I would say there are probably no firm plans at the moment then.
Fingers crossed for an anthology...
New Bashir stories?
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I would say there are probably no firm plans at the moment then.
Fingers crossed for an anthology...
You're gonna get flamed by the naysayers, my friend.
There's living up to a higher ideal and then there's taking it to rediculous extremes for silly reasons. Allowing an entire planet to be destroyed due to a natural disaster that could easily be averted with no impact on the natives (Homeward), yet breaking the same directive to save the life of the son of a crew member (Justice). Which is it? Is Wesley Crusher's life really worth more than an entire race?
Picard has always played fast and loose with what is acceptable, especially where his crew is concerned.
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That would not be a valid conclusion to draw. I'm not an insider at Pocket Books. I'm a freelancer who lives in Ohio. I happened to know about Margaret's plans for moving DS9 forward in 2009 because I was at conventions where she talked about them, and because they overlapped with the Typhon Pact project that I was briefly involved with so there was a reason for me to be in the loop about them. But there are a lot of things going on at Pocket that I have no knowledge of. There could be very firm plans for moving DS9 forward, but I wouldn't have heard about them because I'm not personally involved with them.
Unless, of course, you happen to be a fan of TAS and Andorians, in which case the addition of Arex, M'Ress and Desma was cool!
In any case, we've lost Janos, Mark, Si Cwan, Selar and others.
Plenty of ST books (and episodes) divide the action between the Enterprise and a guest ship or planet. Not to mention the number of DS9 episodes that would often focus on numerous characters not even in the opening credits! Garak, Morn, Nog, Leeta, Rom, Martok, Dukat, Weyoun, Vic, etc. So splitting the NF crew across two ships and a space station wasn't all that different. Perhaps PAD having to scale back to one NF volume per year had more to do with your "downhill" feelings?
Mmmm. DS9 premiered in... 1993.
2013 sounds like a good year for a special celebratory volume.
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A hundred and two years seems a long time to wait. How about 2013 instead?
Oh, please, please, PLEASE, Pocket--DO THIS FOR US!!!
I loved the addition of the new characters, and I didn't mind it when they were on two ships. I just think it was getting a little two spread out when we had two UFP ships, a UFP Starbase, a Romulan Ship, and a planet. I honestly think I would have prefered it if he just chose a couple for each books to focus on, instead of trying to work everyone into each of the stories. Either that or make the books longer, so we can spend more time with each group.
I would have loved to see more of Arex and M'Ress in a TOS setting. I got the feeling that PAD just brought them to the future so he could do his "having an animated conversation" joke.
Strangely, that's about the same time I grew tired of NF and dropped it.
I liked it. Well, I didn't care for the last one, but I liked the first two.
It was more likely because he'd worked with those characters during his run on DC's Star Trek Volume 1 (though they'd been added to the comic by Len Wein 11 issues before PAD took over the title) and was then forbidden to continue using them in Volume 2. So he found an opportunity to use them in the novels, just as his TNG novel Strike Zone let him wrap up some story threads from Volume 1 that he was forced to abandon.
Whatever the reason I'd have preferred that they stay in the TOS/TMP era rather than joining Captain Calhouns Interplanetary Chuckle Hut.
How would they have been developed if they were treated as serious characters rather than comedic props? I suppose there's still time for Arex to appear in TOS era novels seeing as he doesn't get nabbed by PAD until 2305. M'Ress gets taken in 2296. Still, knowing what's going to happen to them sort of kills the tension.
Well, they were quite comedic in the DC Comics. And "The Practical Joker".
DC Fontana shows us plans she had for Arex she wasn't able to feature in TAS in her "Year 4" mini-series for IDW.
The unused plot of Arex moving to Security, which PAD had planned for his DC Comics, was transferred to Ensign Fouton. Notice how Arex moved to Security in NF. The Sulu/M'Ress romance subplot from the Series I comics was transferred to M'yra.
Any more than knowing what happens to everyone from TOS, except maybe Chapel?
what are those threads?
Isn't Strike Zone the early TNG novel with the Selevians (sp?), who later were NF "villains"?
PAD's story arc at the end of DC Vol. 1 involved a mysterious group called the Cognoscenti that was secretly behind a lot of the villains' actions. Since Vol. 1 was cancelled and its arcs abandoned, PAD used Strike Zone to resolve the Cognoscenti storyline. Also, his DC Vol. 1 arc introduced an albino dwarf Klingon/human hybrid who was adopted by the characters Konom and Bryce. Strike Zone features an albino dwarf Klingon/human hybrid who calls himself Kobry (from Konom and Bryce, implicitly).
And yes, I believe there was one Selelvian character on the ship in Strike Zone, a friend of Wesley's in the Enterprise crew. He figured in a subplot of the novel.
We got to see the main seven from TOS and, in some cases, through to the 24th century. It would have been nice to have Arex and M'Ress stick around so we could get to know them better in the novels. Besides, do we really need 95% of the TOS characters alive and well in the 24th century? The novel Federation had about as much of a crossover as I'd like, a brief meeting where they simply become aware of each other and an aged letter to the future read under a fig tree.
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