Dayton (or anyone else), if you ever have anything to do with a TOS/TAS 5YM novel, please make it the Mr. Arex epic the world has needed since before I was born.
I miss the old days...
- Thread starter Garm Bel Iblis
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M'Ress: "I'm ready for my close-up Mr Ward, mmmmpppprrrr."
^ "Aren't you dead?"
Well I don't
But seriously, I do think it's about time for at least TNG to swing back around to some in-series stuff. Personally, I'd let it ride one more year, and for the 25th anniversary in 2012 put out a huge epic trilogy like String Theory.
In my fantasy world, William Leisner writes this trilogy, because he's the only author I've ever read that made me give a shit about Beverly Crusher. For this accomplishment, I wish him gainful future employment writing TNG.
With Miranda Kadohata making vital in-series appearances after all those times we just missed seeing her onscreen.
Oh, good. I was worried, after paying taxes, that this month's bribe check wouldn't clear...In my fantasy world, William Leisner writes this trilogy, because he's the only author I've ever read that made me give a shit about Beverly Crusher. For this accomplishment, I wish him gainful future employment writing TNG.
Like Dayton said, "I still haven't fulfilled my personal goal of writing a good, old-fashioned TOS/5-year mission era novel. Danced all around it, but that one still eludes me." I've done a collaboration and a short story, but I want a novel I can call my own.
Similarly, I've been trying to interest IDW or Pocket in a notion from the first season of TNG but no one has bitten yet.
Similarly, I've been trying to interest IDW or Pocket in a notion from the first season of TNG but no one has bitten yet.
Put me down for "alongside": "on air"-era books intermixed with continuations, lost eras, and other such explorations of the characters and situation.
I've usually tended to prefer the books that were off the usual path and poked around some of the side stories, but that might be an artifact of the books either "staying out of the way" of a series while on-air, or contradicted by it. Since post facto novels wouldn't be affected by that, it might be different.
On the other hand, if you have too many of those, then the characters' "schedule" can get overcrowded. (They have to be allowed to sleep sometime!)
I've usually tended to prefer the books that were off the usual path and poked around some of the side stories, but that might be an artifact of the books either "staying out of the way" of a series while on-air, or contradicted by it. Since post facto novels wouldn't be affected by that, it might be different.
On the other hand, if you have too many of those, then the characters' "schedule" can get overcrowded. (They have to be allowed to sleep sometime!)
That's one reason I'd rather see (and do) more fiction set in the post-TMP era as opposed to the TOS era. That "five-year mission" is impossibly overcrowded with stories by this point, but the post-TMP era is still largely wide open.
By the same token, there's still room for TNG stories set between "All Good Things" and Generations, and there were a number of novels and comics that availed themselves of that timeframe after TNG went off the air, but not so much anymore. And there's plenty of room for Enterprise-E adventures in the movie era.
I wouldn't mind seeing a Capt Terrell and the crew of the Reliant story. I like that cameo in Mere Anarchy. More Lost Era books between the ENT and TOS.
But seriously, I do think it's about time for at least TNG to swing back around to some in-series stuff. Personally, I'd let it ride one more year, and for the 25th anniversary in 2012 put out a huge epic trilogy like String Theory.
In my fantasy world, William Leisner writes this trilogy, because he's the only author I've ever read that made me give a shit about Beverly Crusher. For this accomplishment, I wish him gainful future employment writing TNG.
You know, I haven't read Losing the Peace yet, but it just moved to the top of my reading list for exactly this. Any man who could ever make me care about Beverly Crusher has taken Montgomery Scott's place as Miracle Worker.
That's a really interesting idea, and I hope they go for it (I'd prefer a novel, but either would be great).
Totally agreed, and that period also offers more possibilities with the regular characters, coming as it does in a period of transition in their lives. Quite apart from my love for, say, Ex Machina and The Covenant of the Crown themselves, I just like the idea of stories set during that time-frame, and would love to read more.
I pitched that to Marco about three years ago but never heard anything- I'll have to dig it out and try with the new regime...
Perhaps a "post-TMP relaunch" series following on from Ex Machina? Maybe drop in a few hints along the way that some of the old 80's post-TMP novel events (the Rihannsu etc.) are going on between relaunch novels.
Then we have plenty of room for both, and you author folk are just going to have to work harder. That's all there is to it.
I miss the good old days too the days before that Genesis Wave book series....
please oh please...
Me too, I miss the Good Old Days of 2 years ago when Margaret & Marco were minding the store.
Alas, the Golden Age of Treklit has passed.
But another Golden Age might flower once the new editorial regime gets its ducks in a row. I'm looking forward to it.
In the mean time, I'll still be enjoying new Trek books a great deal more than I did back in the glutted, boring, "Arnoldized" '90's. Hell, I still have over a hundred titles from that era that I've never read -- and likely never will, as I think I've already read most everything of value from that era.
Alas, the Golden Age of Treklit has passed.
But another Golden Age might flower once the new editorial regime gets its ducks in a row. I'm looking forward to it.
In the mean time, I'll still be enjoying new Trek books a great deal more than I did back in the glutted, boring, "Arnoldized" '90's. Hell, I still have over a hundred titles from that era that I've never read -- and likely never will, as I think I've already read most everything of value from that era.
Boy, the way old Trek was made
Those interstitial escapades
And $5.50 was all we paid
Those were the days!
And you knew who the cast was then
No worrying about what's now canon
Mister, we could use a man like John Ordover again.
Diane Duane and L.A Graf
Spinning yarns on our behalf
And keeping out the young riffraff
Those were the days!
Those interstitial escapades
And $5.50 was all we paid
Those were the days!
And you knew who the cast was then
No worrying about what's now canon
Mister, we could use a man like John Ordover again.
Diane Duane and L.A Graf
Spinning yarns on our behalf
And keeping out the young riffraff
Those were the days!
