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Titan book?

The Titan crew will be featured in the Destiny crossover trilogy along with the TNG crew and characters from other series; that comes out over the last three months of 2008. The next solo Titan adventure will be Over a Torrent Sea by me, which will come out in March 2009.
 
Christopher,

I just went to your site and saw the cover for your new TNG book, Sounds great, can't wait. Also I enjoyed Orions Hounds. Keep up the good work.
 
Tell me a little more about Destiny.

we can't. it's all hush-hush.

three books, featuring TNG, TTN, some VGR, apparently some DS9 and possibly some NF characters, with major effects on the direction of TNG, TTN and VGR novels. some tie-ins to the ENT and TOS eras written by David Mack which almost guarentees a)it'll be made of win and b)carnage candy
 
If your interested in Destiny, there's an entire thread devoted to it farther down the list.
 
One thing, I hope that there is a crew illustration as i would like to know what they look like
 
never really read a trek book before because I couldn't get into them. The writing style in the Titan series locked me in, I loved the first one Taking Wing, im almost half way with #2 The Red King. I was wondering (no spoilers if possible:lol: since the authors change for #3 on ward doe sit still have the same flow to it?
 
^ The style undeniably changes since each writer has his or her own literary voice, but the quality only goes up.

Fictitiously yours, Trent Roman
 
well i have a few pages left in Titan: The Red King, then i must go to the book store and get Orionon's Hounds if i can find it.

My favorite Characters are Keru and Dakal
 
I'd agree that his command style isnt what I'd personally prefer from a CO, but he is a good captain. His style just is very different from Sisco, Picard, even Janeway. He's alot more relaxed and open than any of them would be.
 
^Which makes plenty of sense given what we know him to be like. Besides every Captain has their own style.
 
I like him, i like his style but His Tuvok rescue team came back injured like hell, one losing an arm. He lost his chief engineer. In #2 He is put in a position where his Chief of Security/Chief Tactical officer (who was in a coma for a while) was forced to leave a fellow crewmeber behind on another rescue mission. He is going to Let Donatra get away with murder twoce
 
I like him, i like his style but His Tuvok rescue team came back injured like hell, one losing an arm. He lost his chief engineer. In #2 He is put in a position where his Chief of Security/Chief Tactical officer (who was in a coma for a while) was forced to leave a fellow crewmeber behind on another rescue mission. He is going to Let Donatra get away with murder twoce

**Spoiler warning for the Titan books**



While I see your points (on the surface it does reflect badly on him), the problem is that, that is just on the surface. In every one of those situations, the question is what could he have done differently? I believe the answer in all of them is: Nothing. Tuvok's rescue was a necessity and exactly how brutal/difficult it was was out of his hands. The fact that he rescued Tuvok with that minimal of injuries to his crew speaks well for his ability to lead in that his team is well trained, well organized, work well together, and he chose them wisely.

I don't recall the circumstances under which he lost his engineer, but I don't recall him being able to do anything about that either.

Leaving a person behind is never something a team like that wants to do, but there are many many cases where it is what MUST be done. Having the ability to make that call is what makes for good leadership, sacrificing one to save a group is terribly horribly difficult but is the right thing to do. A good leader can and will do it and then fret over it later and the decision will always come back to haunt the decision maker.

As for Donatra... Well this one is a double-edged sword because now you have diplomatic relations with a neighboring empire that (while weak for now) is still not someone you want to make enemies with, especially with the Federation actively trying to make friends with them. Cases like this you have to analyze closely and make decisions as to what ends up making the better outcome? Which is the lesser of two evils? Sacrificing your ideals for justice and making an enemy a friend? Or making enemies of a people who could no doubt cause much greater harm that she did there in the name of justice for one? Also IIRC he didn't have the proof needed anyway to actually make the accusations. So accusing her of something he couldn't prove would have been very bad.
 
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