Future of Next Gen Lit??

[Mage]

An option that hasn't been mentioned is for the novels to explore the backstory from the Countdown comic series. If they were to do that, it would reintroduce Data as the new captain, which could be cool if done right.

Data was a very much loved character. His death was a sad moment in Star Trek. Bringing him back from the dead in Countdown was a horrible to treat the character, showing no respect whatsoever.. If they were to do so in a novel, I can tell you only a handfull of people would pick it up.

 

[GalaxyClass1701]

If it does end I'd like to see a series of novels here and there similar to Worlds of DS9 two stories in one novel focusing on post ENT careers.

And Like others have said stories that take place during season 1 through pre Nem

 

[captcalhoun]

It'll be Worf, and reconstructed Data, Lore, B4, Lal, and Mother. The mission will be to ressurrect Soong and bring got the age of the mecha to combat the age of the great changeling invasion.

sounds like bad fan-fic

 

[ICW]

I could see Picard being accepting promotion to admiral. The Enterprise is the flagship of the fleet, Picard the most decorated officer in Starfleet.

But, I don't see why we can't keep the current crew as is. I'm very comfortable with the current crew...

 

[Arpy]

It'll be Worf, and reconstructed Data, Lore, B4, Lal, and Mother. The mission will be to ressurrect Soong and bring got the age of the mecha to combat the age of the great changeling invasion.

sounds like bad fan-fic

No, man, no. It'd be epic! And the series could end with the Enterprise being reinfected by remnants of the ancient library from "Masks" left over in nuData's head and having to de destroyed by torpedoes blasting it left and right by Calhoun and Shelby like with the BoP in ST:VI! How's that for an end to a starship Enterprise?!

 

[Plaristes]

I never said Countdown was a good story. However, a good author can use a bad story as a backdrop to tell a good story. To give two Star Wars examples, KJA's Jedi Academy Trilogy sucked hard, but Stackpole's I, Jedi is outstanding, and Revenge of the Sith was pretty lame, but Stover's novelization is one of the best SW novels ever written.

 

[GalaxyClass1701]

It'll be Worf, and reconstructed Data, Lore, B4, Lal, and Mother. The mission will be to ressurrect Soong and bring got the age of the mecha to combat the age of the great changeling invasion.

sounds like bad fan-fic

No, man, no. It'd be epic! And the series could end with the Enterprise being reinfected by remnants of the ancient library from "Masks" left over in nuData's head and having to de destroyed by torpedoes blasting it left and right by Calhoun and Shelby like with the BoP in ST:VI! How's that for an end to a starship Enterprise?!

Sounds like swill to me!

 

[Dark Gilligan]

Captain Ro.

Then who would be in command of DS9?

Does it matter anymore? DS9 can't be as strategically important as it once was now that Bajor is free, the Dominion War is long over, and the Borg are gone once and for all. And with the advent of slipstream drive there are other ways of getting to the Gamma Quadrant, hence the potential for less traffic through the wormhole.

 

[Trek Survivor]

This would allow for the return of Data, Riker, and Troi. There are lots of gaps to fill in, especially in the Enterprise-E days.

Agreed. The crew are supposed to have spent as much time (or more?) on Enterprise-E as they did Enterprise-D, but we have comparatively few stories of this time.

And I would love a few more novels set during the original TV series timeframe as well.

 

[ryan123450]

Wow, hadn't thought about the fact that the wormhole is almost worthless in the modern timeframe. That makes DS9 alot less important.

 

[GalaxyClass1701]

The wormhole is still important.

 

[GalaxyClass1701]

Ok I dont know why everyone thinks the wormhole is worthless?? The only faction that has slipstream is Starfleet. If 100% of the rest of the Alpha and Beta Quadrent want to go to the Gamma quadrant they have to go through the wormhole.

 

[Arpy]

Gentlemen, ladies, I know you can't hear me being sarcastic, but how silly do I need to get before you can read me being sarcastic?!

 

[zarkon]

Data was a very much loved character. His death was a sad moment in Star Trek. Bringing him back from the dead in Countdown was a horrible to treat the character, showing no respect whatsoever..

I think you'll find that Nemesis was a horrible way to treat a character. Countdown was rubbish, but bringing data back should really be done at some point.

If they were to do so in a novel, I can tell you only a handfull of people would pick it up.

Pretty sure the reverse would be true.

Gentlemen, ladies, I know you can't hear me being sarcastic, but how silly do I need to get before you can read me being sarcastic?!

needed more gundam data.

 

[Arpy]

Gentlemen, ladies, I know you can't hear me being sarcastic, but how silly do I need to get before you can read me being sarcastic?!

needed more gundam data.

 

[Dark Gilligan]

The only faction that has slipstream is Starfleet. If 100% of the rest of the Alpha and Beta Quadrent want to go to the Gamma quadrant they have to go through the wormhole.

Not true at all. That's like saying the only way connecting the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans is through the Panana Canal. The wormhole is a shortcut, not the exclusive means of access. And as technology and starship speeds continue to evolve, the wormhole's importance as a means of access will decrease.

 

[BrotherBenny]

I was opposed to Margaret bringing the DS9 timeline forward to sync up with the rest of Treklit but I was willing to give it a shot. It seems as though I was right, the DS9 crew have been split up just like the TNG crew have been.

I can see that in a few years, unless we abandon the late twenty-fourth century, that Trek Lit will begin to wind down. I'm not saying that the writers can't tell good stories, God knows they can and we've got the best writers we've ever head, but the relaunch-era books just seem to be jumping ahead by 6-9 months at a time.

Nemesis (2002) occurred in 2379 and Destiny (2008) occurred in 2381, that's six years in real time to cover 2-3 years in-universe. In the last three years of real time, we've covered another 2 years of in-universe time. By 2017 we'll have reached the Hobus supernova, perhaps even sooner than that. I personally prefer series to move forward at their own pace (the way the DS9R started and the way Vanguard is now) rather than being artificially synced just to be able to have more characters available. I want the ST Lit line to go out with a bang when it eventually does, not a whimper, but I feel that if we keep going on the way we are, it'll be a fizzle.

I'm hoping that this trend does not continue.

 

[F. King Daniel]

Personally, I don't think there's enough TNG in the TNG relaunch as-is. I never warmed to the E-E's newbies, and TNG stick-arounds Geordi, Worf and Beverly are dull as ever. Therefore, if the remaining crew split up I wouldn't be too bothered.

Ambassador Picard dragging Beverly and child along to the Titan or Aventine for the odd diplomatic assignment may be the way to go.

 

[C.E. Evans]

I guess the question that has to be asked is "How far can we go with TNG?" The post-Nemesis era has seen a number of changes to the crew of the Enterprise-E with new faces replacing those who have moved on with their careers, but has the limit now been reached where it can still be called TNG or can it go further?

 

[JWolf]

I guess the question that has to be asked is "How far can we go with TNG?" The post-Nemesis era has seen a number of changes to the crew of the Enterprise-E with new faces replacing those who have moved on with their careers, but has the limit now been reached where it can still be called TNG or can it go further?

I'm currently reading Paths of Disharmony and I am enjoying the current TNG crew. It is not an issue of "the old crew is gone so it cannot work". It's a matter of if the replacement main crew can be well written and in this case, I say yes they can.