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guest characters would you like to see in Trek Lit

What about a prime universe version of Keenser?

The flashbacks to Keenser's youth on his homeworld in Star Trek Ongoing #14 are set three years before Kirk's birth, meaning they actually take place in the Prime Universe. I'm pretty sure those scenes are the only Prime Universe content in Ongoing.
Issue #19 has scenes set in 2231 and 2232 during Scotty's childhood.

Issue #33 "Lost Apollo, Part 1" has scenes set in 1970.
 
I would like to see Vash reappear in a DS9 setting. I'm kind of disappointed she didn't recur there throughout the series, she seems like a character who fit right into the setting. Sure, there's the Millennium trilogy, but I'd sooner 'broad stroke' those events with modern novel continuity if it means she reappears.

When I read the original question Vash came to mind immediately. She appeared in Greg Cox´ Worst of Both Worlds, but that was Mirror Universe and her fate wasn´t diserable. :confused:
 
Mirasta Yale. Got to First Contact on my re-watch of TNG on blu ray and really liked her a lot. I've always wondered what happened to her.

Yes, agreed. When I first watched Star Trek, and not entirely understanding how TV worked, I actually expected her to show up again at some point, and was disappointed when she never did.

There was a reason for her non-recurrence. From Dennis in the Axanar thread:

"The producers of TNG included the character "Mirasta Yale" in the episode "First Contact" as a potential recurring character to replace Wes Crusher when it was known that Wheaton would be leaving the show. One reason that didn't happen was that free-lance writers were credited on that episode along with staff. Ensign Ro, created by staff writers, eventually filled the desired role."
 
Just wondering what guest characters folks would like to see more in Trek Lit?

For me, I always wished Nicholas Locarno (from First Duty) would have been explored more in the novels.


It would be great to see Nicholas Locarno meeting Tom Paris ;)
 

I second that. I liked his appearance in Vulcan´s Heart. :rommie:

It's probably my favorite Trek novel ever written.

And speaking of which: Another character I want to see again - CHARVANEK! I totally love the way she is written in that novel; she is of course a fearless warrior but also has a wicked sense of humor. Hell, I'm pining for her to appear onscreen in a film! :rommie:
 
I liked the Sherman/Shwartz novels (Vulcan´s Heart, Vulcan´s Forge) very much. But I didn´t like their contribution to the Tales of the Dominion War. The Dominion War timeframe obviously wasn´t their strong suit. I don´t judge author´s works by just reading short stories, so maybe they are better at writing whole novels.

Charvanek is also a well-written character. :)
 
I'd love see what Mirror Universe Donatra is like.

--Sran

The question is: does MU Donatra even exist? Or, that being the case, is she still alive?

On the other hand, we meet several characters in the MU who are already dead in the primary universe.

That raises following question: who is dead in the PU and is likely to appear alive in the MU without having already been mentioned by one of the MU authors?

Dexter Remmick, he he he :lol:. Chances are that he is either a slave or a dead slave. The parasites exist in the MU, too. Remmick, being still alive in the MU, could be killed off again :devil:
 
^There's no way to know if she's alive or dead; however, there's also no reason why a novel written during an earlier time period (in which she was alive) couldn't feature her in some capacity.

--Sran
 
^There's no way to know if she's alive or dead; however, there's also no reason why a novel written during an earlier time period (in which she was alive) couldn't feature her in some capacity.

--Sran


Good point.
When there is MU Hiren (still alive, contrary to his counterpart), there must be Donatra (somewhere :lol:
Hopefully there is no MU Shinzon!
 
No one has said it yet, so how about Gul Dukat? Hey, if the Prophets sent Sisko back to the corporeal realm, could the Pah Wraiths do no less with Dukat?
 
^IIRC, Dukat was imprisoned by the Prophets after Sisko tackled him and threw him into the fire in the Bajoran Fire Caves; wherever he went, he can't get out.

--Sran
 
Hopefully there is no MU Shinzon!

It'd be unlikely.

In the MU, Picard is a civilian archaeologist working for Gul Madred. There'd be no reason for the Romulans to clone a Terran slave like that, because he's not that important.
 
Maybe not at first; however...

Picard eventually plays a significant role in the Terran Rebellion/Revolution and helps bring down the Alliance. It's possible--albeit unlikely--that the Romulans would have attempted to clone him after seeing his value to the Terrans.

--Sran
 
About that last bit:

The MU Romulans are allies of Terra, aren't they? Those that survived the Alliance genocide of Romulus, joined the Rebellion's fleet, as per Praetor Hiren's orders. So why would they need to clone Picard, assuming they have any capacity to do so?
 
I´ve just returned from the thread I created in the DS9 forum. MU Eddington as guest character I´d like to see again. David Mack did a great job of writing about im in Rise like Lions.

And, for that matter, I add Luther Sloan to that list.

Unfortunately
he is quite dead in both universes
:shrug:

And: even if there is no further DTI novel planned, I´d like to see more of Lucsley, Dulmur, Agent Garcia, Ranjea and others (Morgan Bateson, Clare Raymond etc.).
 
About that last bit:

The MU Romulans are allies of Terra, aren't they? Those that survived the Alliance genocide of Romulus, joined the Rebellion's fleet, as per Praetor Hiren's orders. So why would they need to clone Picard, assuming they have any capacity to do so?

Who says it has to be the Romulans that do the cloning? There's always the off-chance that another power creates their own version of Shinzon. In any event, I just finished re-reading Rise Like Lions this weekend and imagined Donatra standing/sitting/hovering among the various unnamed Romulan ship commanders mentioned throughout the text.

Although the Valdore was heavily damaged and eventually repaired by Memory Omega, there's no evidence that Donatra was aboard the ship or that she perished when the vessel was initially attacked.

--Sran
 
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