SCIS novel series?

[Laura Cynthia Chambers]

Did anyone ever consider or pitch such a book series? It seems like most Starfleet crews just solve their own mysteries. I can imagine that maybe security chiefs of far-traveling ships might also be the agent aflight. I know there's a reference to the SCIS in a corps of engineers book, according to memory Beta. I just wonder why this concept never became more than an idle thread of plot.

 

[MadeIndescribable]

I presume you mean SCIS as a Star Trek equivalent to NCIS? I'd be interested to see one book just to see how they operate, but I don't see the concept gaining enough traction for a while series.

 

[Allyn Gibson]

I could see this as, say, a bimontly ebook novella series. That might be quite fun. Seems like the kind of thing Dayton Ward would love to develop.

 

[JD]

I've actually thought that something like this could fun.

 

[Christopher]

If we're talking about a mystery/crime investigation series, I think I'd rather have it revolve around Odo.

 

[Laura Cynthia Chambers]

^But with maybe more page time for his deputies than random one-off mentions?

 

[T'Ressa Dax]

Might be a nice idea for a one-off. But I don't think it would need a series. I remember being unsure I was even going to read The Case of the Colonist's Corpse. I ended up liking it better than I thought I would, but not enough to want another.

 

[JD]

I've often thought it would be fun to get an anthology that showed us stuff like this, just other aspects of life in the Federation or Starfleet that couldn't necessarily sustain a series or even a full length novel, but are still fun and interesting.

 

[MadeIndescribable]

Might be a nice idea for a one-off. But I don't think it would need a series. I remember being unsure I was even going to read The Case of the Colonist's Corpse. I ended up liking it better than I thought I would, but not enough to want another.

Pretty much the same way I felt about the JAG episode with Worf's trial in DS9 season 4....

 

[David cgc]

I've often thought it would be fun to get an anthology that showed us stuff like this, just other aspects of life in the Federation or Starfleet that couldn't necessarily sustain a series or even a full length novel, but are still fun and interesting.

That'd be an excellent premise if they do another collection. A whole volume of Articles of the Federations and Colonist's Corpses, either short stories or novellas. Might get around the fact that, IIRC, the smaller-scale, one-off novels like those didn't sell as well.

 

[Little_kingsfan]

That'd be an excellent premise if they do another collection. A whole volume of Articles of the Federations and Colonist's Corpses, either short stories or novellas. Might get around the fact that, IIRC, the smaller-scale, one-off novels like those didn't sell as well.

I like this idea! Let's hope it happens.

 

[Laura Cynthia Chambers]

Might be a nice idea for a one-off. But I don't think it would need a series

If you wanted to develop an investigative team's relationships with each other, it would.

 

[JWolf]

I think we should have a SCoJ (Starfleet Core of Janitors).

 

[hbquikcomjamesl]

Hmm. The only "SCIS" I ever had any content with was "Science Curriculum Improvement Study," a series of packaged elementary school science programs (with a strong emphasis on the biological sciences) from the early 1970s.

 

[Christopher]

Then there was that time that a candidate for Federation President, over the objections of her advisors, put forth a platform to combine the Starfleet Criminal Investigative Service with the Starfleet Operational Research Section. This was widely considered to be a terrible idea, and it cost her the election. And that is why you should never run with SCIS-SORS.

 

[JD]

 

[hbquikcomjamesl]

Pun my word!

 

[Mysterion]

Howabout a Starfleet Medical based series. Worked for James White and his Sector General books.

 

[JD]

If you're interested in medical stories IDW did do a miniseries by John Byrne that focused on McCoy between TOS and TMP. I haven't read it myself, so I'm not really sure how much of it actually revolved around medical issues though.

 

[Jinn]

And there was a special issue or something with the medics from all five series but I'm not sure how much it involved acutal medical issues. Maybe it was just everybody being grumpy. I think the name was "Stone and Flesh" or something like that.