Chekhov MIA??

[zarkon]

I love how in (I think) The Return, kirk finds out that scotty had made it into the 24th century, and then regards mccoy, and the dialogue is something like "unlike himself and scotty, mccoy had gotten there the hard way, one day at a time".

Made mccoy's existence in that era seem more special.

 

[Christopher]

Going by what I've heard and actually read:

Kirk-Living as a hermit on Chal (Per Captain's Glory).
Spock-Living in the 23rd century, doing the unknown.
McCoy-Apparently alive per ASD.
Scotty- "Dead" per Indistinguishable from Magic. (Not read, but I refuse to believe he's gone. lol...)
Sulu: Unknown
Chekov: Apparently alive per Vulcan's Soul.

You missed one. Uhura is still alive and working for (heading?) Starfleet Intelligence as of Vulcan's Soul.

 

[WarsTrek1993]

Ah, thank you!

 

[Relayer1]

In fact there's a Starfleet nursing home with the entire TOS crew in it...

 

[zarkon]

ahhhhhh

I'd completely forgotten

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Star-Wreck-Undiscovered-Nursing-Home/dp/0312951221/ref=cm_cr_pr_pb_i

the best

 

[cdgodin]

Which books in the TNG-and-after timeframe feature the TOS crew?

 

[Therin of Andor]

Which books in the TNG-and-after timeframe feature the TOS crew?

Go to Memory Beta and type each character's name into the search engine.

eg. http://memory-beta.wikia.com/wiki/Leonard_McCoy#Later_years

 

[Smoked Salmon]

Why do all the TOS crew have to be alive in the 24th Century anyhow?

Always struck me as a bit silly.

 

[RPJOB]

Spock is naturally long lived so that makes sense. They way they brought back Scotty was a lot of fun and very much in character for him. The rest of them should be long gone.

I find myself with a bit of a paradox. We've got characters that are alive much longer than you'd think they would be. At the same time we're faced with death being treated as less than permanent for others. Why are these people not dead vs why are these people alive (again).

 

[zarkon]

McCoy makes sense, forefront of medical science and all that(although their medical science seems a bit pathetic, by our 24th century I suspect we'll have cracked immortality...assuming the human race makes it).

Anyone else other then spock & scotty should really have croaked.

 

[Christopher]

McCoy makes sense, forefront of medical science and all that(although their medical science seems a bit pathetic, by our 24th century I suspect we'll have cracked immortality...assuming the human race makes it).

Anyone else other then spock & scotty should really have croaked.

I don't follow that logic. If McCoy had access to cutting-edge life extension technologies, wouldn't he share them with his friends and loved ones before using them on himself?

 

[zarkon]

I don't follow that logic. If McCoy had access to cutting-edge life extension technologies, wouldn't he share them with his friends and loved ones before using them on himself?

I'm talking about the kind of stuff that needs years of testing and official approval, that may carry serious side effects, which he'd want to try on himself first - do no harm and all that.

 

[toughlittleship]

Are the Vulcan's Soul books partof current "continuity"? I don't remember Uhura being mentioned in any of the Destiny novels.

 

[Deranged Nasat]

Are the Vulcan's Soul books partof current "continuity"?

They are.

 

[21Spike65]

Are the Vulcan's Soul books partof current "continuity"? I don't remember Uhura being mentioned in any of the Destiny novels.

I believe Uhura was considering retirement as far back as Catalyst of Sorrows in 2360, so by the time of Vulcan's Soul in 2377, she had to be really thinking about it. By the time of Destiny four years later, it's very possible that she's finally retired, if she's still alive.

It seems like it's been suggested that Marta Batanides might be heading up Starfleet Intelligence now. Her prominent background role in some of the more recent novels would tend to support her having some type of high-up role, even if it didn't immediately identify her position.

 

[Captaindemotion]

Star Trek XXIII - So Very Tired.

 

[F. King Daniel]

While I don't have a problem with Uhura being alive in the TNG era, the idea of her as some sort of spymaster sounds like a bad fanfic to me. Head of Starfleet linguistics or something like that, or retired, fine. But shady intelligence agent? Ugh.


As for character ages, I'll make my obligatory mention of Admiral Archer in STXI, a century before TNG's time. And although some say he was a descendant of Jonathan Archer, the writers intended it to be the same guy from Enterprise, and cited McCoy's cameo in "Farpoint" to justify it. Perhaps that can be used (retconningly) to pinpoint roughly when human lifespans shot up. IIRC, Dr Phlox gave 100 as the upper human lifepan during the Enterprise TV show.

Oh, and Morgan "Number One" Primus is another TOS survivor into the TNG era - although she's certainly a unique case.

 

[Therin of Andor]

the writers intended it to be the same guy from Enterprise, and cited McCoy's cameo in "Farpoint" to justify it. Perhaps that can be used (retconningly) to pinpoint roughly when human lifespans shot up. IIRC, Dr Phlox gave 100 as the upper human lifepan during the Enterprise TV show.

But even ENT gave Archer an extended career and lifespan, attending the launch of April's Enterprise at an advanced age, and passing away the next day:


Archer biography by Therin of Andor, on Flickr

Archer "...died at his home in upstate New York in the year 2245, exactly one day after attending the christening ceremony of the first Federation starship Enterprise, NCC-1701".

Although Mike Sussman, who wrote the text that would appear on the computer screen, never expected it to be legible (and part of it wasn't) or necessarily canonical.

 

[Christopher]

Although Mike Sussman, who wrote the text that would appear on the computer screen, never expected it to be legible (and part of it wasn't) or necessarily canonical.

Yeah... if you look at the text of his Hoshi bio (Page 1, Page 2), it's pretty clear that everything but the last paragraph is just cribbed from her character description in the third-season writers' bible, with the present tense changed to past in a few cases.

 

[ClayinCA]

You know, as pedantic as the internet can be, I'm astounded that no one's complained about the OP's spelling of "Chekhov" yet.