Star Trek: Myriad Universes - follow up(s)?

[Little_kingsfan]

A few years ago (actually, 7-8 years ago now...where does the time go?!), Trek-lit gave us six wonderful short stories (and followed it up two years later with another three) called Myriad Universes. My question is this: will there ever be any follow up(s) on those stories? Would anybody be interested in writing them, or reading them? I'm very curious to know what happens in the 24th century of A Less Perfect Union, or what happens/happened after the events of A Gutted World, or what the 23rd century looked like under the rule of the Khanate of Earth from Seeds of Dissent. Did R-Adm. Thelin's extradition and subsequent death bring peace to the Federation and Klingons in The Chimes at Midnight, or did Data's destruction of a Federation starbase in The Embrace of Cold Architects hinder the efforts of Starfleet's anti-Borg research? How does the Federation look after the great android migration depicted in Brave New World (which is the Myriad Universes story I like the least, by virtue of liking the others better)?

Let me know what you think.

 

[Christopher]

More Myriad Universes would be great in theory, but that was Marco Palmieri's project, and with him now working over at Tor, there doesn't seem to be much impetus to continue it.

And just to clarify, every one of the Myriad Universes installments was a novel, not a short story. Anything over 40,000 words is classed as a novel, and the MyrU tales tended to be around 50,000 or so.

 

[Quimby]

I would love to see more. They could do a new anthology every year and I wouldn't get bored.

 

[Kilana2]

I have to read the Shattered Light stories yet, but I liked all the other stories so far. Especially

Spoiler: Janeway and Chakotay

... having a daughter, never coming home....

 

[F. King Daniel]

Oooo, zombie thread.

But since we're here, ever since Into Darkness' crazy alternate version of Khan's awakening and subsequent life, I've wanted to read that "What if the Enterprise-D found Khan?" story mentioned in an early Myriad Universes (then called Split Infinities) announcement.

 

[Christopher]

Oooo, zombie thread.

No, it started yesterday.

 

[F. King Daniel]

Oh I see, I'm confusing the "joined" dates under everyone's avatar with the post timestamps. Apologies.

 

[Reanok]

I liked the Myriad Universe books. I thought all the stories were really good.

 

[Christopher]

Oh I see, I'm confusing the "joined" dates under everyone's avatar with the post timestamps. Apologies.

I did that too at first. It's one of the confusing things about the new format for those of us used to the old one. It doesn't help that the "Joined" dates are in black text and the time stamps are in gray text that doesn't stand out as well.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

I thought the worldbuilding of the Vostigye in "Places of Exile" was pretty cool, but all in all that novel seemed too much of a "This is everything that was wrong with Voyager and so here I am to make it all better" type of thing.

Probably my favorite one was the Vulcan story - "The Tears of Eridanus". Interesting to see how an Andorian-centered empire would have fared, with Earth being just another member.

Makes me wonder how first contact went down in that universe: If the Andorians had been the ones who turned up instead of the Vulcans, what would they have thought about post-WW III Earth? Something must have interested them, otherwise they would have ignored Earth altogether...I always used to think that the Andorians wouldn't have bothered with a weak, bombed-out Earth like that film showed, but I guess it had something they wanted...

Oh and the one with the androids - "Brave New World", I think - had just about the creepiest ending I have ever seen. I don't know if it was intended as such, but it sure struck me that way.

Spoiler: ending

Picard's attitude after finding himself in an android body...something just seemed way off about it. He seemed almost dangerously glib.

 

[Stevil2001]

Probably my favorite one was the Vulcan story - "The Tears of Eridanus". Interesting to see how an Andorian-centered empire would have fared, with Earth being just another member.

Makes me wonder how first contact went down in that universe: If the Andorians had been the ones who turned up instead of the Vulcans, what would they have thought about post-WW III Earth? Something must have interested them, otherwise they would have ignored Earth altogether...I always used to think that the Andorians wouldn't have bothered with a weak, bombed-out Earth like that film showed, but I guess it had something they wanted...

I have notes on this somewhere, but am not sure where. First contact happened later, the 2180s I want to say, because humans puttered around a bit at warp before anyone finally noticed them. They became absorbed into the Andorian economic network over time.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

That's a good point - Human/Andorian first contact happening later than the canon version with the Vulcans.

I've said this before, but if ST:FC had gone down exactly as it did, but with the Andorians instead of the Vulcans, I'm honestly having a hard time seeing the Andorians caring about Earth at all at that time, let alone helping in the post-WWIII cleanup like the Vulcans presumably did. How can a proud, violent, warrior race like the Andorians care about the humans, who almost got themselves wiped out in a global nuclear conflict? I doubt the Andorians have much of a tolerance for weaker races.

 

[Idran]

I don't know about that; Arkenites aren't exactly warriors, after all.

 

[ialfan]

I really enjoyed all the myriad universe stories. I'd love more but I'm happy we got what we did. Some of them are up there with my favorite Trek stories ever.

 

[Claudia]

Honestly, this is my favourite subseries, if you can even call it that with only 3 entries, within TrekLit. So I'd love to see more of those little What-If stories.

 

[Christopher]

Honestly, this is my favourite subseries, if you can even call it that with only 3 entries, within TrekLit. So I'd love to see more of those little What-If stories.

Nine entries, really. Just published in three volumes. (Ten if you count IDW's MyrU-branded The Last Generation, though I've always felt that one doesn't quite fit because its alternate timeline was created through time travel, Abramsverse-style, rather than being a spontaneous alternate history.)

 

[Stevil2001]

That's a good point - Human/Andorian first contact happening later than the canon version with the Vulcans.

I've said this before, but if ST:FC had gone down exactly as it did, but with the Andorians instead of the Vulcans, I'm honestly having a hard time seeing the Andorians caring about Earth at all at that time, let alone helping in the post-WWIII cleanup like the Vulcans presumably did. How can a proud, violent, warrior race like the Andorians care about the humans, who almost got themselves wiped out in a global nuclear conflict? I doubt the Andorians have much of a tolerance for weaker races.

Do the Vulcans help with the cleanup? I don't think we have much evidence for that.

In any case, Earth has plenty of natural resources, enough to be building a fleet of starships and sending the "boomers" out into space by the early 22nd century in the Prime timeline, so there's the potential for trade. I have no problem imagining the Andorians helping Earth rebuild in order to turn it into a client state.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

Do the Vulcans help with the cleanup? I don't think we have much evidence for that.

I always assumed they did. Without help, there's no way Earth could have recovered from a global nuclear war in only a century.

 

[Little_kingsfan]

I always assumed they did. Without help, there's no way Earth could have recovered from a global nuclear war in only a century.

Well, there are certain characters - particularly in Star Trek: Enterprise - who were around back then (or knew somebody who was, or was descended from someone who was); maybe someday some book will flash back to 2063-2151 to see just how involved the Vulcans were or weren't.

 

[Leto_II]

In any case, Earth has plenty of natural resources, enough to be building a fleet of starships and sending the "boomers" out into space by the early 22nd century in the Prime timeline [...]

Or, if you're Mike Okuda, having the SS Valiant somehow launch from Earth precisely in 2065, LOL.