mentioned anyone else they might have just been the crew members seen in The Cage/The Menagerie.
 
1. Quentin Stone
2. Herans
3. Early Voyages crew
4. Starfleet Academy crew
5. Hive
6. Stargazer crew
7. Grim Vargo
8. Nuyyad
9. Samir al-Halak
10. Astrid Kemal
 
Not sure if it counts as it was a while ago, but Pulaski was in the DS9 Double Helix novel.
 
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