What are the chances of Corps of Engineers returning?

[Lindley]

They're one of several crews that the book jumps between.

Oh....should I catch up on CoE before reading ASD then? And to what point?

I've got the Aftermath anthology but haven't read it yet. (I think I've read everything up to that, but I'm not positive.)

 

[JD]

Not really. It takes place 5 (4?) years after the last ebook, so it's pretty much unrelated to the stories of the show. Although it does show the fates of several characters, where they are, what positions there, which couples are together, ect.

 

[fleetcaptain]

I have caught up with the last 2 reprints and I'm in the same boat as everyone else here, wondering the same thing. After I read ASD, which I had first anyways, I was curious to see more of the COE, with you know who in command of the da Vinci.

 

[Therin of Andor]

What editorial work would need to have been done on books already finished besides approving artwork and backcover? None.

Marco once reminded us that editors have significant paperwork associated with compiling omnibuses of reprinted material.

 

[dbush]

For what it's worth, I have read very little of C of E (only the first and second volumes) but just finished the Destiny series and A Singular Destiny. I did not feel lost although the odd character may have not been as familiar to me as to others. It was all great Star Trek literature. I was thrilled with the story and the quality of the writing. Am very much looking forward to Christopher Bennett's Over a Torrent Sea.

 

[Sho]

Not exactly, they play a fairly major role in the book (without giving anything away)

Definite buy, then .

I'm not "in the know," but I can tell you what Keith would say --

Keep buying the collections as they come out. If the sales on the collections have been strong enough, showing that the demand is there, when they run out of material to reprint, Pocket may see some value in relaunching the series.

Thanks, Allyn. Here's hoping that's how it's going to go down, then .

 

[Jbarney]

I haven't read all of the COE material yet, but the stuff I have read has been equal or superior to a lot of other trek. They really are great stories. I hope some day we get a return of them on the bookshelves....or even on line.

 

[Cybersnark]

I think one of CoE's main strengths is that it feels so episodic. Every story is short and self-contained, and the only real ongoing arc is the character development --not unlike the best parts of a TV series.

 

[Caleuche]

I think one of CoE's main strengths is that it feels so episodic. Every story is short and self-contained, and the only real ongoing arc is the character development --not unlike the best parts of a TV series.

Yeap, that and the focus on science and technology which is something Trek has drifted from in later years, prefering Policital and character based stories.
The books are also excactly the right length for many a train journey!
I'd like to see SCE/CoE back again. We lost too many good characters (and Gomez) from the books cancellation.
If the books came back would the characters who have been moved into other ships/series be moved back? (More to the point would we want them to be?)

 

[William Leisner]

^ Well, that would depend on whether a revived series would pick up where Remembrance of Things Past left off, or from the status as of ASD, or somewhere in between. Personally, as a founding member of the David Gold Fan Club, I'd vote for the former.