The Trek Anthology I Would Like To See

[Dayton3]

Tales of the 9th Fleet

A series of stories or short stories set among the commanding officers of the powerful Ninth Fleet referred to sometimes in DS9 (it was one of the fleets that was supposed to help liberate DS9 but didn't arrive in time).

One thing I always thought was odd was the characters in various Trek stories.

Always a Captain, Doctor, Engineer, et cetera.

In other words, always the commander and his underlings.

But in real life, would a commanding officer ever spend so much time his lower ranking officers?

I always felt it would be interesting seeing Captains associating with other captains. Equals as it were.

So I felt a series focusing on the Admiral of a fleet and some particular ship captains serving under him would be interesting.

 

[captcalhoun]

i want an anthology showing life on ships of other races than the UFP/Earth (i know about GKN)

 

[Scout101]

Something I'd like to see, either as an anthology or a mini-series of novels:

The 'other' timeline of Voyager.

Got me thinking about it lately with the newest TNG novels, but could be fun to take a peek at THAT trip to Earth. VOY as a continuing series seems to have stalled out in the current timeline, and IMO there has been trouble trying to write to it anyway. This is an easy way to put the crew right back out there, where it was at it's best.

Admiral Janeway hinted at a couple of big events (and deaths), so there's plenty of material there for drama, hardships, etc.

Could be fun either as a bunch of short stories/snippets of the trip, or a mini-series of novels depicting the rest of that journey...

 

[Christopher]

Which "other" timeline? I guess you mean the "Endgame" timeline, but what about the "Before and After" timeline? There's more than one alternate future for VGR.

Who knows, maybe we'll see something like that in Myriad Universes...

 

[Scout101]

^yes, sorry, the 'other' timeline referenced in Endgame, from which Admiral Janeway (pre-nemesis) and the batmobile armor came from.

Not saying I want to see the armor, just referencing the alternate timeline in question...

 

[Trent Roman]

^ I like that idea. Not as a series (I don't think the concept merits something that extensive), but a big, fat, DRG3-sized epic tome(s) recounting all the events leading up to Voyager's 'original' homecoming: Seven's death, Chakotay becoming dissolute, Tuvok going mad, more clashes with the queen, meeting up with those deep space ships Starfleet dispatched to meet Voyager, and, of course, what happens to Janeway's interiority to turn her into the Admiral, carelessly flaunting casualty and temporal directives... what makes her decide that this timeline is not worth preserving despite the fact that it seemed pleasant enough for most.

Fictitiously yours, Trent Roman

 

[Scout101]

^that's what I was thinking. Either one nice, thick book, or a 2-parter, max. Seems like there's easy material there for an epic story, and because the loop closes at the end of it, pretty much can go where ever you like with it...

 

[JD]

captcalhoun said:
i want an anthology showing life on ships of other races than the UFP/Earth (i know about GKN)

I would go for that too. My personal picks for the races would be:
Romulan
Cardassian
Ferengi
Dominion
Hirogen

 

[The Nth Doctor]

JD said:

captcalhoun said:
i want an anthology showing life on ships of other races than the UFP/Earth (i know about GKN)

I would go for that too. My personal picks for the races would be:
Romulan
Cardassian
Ferengi
Dominion
Hirogen

I would also go for that, especially for Cardassian, Romulan, and Dominion (and not just Jem'hadar, Vorta, and Founders).

 

[Ryan Thomas Riddle]

Scout101 said:
^yes, sorry, the 'other' timeline referenced in Endgame, from which Admiral Janeway (pre-nemesis) and the batmobile armor came from.

Not saying I want to see the armor, just referencing the alternate timeline in question...

Yeah, I'd be interested in those stories as I liked the idea that it took a long-time to get home and a lot of hardships. I thought that was a much more character-intensive situation to set stories, and kinda how I wanted VOY to be more like.

 

[Reanok]

More Section 31 novels one dealing with How did malcolm Reed end up being recruited for Section 31 and how long did he stay in black ops. Bashir I'd really like to see him go up gainst them after the events in the Abyss I wish we could see another story with dealing with Cole and Vaughn's group fighting section 31. there's all kind of interesting story possibilities for any of the series especially during the Dominion war.

 

[exalted one]

It's not an anthology per se, but I would like to see a Deep Space Nine novelization. Nice seven book long saga, one book for each season, fleshing out the story a bit, naming the unnamed characters, speaking out the unspoken thoughts, leave out or explain any nonsense scenes - the way James Blish did with the TOS. Yes, I would definitely buy *that*.

The same goes for TNG, VGR and ENT: I'd take full series novelizations over those original novels any day.

 

[Christopher]

^^One book for each season? Do you have any idea how huge those books would have to be? Even just a book containing all the scripts for a single season would be in the area of 250-300,000 words long, and even David R. George has never penned a single book of that length. And that's if they weren't fleshed out in any way. Converted into narrative prose, it would probably be getting into the area of half a million words or more per season.

 

[exalted one]

Well, maybe two books per season, then. :-) There were 12 Blish paperbacks originally, after all.

Yes, it would definitely be a huge thing. I can almost see it...yum!

 

[JWolf]

exalted one said:
Well, maybe two books per season, then. :-) There were 12 Blish paperbacks originally, after all.

Yes, it would definitely be a huge thing. I can almost see it...yum!

But the Blish novelization did leave a lot out and all we got was the bare story.

 

[ryan123450]

Another TOS anthology- with a few April stories, a few Pike stories, a few second five-year-mission stories, and a few Enterprise-A stories. Or a miniseries dealing with any of these timeperiods.

A Lost Era anthology- Excelsior, Enterprise-B, Enterprise-C, Stargazer, etc. Or a Enterprise-B and Enterprise-C series or miniseries.

Another Voyager anthology- all post-Endgame, bringing the story foreward to the 2380 timeperiod, filling in the time before the Destiny trilogy.

An Enterprise anthology- I'm sure we'll get this one eventually.

My biggest wish: An anthology set from 2161 to 2250- Or a miniseries. That's a goldmine!

 

[Scott Pearson]

ryan123450 said:
Another TOS anthology- with a few April stories, a few Pike stories, a few second five-year-mission stories, and a few Enterprise-A stories. Or a miniseries dealing with any of these timeperiods.

A Lost Era anthology- Excelsior, Enterprise-B, Enterprise-C, Stargazer, etc. Or a Enterprise-B and Enterprise-C series or miniseries.

Another Voyager anthology- all post-Endgame, bringing the story foreward to the 2380 timeperiod, filling in the time before the Destiny trilogy.

An Enterprise anthology- I'm sure we'll get this one eventually.

My biggest wish: An anthology set from 2161 to 2250- Or a miniseries. That's a goldmine!

I really like all those ideas . . . especially if Marco and Margaret include me!

 

[HIj'Qa]

Tales of the Contradictions -

a collection of stories explaining away all the various inconsistencies, incongruities, ambiguities, paradoxes, conflicts, discrepancies and/or irregularities brought into being by ST XI.

 

[Turtletrekker]

^Why just Trek 11? Every incarnation of Trek has introduced its fair share of contradictory info.

 

[LightningStorm]

I want a trilogy about WWIII -- or potentially a maxi-series ala "A Time To..."