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Just wanted to re-iterate that this thread is primarily about one-shot characters and ideas that only appeared in the shows/movies but never again. I've never heard of most of these book-only references.
Ah, in that case, definitely Saavik. And also Erika Benteen and the USS Lakota from DS9: Homefront & Paradise Lost.
 
One of the short stories in Distant Shores anthology covered that.
Thanks, I'll check it out.
Though on that subject, I would love to see how far that species has advanced by the era of the current Voyager novels. Seems to me that they could be mighty allies for Project Full Circle.
By 2382 they have either achieved an insanely high technological level, non-corporal form and maybe the possibility to somehow realign their planet to the rest of the universe or extinction due to war. I hope it's not the extinction thing.
 
I know she's already been brought back once in the books, but I'd like to check in with Valeris again, as well as see what Saavik is up to these days (although I've never liked the idea that it was she whom Spock married, so maybe I should be careful what I ask for).

Not sure how this would work, but I'd love to see someone do something with Sybok.

Has Ensign Garrovick from "Obsession" ever turned up anywhere? He'd be an interesting character to bring back.
 
Not sure how this would work, but I'd love to see someone do something with Sybok.
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Has Ensign Garrovick from "Obsession" ever turned up anywhere? He'd be an interesting character to bring back.
He's reappeared two or three times over the years -- the movie-era novel In the Name of Honor (set between The Final Frontier and The Undiscovered Country) has him escaping from a Klingon prison-colony, and he also shows up later in the Enterprise-A era DC Comics graphic novel Debt of Honor.

Garrovick makes another appearance in the TMP-era book Home is the Hunter, but this one's more difficult to reconcile with the others, since the character apparently dies during the events of the story.
 
I would like to see what happened to Marasta Yale after First Contact (the episode not the movie).
The mention earlier of Rugal does make me wonder what has become of him in the post Destiny era.
I would love to see Saavik in the post Destiny era.
I would love to see the Full Circle fleet revisit some more of the races and planets from the TV series, like the Vidiians, Kazon, someone already mentioned The Hierarchy, and I wouldn't mind seeing them expanded on a bit. I've been especially curious about the Vidiians since they made an offhand reference to the group from Think Tank curing The Phage. With so much of their society seeming to revolve around dealing with The Phage during the series era, curing it would have had to bring about major changes.
 
I was going to say Teresa Garcia and Meyo Ranjea from DTI, but I'm hoping they'll appear in Time Lock later this year.

Having read an advance cooy of this a few months ago, I can say that I don't recall that very much of the book is spent with them.
 
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Just about every noteworthy character who's appeared on screen has managed to come back already.

I'd like to see K't'lk come back.
And how about Piper?
 
By 2382 they have either achieved an insanely high technological level, non-corporal form and maybe the possibility to somehow realign their planet to the rest of the universe or extinction due to war. I hope it's not the extinction thing.

Not necessarily extinction due to war, if that's any better; it could've been natural collapse of their civilization. I mean, they were at 1 of their days every 1.03 seconds, and it's been about 6 years between that episode and 2382, that's the equivalent of about 500,000 years for them. (With some variance depending on the "natural" length of a day on the planet, of course; probably anywhere between 250,000 and 1,000,000.) A single civilization surviving that long continuously would be very unlikely even in Star Trek, especially one where off-planet resource collection wouldn't be possible at a feasible rate from the surface perspective. :( (Though I suppose it could be the civilization collapsing without extinction, then a new civilization rising, etc. Honestly, in 500,000 years, that could have happened a few times.)

I'd prefer to think non-corporeal form too, myself. Or maybe evacuation?
 
When did Valeris return? What has she been up to in the TNG era and beyond?

Valeris is featured in Cast No Shadow by James Swallow. It's set in 2300, with flashbacks to events leading up to "The Undiscovered Country." I don't know of any later appearances of Valeris in the novels.
 
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