Starfleet Year One

[Therin of Andor]

You know, I didn't read the monthly versions, I would have had to buy reprints of books I already had to do that. I only read the book version, and til recently wasn't aware that it had been rewritten. Do you happen to know what was changed?

The new bits included extra T'Pau scenes and a few new characters.

The only month where a serial chapter wasn't available in a brand new novel was January 2000, when some last-minute replacements (for a delayed pair of novels) were added to the schedule: the mass market versions of SNW I and SNW II reprints. John Ordover offered on Psi Phi to post out the missing chapter to anyone who was angry about having to rebuy a SNW book just to read Chapter 6.

Took me hours of scrabbling around in the Trek shrine the other night...

Starting in August 1999, the original chapters could be found in:

• Chapter One
  • Double Helix, Part 5: Double or Nothing by Peter David (TNG)
  • Double Helix, Part 6: The First Virtue by Michael Jan Friedman and Christie Golden (TNG)
• Chapter Two
  • The Forgotten War by William R. Forstchen (TNG)
  • Pathways by Jeri Taylor (VOY) (paperback edition)
• Chapter Three
  • Across the Universe by Pamela Sargent and George Zebrowski
  • Triangle: Imzadi II by Peter David (TNG) (paperback edition)
• Chapter Four
  • The Quiet Place by Peter David (New Frontier)
  • Dark Allies by Peter David (New Frontier)
• Chapter Five
  • The Badlands, Book 1, by Susan Wright
  • The Badlands, Book 2, by Susan Wright
• Chapter Six
  • Strange New Worlds, Book I (mass market paperback edition)
  • Strange New Worlds, Book II (mass market paperback edition)
• Chapter Seven
  • Gemworld, Book 1, by John Vornholt (TNG)
  • Gemworld, Book 2, by John Vornholt (TNG)
• Chapter Eight
  • The Fall of Terok Nor by Judith Reeves-Stevens and Garfield Reeves-Stevens (Millennium Book 1) (DS9)
  • The War of the Prophets by Judith and Garfield Reeves-Stevens (Millennium Book 2) (DS9)
• Chapter Nine
  • Inferno by Judith and Garfield Reeves-Stevens (Millennium Book 3) (DS9)
  • Dark Victory by William Shatner with Judith and Garfield Reeves-Stevens (paperback edition)
• Chapter Ten
  • A Stitch in Time by Andrew J. Robinson (DS9)
  • Vulcan's Forge by Josepha Sherman and Susan Shwartz (paperback edition)
• Chapter Eleven
  • Wagon Train to the Stars by Diane Carey (New Earth, Book 1)
  • Belle Terre by Dean Wesley Smith with Diane Carey (New Earth, Book 2)
• Chapter Twelve
  • Rough Trails by L.A. Graf (New Earth, Book 3)
  • The Flaming Arrow by Kathy Oltion and Jerry Oltion (New Earth, Book 4)

 

[JD]

You said Belle Terre twice, but with two different authors and numbers.

 

[Therin of Andor]

You said Belle Terre twice, but with two different authors and numbers.

Ooops, fixed. Off to MB...

 

[Stevil2001]

Hmm... I just read the chapters in whatever books I happened to buy at the time, and just sort of rolled with it if I had to skip a month. Which means I would have read Chapters 1, 2, 4, 5, 6, 8, 9, 10, 11, and 12, which isn't bad. Anyway, at a rate of one chapter per month I could never remember what had happened the previous month even if I had read it!

It's a shame Mike never got the chance to do Starfleet: Year Two. Bad timing.

 

[Therin of Andor]

Anyway, at a rate of one chapter per month I could never remember what had happened the previous month even if I had read it!

That was my problem, too, especially since some characters skipped several months before popping up again. SFY1 works much better as a novel.

Conversely, "A Hard Rain", the TNG Dixon Hill novel that followed, would have worked much better as the serial it was intended to be. It got far too repetitive as a novel.

 

[Steve Roby]

Conversely, "A Hard Rain", the TNG Dixon Hill novel that followed, would have worked much better as the serial it was intended to be. It got far too repetitive as a novel.

Oh, yeah. That book really needed to be extensively rewritten once the decision was made to do it as a standalone novel instead of a serial. Reading it as a novel was a painful experience.

 

[Therin of Andor]

That book really needed to be extensively rewritten once the decision was made to do it as a standalone novel instead of a serial. Reading it as a novel was a painful experience.

It was a shame, because the cover was wonderful, and the story was fun, but Dean Wesley Smith had written it specifically to be another twelve-part serial that, would take twelve months to see publication from beginning to end. As a twelve-chapter novel within one cover, it was a mess!

 

[cbp44189]

I agree, the ending was lame...

 

[Timo]

I only now notice that I never read books 5, 6, 8 and 9 of SF:Y1... I wonder if I missed much?

Timo Saloniemi

 

[Therin of Andor]

I only now notice that I never read books 5, 6, 8 and 9 of SF:Y1... I wonder if I missed much?

It was far more enjoyable on the second read, as an omnibus - with bonus scenes and new characters to boot.

 

[JoeZhang]

opps! wrong thread!

 

[Amaris]

I highly enjoyed the Starfleet Year One series/novel, and would have much preferred it to what we got instead. Just my personal opinion.

J.

 

[Therin of Andor]

I highly enjoyed the Starfleet Year One series/novel, and would have much preferred it to what we got instead..

What, you mean "Star Trek: Enterprise"?

 

[Amaris]

I highly enjoyed the Starfleet Year One series/novel, and would have much preferred it to what we got instead..

What, you mean "Star Trek: Enterprise"?

Yes. I prefer the events in "Starfleet: Year One" rather than the events that are considered canon in "Star Trek: Enterprise". No disrespect intended either to the fans or those involved in the television series.


J.