Star Trek: The Seekers

[Relayer1]

Maybe you could mention it's secondary hull in a novel and clear the matter up !

From what you have written about other classes of ship being developed from NX parts it wouldn't be a stretch for there to be a family or generation of related ships in production - new versions of the original NX, refit style, Pioneer and maybe others.

 

[Christopher]

Maybe you could mention it's secondary hull in a novel and clear the matter up !

I'd rather leave it ambiguous, up to the individual reader to decide.

 

[Relayer1]

Fair enough !

There's another thread on here regarding the new Polar Lights Enterprise kit that let's you build either the original or refit version.

Unusual, I think.

 

[DEWLine]

Unusual but not unwelcome.

 

[Avro Arrow]

^Heck, personally I like to think that Enterprise herself was refitted with a secondary hull sometime during the Romulan War. The books never say it wasn't, despite what the cover of To Brave the Storm shows.

Hmm... it would probably take a fair bit of time in-universe to do that. I don't recall the RW books that well; was there enough "downtime" for Enterprise during the war to fit a refit in?

 

[Christopher]

Hmm... it would probably take a fair bit of time in-universe to do that. I don't recall the RW books that well; was there enough "downtime" for Enterprise during the war to fit a refit in?

Oh, absolutely. There are a lot of time gaps in the books -- especially book 2, which covers the last four years of the war -- and NX-01 undergoes at least a couple of significant repairs/refits.

 

[Fer]

Maybe you could mention it's secondary hull in a novel and clear the matter up !

I'd rather leave it ambiguous, up to the individual reader to decide.

Thank you for that. As much as I admire the refit design, I like that the NX-01 is more of a predecessor to the Akira class than the Constitution class.

I'm okay with the NX-refit being a "running change" to the way the NX ships were built after the NX-01 was retired, or even as a later class of starship. It's definitely the next developmental step for starships, but part of the NX-01's appeal imho is that her time was before that step was taken.

 

[Therin of Andor]

Some of my (minor) concerns:

1. Doing the throwback approach might be confusing for some. Beyond the long, long time readers who will get it, it might be too much of a niche within a niche.

Fans keep demanding that "Star Trek" takes some risks.

 

[Mysterion]

Some of my (minor) concerns:

1. Doing the throwback approach might be confusing for some. Beyond the long, long time readers who will get it, it might be too much of a niche within a niche.

Fans keep demanding that "Star Trek" takes some risks.

For every fan that want that, there's a fan who wants the stead state" version of the Trek unverse. Not everyone will be happy a the same time.

 

[Elias Vaughn]

I, for one, plan to be unhappy as long as everyone else is happy. Catch 22's make me smile.

 

[shanejayell]

I'm hoping we'll see some crossover with Vanguard plot threads. And the SCE of the era...

 

[Mage]

I'm hoping we'll see some crossover with Vanguard plot threads. And the SCE of the era...

Well, considering that the last VAN novel ended

Spoiler: ENDING OF VANGUARD

with Sagitarrius and Endeveaour going into the Taurus Reach not only to explore and scout, but make sure that the Shedai are truly gone, their's a change we'll see some crossover.

 

[Relayer1]

I'm hoping we'll see some crossover with Vanguard plot threads. And the SCE of the era...

SCE. Yes...

 

[Sho]

Can you imagine KRAD writing an SCE-themed Seekers entry ...

 

[Mage]

I just realized something.....


no Bersh glov Mog. I really liked him.

 

[trampledamage]

Can you imagine KRAD writing an SCE-themed Seekers entry ...

I would certainly like him to!

 

[Defcon]

The books are now listed at Amazon.

What's odd is that they seem to have titles - weren't the Seeker books supposed to be just numbered (Seekers , Seekers 2, etc..)?

FWIW at least in the amazon listing the first book by David Mack is called Second Nature and the second one by Ward/Dilmore Point of Divergence.

Note: Since they only list Dilmore as the writer of Book 2, they just as well could be wrong about the titles as well.

ETA: Dayton confirmed on Twitter that they were asked to provide titles.

 

[Thrawn]

That's lame. I loved the throwback feel of those cover mock-ups, with just the numbers.

 

[Defcon]

They could still go for that and only have the titles on the spine, but I guess that's unlikely.

 

[Allyn Gibson]

They could still go for that and only have the titles on the spine, but I guess that's unlikely.

I wouldn't be surprised if they now had titles for merchandising and sales purposes. Pocket wouldn't want people in bookstores to miss a book because they were confused by the lack of a title, and they would want people to be able to find the book online through searches. A title cuts adds clarity. I'm only speculating -- I don't know that that's the reason -- but it wouldn't surprise me at all because I deal with the very thing in my day job.