El-Aurians

[rahullak]

Is there a book on El-Aurians or is one being considered for the coming years? I was watching the episode where Q pushes the Enterprise into contact with the Borg, again. Q said that Guinan was an "imp" and that she had many other "forms". Guinan seemed to have some sort of defence against Q.
Do we know how Q and Guinan met and what transpired?
Do we know what El-Aurians actually are, apart from a long-lived race of listeners who can vaguely perceive time and space?
Are they finally starting to find each other now that the Borg are no more and they should surely be wanting to contact bring together their long-scattered people?

 

[captcalhoun]

no.
no.
no.
no idea.

hope that helps

 

[Technobuilder]

I've always wanted to read the book that answers all (or most) of the questions you just posed.

I'm still waiting.

 

[Tino]

Are they finally starting to find each other now that the Borg are no more

Cool idea.
Would love to see that one.

 

[Thrawn]

Q and Guinan had some interactions in Bennett's The Buried Age, right? I remember that, but it's been so long I don't remember what they were about or what the context was.

 

[Paris]

^There was information about Guinan in The Buried Age and she played a small role, but she had no contact with Q. Q shows up in the epilogue and talks with the ascended Giriaenn (Ariel), who in turn tells Q about the wonderful Jean-Luc Picard. Q then decides to put humanity on trial, and use Picard as his "accused". The end of TBA leads right into Farpoint.

 

[Christopher]

pushes the Enterprise into contact with the Borg, again. Q said that Guinan was an "imp" and that she had many other "forms".

Then again, Q is not exactly a reliable source.

 

[JD]

For a while now I've been thinking it would be to get a A Stitch in Time, or Burning Dreams type book about Guinan. Although for Guinan it would probably have to be a trilogy, at least.

 

[Deranged Nasat]

I would very much enjoy a "Guinan's story" type book, but I suppose she works best as she is, largely a mystery. The little bits and bobs we've gotten from TNG, "Oblivion", "The Buried Age" "Engines of Destiny" etc were interesting, but I guess too much information would lessen the character's interest unless done really, really well. At least we got to see El-Auria (well, sort of) in "The Star to Every Wandering".

 

[Paris]

For a while now I've been thinking it would be to get a A Stitch in Time, or Burning Dreams type book about Guinan. Although for Guinan it would probably have to be a trilogy, at least.

Not if they get DRG3 to write it

 

[rahullak]

^There was information about Guinan in The Buried Age and she played a small role, but she had no contact with Q. Q shows up in the epilogue and talks with the ascended Giriaenn (Ariel), who in turn tells Q about the wonderful Jean-Luc Picard. Q then decides to put humanity on trial, and use Picard as his "accused". The end of TBA leads right into Farpoint.

I have not read Buried Age yet. Is this ascended Giriaenn the same as Melony in I,Q ?

 

[Paris]

^There was information about Guinan in The Buried Age and she played a small role, but she had no contact with Q. Q shows up in the epilogue and talks with the ascended Giriaenn (Ariel), who in turn tells Q about the wonderful Jean-Luc Picard. Q then decides to put humanity on trial, and use Picard as his "accused". The end of TBA leads right into Farpoint.

I have not read Buried Age yet. Is this ascended Giriaenn the same as Melony in I,Q ?

No. To say anymore would spoil a major part of Buried Age.

 

[rahullak]

I would very much enjoy a "Guinan's story" type book, but I suppose she works best as she is, largely a mystery. The little bits and bobs we've gotten from TNG, "Oblivion", "The Buried Age" "Engines of Destiny" etc were interesting, but I guess too much information would lessen the character's interest unless done really, really well. At least we got to see El-Auria (well, sort of) in "The Star to Every Wandering".

Yes, good point. It's all been build-up about the mysterious Guinan so far....maybe we could have still more build-up, but I was wondering if we could have a payoff soon.

Authors, editors , what say you?

 

[TGTheodore]

For a while now I've been thinking it would be to get a A Stitch in Time, or Burning Dreams type book about Guinan. Although for Guinan it would probably have to be a trilogy, at least.

Two years ago I pitched Pocket a five-novel series covering 500 years, with Guinan being the common thread and main character. (It answered some, but not all the above-asked questions. I am not, among other things, a mystique-buster. That's what ruined the Borg for me)

They said no.

So I went back to writing and composing for the theater.

--Ted

 

[JD]

To bad, that sounds like it had potential.

 

[shanejayell]

I think the "five novel series" was probably the problem. *lol* Bit long.

Hmm. I wonder if a "Lives of Dax" like anthology could work with Guinan?

 

[LutherSloan]

For a while now I've been thinking it would be to get a A Stitch in Time, or Burning Dreams type book about Guinan. Although for Guinan it would probably have to be a trilogy, at least.

Two years ago I pitched Pocket a five-novel series covering 500 years, with Guinan being the common thread and main character. (It answered some, but not all the above-asked questions. I am not, among other things, a mystique-buster. That's what ruined the Borg for me)

They said no.

So I went back to writing and composing for the theater.

--Ted

Since this didn't go anywhere, would you care to share the ideas you had about the character?

Since we're talking about El-Aurians, I wish there was more background on Dr. Tolian Soran. I didn't think he was much of a villain in 'Generations', but there was little background information provided. Memory Beta says he hasn't appeared in any other ST material beyond the film, which is a bit odd.

 

[The Nth Doctor]

I would love read a about the El-Aurians and Guinan (as well as Tolian Soran and Martus Mazur).

 

[TGTheodore]

I think the "five novel series" was probably the problem. *lol* Bit long.

Hmm. I wonder if a "Lives of Dax" like anthology could work with Guinan?

I did have a single novel with five "sections" version as well. Even though my idea was nothing like the Captain's Table series, they thought it was.

I really suck at pitching.

--Ted

 

[Christopher]

I think the "five novel series" was probably the problem. *lol* Bit long.

I did have a single novel with five "sections" version as well.

Reminds me of The Buried Age. Years and years before Marco invited me to do that book, I had a tentative idea for a "Picard's missing years" trilogy I hoped to pitch someday. Pretty much nothing from that tenuous concept survived into TBA, but my trilogy thoughts did influence the format of the book, with a "prologue" section of the Stargazer court-martial followed by a three-part main story.