Were there ever any novels written about the crew that took over the Enterprise A after TOS crew stepped down after UDC?
Enterprise A novels?
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According to dialogue in Star Trek VI, the Enterprise-A was decommissioned shortly after it and the crew returned to Earth, and Star Trek Generations shows the commissioning of the Enterprise-B roughly a year (or so) after those events.
The crew was decommissioned I watched the film yesterday and in the closing monologue Kirk mentioned that the ship would be manned by another crew.
Also ENT A was still a pretty brand new ship why would the ship be decommissioned so fast.
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The Ashes of Eden.
The Enterprise is sold to a civilian concern to defend the world of Chal. Retired Kirk ends up captain.
Although Shatnerverse, this book fits just as well in the normal novel continuity.
Best Destiny's framing story (set immediately after the end of STVI) ends with the ship and crew getting a reprieve from decomisioning. I think a few books, like Shadows on the Sun, fit into this mini-mission exension.
Also: Back in the day (i.e. when he was alive), Gene Rodenberry was quite adament that the -A was a refitted TOS Connie, renamed. IIRC he said it was previously the Yorktown.
Mr. Scott's Guide to the Enterprise, on the other hand, claimed it was a new Transwarp ship, formerly USS Ti-Ho.
The Ashes of Eden.
The Enterprise is sold to a civilian concern to defend the world of Chal. Retired Kirk ends up captain.
Although Shatnerverse, this book fits just as well in the normal novel continuity.
Best Destiny's framing story (set immediately after the end of STVI) ends with the ship and crew getting a reprieve from decomisioning. I think a few books, like Shadows on the Sun, fit into this mini-mission exension.
Also: Back in the day (i.e. when he was alive), Gene Rodenberry was quite adament that the -A was a refitted TOS Connie, renamed. IIRC he said it was previously the Yorktown.
Mr. Scott's Guide to the Enterprise, on the other hand, claimed it was a new Transwarp ship, formerly USS Ti-Ho.
A crew doesn't get decommissioned; they get reassigned to other ships when theirs is decommissioned/mothballed/etc. Uhura was speaking of the ship itself.
One possible fate for the Enterprise-A is offered up in the Shatner/Reeves-Stevens novel The Ashes of Eden.
One possible fate for the Enterprise-A is offered up in the Shatner/Reeves-Stevens novel The Ashes of Eden.
I don't buy that I think the more believable explanation is the Yorktown (like the Defiant A) that A was just a renamed already existing Constitution Class starship.
There was theory in one of the tech books (Mr. Scotty's Guide to the Enterprise?) that the E-A was the Yorktown and just given a new name. So, it wasn't a new ship but rather an existing Constitution ship which had already been refitted, or was about to have its refit finished. Given the problems the ship had at the start of Star Trek V, some of that would make sense. If the ship was as old as the original Enterprise, then that fits with the "decommissioned" line in ST VI.
Personally, I like the Enterprise-A being the renamed Yorktown theory and that it was a ship that was really almost as old as the original Enterprise. I'd also like to think that Kirk's crew was standing down because Starfleet had already made the decision in advance that the Enterprise-A was going to be decommissioned later that year in Star Trek VI, and the pounding she took in the movie merely accelerated things.
As far as "this ship and her history will shortly become the care of another crew," I thought that was in reference to the Enterprise-B and her crew continuing the Enterprise legacy forward...
As far as "this ship and her history will shortly become the care of another crew," I thought that was in reference to the Enterprise-B and her crew continuing the Enterprise legacy forward...
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Although it runs contrary to what I said in the "should novels fix plot holes" forum, I think an opportunity was missed in not blowing up the 1701-A bridge in a novel between STIV and V, thereby explaing why it looked totally different in the latter.
Come to think of it, Black Fire already did this between the TOS and TMP bridges
Although it runs contrary to what I said in the "should novels fix plot holes" forum, I think an opportunity was missed in not blowing up the 1701-A bridge in a novel between STIV and V, thereby explaing why it looked totally different in the latter.
Come to think of it, Black Fire already did this between the TOS and TMP bridges
^ But then you'd need a similar "fix" to "explain" the bridge differences between ST V and ST VI.
That's at least three novels' worth of material right there!
That's at least three novels' worth of material right there!
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That's it? We can get an nine-book maxiseries just out of how the Enterprise-D's warp core ended up on the A, I'm sure.
This looks like a job for Greg Cox!
I'm sure he can tie it together with Gary Seven and a nefarious scheme where the 1701-D conference and engine rooms are stolen and hidden a hundred years in the past on the -A.
I'm sure he can tie it together with Gary Seven and a nefarious scheme where the 1701-D conference and engine rooms are stolen and hidden a hundred years in the past on the -A.
That is an easy one not only the warp core, but a lot of the ENT-D's hallways and transporter pad were used because of the low budget of the film.
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Building good sets is very expensive. I'm a huge Trekkie, but if I were in charge and someone said "We need to build the innards of a giant starship for this film!", I would probably say, "Another one? Use the ones we've already got!"
Then I'd sit back and laugh as fans went into fits trying to explain it all
Building good sets is very expensive. I'm a huge Trekkie, but if I were in charge and someone said "We need to build the innards of a giant starship for this film!", I would probably say, "Another one? Use the ones we've already got!"
Then I'd sit back and laugh as fans went into fits trying to explain it all
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lol that is probaly how it happened! To be honest the only one that bugged me was the warp core. When they showed the Core I would have just used stock footage from TWOK.
Building good sets is very expensive. I'm a huge Trekkie, but if I were in charge and someone said "We need to build the innards of a giant starship for this film!", I would probably say, "Another one? Use the ones we've already got!"
Then I'd sit back and laugh as fans went into fits trying to explain it all
lol that is probaly how it happened! To be honest the only one that bugged me was the warp core. When they showed the Core I would have just used stock footage from TWOK.
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Also "Rogue Saucer" did this to show why the Enterprise D bridge looked different in Generations compared to the TV set.Although it runs contrary to what I said in the "should novels fix plot holes" forum, I think an opportunity was missed in not blowing up the 1701-A bridge in a novel between STIV and V, thereby explaing why it looked totally different in the latter.
Come to think of it, Black Fire already did this between the TOS and TMP bridges
Couldn't you do another story about how the Original Refit Enterprise's Corridors ended up on the 1701-D?
How about a novel explaining why Ten Forward replicates the design of the Federation President's office c. 2293? (Yes, I know it's actually vice-versa, but I'm speaking in-universe here.)
It could be vice versa anyway if you sneak it into DTI.
"Dulmer, what happened to those Enterprise-D blueprints we rescued from Rasmussen that you were carrying around?"
"Gee, Lucsly, I must have dropped them in the Palais de la Concorde Design Department when Future Guy shot at me."
"Oh man, I hope we didn't change history!"
Cue end-of-episode laughter and pan out.
"Dulmer, what happened to those Enterprise-D blueprints we rescued from Rasmussen that you were carrying around?"
"Gee, Lucsly, I must have dropped them in the Palais de la Concorde Design Department when Future Guy shot at me."
"Oh man, I hope we didn't change history!"
Cue end-of-episode laughter and pan out.
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