She's in charge of First Company. Because Wol is the best, dammit. As or who's Leader of the Fifteenth, no idea. Probably somebody we haven't met yet. Or G'joth.
Very few.
I'd love to write that. That would, however, require someone at Simon & Schuster actually hiring me to write Trek fiction.
Thanks for the reply - and confirmation on Wol's appointment. Do you think she's one of those very few crewmen still aboard Gorkon in 2386? Personally, the only ones that I can see are still there by then will be Dr. B'Oraq, Chief of Security Lokor, Wol, and maybe some of her 15 Squad soldiers (although they may be Leaders or other Company QaS DevwI' by now) - everybody else either got promoted, transferred, or killed (hopefully in some glorious battle); although this is the Klingon Defense Force where nobody is safe, not even the Captain/General, let alone any of his subordinates! Oh, hey, and since Kurak has resigned her commission, does that mean that the engineer from Diplomatic Implausibility that was always tinkering (much to Kurak's displeasure, who wanted the ship to be spec-shape and no more and no less) and then was rotated off the ship (Vall?) can come back and take over the engine room?
And here's hoping you (or somebody else, but really you) get to write that Riker/Klag meeting someday.
I'm pretty surprised we haven't gotten a Batman'66/Star Trek: TOS crossover yet, they've crossed B66 over with a whole bunch of other '60s franchise. So far they've done Man From U.N.C.L.E., Steed & Peel, Green Hornet, Legion of Superheroes, and it's not a '60s series, but they also did one with Wonder Woman '77.
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How about some Non-Klingon Questions for K.R.A.D.?
I've been going through some of the earlier S.C.E. stories and I wonder if I could pick your brain for a minute.
1) Are there any pieces of technology from the tv series that you would have liked to have explored in a new story that you didn't have a chance to? Doomsday machine, Atavachron, etc.
2) Did the fellow who did the art for the covers ever do a picture that included the entire crew?
3) Were there any books that you wish you could have expanded to novel length?
4) Going in, did you feel that there was a need to shake up the status quo with Wildfire, or did the story just present you with an unplanned opportunity to do so?
5) One of the strengths of the series, imo, is character development. Were there any characters that you thought were particularly tough to get a handle on?
6) The series had a wide variety of authors and a nice mixture of story types - what was the most off the wall pitch you received?
I've been going through some of the earlier S.C.E. stories and I wonder if I could pick your brain for a minute.
1) Are there any pieces of technology from the tv series that you would have liked to have explored in a new story that you didn't have a chance to? Doomsday machine, Atavachron, etc.
2) Did the fellow who did the art for the covers ever do a picture that included the entire crew?
3) Were there any books that you wish you could have expanded to novel length?
4) Going in, did you feel that there was a need to shake up the status quo with Wildfire, or did the story just present you with an unplanned opportunity to do so?
5) One of the strengths of the series, imo, is character development. Were there any characters that you thought were particularly tough to get a handle on?
6) The series had a wide variety of authors and a nice mixture of story types - what was the most off the wall pitch you received?
1) Not as such. I mostly let people pitch things at me. The only time a pitch was directed by me, it was more in terms of where to go with the characters. I only did, for example, a Cloud City story because Phae Weldon pitched one. Had someone thrown me an Atavachron story or a Doomsday Machine story, I would have loved to have seen it. (Having said that, I'd be more wary of a Doomsday Machine story as both Peter David in Vendetta and Dean Smith & Kris Rusch in the comics series Planet Killer already did that.)
2) Mike Collins, and no.
3) Well, the two- and three-parters pretty much were novel length. But no, not really. The novella length worked nicely, and the longer ones just got split into two parts. (Or, in the case of Foundations, three.)
4) Dave pitched Wildfire as a major disaster movie, and he, John Ordover, and I all agreed that, if we were going to do this, we should do it for realsies. So we wanted to kill a major character as well as a lot of secondary characters -- and, more to the point (and this was my insistence), the consequences had to be long-term and real for the crew. The deaths in Wildfire continued to have an impact on the crew all the way to the final story in Remembrance of Things Past.
5) Not really. They were all pretty fabulous, and even if I had trouble with any of them, that ceased when some writer or other did them perfectly.
6) Oh, probably Ilsa Bick in the bar at Shore Leave convincing me that making Lense pregnant would be awesome because she'd be such a terrible mother...........
2) Mike Collins, and no.
3) Well, the two- and three-parters pretty much were novel length. But no, not really. The novella length worked nicely, and the longer ones just got split into two parts. (Or, in the case of Foundations, three.)
4) Dave pitched Wildfire as a major disaster movie, and he, John Ordover, and I all agreed that, if we were going to do this, we should do it for realsies. So we wanted to kill a major character as well as a lot of secondary characters -- and, more to the point (and this was my insistence), the consequences had to be long-term and real for the crew. The deaths in Wildfire continued to have an impact on the crew all the way to the final story in Remembrance of Things Past.
5) Not really. They were all pretty fabulous, and even if I had trouble with any of them, that ceased when some writer or other did them perfectly.
6) Oh, probably Ilsa Bick in the bar at Shore Leave convincing me that making Lense pregnant would be awesome because she'd be such a terrible mother...........
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Thanks again for taking the time to answer my questions! 
I'm reading The Demon right now. So far so good.
I'm reading The Demon right now. So far so good.
Kinda hard to do an Atavachron story, seeing as how it was vaporized along with its entire planetary system just hours after Starfleet discovered its existence. I suppose you could do a story set on Sarpeidon before the supernova, but there couldn't be any Starfleet characters in it, barring time travel by some other means, which would be kind of coincidental.
Ha-ha, true. I remember "Yesterday's Son" where they did go to Sarpeidon's past because of Spock's son.
That was an interesting story because they used the Guardian of Forever that time, and it was interesting to read about the differences from the Atavachron. And obviously because of the Guardian's vastly different make-up Spock didn't revert to his primitive ways like he did with the Atavachron. A great book, and early favorite of mine.
Anyway, seeing your comment about Sarpeidon's past and time travel made me think of that novel. I haven't read it since it came out. I'll have to add it to my summer re-read list though.
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Yeah, I was trying to think of some cool Trek technology and I blanked. Those two things and that Vulcan telepathy weapon from the TNG episode with Richard Lynch were all I could think of.
I wish there was an extended novelization of All Our Yesterday's. There are a lot of cool things in that episode and 50 minutes wasn't enough to explore them all.
Both of the Yesterday's books were fun, I thought.
I wish there was an extended novelization of All Our Yesterday's. There are a lot of cool things in that episode and 50 minutes wasn't enough to explore them all.
Both of the Yesterday's books were fun, I thought.
Yeah, but it wasn't specifically about the Atavachron.
Actually I'd like to pitch in if I may.
The Androssi were being built up as the 'big bad' of SCE throughout the first 'season', to the point where the penultimate story of the season was framed as Biron breaking his own rules out of pique, in order to be ready to properly defeat the Da Vinci crew the next time they met. And then... they never met again. No more SCE stories featured the Androssi, and they only appeared one more time in an unrelated story not even written by you. I was just curious why things worked out that way, given that it seemed they were created to be a recurring villain.
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I really enjoyed your novels about the Klingons. Would be great if there would be a sequel to "Burning House" and maybe some stuff about the Discovery Klingons and the Klingon War
Yeah, true. It was just your comment about someone on the crew going back to Sarpeidon's past made me think of "Yesterday's Son".
lvsexy808: I always intended to bring the Androssi back, but I was never able to make the story work. Had the series continued I would've followed up on that eventually, but sadly, the rug was pulled out before I could crack that story nut.
Unimatrix2: I'd love to do both those things, but it's not up to me.
Unimatrix2: I'd love to do both those things, but it's not up to me.
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I thought the Androssi had potential. I am a fan of the Think Tank from Voyager and they share a couple of similarities, I think. Both are brilliant (ostensible) Good Samaritans whose motives aren't nearly as altruistic as they would lead you to believe. I also liked how fittingly utilitarian they were. Genius level engineers must design fantastically alien looking ships, right? Nope. It's pretty much a flying brick.
I am still working my way through the series, and I'm kind of surprised to hear that they won't be making any more appearances. I figured we might get a flashback to the Maeglin encounter at least.
I am still working my way through the series, and I'm kind of surprised to hear that they won't be making any more appearances. I figured we might get a flashback to the Maeglin encounter at least.
So....should we have some guys sent over? "My, this is a nice publishing company you have here. Be a real shame if something were to, you know, happen to it..."
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Maybe the flood of new shows will open up some possibilities?
I know there is a language barrier issue, but would Cross Cult be an option?
A possible pitch for S&S: An omnibus featuring a trio of stories featuring successful authors who have been out of Trek for a while. IKS Gorkon, New Frontier, and Stargazer. The current market might not be strong enough for individual novels for each series, but surely there has to be a sizeable audience for a combo of all three. And all three series can operate just fine without interfering with continuity old or new.
But what do I know? Best not to take career advice from a guy who has had to check a box on every application he's ever filled out affirming that he "has no medical condition preventing him from repetitively lifting 50 to 70 pounds." Sadly, those are applications for factory drones and not London pickpockets.
I've been seriously tempted at times to try and start a petition to get S&S to start hiring KRAD again.So....should we have some guys sent over? "My, this is a nice publishing company you have here. Be a real shame if something were to, you know, happen to it..."
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