Is it safe to say that the DS9 Relaunch is dead?

[Therin of Andor]

Of course, there hasn't been an actual DS9 novel yet.

Maybe you'll get a perverted version of your wish and DS9, rather than "Vanguard", will be populated with an all-new permanent cast of original characters - and there'll be no tie-ins to any other ST series, or any familiar aliens, spacecraft or Starfleet crew.

 

[Stoek]

It's true that the DS9 post-finale series has hit some snags over the past few years, as a result of unavoidable complications like changes of authors and editors. But there's no reason to assume it won't or can't come back from that. The Voyager post-finale line was dormant for several years and then came back stronger than ever.

Thinking it over I wonder if the different series not quite synching up time wise was acting as a deterrent to the more casual reader. Personally as I've said elsewhere I think that the ending of the Next Gen movies may have been one of the best things to happen to Trek Lit as it allows all the 24th century based series to have a more tightly woven continuity without having to worry about working around the next movie or tv show.

 

[Mage]

I suppose I sounded a bit to negative.

Let me explain. After not having read any Trek in a few years, I'm just now getting back. And from I've read here and there, it seems as if DS9 has become a bit of the middle child in Trek Lit as it has been for the producers at one point. They cared so little for DS9, they actually wanted to destroy the Defiant during First Contact, a TNG movie.

I know that DS9 characters have been included in Destiny and Typhon Pact, but I just feel said that none of these books are actual DS9 novels, just using the characters.

I just feel that DS9 is not used to it's full potential I guess. I truly do HOPE that we will get some novels explaining why the characters have come to the points where they are now, but I just feel that it will be sidetracked to deal with the more populair TNG characters.

 

[Therin of Andor]

I truly do HOPE that we will get some novels explaining why the characters have come to the points where they are now.

I've read about five novels with Captain Dax of the USS Aventine and, in each one, we get snippets of explanation of how she came to be where she is today. Bashir and the Jack Pack are crucial players in the first "Typhon Pact".

"Paths of Disharmony" does the same for Shar. It seems that Sisko is also getting similar treatment in his TP novel.

If you plan to keep waiting for a ST novel that has the DS9 logo on its cover, you'll miss out on some great developments.

They cared so little for DS9, they actually wanted to destroy the Defiant...

Huh?

How is that proof that they "cared so little"? It may have given Worf some excellent, tense scenes, both in FC and DS9.

 

[Christopher]

I want to know why people are still calling it a relaunch. The relaunch happened several years ago...shouldn't we be calling it something different like...the DS9 continuation? It bothers me that relaunch is still being used to describe a series lol.

That's correct. Marco Palmieri coined the term "relaunch" to apply specifically to the initial promotional push for the new post-finale DS9 novel line. As in, the series had been in drydock undergoing retooling, and now it was being relaunched with some fanfare. The term technically applies to the process of restarting the series, not to the series itself.

But people have a way of applying words to the wrong things by association -- like the way fans took to using "remaster" to mean "create new effects footage to replace the old," even though the title "Star Trek Remastered" applied to something else (namely the process of going back to the original master prints and making new digitally mediated copies from them for maximum quality; the new digital FX were actually the only parts of TOS-R that weren't remastered footage). So fans have come to use "Relaunch" as a shorthand for "series that has been relaunched" rather than "process of restarting a series."

 

[kkozoriz1]

Of course, there hasn't been an actual DS9 novel yet.

Maybe you'll get a perverted version of your wish and DS9, rather than "Vanguard", will be populated with an all-new permanent cast of original characters - and there'll be no tie-ins to any other ST series, or any familiar aliens, spacecraft or Starfleet crew.

Yes, of course, that's exactly what I've been saying.

 

[Cybersnark]

It's not dead. It's just with the Prophets.

(And why not take a page from Joss Whedon's Buffy/Angel comics: DS9 "Season 8" [Avatar to Unity], "Season 9" [Unity to Never-Ending Sacrifice], and. . . uh, "post-timeskip" or Season whatever-the-hell-we're-up-to.)

 

[DS9Continuing]

As my avatar suggests, I'm working a series of fan-fics (in the form of a 22-episode season) that would serve as season 10 of the show, and hopefully answer some of the questions people are having in this thread. I'm up to episode 4 right now... I may start publishing soon.

 

[Sci]

It's not dead. It's just with the Prophets.

(And why not take a page from Joss Whedon's Buffy/Angel comics: DS9 "Season 8" [Avatar to Unity], "Season 9" [Unity to Never-Ending Sacrifice], and. . . uh, "post-timeskip" or Season whatever-the-hell-we're-up-to.)

Because these are novels, not a TV show, and there's no reason to try to force them to fit into a TV series' seasonal organization.

 

[Admiral_Young]

I like DS9 Ongoing. We should start calling it that

 

[DimesDan]

As my avatar suggests, I'm working a series of fan-fics (in the form of a 22-episode season) that would serve as season 10 of the show, and hopefully answer some of the questions people are having in this thread. I'm up to episode 4 right now... I may start publishing soon.

Good for you. I'd rather see the professionals answer the questions raised and possibly even see Christopher write one of them.

 

[kkozoriz1]

I like DS9 Ongoing. We should start calling it that

If there were actually an ongoing series that would make sense.

 

[Thrawn]

I like DS9 Ongoing. We should start calling it that

If there were actually an ongoing series that would make sense.

This is the kind of shit I'm talking about. The books say "The saga of Deep Space Nine will continue." Thus, there is an ongoing series.

You really, really like to sarcastically overstate things. It doesn't help you, it's just obnoxious.

 

[kkozoriz1]

Currently, there isn't an ongoing series. Once it launches, then we'll have one. Things have been promised in Trelklit before that have not come to pass.

How is stating that there currently isn't an ongoing DS9 series overstating things?

 

[Thrawn]

1) Books with DS9 on the cover were published two years ago, and more have been strongly implied for next year.

2) Books featuring major events in the lives of those characters are being published right now.

Thus: there is an ongoing series.

Was there not an ongoing TNG series during Destiny, just because Destiny wasn't branded TNG?

There's been a time jump, but that didn't mean the stories or the books stopped.

 

[Therin of Andor]

We had similar complaints from TNG readers when a few TNG-heavy books in a row, plus the "A Time..." mini-series, came out without the "Next Generation" subtitle. People who choose to only buy/read books with the "Deep Space Nine" subtitle are missing some great developments.

 

[DimesDan]

1) Books with DS9 on the cover were published two years ago, and more have been promised for next year.

When was this?

 

[Mage]

I see so many people defending what's going on, I don't think some people understand that it bothers a lot of fans that characters Niners care for a lot have suddenly, out of nowhere, moved into directions that we didn't figure.

I'm sure that all of these things will be explained in novells to come and make sense then, but to some fans, it feels like a slap in the face: you know what, we are just gonna pull these characters into where we want them to be, have drastic things happen to them over a period of 4 years and we'll just explain it later on.....maybe.....

How do you think that feels for fans of DS9?

 

[Thrawn]

1) Books with DS9 on the cover were published two years ago, and more have been promised for next year.

When was this?

My mistake; I was typing that quickly before running off to do something. I was referring to DRG3's rather cryptic promises that this is all going somewhere; should've said "strongly implied". Edited my post to reflect as much.

 

[flandry84]

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There's been a time jump, but that didn't mean the stories or the books stopped.

Huh?But they did stop.

Perhaps the most fun we DS9 fans can look forward to is guessing which popular tv shows will provide the new station crew of Starfleet "tribute"characters.