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New Description for Ring Of Time

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I was just looking around on the Simon & Schuster site, and I found this description for Greg Cox's new Original Series novel The Rings of Time:
2020 The U.S.S. Lewis & Clark, under the command of Colonel Shaun Christopher, sets off on humanity’s first manned mission to Saturn. But the unexpected presence of a stowaway complicates the mission—as does a startling encounter with an alien probe. But when Colonel Christopher attempts to capture the probe, he suddenly finds himself transported across time and space to a future era of space exploration. . . . Stardate 7103.4 The U.S.S. Enterprise responds to an urgent distress call from a mining colony orbiting Klondike VI, a ringed gas giant not unlike Saturn. For unknown reasons, the planet’s rings are coming apart, threatening the safety of the colony and its inhabitants. Searching for a way to avert the disaster, Captain James T. Kirk and his crew investigate a mysterious alien probe that has just entered the system. But when the probe is beamed aboard, Kirk abruptly finds himself floating in space above Saturn, wearing an old-fashioned NASA spacesuit, with the Enterprise nowhere in sight. . . . Two missions. Two crews. And a time-twisting crisis that spans the centuries. . . .
Sounds great! It's got time travel, and it fills in some gaps in Trek history, both of which are big pluses for me. I'm definitely looking forward to it.
 
If they're already having manned missions to Saturn in 2020, then why is it such a big deal about the Mars missions *over a decade later* (as shown in VOY's "One Small Step")?
 
2020? That's so soon. I'm excited about this book, though. Awesome description and Greg never disappoints.
 
Thanks! For the record, I actually wrote that copy myself.

And, yeah, I wish we were really going to Saturn by 2020, but, given that "Tomorrow is Yesterday" took place in the sixties, I figure 2020 was about about as far in the future as I could push the Saturn mission without making Shaun Christopher a retiree!

The old Star Trek Chronology actually put Shaun's mission in 2009, but, alas, that ship has sailed.
 
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Thanks! For the record, I actually wrote that copy myself.

And, yeah, I wish we were really going to Saturn by 2020, but, given that "Tomorrow is Yesterday" took place in the sixties, I figure 2020 was about about as far in the future as I could push the Saturn mission without making Shaun Christopher a retiree!

The old Star Trek Chronology actually put Shaun's mission in 2009, but, alas, that ship has sailed . . . .

I thought you had written that but didn't want to sound like an idiot. It's certainly an attention grabber.
 
:techman:I'm definitely looking froward to getting this Tos Novel.Shaun Christopher, time travel,Kirk being on a space mission to Saturn.This sounds like a very exciting TOS story.
 
If they're already having manned missions to Saturn in 2020, then why is it such a big deal about the Mars missions *over a decade later* (as shown in VOY's "One Small Step")?

I probably shouldn't admit this, but I had completely forgotten about that Voyager ep when I first plotted this book way back in 2009. But have no fear: I eventually tracked down a VHS (!) copy of "One Small Step" and found a way to work around it . . . .

Let's just say there's a reason we got to Saturn first.
 
^ Given that you did a very good job tying things together on pre-warp Earth in The Eugenics Wars, I'm confident that your solution will be interesting :bolian:. While I'm at it, I'm also pleased that this novel will see you exploring pre-WWIII humanity again.
 
^ Given that you did a very good job tying things together on pre-warp Earth in The Eugenics Wars, I'm confident that your solution will be interesting :bolian:. While I'm at it, I'm also pleased that this novel will see you exploring pre-WWIII humanity again.

Well, Shaun actually appeared briefly in the EW books, and I've been meaning to get back to him. It just took me a little longer than I planned . . ..
 
I love time-bending adventures. This is on my must-buy list.

(And, you know, doesn't hurt to help a fellow Pennsylvanian ;-) )
 
When is this book coming out?!? This blurb sounds really interesting - I'm finally looking forward to a ST-novel again. :)
 
^It's the February book, so the paperback should be out sometime around middle/late January and the eBook will be released on January 31st.
 
:techman: Defcon thanks forthe info. I'm definitely will be getting this book. i've liked all of Greg Cox's novels.
 
If they're already having manned missions to Saturn in 2020, then why is it such a big deal about the Mars missions *over a decade later* (as shown in VOY's "One Small Step")?

I probably shouldn't admit this, but I had completely forgotten about that Voyager ep when I first plotted this book way back in 2009. But have no fear: I eventually tracked down a VHS (!) copy of "One Small Step" and found a way to work around it . . . .

Let's just say there's a reason we got to Saturn first.

I always used to think that the Saturn mission was unmanned, and Christopher was simply in charge of the Mission Control team on the ground... :sigh:
 
If they're already having manned missions to Saturn in 2020, then why is it such a big deal about the Mars missions *over a decade later* (as shown in VOY's "One Small Step")?

I probably shouldn't admit this, but I had completely forgotten about that Voyager ep when I first plotted this book way back in 2009. But have no fear: I eventually tracked down a VHS (!) copy of "One Small Step" and found a way to work around it . . . .

Let's just say there's a reason we got to Saturn first.

I always used to think that the Saturn mission was unmanned, and Christopher was simply in charge of the Mission Control team on the ground... :sigh:

But that wouldn't be quite as exciting an adventure! :)
 
I always used to think that the Saturn mission was unmanned, and Christopher was simply in charge of the Mission Control team on the ground... :sigh:

But that wouldn't be quite as exciting an adventure! :)

It's impossible anyway. The first unmanned probe to visit Saturn was Pioneer 11, which was launched in April 1973 and reached Saturn in September 1979. Since Shaun Geoffrey Christopher hadn't even been conceived yet as of July 1969, there's no way he could've had anything to do with that mission.
 
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