If you could change one thing...

[ATimson]

I don't know how it works, but there are several sites like this one that can calculate a stardate for you. The odd thing is, when I've used that on Stardates from the books, they always end up off by couple months. I think it was that one, I've used a couple different sites in the past.

I don't know about that one, but there's at least one which tries to line up stardates with different Gregorian date references in the canon, rather than adhering to the "XX000.0 is New Year's Day" rule which tends to result in the crews of the Enterprise and Voyager facing down Borg when they should be getting drunk.

 

[RandyS]

I would bring back Data and erase the writers reasons why this was impractical.

 

[Daddy Todd]

I'd have included Bajor and DS9 as major locations in the Destiny trilogy. Don't get me wrong -- the books were great, but I kept wondering how things were going in Bajoran space.

 

[captcalhoun]

they were on the other side of the AQ, i doubt much happened before the Borg turned around

 

[Zameaze]

I would have Chakotay slowly torture Janeway to death by covering her in honey and tying her over an ant hill.

Hey, it'd also make for great cover art.

 

[elaithin]

they were on the other side of the AQ, i doubt much happened before the Borg turned around

Maybe - but I agree that it would have been nice to see.

 

[wizkid]

I would bring back Data and erase the writers reasons why this was impractical.

I agree 101%.

Make it so I say!

 

[BillJ]

Bring back stand alone TNG novels set during the TV series timeframe.

 

[elaithin]

Those aren't really off the plate, to my understanding. There's nothing stopping one from being published other than a pitch being good enough, just like anything else.

 

[BillJ]

Since the last one (Do Comets Dream?) was published in July 2003. I would think it is an editorial decision.

 

[Christopher]

^That's not inconsistent with what elaithin said. Yes, it's an editorial decision which books to publish. But there's no blanket policy forbidding new TNG (or any other) novels set during the series. It's just that books set after the series have more freedom to have real impact, so in the modern climate, a standalone book proposal set during the series has to be really something to stand out from the pack.

 

[RandyS]

Bring back stand alone TNG novels set during the TV series timeframe.

Good one. I like what the TNG novels are doing now, but if the TOS series can cover any time frame, what can't the TNG novels, or DS9 and Voyager for that matter? It's not like these show will ever be filmed again.

Again, to be clear, I like what these series novels are doing now, but I wish there would be more of a balance. In the case of TNG, they can keep Data dead in the post Nemesis era, and have him alive in the seres era.

Everybody wins.

 

[F. King Daniel]

Maybe we'll get one of those stories in two timeframes, a bit like Federation or Captain's Peril, but with stories in the post-Destiny timeframe and the other during the TV series.

 

[Admiral_Young]

I agree with the sentiments regarding Marco...after that I would make sure that Before Dishonor didn't see the light of day and have Peter David write a new New Frontier novel instead of that.

 

[Rush Limborg]

I would bring back Data and erase the writers reasons why this was impractical.

I agree 101%.

Make it so I say!

What--Countdown not enough for y'all?

 

[RandyS]

I would bring back Data and erase the writers reasons why this was impractical.

I agree 101%.

Make it so I say!

What--Countdown not enough for y'all?

I follow all the novels religously. Never heard of that one. When does it come out?

 

[F. King Daniel]

^Countdown's the comic book prequel to STXI, set post-TNG, about the fall of Nero and the death of Romulus. There have been lots of arguments over if the novels should ignore it or not.

 

[Deranged Nasat]

I think he may have known that and is being...artificially obtuse. Making his point subtly and not directly, as it were.

 

[F. King Daniel]

Oops. I am simples.
(this thing needs a Meerkat smiley!)

 

[RandyS]

I think he may have known that and is being...artificially obtuse. Making his point subtly and not directly, as it were.

No. I haven't heard of this title until today. I don't follow the comics as closely as the novels, but I do sometimes read the trades when they come out. I take it, Countdown hasn't been republished collectively yet? maybe that's why I haven't heard of it.