Sequel Story to "The Enterprise Incident"

[DumbDumb2007]

Sequel story idea to the Enterprise Incident. A certain 23rd Century Starship Captain's body is taken to the Amusemant park planet or through the Guardian of Forever Planet. He is ressurected to command the NCC-1701-E and go on an espionage Mission to the Romulan Homeworld to obtain information on the Thaleron Radiation device and how it is deployed on Enemy ships. The only Captain who previously made in incursion into the Romulan Neutral Zone intentionally was ....
It would be a wild ride and at the end of the tale you know who would be left in command of the Enterprise-E which is more of a warship than an Exploration ship although of course it is used for both purposes.

 

[KDoug]

Interesting...

 

[General_Custer]

Its to predictable and would never work.

 

[Therin of Andor]

The old Bantam novels "The Price of the Phoenix" and "The Fate of the Phoenix" by Marshak & Culbreath already work as sequels to "The Enterprise Incident" - complete with the female Romulan Commander and even its themes of Kirk's supposed death, cloning and resurrection.

 

[Mallory]

Therin of Andor said:
The old Bantam novels "The Price of the Phoenix" and "The Fate of the Phoenix" by Marshak & Culbreath...

Argghhhh. The absolute worst Star Trek novels I ever read. I had actually managed to suppress the memory of them until now.

 

[T'Bonz]

You beat me to it. I was going to say that, but decided to be nice.

What the hell. Worst Trek books ever.

 

[Therin of Andor]

Mallory said:
Argghhhh. The absolute worst Star Trek novels I ever read. I had actually managed to suppress the memory of them until now.

* bows *

It's amazing I became such a devotee of ST novels. My very first one was "The Fate of the Phoenix", not realizing I was reading a sequel, and not having even seen "The Enterprise Incident". Nor that there were so many better places to start.

 

[sturmde]

At the time, Price and Fate were about all there was. A drip of stanky water in the middle of the desert when dying from thirst.... is something.

Of course, don't forget the third book in the Marshak-Culbreath sequence, Triangle. Yikes.

I still think what was done to M W Bonanno's Music of the Spheres that became that mess that is Probe is the worst novel... (Although her original is :thumbsup

 

[5150]

I thought the Price of the Phoenix was pretty good, and the Fate of the Phoenix was okay too, but the idea got a little old. I haven't read them in . . . oh maybe 25 years, but as I remember, the authors kept putting Kirk in the same fix - time after time. Got tiresome.

 

[KeepOnTrekking]

I guess I'm in the minority this time around! I loved both Price & Fate when they came out. Compared to Spock, Messiah! or Vulcan! those two Phoenix novels seemed like gold in comparison.

I could have done without the extensive esoteric repartee between the lead characters about the Phoenix process and the Romulan Commander falling for James. However, it was a nice statement about cloning and immortality. I always saw this incident or maybe Spock's reliving his past in "Yesteryear" as the reason why he left for Vulcan at the end of the 5ym to seek a better control of his emotions with Kohlinahr. Or maybe the Phoenix process was a gently reminder for Spock that he needed the Kohlinahr skills to perform a katra transfer which we never saw him attempt during the original 5ym.

I always saw Spock's relationship with the Commander as pivotal for Spock's later interests in reunification with Romulus later on. And Omne's brief mention of the growing dissident movement on Vulcan about the Federation's abuse of the Prime Directive was an nice incidental foreshadowing of T'Pring's withdrawal from the Federation movement a few years later in Spock's World .

Overall, I still think the Phoenix stories would make a nice contribution to the trek universe with an extensive rewrite and tightening up of the wandering storyline.

 

[Harvey]

Well, skipping the Phoenix books, Vulcan's Heart manages to be a pretty nice follow-up to the Enterprise Incident (as well as a number of other episodes). Haven't read the Vulcan's Glory books yet, so can't comment on them, but I assume they follow up on the same material.

 

[Therin of Andor]

Hirogen Alpha said:
Haven't read the Vulcan's Glory books yet, so can't comment on them, but I assume they follow up on the same material.

"Vulcan's Glory" is a one-shot novel by DC Fontana, set in Pike's era.

You're thinking of the trilogy, "Vulcan's Soul". It centres on the historic departure of the Romulans from Vulcan, the origin of the Remans and a new threat from outside.

 

[P0sitr0nic]

How many "BRING KIRK BACK" threads can dumbdumb make before its considered spam?

 

[Harvey]

^^
Right. Thanks for correcting me on that. I have a hard time keeping up on Trek Lit these days.

 

[TheLonelySquire]

Mallory said:

Therin of Andor said:
The old Bantam novels "The Price of the Phoenix" and "The Fate of the Phoenix" by Marshak & Culbreath...

Argghhhh. The absolute worst Star Trek novels I ever read. I had actually managed to suppress the memory of them until now.

Noooooo. Omne was cool!