Novel Series about the Enterprise-J
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Yes, of course. It mustn't be the E-J for me. The time aspect is far more important IMO! But it would be nice if the ship would be a new Enterprise :-)
^In that case, maybe you would want to check out the TV Series "Andromeda" from Gene Roddenberry. I believe it's available on DVD. If you substitute the UFP for Andromeda's Commonwealth, substitute the Klingons for the Nietzscheans, you might get something like what your're looking for.
At least for the first season and a half, before Robert Hewitt Wolfe was fired and the show fell apart.
Just to play devil's advocate:
Part of TTN's appeal is the ship, same as with the Aventine. Both designs feature on covers, in calendars and even made their way into Star Trek Online as playable ships , even though they're set in differing continuities. If the goal of 5K signatories is achieved, the Titan will be included in The Official Starships Collection.
The only character we know something about on the 1701-J is the Xindi crewperson, who could be any lower-decks ensign or a senior officer.
The reason why a series set in the future could pick the 1701-J specifically, it's one of only two featured canonical vessels from the future; the other being the Relativity. Why set a series on a random future ship when you can utilize an existing reference?
The visual element is there, too. Why do novels contains space battles and action if you can't see it? Because you can. One of my gripes with Well of Souls was that we didn't get a "space view" of the Enterprise in the first half of the book. It could've been any generic vessel. Even Taking Wing handled it better, which vague references to Titan's size. So, in a story featuring the Enterprise-J, we'd have moments describing the sleek body and broad saucer cutting through the Trans-Slipstream tunnel or subspace, the ship pivoting through exotic nebulae, landing, rising, etc. It is one thing to randomly imagine such scenes, or to see them realized on paper. Am I making sense?
My 2 Cents: Glimpses of the future are tantalizing but I don't think that fascination is sufficient to buoy another Lit-only series. However, I'd love to see a story featuring the Enterprise-J.
Part of TTN's appeal is the ship, same as with the Aventine. Both designs feature on covers, in calendars and even made their way into Star Trek Online as playable ships , even though they're set in differing continuities. If the goal of 5K signatories is achieved, the Titan will be included in The Official Starships Collection.
The only character we know something about on the 1701-J is the Xindi crewperson, who could be any lower-decks ensign or a senior officer.
The reason why a series set in the future could pick the 1701-J specifically, it's one of only two featured canonical vessels from the future; the other being the Relativity. Why set a series on a random future ship when you can utilize an existing reference?
The visual element is there, too. Why do novels contains space battles and action if you can't see it? Because you can. One of my gripes with Well of Souls was that we didn't get a "space view" of the Enterprise in the first half of the book. It could've been any generic vessel. Even Taking Wing handled it better, which vague references to Titan's size. So, in a story featuring the Enterprise-J, we'd have moments describing the sleek body and broad saucer cutting through the Trans-Slipstream tunnel or subspace, the ship pivoting through exotic nebulae, landing, rising, etc. It is one thing to randomly imagine such scenes, or to see them realized on paper. Am I making sense?
My 2 Cents: Glimpses of the future are tantalizing but I don't think that fascination is sufficient to buoy another Lit-only series. However, I'd love to see a story featuring the Enterprise-J.
^Fair points. But any "pitch" for an E-J series would have to be fleshed out a whole lot more before it could be viable. The ship is just the setting, and that's not enough by itself.
Slipstream Drive technology has only 'recently' given Starfleet the ability to traverse the whole of the Milky Way Galaxy and it's still a fledgling initiative. If the idea to traverse beyond those limits NEEDS to be incorporated however, I see no reason to jump to the Ent-J just for that purpose.
The Jaunt Ship Wormhole Drive technology has already been featured as a possibility for Inter-Galaxy travel if the NEED ever arises.
I'd like to think that MU Memory Omega would be willing to reach an accord with the Prime-U which could then be elaborated further upon plot wise.
If Sisko can have a Cloaking Device on loan from Romulus, Then Starfleet can have a Wormhole Drive Explorer "Testbed" on loan from Memory Omega.
The Jaunt Ship Wormhole Drive technology has already been featured as a possibility for Inter-Galaxy travel if the NEED ever arises.
I'd like to think that MU Memory Omega would be willing to reach an accord with the Prime-U which could then be elaborated further upon plot wise.
If Sisko can have a Cloaking Device on loan from Romulus, Then Starfleet can have a Wormhole Drive Explorer "Testbed" on loan from Memory Omega.
Hold on -- where does the idea of the E-J having intergalactic capability come from? Nothing of the sort is mentioned in "Azati Prime" or in the Ships of the Line books, and I don't know of anywhere else that the E-J has been depicted, other than fan art. So why is everyone assuming that about it?
My guess, a natural progression of the further in the future you get and the more refined a transport technology gets, the more likely you are to be able to get further away from point a.
Doug Drexler had an entry about the E-J on his blog a few years ago and he described her as a multi-generation-vessel, that could fold space, allowing the crew to explore other galaxies, etc.
I seem to remember that it came from Doug Drexler!
Drexler mentioned it on Drex Files a loooong time ago. He said that he designed the E-J to be self sufficient on long term missions of exploration and that it was intended to be a Generation Ship. Part of the article also said that it used a new form of Warp Drive that folded space, similar to the Coaxial Warp Drive.
It's a really old article though. I think I read it in 2010.
I really don't see the point...as mentioned, it was a ship we learned nothing about whatsoever. I have no interest.
It does not come from any licensed material, but the Memory Alpha page on the ship contains excerpts of an interview with Doug Drexler. When he designed the ship, he thought about the technological background and mentioned his ideas in the interview.
Don't see why not. Heck, I've always thought of the Enterprise-D as essentially a university village in space -- at least as TNG's creators originally conceived it, before the later producers largely forgot about the large complement of civilian researchers aboard.
If Star Trek ever returns to TV, I would love to see it set in the 26th or 27th Centuries. I know it won't happen, but it's what I'd like to see.
Setting something so far into the future would basically allow you to reinvent the universe without stepping on established continuity. Hell, it wouldn't even matter if it was set in the Prime timeline or the nuTrek timeline because those events would be so far removed from everything we've seen (just avoid mentioning the planet Vulcan and you can leave the timeline ambiguous).
Setting something so far into the future would basically allow you to reinvent the universe without stepping on established continuity. Hell, it wouldn't even matter if it was set in the Prime timeline or the nuTrek timeline because those events would be so far removed from everything we've seen (just avoid mentioning the planet Vulcan and you can leave the timeline ambiguous).
One thing I remember is that in the technical manual they had some mention of an entire deck devoted for aquatic species or something like that, but due to budgetary constraints they could never put that on the show in any way. At least in the Titan series they realize some of those ideas of crew cabins designed for crew-members of species that are not able to inhabit regular Earth-type environments.
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