What stories MUST be told?

[DimesDan]

I wouldn't mind reading a story that shows the aftermath/debriefing of the events at System J25, Starfleets preparations for the Borg incursion all the way through to the aftermath of the incursion and Starfleets wound licking and the development of the Defiant Class. Ideally though, apart from the beginning with the debriefs of Picard, Riker etc, very little would be based around the Enterprise D.

 

[Reanok]

I wouldn't mind some mind some stand alone Ds9 novels that took place during the series also the Ascendent storyline that got sidelined for the mirror universe books needs to be addressed too .I Also want to see some more Enterprise novels a 10th anniversary short story anthology or stand alone novels seperate from The Romulan war storyline.Also some more Romulan war novels would be nice too.

 

[JD]

The first two YA Starfleet Academy books, also featuring the academy days of a few New Frontiers characters, covered this.

I meant after the Academy, what happend to Worf before he was transferred to the flagship of the fleet.

Well, thanks to the New Fontier short story Revelations, we do know that he server on Aldrin with Soleta right after they got out of the Academy. But according to Memory Beta that's the only thing that's covered that period.

 

[C.E. Evans]

How come I get snarked at for "giving story ideas", but y'all get to toss 'em out willy-nilly?

Probably because the thread title warns authors in advance that story ideas are being discussed. Some may decide to steer clear of this entire thread as a result.

 

[Captain Robert April]

^ It's also why I'm not tossing out any specific ideas. I might want to do something with 'em myself one day...

 

[F. King Daniel]

^^Plus the stuff being posted here is really vague. I wouldn't call (random example) "I'd like to read a book about the fall of the Federation" much of a story idea (it's more of a concept), but "I'd like to read a book where Picard finds the mythical sword of Xorzox that blows up Earth leading to the fall of the Federation, while President Bacco has a threesome with Riker and Troi when she should be addressing the council on the matter of illegal Tholian breadstick imports" would be.

But I've never read any of SicOne's ideas so I wouldn't know if he was treated fairly or not.

 

[ProwlAlpha]

They made it sound like this year was pretty eventfull in The Good That Men Do and I wouldn't mind seeing why that was.

It always bothered me that TNG skipped over this year to move ahead to A Time To..., especially since Vulcan's Soul and New Frontier provided all kinds of interesting things that happened in that time.

Why do you not count McInytre's "Enterprise: The First Adventure"?

The First Adventure just has too many "errors" and false presuppositions compared to modern continuity. This is something so important that it deserves a modern, definative retelling. The only big problem is "Where No Man Has Gone Before" and the My Brother's Keeper trilogy showed how the main characters joined the crew slowly over time, by I guess the WNMHGB crew must have had a big beginning to their mission also.

The first two YA Starfleet Academy books, also featuring the academy days of a few New Frontiers characters, covered this.

I meant after the Academy, what happend to Worf before he was transferred to the flagship of the fleet.

Cardassian War Era- it must have been a big war, since it involved a number of major characters from TNG (Picard), DS9 (Sisko, O'Brien, Kira, Odo), and VOY (Janeway, Chakotay)

This was covered in part by the Terok Nor trilogy and the Jeri Taylor Voyager novels.

So we are only going with your ideas then. Especially since, the mentioned novels did not cover as much as you think.

Anyways, the turn of the century for the 23rd would be interesting to see the Federation's growing pains.

 

[ryan123450]

So we are only going with your ideas then.

Especially since, the mentioned novels did not cover as much as you think.

I never said they were epic tales of the Cardassian War, I just meant that if the poster who came up with that idea wasn't aware of those books, then he could seek them out for their few juicy tidbits.

 

[kkozoriz1]

World War III.


Also: Remember in DS9's "Past Tense" when Kira and O'Brien are hopping through time? At one point O'Brien speaks of seeing the mid 21st century (the alternate, Gabriel Bell-less timeline), and he says that Earth had its rough spots, but "never THAT rough." What could he have possibly seen that was, in that timeline, WORSE than World War III in the regular timeline? What could possibly be worse than World War III?

President Palin/Vice-President Bachmann

 

[JD]

Have any of stories covered what lead to Sulu transferring to the Excelsior?

 

[ProwlAlpha]

I believe it was touched upon in Forged in Fire.

 

[F. King Daniel]

I think DC comics touched on it briefly (i.e. he left at the end of an issue). Diane Carey's old Starfleet Academy videogame tie-in featured Sulu doing the nuPike thing and hanging out/teaching at the academy while his ship was being prepared for it's mission.

 

[MNM]

I know alot of people think we're never going to see the Ascendants conflict, but I find it hard to believe the editors and authors would set up an arc like that and then never finish it.

It'd hardly be unprecedented in books/movies/comics etc... for things to get set up and then never finished though.

I hope we get the Ascendant stuff, as it is one of the things I am looking forward to most. But on the other hand, time goes on, and since it was first mooted, there have been more than one editorial changes with the books, very little mention of things related to it in the actual books. And now the next scheduled DS9 book has time jumped from where they were, and is focused on the Typhon Pact era...

From all of that, I can certainly understand the concern that we might never see it.

 

[kkozoriz1]

Part of the problem is that the DS9 relaunch has lost it's momentum and many of the books are out of print. The author of any new story about the Ascendants can certainly do a recap but there was so much more to it than that. Between the diversion to the unsatisfying Mirror Universe story and the long delay I fear that things do not look good.

If you really want a loss of momentum check out The War against the Chtorr by David Gerrold. The first four books came out between 1983 and 1993. All excellent. We're still waiting for number five. It's been promised numerous times and there's supposedly two more to come after that.

 

[DGCatAniSiri]

I'd really like a fully-fledged Enterprise-C era novel that focuses on Captain Garrett herself. My problem with Well of Souls is that for the first half of it, Garrett was a supporting character, not a lead, and so there was a focus on these characters that we're meeting for the first time and don't have an established connection to them.

That being said, I'm STILL waiting on the Klingon Empire epic about their conflict against the Kinshaya and Captain Klag's promotion to General.

 

[Captain Robert April]

If you really want a loss of momentum check out The War against the Chtorr by David Gerrold. The first four books came out between 1983 and 1993. All excellent. We're still waiting for number five. It's been promised numerous times and there's supposedly two more to come after that.

Any time David hints at something coming up on his Facebook page, someone always pipes up with something like "Book Five is coming out?" It's turning into Susan Lucci at the Emmys.

 

[kkozoriz1]

If you really want a loss of momentum check out The War against the Chtorr by David Gerrold. The first four books came out between 1983 and 1993. All excellent. We're still waiting for number five. It's been promised numerous times and there's supposedly two more to come after that.

Any time David hints at something coming up on his Facebook page, someone always pipes up with something like "Book Five is coming out?" It's turning into Susan Lucci at the Emmys.

But Susan Lucci eventually won an Emmy.

 

[Daddy Todd]

If you really want a loss of momentum check out The War against the Chtorr by David Gerrold. The first four books came out between 1983 and 1993. All excellent. We're still waiting for number five. It's been promised numerous times and there's supposedly two more to come after that.

I ain't holding my breath. It's been so long now that I don't think I care one way or another any more. Not likely I'll rush out to read book 5, and then wait another couple decades for Book 6.

Gerrold used to claim he was waiting to publish book 5 until his son grew up -- I think the kid is well into his '20's by now. What's the current excuse?

Martin's Song of Ice and Fire is the same for me. I'm not an impatient man, but seriously, dude, just finish the next book that was supposedly 80% written 5 years ago...

 

[JD]

Yeah, and now he's working on the show, which means that he's probably been distracted from writing. Luckily, I'm only on the first book, so I'm not actually waiting yet.

 

[kkozoriz1]

Yeah, and now he's working on the show, which means that he's probably been distracted from writing. Luckily, I'm only on the first book, so I'm not actually waiting yet.

You will be....you will be.....