Voyager: Architects of Infinity by Kirsten Beyer delayed?

[DimesDan]

Janeway was killed off in TNG: Before Dishonor (which is a book you either hate or love, there are no in-between options), absorbed by a living Borg cube, then she temporarily became a pseudo-Borg-Queen (or something along those lines) until they destroyed the Borg cube (after it ate Pluto, just roll with it). She later returned in VGR: The Eternal Tide which is a lot better than Before Dishonor.

I like Before Dishonour and have read it a few times over the decade since it was published, as for Eternal Tide, I read it once and personally think it is the weakest of the Voyager novels under Ms Beyer.

 

[Jinn]

I like Before Dishonour and have read it a few times over the decade since it was published, as for Eternal Tide, I read it once and personally think it is the weakest of the Voyager novels under Ms Beyer.

Well, I guess people are allowed to have there own opinions now. I do think, however, that The Eternal Tide, was one of the weaker Voyager relaunch novels. The only one I liked less was Unworthy, but still I thought both were pretty good.

 

[Markonian]

Well, they did make the mistake of doing another Malon episode after a pretty massive jump that should've gone thousands of parsecs past their territory. And the very existence of the New Talax colony 40,000 light years from Talax is highly problematical, unless they managed to use a Sikarian trajector or the Vaadwaur subspace corridors, neither of which was suggested in the episode.

Revisiting the Hirogen made more sense, though, as they were established as a nomadic people who'd been spreading across the quadrant for centuries.

Your argument makes complete sense. Given that by 2410 every major species can traverse the DQ at ease - even before the Alpha Quadrant Alliance arrived - we can only attribute that to the fast spread of a new propulsion method. Possibly the revival and spread of the Vaadwaur Supremacy through the subspace network weakened the Turei’s control. Or it’s the ubiquitous trabswarp drive(s).

The Hirogen arrived in Romulan space in the 2390s, according to STO: The Needs of the Many.

 

[tomswift2002]

The Enterprise shuttle was only designed to test the gliding aspects of the shuttle. It couldn’t go into space even if it wanted to.

The original plan was to retrofit the Enterprise after the test flights were done. Its planned missions were to have been to deliver the Intelsat V satellite into orbit, as well as two Spacelab; a retrofit was also considered after the Challenger mishap. However, due to massive changes that occurred because the tests, the cost to retrofit was prohibitive.

 

[Enterprise1701]

The Hirogen arrived in Romulan space in the 2390s, according to STO: The Needs of the Many.

I thought something said that the Hirogen were suspected of traveling to Romulan space via a wormhole.

 

[Tuskin38]

I thought something said that the Hirogen were suspected of traveling to Romulan space via a wormhole.

There used to be a mission where you encountered Hirogen around a wormwhole, but they removed it a while back when they redid the story arc.

 

[Markonian]

I thought something said that the Hirogen were suspected of traveling to Romulan space via a wormhole.

Given the age of their nomadic civilisation, it’s no surprise Hirogen might turn up on the AQ/BQ.

 

[JD]

Didn't their communication network Voyager used to call home go all the way up to the border of the Beta Quadrant? I'd always assumed that meant that the Hirogen's territory stretched that far.

 

[David cgc]

Didn't their communication network Voyager used to call home go all the way up to the border of the Beta Quadrant? I'd always assumed that meant that the Hirogen's territory stretched that far.

I think the Hirogen had just co-opted the network, but they weren't the ones who actually built it.

 

[JD]

Yeah, but I just figured if they controlled the whole network, that probably meant the whole thing was in their territory.

 

[Mage]

IIRC, the books never really said whether Voyager had a lot of external differences when she was rebuilt for Full Circle following Destiny (aside from a stray mention that it was now rigged for reversible saucer-separation). Mark Rademaker, the artist behind the Vesta-class, started work on a Voyager refit, but never finished it. The German novels made Photoshops inspired by his in-progress shots, but the US covers always used the ship as it appeared on the show. Here are some images of the incomplete redesign that inspired the German covers;

https://www.flickr.com/photos/yard2380/15897859275/

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-9tMlLfaLLY4/Te8hGKUOxmI/AAAAAAAACd8/nADh0Q9AjzU/s1600/voytop2.jpg

I really still hope Mark Rademaker will at some point get to finish that design! I love it.

 

[Stephen!]

In Destiny it says that Voyager had its nacelles broken off during the battle

It was "Full Circle". But yes, one of them was broken off.