things you'd love to see in a ST book

[captcalhoun]

back on track:

a reference to Special Ops and their Wraith class stealth-starships

a reference to any of the following colony worlds: Antalus, Tellus Prime or B'raken VII (Starbase 25)

a reference in a TOS/VGD novel to the Sirius class U.S.S. Taurus

a reference to Starfleet Intelligence's elite Intelligence Strike Teams

NX-05 Buran, NX-10 Shenzhou, NX-08 Dedalo, NX-07 Yamato making appearances in ENT novels

a U.S.S. Gloucester

 

[JoeZhang]

I have a vague recollection of a wraith small shuttle but I don't remember any starships of that class? where do they appear?

 

[captcalhoun]

Star Trek: Special Operations by self. IE my fan-fic.

The Wraith shuttles appeared in "Prime Directive". I suspect the name subconciously came back to me...

 

[LightningStorm]

I gotta say I'm disappointed in you all. All these posts and no one has yet to answer the question with:

pages, words, chapters, punctuation, etc.

you all are slacking



on a serious note: so far my wishes are already coming true, prior to the Terok Nor's announcement, I wanted books focused around the Bajoran Occupation with particular emphasis on Winn and/or Opaka. While, I realize there is no guarantee those two will be heavily focused on in Terok Nor, I'm just happy there's going to be a Terok Nor trilogy that they are bound to be in, in at least some manner.

Now, my one other wish needs to come true. David Mack needs to write an entire novel (and CBS approve it and Pocket publish it) that ties in directly with (possibly a prequel to) his short story from Tales of the Dominion War: "Twilight's Wrath."

 

[Therin of Andor]

LightningStorm said:
so far my wishes are already coming true

All of mine came true!

* A focus on Robert and Sarah April ("Final Frontier")

* The completion of the "Rihannsu" saga ("The Empty Chair)

* A journey to Andor ("The Captain and the King" in "Enterprise Logs" and "Andor: Paradigm" in WoDS9, Book 1)

* The return of Arex and M'Ress - preferably by Peter David ("Gateways: Cold Wars")

* A sequel to ST:TMP featuring lots of TMP UFP aliens ("Ex Machina")

* Lots of TAS references ("Crucible" trilogy)

* A focus-on-Shran ENT novel ("The Good That Men Do").

 

[C.E. Evans]

References to women in miniskirts.

Other than that, everything of what I love do appear in many Trek books...

 

[David Mack]

C.E. Evans said:
References to women in miniskirts.

Vanguard: Harbinger has that....

 

[C.E. Evans]

^^^
Then all my demands have been met then.

 

[HIj'Qa]

Another thread about the immortality of our heroes revived an idea I had of a Strange New Worlds-type short story contest, telling of the deaths of the main ST people of each show. [Best death wins, only one death per character]

I second the sentiment above that I'd like non-human characters in Starfleet crews - TOS onwards, and for them to have a non-human set of values and beliefs that they stick to. The Federation/Starfleet Way is often the American Way writ large. I get enough of that at home.

I'd like a whole book about Shran and Andoria, a world and character exploring book like Spock's World or A Stitch In Time.

We're getting more relationships and sex in TNG/NF/Titan but I'd like to see Uhura and Mr. Adventure make it work and Chekov, Sulu, Kirk confirm their bachelorhood [or not].

I know we're explorers on a Starfleet vessel most of the time, but I'd like a little more interaction with established Federation civilians - all eras. Articles of the Federation was great.

 

[Therin of Andor]

HIj'Qa said:
I'd like to see Uhura and Mr. Adventure make it work

Unfortunately, he came out of the closet. Literally.

... and Chekov, Sulu, Kirk confirm their bachelorhood [or not].

Together?

 

[JoeZhang]

Who is Mr. Adventure?

 

[rafterman1701]

Star Trek 3. See the transporter room scene with Uhura. That's Mr. Adventure.

 

[JoeZhang]

Ah, didn't he turn up in at least one of the lost era books?

 

[KRAD]

^ Yup, in Book 6: Catalyst of Sorrows by Margaret Wander Bonanno, working for Uhura.

 

[jezor]

Fighter ships. I've seen myriad references to Starfleet fighters, but no one that I've read has incorporated them into a story in any great detail. I would be very interested to know how (if at all) they operate in battle, what the culture of Starfleet fighter pilots is like, how that culture operated during the exploration years, etc.

I'd also like additional exploration of the culture differences among the Academy graduates who came of age before the Dominion War, those who did during it, and the new post-war generation. Those have to be very different generations--seems it would make for some interesting stories. {ProfJonathan}

 

[Christopher]

The lack of fighter craft in the Trek universe is one of the very few things that makes it more scientifically credible than other SF franchises. There's simply no advantage to fighter craft in space; it's a fictional conceit that exists only for the sake of machismo and the imitation of old war movies. See here for discussion:

http://www.projectrho.com/rocket/rocket3x.html#fighters

In canonical Trek, we've mostly only seen fighter craft in the context of Starfleet Academy training, which makes a certain degree of sense. A small, simple spacecraft can be good for teaching a cadet the basics of navigation, maneuvering, and ship operations, and it gives their families and the public something to ooh and ahh about at Academy events. But they have no practical use in actual space combat, none that couldn't be more efficiently served by a missile or torpedo.

Okay, we have seen the so-called "Federation attack fighter," but that's also been described a "lightly armed shuttlecraft."

http://memory-alpha.org/en/wiki/Federation_attack_fighter

 

[captcalhoun]

those things in Sacrifice of Angels? they had Defiant-style pulse phasers. i'd hardly call them 'lightly armed shuttles' especially since they were taking on capital ships...

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

Having just watched VOY's "Prophecy", I would like to see at least some mention of the Klingons in this episode. Especially the circumstances that led to the original mission being sent out. What was life like in the Empire at that time? Who were the Klingons that originally crewed that ship? What were they like?

And, conversely, what happened to the Klingons we actually met in that episode. How did they fare? What eventually happened to them? And did Janeway get word to the Klingons (after she returned home) about them?

 

[David R. George III]

Just want to point out that I have killed off a main character...

 

[JD]

I think it would be pretty cool to see series, or at least a story focusing on some of the different starfleet departments like Intelligence or Medical.