Enterprise books

[Julio Angel Ortiz]

This interview with Margaret Clark states that the Romulan War was to be a 3-book series:

http://trekmovie.com/2007/03/07/new-novels-to-mine-trek-history/

But that's in the interviewer's words, not Margaret's. It's possible Margaret just said she was considering the possibility of doing it as three books, and the interviewer jumped to the conclusion that it was a sure thing. I mean, it's from four years ago. Any plans that far in advance are bound to be tentative. Remember when A Time to... was going to be 12 books and Typhon Pact was going to be 6?

Yes, but my point in posting that is that there *is* out there something (attributed to then-editor Clark, no less) that stated the Romulan War was supposed to be a trilogy. I had read that same interview years ago and it always stuck in my head that it was supposed to be a trilogy. Others could have read it as well and been left with the same impression.

 

[Therin of Andor]

The FASA Four Years War was against the Klingons, not the Romulans.

Yes, I know, and that was pointed out in the original discussion I was recalling. But "four years" was often mooted for the Earth-Romulan Wars, too. (Maybe also in "Best of Trek" articles?)

there *is* out there something (attributed to then-editor Clark, no less) that stated the Romulan War was supposed to be a trilogy. I had read that same interview years ago and it always stuck in my head that it was supposed to be a trilogy. Others could have read it as well and been left with the same impression.

As I said earlier, yes, I also recall people assuming she meant a trilogy and MargaretClark just as quickly replied that she had not specified "trilogy" and had deliberately kept the length open.

 

[Christopher]

Yes, I know, and that was pointed out in the original discussion I was recalling. But "four years" was often mooted for the Earth-Romulan Wars, too. (Maybe also in "Best of Trek" articles?)

The Spaceflight Chronology put the Earth-Romulan War in 2106-9, so around three years give or take. The Romulan Way puts it at 25 years' duration. As far as I know, the earliest source to propose a 4-year duration for the ERW was the Okuda Chronology, which conjecturally placed it in 2156-60. The novels we're discussing here have actually bumped the start of the war up a year to 2155, so either it'll be 5 years long in the novel continuity or it'll end sooner than the Okudachron date.

 

[Defcon]

FWIW In March 2010 only one more book was was definitely planned:

There has been much speculation how The Romulan War will continue, and the only thing Michael can reveal right now is “that there will be at least one more Romulan War book.”

(from my interview with him at the end of March 2010)

That was ambiguous enough to allow a trilogy, but sounded to me like it would end after the second novel even back then, unless the first one would sell like gangbusters in the reprint (the interview was about half a year after the release of the TPB).

 

[F. King Daniel]

For whatever it's worth, the aborted movie Star Trek: The Beginning was gonna reduce the Earth/Romulan War to a week-long battle in Earth orbit between Romulan drone ships and Earth forces in October 2159.

I know aborted movies don't count, but it's interesting to see what might have been had Paramount not had their reshuffle at the top. At the very least, I applaud it for continuing Entetprise's spirit of reinvisioning Trek's past rather than treating the apocryaphl sections of the old 1994 Star Trek Chronology as gospel truth.