The State of Star Trek Literature

[Yevetha]

Thanks.

Are there any books prominently featuring Hirogens?

 

[xortex]

If it was written after the year 2000, Yevetha, it will probably (not always, but usually) be part of the same continuity as most other Trek books written after 2000. There's no actual term for this continuity because it's not official or controlled, but we usually just call it the "mainstream continuity" or the "Novel Verse" or something like that.

Welcome to the board, by the way. You've emerged from the Koornacht Cluster to scourge us of the impure, I presume

Thanks, urethra? Yevitha. You're just in time. I feel relieved now.

 

[James Cole]

Thanks.

Are there any books prominently featuring Hirogens?

Check out Demons of Air and Darkness from the Deep Space Nine relaunch.

 

[Destructor]

So just read what you want, enjoy what you enjoy, and decide for yourself what fits together.

Also, tattoo this on the inside of your eyelids.

 

[SicOne]

Could somebody link me list that shows how many different timelines are out there?

There isn't one. It's not that formally defined. And there are cases where you wouldn't get universal agreement among the fans about what fits in the same timeline and what doesn't. There's a lot of room for individual interpretation.

So just read what you want, enjoy what you enjoy, and decide for yourself what fits together.

This.

Oh, and also, go out and buy (and read...) a copy of Christopher's DTI book. You'll never look at "timelines" the same way again.

 

[Yevetha]

I think i will read the Vanguard series.

" Check out Demons of Air and Darkness from the Deep Space Nine relaunch."

Is it enough for me to just watch the series to know whats this about?

 

[Manisphere]

Next Generation - dealing with the USS Enterprise under command of a resurrected Capt Data with Ambassador Picard and Capt Crusher as supporting characters.

Voyager - continuation of the Full Circle Fleet in the Delta Quadrant.

Titan - continuation of the Titan stories

New Frontier - continuation of the Excalibur, Trident & Bravo Station stories.

Exactly this. And whatever David Mack happens to feel like doing.

 

[JD]

I think i will read the Vanguard series.

" Check out Demons of Air and Darkness from the Deep Space Nine relaunch."

Is it enough for me to just watch the series to know whats this about?

You probably could, as long as you keep in mind that it part of the Relaunch's ongoing story.

 

[Yevetha]

Thanks.

 

[Turtletrekker]

A little late to the party here as I wanted to catch up on my reading a bit.

In general, how do you feel the Trek book line has done in the last 12-15 months?

Post-Destiny Trek has experienced a bit of a drop. Destiny was always going to be a hard act to follow-up on, but it didn't help that the Typhon Pact books (Including the "bridge" book, A Singular Destiny) have been a little disappointing. None of the books in the series have been the authors best works. (Excluding Paths of Disharmony, which I own but haven't read yet, so can't comment on.)

2. More specifically, what have you liked in regards to the entire Trek book line in that time? Any favorite novels?

Watching the Clock has been by far the best entry since Destiny. Also, the novel length The Sorrows of Empire was outstanding.

3. And more specifically, what have you disliked in regards to the Trek book line of the last year or so? What were your least favorite books?

I couldn't finish Sieze the Fire. The Typhon Pact in general has been a little disappointing. I think perhaps the concept would have been better served with something along the lines of a WoDS9 or Vanguard: Declassified approach, a novel or duology with short-novel/novella sized stories instead of the full-length novels.

5. What editorial decisions from the last 12-15 months have you like or disliked?

As I said above, the Typhon Pact concept should have been executed on a smaller scale. This would have made room for other types of books on the schedule (For instance, giving Lonemaggpie his IFM duology instead of a single book.)

6. What would you change in the Trek book line? Be it production choices or story editorial decisions?

I would re-hire Marco Palmieri.

I think that things are looking up for the future. Watching the Clock was great. I'm sure Children of the Storm will rock as Kirsten Beyer has yet to disappoint. Rise Like Lions is highly anticipated. I look forward to Cast No Shadow. And if DRG3's two books are what I hope/predict they are (A DS9/Ascendants book and a DS9 bridge book to the Typhon era), then I say that despite a few bumps in the road, the state of Trek literature is in a good place, and I look forward to what's to come.

 

[Christopher]

6. What would you change in the Trek book line? Be it production choices or story editorial decisions?

I would re-hire Marco Palmierei.

He's settling into his new editorial position at Tor Books now, so he wouldn't be available.

 

[Turtletrekker]

6. What would you change in the Trek book line? Be it production choices or story editorial decisions?

I would re-hire Marco Palmierei.

He's settling into his new editorial position at Tor Books now, so he wouldn't be available.

Alas...

 

[Endymion]

I haven't had a very good relationship with Trek fiction these past few years. I read the first two Vanguard books, and a few of the Titan books, and thought they were pretty good. But others I read -- Q&A, the A Time to... series (excluding the Mack and DeCandido entries) -- were just... not good. My tastes have shifted a lot these past few years to hard SF. Peter F. Hamilton, Alastair Reynolds, Stephen Baxter and the like. I'm still a big Trek fan, if for no other reason than I ate, slept and breathed it as I was growing up, but the franchise as a whole feels a little watered-down to me. Now that Netflix is going to be streaming episodes, I'm thinking of starting with TOS and making my way through the whole thing. Maybe that'll warm me up to reading more Trek fiction in the future.