Captain Sulu's Excelsior Crew

[S'kai]

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I am thinking up an entirely self-promotional novella about my Vulcan origins. It takes place during the movie era when Sulu is a Captain. Aside from TUC is there any indication in novels or popular fan lit of who the crew was, and where any of the TOS characters were?

I'm not asking you to do my research for me, and will be wiling to buy and read the original sources if you can point me in the right directions.

 

[Timewalker]

Are we to understand that you are a Vulcan, posting on this forum? If so, you are from the future, and therefore must surely be better versed in such matters than we 21st-century humans.

 

[Procutus]

Well, I'd start with the novel The Captain's Daughter as well as the early Sulu audio adventures on tape (don't know if they're available on CD or not).

That's off the top of my head, if I think of any others, I'll post again.

 

[Kirkunit]

The Voyager episode "Flashback(?)" takes place on Sulu's Excelsior. We learn Tuvok was a member of Sulu's crew -- and IIRC his other crew members get a little more air time.

 

[Trekker4747]

The Voyager episode "Flashback(?)" takes place on Sulu's Excelsior. We learn Tuvok was a member of Sulu's crew -- and IIRC his other crew members get a little more air time.

I believe Rand was there too.

The episode, I'm sure, gives names of other crew on the ship so watching that episode should be all you need to do to get the "canon" crew of the ship. (Or, I guess, you could check the Star Trek Wiki Memory Alpha), Memory Beta may also have the info for non-canon sources. But I'd only use the canon one because, well, it's canon.

 

[sbk1234]

I think there was a book in the "A time to..." series that featured Capt. Sulu. If I remember correctly, Chekov was his first officer.

Does anyone have more specifics on this, or am I totally mind-farting?

 

[cardinal biggles]

No, you're thinking of The Sundered, which was a Lost Era novel. In addition to Rand, you also have Chekov as his first officer, Tuvok as his science officer, and Chris Chapel as his CMO.

 

[sbk1234]

^^^Yes. Thank you for the correction.

 

[Ronald Held]

How many names beside Sulu, Rand, Tuvok and Valtane are canonically known?

 

[Therin of Andor]

Well, I'd start with the novel The Captain's Daughter as well as the early Sulu audio adventures on tape (don't know if they're available on CD or not).

Yes, they were. Simultaneous release. And the special "3-D" sound effects worked much better on the CD versions than the cassette tape versions.

"Transformations: A Captain Sulu Adventure" by Dave Stern, performed by George Takei, Dana Ivey and Daniel Gerroll, 1994, 70 min.

"Cacophony: A Captain Sulu Adventure" by J.J. Molloy, performed by George Takei, Simon Jones, Maryann Plunkett, Lynne Thigpen and Lee Wilkof, 1994, 70 min.

"Envoy: A Captain Sulu Adventure" by L.A. Graf, performed by George Takei, Essene R., Jenifer Lewis, Nan Martin, Howard McGillan and Meredith Monk, 1995, 70 min.

 

[Therin of Andor]

How many names beside Sulu, Rand, Tuvok and Valtane are canonically known?

There was also Lojur who was also named canonically. The novelizations identified him as being Halkan ("Mirror, Mirror").

That's it.

http://memory-alpha.org/en/wiki/USS_Excelsior_personnel
http://startrek.wikia.com/wiki/USS_Excelsior_(NCC-2000)

 

[tharpdevenport]

And from "Star Trek: Generations", his daughter is the helmsman.

 

[Therin of Andor]

And from "Star Trek: Generations", his daughter is the helmsman.

of the Enterprise-B, though.

 

[tharpdevenport]

You're right, sorry. Slip of memory there. But one would assume she grew up on the Excelsior.

 

[Therin of Andor]

But one would assume she grew up on the Excelsior.

Nope. The idea of families on starships didn't hit vogue until the Galaxy class ships. And the novels haven't assumed she spent much time with Dad either.

 

[Procutus]

But one would assume she grew up on the Excelsior.

Nope. The idea of families on starships didn't hit vogue until the Galaxy class ships. And the novels haven't assumed she spent much time with Dad either.

If memory serves me correctly, Traitor Winds may have been one of the original 'Lost Era' novels (set between the end of TOS and the beginning of ST:TMP) that covered that aspect of the Sulu/Demora relationship.

 

[Therin of Andor]

If memory serves me correctly, Traitor Winds may have been one of the original 'Lost Era' novels (set between the end of TOS and the beginning of ST:TMP) that covered that aspect of the Sulu/Demora relationship.

"Traitor Winds" was a "Lost Years" instalment, not the "Lost Era". It came out six months before Demora Sulu was even invented (for "Generations").

Aren't you thinking of "The Lost Era: The Sundered"?

Or "The Captain's Daughter"?

 

[A beaker full of death]

Are we to understand that you are a Vulcan, posting on this forum?

Indeed. I should think one would have some mastery of the language before trying to write a novella.

 

[A beaker full of death]

But one would assume she grew up on the Excelsior.

Horseshit. Children do not get posted to starships (until that TNG stupidity).

 

[Ronald Held]

Thanks, Therin. I did not recall Lojur.