Did any pre-TNG books take place after the TOS era?

[TalkieToaster]

I think the TNG ep "Captain's Holiday" was the first canonical Trek story to either take place in the show's future or involve people from that future. Does anyone know of any pre-TNG expanded universe stories that took place in TOS's future or involved future time travelers?

 

[F. King Daniel]

I think the TNG ep "Captain's Holiday" was the first canonical Trek story to either take place in the show's future or involve people from that future. Does anyone know of any pre-TNG expanded universe stories that took place in TOS's future or involved future time travelers?

Crossroad by Barbara Hambly. One of my all-time favourites.

If only Discovery had the courage to show the future Federation taking this turn.

Spoiler: cause

And holy shit, Nurse Chapel is on Strange New Worlds so they could have gone all-out epic

 

[TalkieToaster]

Crossroad by Barbara Hambly. One of my all-time favourites.

If only Discovery had the courage to show the future Federation taking this turn.

Spoiler: cause

And holy shit, Nurse Chapel is on Strange New Worlds so they could have gone all-out epic

Thanks, but I meant stories that were published before TNG debuted and that book was published in 1994

 

[Christopher]

I believe The Entropy Effect involved characters who'd time traveled from years or decades in the future, but I'm not aware of any published stories that took place in TOS's future.

 

[Unimatrix Q]

I vaguely remember a TOS novel (by John M. Ford?) that had Klingons from the future as part of the plot.

But i'm not sure if it was originally released before TNG.

 

[Christopher]

I vaguely remember a TOS novel (by John M. Ford?) that had Klingons from the future as part of the plot.

But i'm not sure if it was originally released before TNG.

You're probably thinking of Timetrap by David Dvorkin, which came out in 1988, about 8 months after TNG premiered, and involved

Spoiler: Timetrap spoiler

a Klingon plot to make Kirk think he was a century in the future and dealing with peaceful Klingons, so that he'd let slip some crucial intelligence because it was just "history" now -- borrowing a plot from an old comic book that was also featured in a James Garner movie and one or two Mission: Impossible episodes. It was surely written before TNG premiered, but possibly after the announcement of the series and the fact that the Federation and Klingons would be at peace therein. So I always figured it was intended to capitalize on the audience's interest in TNG, to make them think it was a crossover, while also taking advantage of their awareness of TNG so that they'd be fooled into thinking the peaceful future Klingons were real. If not, it was certainly well-timed to have that effect.

 

[Unimatrix Q]

You're probably thinking of Timetrap by David Dvorkin, which came out in 1988, about 8 months after TNG premiered, and involved

Spoiler: Timetrap spoiler

a Klingon plot to make Kirk think he was a century in the future and dealing with peaceful Klingons, so that he'd let slip some crucial intelligence because it was just "history" now -- borrowing a plot from an old comic book that was also featured in a James Garner movie and one or two Mission: Impossible episodes. It was surely written before TNG premiered, but possibly after the announcement of the series and the fact that the Federation and Klingons would be at peace therein. So I always figured it was intended to capitalize on the audience's interest in TNG, to make them think it was a crossover, while also taking advantage of their awareness of TNG so that they'd be fooled into thinking the peaceful future Klingons were real. If not, it was certainly well-timed to have that effect.

Yep, that's the one.

 

[Stevil2001]

You're probably thinking of Timetrap by David Dvorkin, which came out in 1988, about 8 months after TNG premiered, and involved

Spoiler: Timetrap spoiler

a Klingon plot to make Kirk think he was a century in the future and dealing with peaceful Klingons, so that he'd let slip some crucial intelligence because it was just "history" now -- borrowing a plot from an old comic book that was also featured in a James Garner movie and one or two Mission: Impossible episodes. It was surely written before TNG premiered, but possibly after the announcement of the series and the fact that the Federation and Klingons would be at peace therein. So I always figured it was intended to capitalize on the audience's interest in TNG, to make them think it was a crossover, while also taking advantage of their awareness of TNG so that they'd be fooled into thinking the peaceful future Klingons were real. If not, it was certainly well-timed to have that effect.

The movie is 36 Hours, based on a Roald Dahl short story. James Doohan appears in the film, fact fans.

I think Dvorkin must have known about TNG, because the Klingons tell Kirk the Enterprise of their "era" has a Klingon officer, a nice bit of fakeout for the reader.

 

[STMSTS]

The Picard double in “Time Squared” was from 6 hours in the future.