Lit GENRES you'd like to see

[Jinn]

Yeah, that's pretty much the definiton of a regulat Trek episode.

 

[Laura Cynthia Chambers]

Was there ever a Trek almanac?

 

[F. King Daniel]

A reference book for the novelverse featuring people, places and races, like DC's old Who's Who in Star Trek volumes.

 

[JD]

That would be awesome, or even if they just included recurring major elements in the Encyclopedia.

 

[Laura Cynthia Chambers]

A book of limericks, maybe re-telling each episode in limerick fashion?

 

[Laura Cynthia Chambers]

Did they ever have a "how-to-draw" book for characters or ships?

 

[DimesDan]

Did they ever have a "how-to-draw" book for characters or ships?

Have you tried using a search engine to find out?

 

[Laura Cynthia Chambers]

looked up draw and how to draw on MA.

That said, it would be nice to have one for the new movie characters now.

 

[JD]

Have you tried just a general search on Google, Yahoo, Bing, ect.?
I just looked up how to draw Star Trek on Youtube and got a ton of vidoes showing how to draw all sorts of different stuff.
You have to keep in mind, Trek is already a very niche topic, so when you start moving into other niche markets it's going to be less and less likely you'll find interested publishers.

 

[Laura Cynthia Chambers]

A "why I joined Starfleet/why I joined the maquis, etc" backstory anthology for minor unnamed characters.

 

[JD]

Why would we want to waste a book on unnamed minor characters? I mean I could see if were talking about some of the supporting characters who didn't get a lot of development on the shows, but it seems kind of weird to devote a whole book to that guy who walked down the corridor for a second in episode 4x15.
I know Star Wars has kind of fallen into this, but even then there was at least something noteworthy about the characters they picked.

 

[Laura Cynthia Chambers]

^I didn't say they had to be a nobody. Just not elaborated on. I guess they could be named characters, as well, who don't really have a story, but you're curious based on what little you do see.

 

[JD]

If we were going to do something like that, I'd rather do it for characters like Jae, Ayala, and Kellogg. Characters who were around a lot in the background, but were never really explored.

 

[Avro Arrow]

^

STARFLEET EVERYMAN:
The Autobiography of
Ryan Leslie

How Not Even Death Could Keep Me From
My Dream of Doing Every Job on the Enterprise!
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[Laura Cynthia Chambers]

His bucket list outlives the bucket?

 

[Laura Cynthia Chambers]

How about a two-minute mystery book set on Kirk's Enterprise?

Or almost any of the franchise's locations. DS9 would work particularly well, with Odo investigating.

Quark picked up on one of these kinds of details himself in a DS9 episode:

QUARK: Just set them on the bar. Morn, no touching. You know what this is? Three cases of syrup of squill.
LEETA: I love syrup of squill on my groatcakes, but I haven't seen a jar in over a year.
QUARK: No one has.
ODO: Does that mean the drought on Balancar is over?
QUARK: There never was a drought on Balancar. It was all a ploy by their Agricultural Consortium. They've been stockpiling squill so they could drive the price up.
LEETA: That's dishonest.
QUARK: I couldn't agree more. You see, I once did business with the nephew of the cousin of the stepsister of a friend of the secretary to the Consortium's chief accountant. Nephew, cousin, stepsister, friend. Yeah, that's right. And he told me, in passing, that the accountant had bought himself a very nice pair of Ferengi rain slippers.
ODO: And if there was a drought, he wouldn't need rain slippers.
QUARK: My thoughts exactly. So I set up a meeting with this accountant and I told him that he either provide me with a shipment of syrup, or I would expose their deception to the entire quadrant. Tomorrow morning, we are having a special on groatcakes, topped with syrup of squill.

 

[DimesDan]

Or almost any of the franchise's locations. DS9 would work particularly well, with Odo investigating.

Quark picked up on one of these kinds of details himself in a DS9 episode:

Talking to yourself again I see.

 

[Laura Cynthia Chambers]

Bringing up something I mentioned earlier again to show an example I found of that kind of thing. Not everybody who is reading this now read it from the beginning or would bother to look back.

 

[DimesDan]

Not everybody who is reading this now read it from the beginning or would bother to look back.

Are you aware of that as fact or just assuming it because that is what you would do?

 

[Laura Cynthia Chambers]

No, because I've seen posts where someone would ask about or mention something that was already mentioned earlier in a thread.