Characters or situations you'd like to see in the books?

[JoeZhang]

Here's one to start us off - Valeris.

Was she ever seen again after her canon appearance? Is she still rotting in a federation prison in the TNG era? It would be interesting to see how she regards her actions with the benefit of hindsight.

 

[JD]

I checked her entry on Memory Beta and the thing they had for her was Undiscovered Country. I do know we do see her Mirror Universe counterpart in Sorrows of Empire , though.

 

[The Laughing Vulcan]

Situations...


Needs more tribble porn.


And have I already mentioned smurfs?

 

[KRAD]

There was also a comic book story done by DC that was a sort of prequel to TUC that involved both Saavik and Valeris. It was, I believe, a backup story in an annual, and wasn't bad, as I recall.

 

[Christopher]

KRAD said:
There was also a comic book story done by DC that was a sort of prequel to TUC that involved both Saavik and Valeris. It was, I believe, a backup story in an annual, and wasn't bad, as I recall.

It was the second story in DC's Star Trek Special #2, "A Question of Loyalty" written by Steven H. Wilson. I thought it was very good.

 

[JoeZhang]

I've got that issue - it is a quite good story.

 

[William Leisner]

The Laughing Vulcan said:
Needs more tribble porn.

What exactly constitutes porn for an asexual species?

 

[Christopher]

William Leisner said:
What exactly constitutes porn for an asexual species?

I don't know, but I know it when I don't see it.

 

[BrotherBenny]

I'd like to see more character biographies for officers we've only seen once or twice.

Like Captain DeSoto of the Hood. He's been mentioned several times and has a bare bones backstory. I think someone like that could be really fleshed out, like Margaret Wander Bonanno did for Pike.

 

[EliyahuQeoni]

I wouldn't mind seeing something done with pre-TMP Will Decker and/or Ilia. Or something fleshing out Commodore Matt Decker, one of my favorite TOS guest stars.

 

[ClayinCA]

Count me in for wanting to see something done with Valeris (particularly in the "Vulcan's Noun"-era books). I too fondly remember that DC story, and even at the time I thought it would be good to read more about the character.

 

[Christopher]

Xeris said:
I'd like to see more character biographies for officers we've only seen once or twice.

Like Captain DeSoto of the Hood. He's been mentioned several times and has a bare bones backstory. I think someone like that could be really fleshed out, like Margaret Wander Bonanno did for Pike.

I doubt that whole books revolving around minor characters like that would sell very well. However, I'd love to see more Brave and the Bold volumes, team-ups between the regular crews and various guest captains, told from the guests' POV.

 

[DarKush]

Characters I would like to see revisited or explored:

Morgan Bateson
Valeris
Tryla Scott
Donald Varley
Charlie Reynolds
Daneeka
Erika Hernandez
Demora Sulu (as captain of the ENT-B)
John Harriman-more Harriman
Chakuun and Ngultor species from the Star Trek Early Voyages comic
Heran, Hive species from Trek literature
Mother of Jason Vigo
Erika Benteen
Aquiel Uhnari
Ariana LaForge
Captain Leitjen (sp) of the Victory
Colonel Green


Situations I would like to see:
Sisko v. Borg
Borg v. Dominion
Norkan Massacre
First Contact between the Klingons and Fed (2218)
Battle of Donatu V

 

[Christopher]

DarKush said:
Characters I would like to see revisited or explored:
...
Donald Varley

Varley has a cameo role in The Buried Age.

Erika Hernandez

Aren't she and Columbia going to play a role in the upcoming ENT novel Kobayashi Maru?

First Contact between the Klingons and Fed (2218)

That date was never more than conjectural, and has been contradicted by ENT having the first human-Klingon contact occur in 2155. I think the conjecture comes from the statement in TUC that hostilities between the Federation and Klingons had been going on for 75 years, but it was purely an assumption that the start of hostilities corresponded to first contact. Whatever happened in 2218 or thereabouts was probably the first overt combat between Federation and Klingons, not the first contact.

 

[foravalon]

More Valdyr and Peter Kirk!

More Ruanek and T'Selis!

A reunion of Thala and Selar from TNG's "The Eyes of the Beholders".

And more Valdyr and Peter Kirk!!!

 

[foravalon]

Christopher said:

First Contact between the Klingons and Fed (2218)

That date was never more than conjectural, and has been contradicted by ENT having the first human-Klingon contact occur in 2155. I think the conjecture comes from the statement in TUC that hostilities between the Federation and Klingons had been going on for 75 years, but it was purely an assumption that the start of hostilities corresponded to first contact. Whatever happened in 2218 or thereabouts was probably the first overt combat between Federation and Klingons, not the first contact.

There's no contradiction, Earth of the 2150's is not the unified Federation Government of the 2210's or 20's. Here's a nice quote that someone wrote quite succinctly over at MA, and I think it's a pretty accurate take on the subject:

"The term first contact describes the first official encounter between representatives of two races or governments. Occasionally, the official first contact takes place years or even decades after members of the species involved have first met."

Also, it was not purely an assumption that the start of Klingon hostilities corresponded to first contact, it's a fact, in TNG's First Contact Picard stated explicitly that it was a disastrous affair which led to decades of war.

And the reference to TUC you mention was Spock's line regarding the dismantling of the space stations and star bases along the Neutral Zone, signifying an end to seventy years of unremitting hostility.

If Spock's time estimate is true, and Picard's description is true it would seem to imply that a disastrous official first contact occurred around this time period that led to about seven decades of occasional war and all around unremitting hostility.

It may be a conjecture but it's an informed conjecture accurately based on the Canon, and nothing shown in ENT really undermines that.

 

[HIj'Qa]

Things not done:
Shran
Rain Robinson and Roberta Lincoln saving Earth from the Temporal Cold War
Medusans
A Dom War story involving the shapeshifters we've seen in the Alpha Quad [ Vendorian, Marta, the B'tin, etc.] Internment planets or Behind Enemy lines??
Sisko on the Saratoga
zhian’tara rite for Curzon


More of
Pike
Sulu

 

[foravalon]

Yeah! Roberta and Rain! I'd love to see that!

I don't know about the B'tin, but I think the Vendorian's planet already has a Quarantine on it, Marta was the only known member of her species which had previously been thought to be mythical, the Allasomorphs of Daled IV are notoriously private and I think try not to contact outsiders, the Space-jellys are, well, giant space-jellys, (christopher has already written about them), the Rigelian hypnoid seems to be pretty much a trained animal like a mimicking parrot, and the Wraiths of Dakala, well, yeah, they might be a problem...

I'd read it!

 

[JD]

I just remembered something I've wanted to see for ages, a conclusion to the story of the alien kid from Future Imperfect. It's alwasy driven me crazy that Riker bonds with the kid, takes him up to the ENT-D, and then we never see or hear about him again.

 

[foravalon]

/\ Seriously!