If you could change one thing...

[F. King Daniel]

God (or maybe Q) has given you the power to make one change to TrekLit. What would you do? 'Undo' a plot point you hated? Kill/Unkill a character? Change the outcome of some conflict? Erase a certain book from the cosmos? Replace the TNG Klingons with the TFR variety?

I would: KILL CHAKOTAY.
I hate Chakotay. He is, without doubt, the most boring character in Star Trek history. Begone!

 

[Thrawn]

This answer probably misses the point of your post, but my first instinct was to say that I would un-lay-off Marco Palmieri.

 

[Christopher]

Seconded.

 

[Herbert1]

I agree that Marco Palmieri should get his old job back.

^I like Chakotay and don't want him to be killed. Robert Beltran may not have liked doing Star Trek Voyager, but I wouldn't wish his character to be killed for that.

I didn't like that Morjod, Martok's bastard son, began to transform into a Hur'q at the end of The Left Hand of Destiny Book II. I really enjoyed both of those books until that happened. I would have just had him stay Klingon throughout the book and be slain by Martok during the battle on Boreth. I get it that Morjod was supposed to Mordred and Gothmara was supposed to be Morgana to Martok as King Arthur, but it still doesn't make any sense that she would want to transform her son into a Hur'q.

 

[Steve Roby]

What Thrawn and Christopher said. Marco was behind a lot of my favourite Trek books and series.

 

[Christopher]

I would make the Enterprise really, really tiny.

 

[Herbert1]

I would make the Enterprise really, really tiny.

Star Trek: The Fantastic Voyage?

 

[JD]

This answer probably misses the point of your post, but my first instinct was to say that I would un-lay-off Marco Palmieri.

Seconded.

I agree that Marco Palmieri should get his old job back.

What Thrawn and Christopher said. Marco was behind a lot of my favourite Trek books and series.

I'm with these guys. I think I might have also set up the current TNGR cast as soon as the series started.

 

[Greg Cox]

Honestly, after they cast Patrick Stewart as Picard, they should have just bit the bullet, changed his name, and made him British. Then we wouldn't have been stuck with the least French, most English Frenchman ever . . . .

 

[JD]

Has any ever tried to explain why he seemed so British when he was supposed to be French?

 

[seigezunt]

Has any ever tried to explain why he seemed so British when he was supposed to be French?

'tis a pity that Peter Sellers was dead at that point. He would have done a great job.

 

[captcalhoun]

yes, Carey did in her Day of Honour book as i recall.

i'd undo the Andorian four-gender thing.

that or the frigging holo-strike guff, which is lame and i never even read the books.

 

[Nardpuncher]

I don't know if this counts, but the TNG books now would all happen during the original 7-year mission, instead of going all Expanded Universe and taking place long after the party's over and everyone's gone home like it did.

 

[William Leisner]

I would have ensured a bit more consistency amongst the three TNG 2007 releases (Resistance, Q & A, Before Dishonor). I probably also would have done at least one less Borg story, perhaps two...

 

[Christopher]

Has any ever tried to explain why he seemed so British when he was supposed to be French?

Europe is already practically a single country. Four centuries from now, the distinction between British and French may be no greater than that between Pennsylvanian and Virginian. The Picard brothers may have commuted by transporter to an English school, or maybe went to boarding school in England, and could've picked up the accents there.

 

[James Swallow]

Europe is already practically a single country.

Believe me, it's really not.

 

[William Leisner]

Europe is already practically a single country.

Believe me, it's really not.

Bah! What would you know about it?

 

[Warp Coil]

Gee... there are a few random ideas I would consider...

- Bring back Marco Palmieri. Yeah, that's a given. You don't need to think twice about this one.

- Un-do the four Christie Golden VOY-Relaunch novels and replace them with more compelling stories written by someone else. Assuming, of course, that they don't impact the awesomeness of Kristen Beyer's Full Circle and Unworthy.

- I'd have improved the pacing of the DS9 relaunch novel releases, so that a few more books could have been published to help the story along (to offset the massive time jump that's about to take place in the Typhon Pact series).

- Change Janeway's fate? I wasn't particularly afffected by it, but I'm not sure if it was necessary. I like the new direction of the VOY-Relaunch so it may be fine to just leave it alone.

- Perhaps a stronger, more tightly-written TNG-Relaunch. The novels thus far have been a little uneven.

 

[Greg Cox]

Has any ever tried to explain why he seemed so British when he was supposed to be French?

Europe is already practically a single country. Four centuries from now, the distinction between British and French may be no greater than that between Pennsylvanian and Virginian. The Picard brothers may have commuted by transporter to an English school, or maybe went to boarding school in England, and could've picked up the accents there.

Yeah, in the back of my head, I've always suspected something like that--especially after Picard went home to "France" and all his relations were played by British character actors!

 

[Christopher]

Then there's my stock answer: accents change over time, so who's to say the 24th-century French accent doesn't sound like a 21st-century English accent? (Except that the actors playing Picard's parents used French accents. A generational shift?)

Accent evolution could also explain why Scotty's and Chekov's accents sound "wrong." Maybe that's how the accents really sound by then.