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

[JD]

NovusInceptum said:
I would like to see more Voyager novels, with concepts like:
- Voyager shifting to the mirror universe

There's no shifting involved, but there is an entirely MU set Voyager story in the second book of the Mirror Universe series, Obsidian Alliances

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Plus, I'd like to see way more crossover series like Invasion!, although I'd have to struggle through the DS9 entries, seeing as DS9 is my least favorite.

There have been quite a few of these including:Gateways, Double Helix, and The Badlands which are probably the closest to what I understand Invasion to have been like, and there have also been other crossovers based around a similar theme like Day of Honor and Section 31. We are also supposed to be getting a big crossover with elements of most of the series , which is supposed to have a huge impact on the Trek Lit verse later this year.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

JD said:
There's no shifting involved, but there is an entirely MU set Voyager story in the second book of the Mirror Universe series

Ah, but it's technically not a mirror Voyager, is it?

(I realize that such a thing wouldn't be possible...unless it's set in an alternative MU where the Terran Empire still exists. Now THAT I'd like to see!)

 

[KRAD]

^ No, but the story includes Chakotay, Kate Janeway, Harry Kim, Tuvok, B'Elanna, Tom, Seska, Lewis Zimmerman, Annika Hansen, Kes, Neelix, and Miral.

 

[ClayinCA]

Christopher said:
Hah! As if even you could ward off my bad puns.

That would be a Dayton remember, wouldn't it?

 

[captcalhoun]

(I realize that such a thing wouldn't be possible...unless it's set in an alternative MU where the Terran Empire still exists. Now THAT I'd like to see!)

a MU-voyager appeared in the shat's 'Spectre', created by the Alliance like the rebels created the MU-Defiant...

 

[EJA]

I agree with earlier posters on this thread in wanting to see Valeris come back in some way. I'm amazed no one's tried to continue her story after TUC. Personally, I'd like to see her redeemed somehow.

And I'd like to see more of the House of Duras, particularly in regards to Lursa's son from "Firstborn".

 

[Vastator]

EJA said:
I agree with earlier posters on this thread in wanting to see Valeris come back in some way. I'm amazed no one's tried to continue her story after TUC. Personally, I'd like to see her redeemed somehow.

And I'd like to see more of the House of Duras, particularly in regards to Lursa's son from "Firstborn".

I completely forgot about Lursa's son... I wonder if Toral and him would get along...

 

[JWolf]

I'd like to see a story based on the Bolian Barber aboard the NCC1701-D and all the thills and adventures of cutting hair for all the different aliens.

I'd also like to see a story where there is a battle scene and Picard has to leave the bridge to go to the bathroom.

 

[Trent Roman]

JWolf said:
I'd like to see a story based on the Bolian Barber aboard the NCC1701-D and all the thills and adventures of cutting hair for all the different aliens.

Actually... Mot the Barber was a featured character in the first two Genesis Wave books (his homeworld is in the path of the wave).

Fictitiously yours, Trent Roman

 

[JWolf]

But did they tell you his backstory about why he was named after applesauce?

 

[JoeZhang]

JWolf said:
But did they tell you his backstory about why he was named after applesauce?

see, where I'm from, Mot has a different meaning entirely - it's slang for the vagina.

 

[elric428]

I would love to see Picard as Dixon Hill on the TOS Piece of the Action planet.

 

[Turtletrekker]

JoeZhang said:
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.

In the comic Enter the Wolves by Trek novel veterans A.C. Crispen and Howard Weinstein, when Spock is about to force a mind-meld on a Cardassian prisoner in the same manner as he did Valeris in ST6, McCoy responded...

"Don't you remember what you did to Lieutenant Valeris? She was a Vulcan-- and she never recovered!"

And EtW was set in 2327, over 30 years after ST6.

 

[Arpy]

I'd like to see more of aliens and situations that originated in the lit. Like going back to the planet Eeiauo from Uhura's Song...or the Grigari (Millennium Trilogy) invading the Carnelians (The Buried Age)...well, not that.

It just seems a shame to me that all these great aliens and storylines are created, visited once (even if that once is really in-depth over the course of an entire novel or tetralogy), but then left behind. I appreciate it when a writer-fan includes the odd Hamalki (The Wounded Sy) or Choblik (Orion's Hounds) or Vahni (Twilight) sitting in the back at Quark's, but one yearns for more.

 

[hellsgate]

I'd like to see Doctor Pulaski come back for a cameo appearance toward the end of The Dominion War, just as everything's wrapping up after The Battle Of The Bassen Rift & Riker's about to get knocked over to the Small Magellanic Cloud with the crew of the Titan. Will she have her own ship? Preferably, I'd like to see her in the center seat of a Legacy-Class starship, designed by Galen & Kaden of SciFi-Meshes.Com

Arpy, would you mind explaining who the Carnelians are? I haven't had a chance to read "The Buried Age" yet, but I hear its VERY good.

 

[captcalhoun]

Pulaski cameos in A Time for War, A Time for Peace by Keith DeCandido at the Riker/Troi wedding.

 

[Cicero]

From where is this ship?

 

[Vastator]

Ah the Grigari, would be nice to hear from them again. I believe the Millennium books state that they reside in the Delta Quadrant.

 

[Christopher]

...or the Grigari (Millennium Trilogy) invading the Carnelians (The Buried Age)...

The Carnelians would kick their collective tuchas.

It just seems a shame to me that all these great aliens and storylines are created, visited once (even if that once is really in-depth over the course of an entire novel or tetralogy), but then left behind. I appreciate it when a writer-fan includes the odd Hamalki (The Wounded Sy) or Choblik (Orion's Hounds) or Vahni (Twilight) sitting in the back at Quark's, but one yearns for more.

For what it's worth, I'm always looking for opportunities to revisit species I introduced in earlier works. Someday I hope to reveal what the Shesshran (Ex Machina) are up to in the 24th century.

Arpy, would you mind explaining who the Carnelians are? I haven't had a chance to read "The Buried Age" yet, but I hear its VERY good.

In "Legacy," Picard revealed that he first met Tasha Yar saving colonists from a "Carnelian minefield." Given the timing, I pretty much had to make that part of the climax of The Buried Age. I didn't just want to make them aliens from the planet Carnelia or something, given that carnelian is an English-language word for a type of gemstone. So they became the Regnancy of the Carnelian Throne, a multispecies empire sort of thingy, comparable to the Federation in size and power, but very distant from it. Their members include at least a couple of species glimpsed in the background of DS9 episodes, though that's only implicit in the book.

 

[EliyahuQeoni]

Has Commodore Robert Wesley, from The Ultimate Computer and One of Our Planets is Missing, been expanded on in any of the novels? It would be interesting to find out what made him leave Starfleet to become the governor of Mantilles and if he ever returned to the fleet or what he became of him after the 2260s.

Another thought: What of Christopher Pike and Vina's son, Philip Pike, from DC Comics Star Trek #61 - A Door in the Cage? I always thought it would have been nice to see him as the first Talosian ambassador to the Federation. Perhaps in a follow up to Burning Dreams.