STO: The Needs of the Many cover.

[JoeZhang]

I have heard that to ensure it fits with the spirit of the game they are going to modify the language slightly from what we normally get in a Star Trek book:

Captain Del Boy of the USS Kentucky Fried Chicken hailed his counterpart Captain Wanko of the USS Bum Clown - "holy shit, did you see that? It was awesum. LOL!"

 

[LutherSloan]

I have heard that to ensure it fits with the spirit of the game they are going to modify the language slightly from what we normally get in a Star Trek book:

Captain Del Boy of the USS Kentucky Fried Chicken hailed his counterpart Captain Wanko of the USS Bum Clown - "holy shit, did you see that? It was awesum. LOL!"

lol, that would be pretty hilarious

 

[Dayton Ward]

^

Anybody think Star Trek Online will have their own version of Leeroy Jenkins?

I do.

Kirk: [talking to teammates outside the Klingon Fortress] Okay, guys, these Klingons have given us a lot of trouble in the past. Uh, does anybody need anything off these guys or can we bypass them?

McCoy: I think Sulu needs something.

Kirk: Does he need those crystals?

McCoy: Yeah, that will help him heal better.

Kirk: [sighs] Christ. Okay, here's what we'll do, I'll run in first, gather up all the crystals, and then we can kinda just blast them all down with phasers. I'll try to scatter them, so we don't have to fight a whole bunch of them at once. That's when I'll need Scotty to come in and take up position on the other side of the entrance, so we can keep them scattered and not have to fight too many. Bones, you follow after Scotty and do the same thing. We'll be in trouble if we don't take them down quick. I think this is a pretty good plan, we should be able to pull it off this time. What do you think Spock? What are the odds?

Spock: I estimate our chances of survival to be 1,238.7 to 1.

Kirk: Well, that's a lot better than we usually do. All right, you think we're ready guys? [interrupted]

Sulu: Alright chums, (I'm back)! Let's do this... HIKARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRU SUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUULU! [runs into fortress]

-Short pause-

Scotty [incredulous]: Oh my God. He just ran in! [runs in]

McCoy: Save him!

Kirk: Oh jeez, stick to the plan.

Scotty: Oh jeez, let's go, let's go! [follows]

Spock: Gentlemen, we must stay the course.

Kirk: Stick to the plan!

Scotty: Oh jeez, oh fuck!

Chekov: Lay down covering fire! Hurry up!

Kirk: Fire at will!

Chekov: My phaser's power cell is drained! I can't move, am I lagging, guys?

Uhura: I can't move!

Scotty: What the...what the hell?

Uhura: I can't contact the ship!

Scotty: Oh my God...

Spock: The crystals are morphing into some form of quadrupedal creatures.

Scotty: Phasers are just bouncin' offa them!

Uhura: Oh my God!

Sulu: We got em, we got em!

Chekov: I got it! I got it!

[muffled shouts]

Uhura: Uhura to Enterprise!

[muffled shouts]

Kirk: Kirk's down. Kirk's down.

Scotty: Oh my God...

Kirk: God dammit, Sulu!

Scotty: God dammit!

Uhura: Sulu, you moron!

McCoy: I'm on it.

Kirk: Listen, this is ridiculous.

Chekov: You dipshits!

Scotty: I'm down, Scotty down. God dammit!

shouting, then a pause, followed by other put-downs]

Chekov: Chekov is down.

Spock: This is our 37th consecutive failed attempt to negotiate this obstacle.

Scotty: Uhura, beam us out! Uhura, beam us out!

Uhura: I'm trying!

Kirk: Why do you do this shit, Sulu?

Sulu: [cries] It's not my fault!

Scotty: Who's got a distress beacon?

Kirk: Somebody's got a distress beacon, right?

Spock: Yes, but I believe its battery is exhausted.

Scotty: [noticing everybody is dead]: ... Oh God...

Kirk: Oh for - [sighs, nearly chokes and swallows] Great job!

Scotty: For Christ's sake!

McCoy: Sulu, you are just stupid as hell.

Uhura: Nimrod.

Chekov: Oh my God...

Sulu: At least I've got gagh.

 

[DarkHorizon]

So, from the TrekMovie article updating the 2010 schedule:

According to Cryptic, book will be told as a series of personal narratives of tales leading up to the setting for the Star Trek Online game, all tied together by Jake Sisko.

Looks like it will be a retelling of The Path to 2409 in some way. Interesting. A novel explaining how STO differs from the novels...

 

[Admiral_Young]

I'm really looking forward to this book...have been following the Path of 2409 (which by the way has been stuck at 2392 with the reelection of Nan Bacco for the last couple of months) and I agree it does seem to be a retelling of the Path of 2409 in a novel format and based on narratives from Jake. On the cover it looks like the redesigned constitution class starship EXCALIBUR CLASS but I could be wrong.

 

[Christopher]

^No, it's clearly a modified Sovereign, and the registration number does appear to be NX-91001 like the Sovvie shown in the publicity art linked above.

 

[Admiral_Young]

Okay on closer inspection yeah it seems your correct Christopher that it is a Sovereign class starship...intriguing with the NX designation though.

 

[DGCatAniSiri]

Okay on closer inspection yeah it seems your correct Christopher that it is a Sovereign class starship...intriguing with the NX designation though.

Presumably, it's a ship with a design similar to the Sovereign class, but there are some minor exterior differences and probably some heavy internal differences, probably something like the difference between the Miranda and Soyuz class, both being extremely similar in appearance but still separate classes of vessel.

 

[JoeZhang]

Okay on closer inspection yeah it seems your correct Christopher that it is a Sovereign class starship...intriguing with the NX designation though.

Presumably, it's a ship with a design similar to the Sovereign class, but there are some minor exterior differences and probably some heavy internal differences, probably something like the difference between the Miranda and Soyuz class, both being extremely similar in appearance but still separate classes of vessel.

Depends on what treasure you find in space and how you level up your crew...

 

[F. King Daniel]

I was holding out hope about the STO novel – I really think there’s potential exploring their version of the post-Countdown timeframe, even though I have no intention of playing the game. However the short story/Jake Sisko aspect has killed it dead for me. I'm still having nightmares about the rubbish bit in the Ent-relaunch where Detective Jake and Detective Nog “shockingly” learn the Fat Old Riker holodeck episode was “an intergalactic coverup!”

I want a proper, full-length story where all sorts of interesting stuff happens! From the POV of people more interesting than Jake Sisko!

Also having to answer to two or three licensors (CBS/Paramount and Cryptic) suggest to me this one might not be allowed to rock the boat in any way, shape or form.

 

[Mysterion]

Once again Dayton Ward has caused me to spray Dr. Pepper all over my laptop screen.

I thank you, Sir.

 

[Man of Steel]

The book, if I recall, will tell the backstory with the events leading up to the events taking place in STO.

 

[Defcon]

Yeah, you can accurately recall what was said eight posts before yours. Color me impressed.

 

[rafterman1701]

Well, that's disappointing. I was hoping the novel would be a retelling of my exploits while playing the game. Might give it a chance anyway.

 

[mattburgess]

Do people really want this book? Considering how often Pocket Books tell us they have limited publication space in their schedules, wouldn't we rather have another book based on one of the series (seeing as we don't get many these days anyway)?

I'm sure it'd sell better than a book based on a game, and aren't they all about the sales these days?

 

[8of5]

Do people really want this book? Considering how often Pocket Books tell us they have limited publication space in their schedules, wouldn't we rather have another book based on one of the series (seeing as we don't get many these days anyway)?

I'm sure it'd sell better than a book based on a game, and aren't they all about the sales these days?

I do, if we have to have multiple continuities I'd rather see them all well fleshed out across multiple media.

I don’t see any scheduling conflict, this novel seems to have been added on top of the normal mass market schedule, as it is one of two mass markets coming out in the same month. (The particularly orderly part of me wishes they'd bump one of those two along a bit to fill one slot in the hole in this year's mass market schedule so we get closer to a nice neat one a month again)

And what makes you think this will sell poorer than a normal novel? Online is being heavily promoted, and I imagine offers a potential new market of gamers, so if anything I'd expect it to do better...

 

[Christopher]

Do people really want this book? Considering how often Pocket Books tell us they have limited publication space in their schedules, wouldn't we rather have another book based on one of the series (seeing as we don't get many these days anyway)?

I'm sure it'd sell better than a book based on a game, and aren't they all about the sales these days?

I think the number of people who play MMORPGs these days is probably bigger than the number of people who read media tie-in novels. This is hardly a scientific survey, but I get 57.6 million Google hits for "Star Trek Online" versus only 43,900 hits for "Star Trek novels" and 59,600 hits for "Star Trek books."

So I think your assumption that a book based on STO would sell more poorly is probably incorrect.

 

[Stevil2001]

Star Wars has been very successful with its Republic Commando videogame-based novels-- they became a five-book series (with a sixth possibly on the way), one of which was even released in hardcover.

 

[Steve Roby]

The Halo books sell like crazy, too.

Hell, the only tie-in novels my wife ever reads are video game tie-ins. She's read a couple Mass Effect novels, several Splinter Cell novels, and she's currently reading an Assassin's Creed novel.

Personally, I don't know if I'm going to play STO much, but it's a different take on Trek, and I'm definitely interested in seeing it explored in book form.

 

[Ayelbourne]

So I think your assumption that a book based on STO would sell more poorly is probably incorrect.

I remember KRAD once mentioning that his World of Warcraft novel was one of his best selling books.