Major Trek Story Gaps?

[Danlav05]

There aren't many huge gaps, I don't just mean e.g. 'a year between A and B' I mean containing major major changes and even if they are they've been well covered in books, fan films and comics:

- Enterprise crew after Terra Prime (Star Trek: Horizon fan film closes one or two stories and there's the novel line)
- TOS Seasons 4-5, after the mission and maybe their 'origins' (various attempts in various media)
- New 5 year mission After TMP and before TWOK (comics/novels)
- Between The Undiscovered Country and TNG (Of Gods and Men/'The Lost Era' books)
- TNG pre-Encounter at Farpoint (novels, inc TNG Young Adult books Stargazer)
- Terok Nor (novel range)
- TNG crew between Generations and First Contact, debut of the Enterprise-E (Ship of the Line/Slings and Arrows)

Can anyone think of any more?

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

World War III.

We know it was over by 2053, and a group called the Eastern Coalition was involved (as was Colonel Green). But apart from that, we know nothing.

- Who started it?
- Who ended it?
- What were the other factions?
- Was it a truly global nuclear war? (I'd suspect not, since Earth managed to recover and rebuild in only a HUNDRED YEARS).
- Why did some countries, such as the USA, survive the war, where others did not?
- Did the Vulcans help in the cleanup?
- What WAS the Eastern Coalition, anyway? China? (Probably was. All references to the ECON in Star Trek: First Contact were supposed to BE China, but they changed it at the last minute.)

 

[Danlav05]

The Eugenics Wars??

 

[uniderth]

Sputnik to the moon landing.
The moon landing to the launch of the Phoenix.
The 2390's to the future.

 

[Shawnster]

The Earth/Romulan War. We really know no details about this outside of a few snippets. How long did it last? How widespread was it? Why is it referred to specifically as between Earth and the Romulans? What did the other powers do during this time?

The Tomed Incident.

 

[tharpdevenport]

The Enterprise B. What lead to the actual retirement of the Enterprise A (did it maybe go on after TUC?)? What happened to hte Enterprise B?

There were nineteen years inbetween the lose of the Enterprise C and the launch of the Enterprise D. What happened uring that time? Why wasn't there a new Enterprise? Was some other ship the "flag ship" of the Federation?

 

[Nerys Myk]

The Enterprise B. What lead to the actual retirement of the Enterprise A (did it maybe go on after TUC?)? What happened to hte Enterprise B

Tuesday.

There were nineteen years inbetween the lose of the Enterprise C and the launch of the Enterprise D. What happened uring that time? Why wasn't there a new Enterprise? Was some other ship the "flag ship" of the Federation?

Cost over runs. A strike. Testing failures. Redesigns. Scandal.

 

[Admiral Shran]

The start of the Cardassian Occupation of Bajor. How did it begin? Was it a slow build-up or a full scale invasion/conquest?

VOY after "Endgame".

 

[Drone]

World War III.

We know it was over by 2053, and a group called the Eastern Coalition was involved (as was Colonel Green). But apart from that, we know nothing.

- Who started it?
- Who ended it?
- What were the other factions?
- Was it a truly global nuclear war? (I'd suspect not, since Earth managed to recover and rebuild in only a HUNDRED YEARS).
- Why did some countries, such as the USA, survive the war, where others did not?
- Did the Vulcans help in the cleanup?
- What WAS the Eastern Coalition, anyway? China? (Probably was. All references to the ECON in Star Trek: First Contact were supposed to BE China, but they changed it at the last minute.)

Have these questions been substantively addressed in any of the novels?

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

^ AFAIK, no, they haven't.

 

[Sparkle Fabulosa]

When the Borg children joined Voyager, there was also a baby...

Where did it go?

 

[uniderth]

When the Borg children joined Voyager, there was also a baby...

Where did it go?

It became Time Baby.

 

[Nebusj]

When the Borg children joined Voyager, there was also a baby...

Where did it go?

``The good news is we have a nice meaty stew for dinner tonight,'' said Neelix. ``The bad news is it tastes a little implant-y, but I've got some fine Denobulan pepper that should cover the worst of it.''

 

[Galileo7]

TOS Seasons 4-5 was answered with the two seasons totally 22 episodes of TAS.

 

[USS Triumphant]

What was going on in the Romulan Empire during their "40 year absence"? It was hinted that they were fighting an enemy on the opposite side of their space, and I've seen it suggested that that enemy was the Breen... but that's still very vague, and I'm not even sure if my sources for it are canonical or not. (Can't recall.)

 

[Bad Thoughts]

No one has mentioned the amount of time that passed from when Winn and Dukat left her palace and Sisko confronted them at the Fire Caves. During that time, the Federation invaded Cardassian space, threatened Cardassia Prime, stopped a genocide, negotiate and signed a peace treaty, appointed an ambassador to the Klingon Empire, and listened to a swingin' ballad.

 

[JonnyQuest037]

- TOS Seasons 4-5

As far as I'm concerned, we pretty much saw years 4 and 5 of the five-year mission. The TNG assumption that one television season = one year of time for the characters wasn't in place when they made TOS, and there's nothing in the show itself to indicate that that's the case.

You'll notice that the Stardates in TOS start in the low 1000s (1312.4 in "Where No Man Has Gone Before") and move more or less sequentially on up to the very high 5000s (5943.7 in "All Our Yesterdays"). If you assume that 1000 Stardate units = approximately one year, that's five years' time, with the 5YM starting somewhere around Stardate 1000 and ending around SD 6000.|

So they showed the significant missions of a five-year timespan over the course of three television seasons.

 

[Shawnster]

I wouldn't count 2 seasons of TAS as 2 years. 22 episodes would only equal 1 season in my book.

 

[Galileo7]

I wouldn't count 2 seasons of TAS as 2 years. 22 episodes would only equal 1 season in my book.

Agree, the network aired the 22 episodes as two seasons, although, like you, that is one season to me too.
I am just saying that TAS episodes represents the continuation of the five-year mission began on TOS.

 

[uniderth]

In my personal cannnnnnnon, Kirk's seasons 1, 2, and 3 were really seasons 17, 18, and 19 of a much more expanded Star Trek. Seasons 1-5 would depict Captain April. Seasons 6-15 would depict Captain Pike's first and second five year missions, including "The Cage." Season 16 would be the start of Kirk's five year mission, including "Where No Man Has Gone Before." Season 20 would be the live action equivalent of TAS. Seasons 21-25 would depict Kirk's second five year mission after The Motion Picture.