If you could change one thing...

[Dayton Ward]

^ Not being facetious at all. I love Captain Proton, and would give Kevin's right arm to write something in that vein.

 

[JD]

We did get one CP book already, Captain Proton: Defender of the Earth. Anyone read it? Either way, I would love to see more Capt. Proton stories.
EDIT: Turns out there was one in The Amazing Stories too.

 

[captcalhoun]

^ Not being facetious at all. I love Captain Proton, and would give Kevin's right arm to write something in that vein.

yeah, Kev don't need a right arm at all, does he?!

 

[DGCatAniSiri]

Well, the typing could be done with one hand, so since he'd still have the left...

 

[Dayton Ward]

^ And it's not as though he hasn't had plenty of practice in that regard.


Oh, wait......was that out loud?

We did get one CP book already, Captain Proton: Defender of the Earth. Anyone read it? Either way, I would love to see more Capt. Proton stories.
EDIT: Turns out there was one in The Amazing Stories too.

Yep. I even had Robert Duncan McNeill autograph the cover of a copy several years ago at a con. He was very jazzed to see it, having not even known such a thing existed. I was very envious of Dean Wesley Smith at the time that project was announced, but I thought he did a terrific job parodying the style of those old pulp mags.

 

[langdonboom]

^ Not being facetious at all. I love Captain Proton, and would give Kevin's right arm to write something in that vein.

One of the most moving moments for me in the VOY relaunch is when, after their rift over Paris' keeping the Belanna-secret from Harry, Tom and Harry are locked in the holodeck and you hear the voice of Chaotica ominously announce their doom, signaling that they must play their old Captain Proton holoprogram like it or not; it just brought home the depth of what's passed between these two guys over the years, and in one sentence brought home that what might have otherwise been some frivolous fun between the two of them was actually some really important male-bonding time between two life-long friends who's relationship, unfortunately, had been recently subjected to some very painful circumstances...

Best use of Captain Proton ever! Though Janeway's having to play along in the series always made me smile.

To answer the original post -- clearly I would have asked someone to write a book set between Soul Key and the Typhon Pact addressing the Ascendants and the various other hinted at issues in the DS9 relaunch.

AND I might not have had the new crew of the Enterprise-E mutiny the way they did. I'm all for a tweaking of Roddenberry's vision if its an improvement somehow, but I just didn't see a Starfleet crew mutinying over what they did, especially under Captain Picard, a hero many times over.

Besides that, I think I've enjoyed pretty much every relaunch book immensely!

 

[Rush Limborg]

I would not have changed Ezri's personality in the DS9 relaunch...
Have her transfer to command.

Have her learn how to command.

Give her her own starship--and a beauty, she is, the Aventine--

But don't change what we, her fans since the show, have always loved about Ezri Dax--her warmth, her kind winsomeness, and her honest respect for those close to her--especially Dr. Julian Bashir.

Ezri's development was handled in a convincing way, I think. In essence, she found the way to become a different person by finally accessing and accommodating the memories of previous Dax hosts. That she would change, even in fundamental ways, after that seems obvious to me.

The breakup with Bashir can be explained without resort to any of that, however. She chose a new path -- command -- that would take her away from him. If she wanted to commit herself to Bashir, it's likely she would not have chosen command. Many, many relationships do not survive career demands and choices, especially in a military environment. Why should Ezri and Bashir be immune to those pressures?

Oh...I understand why it happened. I'm just not convinced it had to happen that way. I mean--If Picard and Crusher can do it, and Riker and Troi....

And...as for the pressures...no, I'm not saying have them immune. Just...if only Ezri had not taken him for granted so many times....

 

[Rush Limborg]

^ Not being facetious at all. I love Captain Proton, and would give Kevin's right arm to write something in that vein.

yeah, Kev don't need a right arm at all, does he?!

Dayton is his right arm.

Wouldn't you say so, Mr. Ward?

 

[JD]

To answer the original post -- clearly I would have asked someone to write a book set between Soul Key and the Typhon Pact addressing the Ascendants and the various other hinted at issues in the DS9 relaunch.

Isn't it a little early to be asking for that, when we don't even know what The Rough Beasts of Empire is about?

 

[Snaploud]

I would not have changed Ezri's personality in the DS9 relaunch...
Have her transfer to command.

Have her learn how to command.

Give her her own starship--and a beauty, she is, the Aventine--

But don't change what we, her fans since the show, have always loved about Ezri Dax--her warmth, her kind winsomeness, and her honest respect for those close to her--especially Dr. Julian Bashir.

Ezri's development was handled in a convincing way, I think. In essence, she found the way to become a different person by finally accessing and accommodating the memories of previous Dax hosts. That she would change, even in fundamental ways, after that seems obvious to me.

The breakup with Bashir can be explained without resort to any of that, however. She chose a new path -- command -- that would take her away from him. If she wanted to commit herself to Bashir, it's likely she would not have chosen command. Many, many relationships do not survive career demands and choices, especially in a military environment. Why should Ezri and Bashir be immune to those pressures?

Oh...I understand why it happened. I'm just not convinced it had to happen that way. I mean--If Picard and Crusher can do it, and Riker and Troi....

And...as for the pressures...no, I'm not saying have them immune. Just...if only Ezri had not taken him for granted so many times....

I think the attraction to Bashir was too much of a hold-over from Jadzia (who would have chosen Bashir if Worf hadn't come around). Ezri's personality was finally being integrated fully with the symbiote, and she needed the freedom to explore those changes. Also, it's hard to maintain a romantic relationship when one of the partners has a major change in personality.

 

[DevilEyes]

I think the attraction to Bashir was too much of a hold-over from Jadzia (who would have chosen Bashir if Worf hadn't come around).

I'm not buying that at all and never have. Jadzia was just never that much into Bashir and I don't think she ever would have chosen him as a romantic partner. And she did have 3 full years during which she knew full well about his crush on her, and didn't seem interested to pursue it. That line really didn't make sense.

I thought that the feelings for Worf were clearly the holdover from Jadzia, while falling in love with Bashir was Ezri's own. Jadzia was, at best, mildly attracted to Bashir and liked him as a friend, she was never close to falling in love with him, so there's no reason why Ezri would, if she only had a holdover from Jadzia. If that had been the case, she would have chosen Worf, just like Jadzia did.

 

[Turtletrekker]

While I haven't agreed with every decision that has been made in the lit, it seems to me that I would probably be pretty bored with it if I did.

However...

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.

This.

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...

And this.

I think the attraction to Bashir was too much of a hold-over from Jadzia (who would have chosen Bashir if Worf hadn't come around).

I'm not buying that at all and never have.

Ezri told Bashir as much.

 

[USS Triumphant]

I'd undo Janeway's admiralty. She didn't deserve the promotion (yet? I'd go with at all, and nor would she ever, but YMMV). If that would mean she is still alive and in command of Voyager or another ship, so be it. Her dressing-down of Picard made me want to vomit.

 

[OverlordSpock]

I'd undo Janeway's admiralty. She didn't deserve the promotion (yet? I'd go with at all, and nor would she ever, but YMMV).

You're probably already well aware, but that wasn't just a TrekLit thing. That is established canon from Nemesis where Admiral Janeway gives Picard his orders to visit Romulus.

 

[langdonboom]

To answer the original post -- clearly I would have asked someone to write a book set between Soul Key and the Typhon Pact addressing the Ascendants and the various other hinted at issues in the DS9 relaunch.

Isn't it a little early to be asking for that, when we don't even know what The Rough Beasts of Empire is about?

Forgive me since I've expressed myself ad nauseum about this elsewhere, but since you asked -- we do know at least that RBoE (no The!) is about the Typhon Pact and its effects on the entire Alpha Quadrant, and it jumps DS9 ahead 5 years to catch up to the rest of the 24th century books.

While I do hope this is just a failure of my own imagination, I can't see how certain seeming cliffhangers (Taran'atar/Even Odds, the Ascendants/Evoq/Bajoran Prophecy, and even the Dominion's new situation) can be optimally addressed either as flashbacks in the new novel or worse, as having not 'advanced' in any meaningful fashion for five years in-story, especially as the Typhon Pact is such a major development in and of itself and as such should be center stage. In a perfect world, I would have liked those stories played out first and not have to either compete for page-time with the TP stories that I'm excited to read, or worse, be neglected or given kind of short-shrift.

Of course this is all conjecture on my behalf, and I hope that it all works out excellently. But at this point I feel a bit apprehensive that we get a five-year gap right when big developments not-related to Typhon are still unresolved.

(I think I'm getting better at articulating this, but its still a highly debatable point, as many fine folks have pointed out here!) But the question was what would I change, and this would be one thing, since I'm so into the DS9 relaunch stories up to this point.

 

[William Leisner]

Of course this is all conjecture on my behalf

Repeat this a few hundred times.

 

[langdonboom]

Of course this is all conjecture on my behalf

Repeat this a few hundred times.

I believe I have!

But seriously -- a five year gap -- that's not conjecture, so aren't there some implications to it?

 

[JD]

Of course this is all conjecture on my behalf, and I hope that it all works out excellently. But at this point I feel a bit apprehensive that we get a five-year gap right when big developments not-related to Typhon are still unresolved.

Just because they haven't been resolved yet at that point doesn't mean they can't still be resolved after the gap, or during the jump. First off, most of what have been seeing in terms of the main issues has still been the set up, so I could easily see things continuing to develop for the next five years. Even if major things do happen, there is no reason we have to see every single moment of them. Look at shows like Lost, or BSG, they both jumped ahead years, but still managed to continue the through flashbacks, and expostion. I can easily see that working for the DS9R.
Then again, nobody has even said that the jumps is permanent. For all we know, this could just be one time thing to give us a taste of what is to come, and to show us how Desting and the TP affected the characters, the station, and Bajor.

 

[Sci]

While I don't doubt that much of Europe will be homogenized even within my lifetime...

I know this might be better suited in its own thread somewhere, but what do you mean by 'homogenised'?

Well, I think this is hard to see right now because of the current Great Recession is making a lot of Europe turn inward, but I think that's a phase. In my lifetime, I expect to see the European Union continue to grow, but territorially and in terms of political power, and I expect that the breakdown of intra-European barriers -- political, cultural, linguistic -- and the rise of pan-European political practices and standards coming from the E.U. will start to remove intra-European cultural differences.

I don't expect Europe to reach a point where you can't tell a Frenchman from a German from an Italian, but I wouldn't at all be surprised if things reach a point, within my lifetime, where Europeans end up sharing so many cultural beliefs and practices and where so many political barriers have been erased that the European Union genuinely evolves into a state in its own right, and where Europe ends up with cultures that are far more similar than they are different. That might mean a situation where German or French cultural practices end up predominating (since Germany and France are the two dominant E.U. members), or it might mean the practices of smaller E.U. countries spreading. But I do expect that Europe will be more homogenized by the final years of my life than it will have been at any point in history since the fall of the Roman Empire.

 

[RoJoHen]

If I could change one thing about Trek Lit, I think I would have Peter David NOT create that retarded Phaetus character. Or, if he insists on doing it, he should spell it differently so the joke actually makes sense!