Non-star Trek books for Star Trek fans

[The Wormhole]

What Sawyer was trying to say was in reference to many sci-fi authors "of his generation" always felt a need to do their own take on "Star Trek done right" of which Starplex was his. Specifically, he always disapproved o the military side of Starfleet* and wanted to depict his own take on an actually non-militaristic civilian space exploration starship.

*Yes, Sawyer considers Starfleet military. No, this should not be an excuse to engage in That Argument.

 

[Laura Cynthia Chambers]

For anyone interested, the first four chapters and the outline of his proposed Star Trek novel, Armada (which obviously never came to pass), are available on his website.

And apparently a fifth, as of 2014 (in addition to the outline ).