Seven Deadly Sins--cover on amazon

[Greg Cox]

The Pakled story takes place during the NextGen tv series. Mostly because I wanted to use Geordi and Worf and Data and the whole gang . . . .

 

[Paris]

The Pakled story takes place during the NextGen tv series. Mostly because I wanted to use Geordi and Worf and Data and the whole gang . . . .

Hey Greg...if you don't mind, what is the title of your Pakled story?

 

[Defcon]

^^^ Work Is Hard.

The full ToC from Memory Beta's page about the anthology:

* Pride: Romulans - "The First Pier", by Dayton Ward and Kevin Dilmore
* Envy: Cardassians - "The Slow Knife", by James Swallow
* Anger: Klingons - "The Unhappy Ones", by Keith R.A. DeCandido
* Sloth: Pakleds - "Work Is Hard", by Greg Cox
* Greed: Ferengi - "Reservoir Ferengi", by David McIntee
* Gluttony: Borg - "Revenant", by Marc Giller
* Lust: Mirror Universe - "Freedom Angst", by Britta Dennison

Keith teaser about his Klingon story from our recent interview:

“In the 23rd century, the workers in a mine engage in civil unrest after two murders,” says Keith, giving us a short teaser for the story. “A QuchHa' (no forehead ridges) is murdered, but it's ruled an accident with little investigation; in retaliation, the HemQuch (with forehead ridges) who likely killed the QuchHa' is also murdered, but his killer is condemned to death. This leads to riots and violence beyond the capaibility of the mine supervisor and his security chief to handle, so the Klingon Defense Force sends in three QuchHa' captains to deal with it: Kor, Kang, and Koloth.”

And here'S one by James Swallow about his Cardassian story from our interview last year:

“The Slow Knife is set pre-DS9, during the period of Cardassian-Federation border skirmishes as detailed in the TNG episode The Wounded,” he reveals. “It’s about an ambitious young Cardassian officer who is passed over for a promotion and becomes slowly consumed by her own resentment and jealousy.” And since no story hint would be complete without a little uncertainty, he also teases that “a certain other Cardassian of note may or may not also appear in the story…”

 

[phrog]

Thanks Defcon, mighty helpful post

 

[DS9Continuing]

So, based on the cover, are we meant to think that this "ambitious young officer" is Malyn Ocett? Or was that just a random character choice to illustrate the species in general? I'm assuming the former.

 

[Deranged Nasat]

So, based on the cover, are we meant to think that this "ambitious young officer" is Malyn Ocett? Or was that just a random character choice to illustrate the species in general? I'm assuming the former.

Ocett would make sense. Probably, being female and thus a rarity in the Cardassian military, she's being shunted off to some safer posting in keeping with her culture's social biases. Plus, Ocett always seemed in a bad mood over something...it makes sense to explore her in more depth (I liked her appearance in Night of the Wolves).

 

[Paris]

^^^ Work Is Hard.

The full ToC from Memory Beta's page about the anthology:

* Pride: Romulans - "The First Pier", by Dayton Ward and Kevin Dilmore
* Envy: Cardassians - "The Slow Knife", by James Swallow
* Anger: Klingons - "The Unhappy Ones", by Keith R.A. DeCandido
* Sloth: Pakleds - "Work Is Hard", by Greg Cox
* Greed: Ferengi - "Reservoir Ferengi", by David McIntee
* Gluttony: Borg - "Revenant", by Marc Giller
* Lust: Mirror Universe - "Freedom Angst", by Britta Dennison

Keith teaser about his Klingon story from our recent interview:

“In the 23rd century, the workers in a mine engage in civil unrest after two murders,” says Keith, giving us a short teaser for the story. “A QuchHa' (no forehead ridges) is murdered, but it's ruled an accident with little investigation; in retaliation, the HemQuch (with forehead ridges) who likely killed the QuchHa' is also murdered, but his killer is condemned to death. This leads to riots and violence beyond the capaibility of the mine supervisor and his security chief to handle, so the Klingon Defense Force sends in three QuchHa' captains to deal with it: Kor, Kang, and Koloth.”

And here'S one by James Swallow about his Cardassian story from our interview last year:

“The Slow Knife is set pre-DS9, during the period of Cardassian-Federation border skirmishes as detailed in the TNG episode The Wounded,” he reveals. “It’s about an ambitious young Cardassian officer who is passed over for a promotion and becomes slowly consumed by her own resentment and jealousy.” And since no story hint would be complete without a little uncertainty, he also teases that “a certain other Cardassian of note may or may not also appear in the story…”

Thanks a lot Defcon. Much appreciated

 

[William Leisner]

The full ToC from Memory Beta's page about the anthology:

* Pride: Romulans - "The First Pier", by Dayton Ward and Kevin Dilmore

That should be "The First Peer" The First Pier is a chain of inexpensive home furnishing/decor shops...

 

[Deranged Nasat]

The full ToC from Memory Beta's page about the anthology:

* Pride: Romulans - "The First Pier", by Dayton Ward and Kevin Dilmore

That should be "The First Peer"

The First Pier: Where the Praetor does a spot of fishing over the Apnex Sea after a hard day's looking regal.

 

[Christopher]

The First Peer: The gripping tale of the first time Spock looked into his hooded viewer.

 

[James Swallow]

So, based on the cover, are we meant to think that this "ambitious young officer" is Malyn Ocett? Or was that just a random character choice to illustrate the species in general? I'm assuming the former.

It's not Ocett.

 

[Deranged Nasat]

So, based on the cover, are we meant to think that this "ambitious young officer" is Malyn Ocett? Or was that just a random character choice to illustrate the species in general? I'm assuming the former.

It's not Ocett.

Interesting...

 

[JD]

So, based on the cover, are we meant to think that this "ambitious young officer" is Malyn Ocett? Or was that just a random character choice to illustrate the species in general? I'm assuming the former.

It's not Ocett.

Is it someone we've seen before?

 

[Dayton Ward]

The First Peer begins during second season TOS, shortly after the episode "The Deadly Years." It "stars" a Romulan character first seen in TrekLit, and features a couple of notable cameos from other TrekLit characters. Unless I'm forgetting someone, there's only one scene featuring a character from screen Trek.

 

[JD]

The more I hear about these stories the better this collection sounds.

 

[KRAD]

In terms of the timeline, "The Unhappy Ones" takes place after "The Trouble with Tribbles" (and "More Tribbles, More Troubles," which I assumed took place fairly soon after the episode it was a sequel to), but before "Day of the Dove." Koloth is now in command of the Devisor ("MT,MT"), the Gr'oth having been scuttled after the events of "TTwT." Kang is still aboard the Voh'tahk, before it was destroyed in "DotD."

Fans of IDW's Blood Will Tell will be happy to know that I used several secondary characters on Kor and Kang's ships established in that miniseries -- particularly Jurva.

 

[Thor Damar]

So, based on the cover, are we meant to think that this "ambitious young officer" is Malyn Ocett? Or was that just a random character choice to illustrate the species in general? I'm assuming the former.

It's not Ocett.

Interesting...

Not the future Castellan then? I'm wondering whom the other Cardassian 'of note' is...

 

[James Swallow]

Is it someone we've seen before?

Nope. I did think about making the character Ocett at one point, but her established timeline in other novels doesn't match up with what I wanted to occur in the story, so I created a new character.

Not the future Castellan then? I'm wondering whom the other Cardassian 'of note' is...

I couldn't possibly comment...

 

[JD]

I can think of at least three or four possibilities.

 

[DevilEyes]

^^^ Work Is Hard.

The full ToC from Memory Beta's page about the anthology:

* Pride: Romulans - "The First Pier", by Dayton Ward and Kevin Dilmore
* Envy: Cardassians - "The Slow Knife", by James Swallow
* Anger: Klingons - "The Unhappy Ones", by Keith R.A. DeCandido
* Sloth: Pakleds - "Work Is Hard", by Greg Cox
* Greed: Ferengi - "Reservoir Ferengi", by David McIntee
* Gluttony: Borg - "Revenant", by Marc Giller
* Lust: Mirror Universe - "Freedom Angst", by Britta Dennison

Keith teaser about his Klingon story from our recent interview:

“In the 23rd century, the workers in a mine engage in civil unrest after two murders,” says Keith, giving us a short teaser for the story. “A QuchHa' (no forehead ridges) is murdered, but it's ruled an accident with little investigation; in retaliation, the HemQuch (with forehead ridges) who likely killed the QuchHa' is also murdered, but his killer is condemned to death. This leads to riots and violence beyond the capaibility of the mine supervisor and his security chief to handle, so the Klingon Defense Force sends in three QuchHa' captains to deal with it: Kor, Kang, and Koloth.”

And here'S one by James Swallow about his Cardassian story from our interview last year:

“The Slow Knife is set pre-DS9, during the period of Cardassian-Federation border skirmishes as detailed in the TNG episode The Wounded,” he reveals. “It’s about an ambitious young Cardassian officer who is passed over for a promotion and becomes slowly consumed by her own resentment and jealousy.” And since no story hint would be complete without a little uncertainty, he also teases that “a certain other Cardassian of note may or may not also appear in the story…”

Thanks a lot Defcon. Much appreciated

I'm excited about the Cardassian and Klingon stories. And the Romulans, well, it's always good to have more Romulans.

I'm least excited and most apprehensive about the Mirror Universe story, because of the previous hit-and-miss (i.e. very little hit and a lot and lot of miss) treatment of DS9 MU, both canon and non-canon, especially it's labeled as "Lust". I hope that's out of necessity to assign it to a specific sin rather than an accurate sign of what the story is about, since I've never been a fan of the MU stories use of sex, i.e. promiscuity and homosexuality/bisexuality, to show how eeevil the MU world is. Perhaps even the lust angle could be worked into a good story, but that has hardly happened so far. The only thing that sounds good about this is that it's written by Britta Dennison, who co-wrote the excellent Night of the Wolves and Dawn of the Eagles, so I hope she can write a better story than some of the previous MU offerings have been (like the IMO rather shallow and unimaginative Saturn's Children).