You're the Editor for 2013...

[zarkon]

January - lead up book to data resurrection
febuary/march - data resurrection duology
april - data becomes first officer book
may - data becomes captain book
june - data becomes commodore book
july - data becomes commander of starfleet book
august 4th - data plugs himself into federation internet book
august 29th - datanet becomes self aware book
september - datanet takes over federation book
october - picard travels back in time to find someone who can stop datanet, datanet sends back androids to stop him book
novemeber - kirk returns to future, talks datanet into self kerploding book
december - spock gets high on spores and slaps kirk around book(think this one may have already happened)

the best year

 

[Lonemagpie]

Oh, something else I'd do is try my damnedest to lure Jack McDevitt to write one, as he'd be a great match for the series... And Neal Asher too.

 

[F. King Daniel]

January - lead up book to data resurrection
febuary/march - data resurrection duology
april - data becomes first officer book
may - data becomes captain book
june - data becomes commodore book
july - data becomes commander of starfleet book
august 4th - data plugs himself into federation internet book
august 29th - datanet becomes self aware book
september - datanet takes over federation book
october - picard travels back in time to find someone who can stop datanet, datanet sends back androids to stop him book
novemeber - kirk returns to future, talks datanet into self kerploding book
december - spock gets high on spores and slaps kirk around book(think this one may have already happened)

the best year

 

[captcalhoun]

thanks for the spoilers above, Turtle.

 

[Epsilon IX]

I'd like to see twelve novels focusing on the continuing adventures of Paris and Janeway's salamander children from "Threshold."

^Perhaps Miral would be interested in meeting her half-siblings!

This isn't a schedule per se, this is more just a series of ideas for 2013.

• A Titan anthology book.

I made a thread about this a while back, but thought it would be worth mentioning it again. Having seen a zillion anthologies concerning the SCE, as well as anthologies for TNG (The Sky's The Limit), Voyager (Distant Shores), and NF (No Limits), I thought the time has come for one for the Titan crew, and could give writers who haven't done so already, such as KRAD, Dayton Ward, William Leisner etc. a chance to contribute. The stories could include prequel style stories to provide back stories for characters who don't currently have one, as well as providing insight into the cultures of those races which were introduced in this novel series (eg. customs, religious beliefs, family structures and values, ethnicities). Other ideas could be about how the various crew members used R+R time whilst the Titan was undergoing repairs between Lost Souls and Over A Torrent Sea (eg. visiting family, grieving, filling out death certificates etc.). Above all, a story I would like to see would be an account of what actually happened concerning the disaster aboard the Luna prototype, as it's frequently mentioned but we're left in the dark about the particulars, which really irks me.

• More from the Typhon Pact, but from the perspective of either the Excalibur-A, the Da-Vinci, or the I.K.S. Gorkon.

• A novel series about the USS Aventine. The reason behind this is that this would give the characters the opportunity to warm to me a bit more, since they have mostly been only bit players in the novels, and haven't been given the chemistry that the TNG relaunch, Titan, Voyager-relaunch etc. have been given, and therefore always feel 'boring' to me.

 

[Thrawn]

^ You should take out that last bullet point. Posting story ideas is forbidden on this forum, for good reasons.

 

[Epsilon IX]

^Done. Sorry about that I wasn't aware about that.

 

[Thrawn]

No problem; glad you fixed it so quickly

 

[Jarvisimo]

• A novel series about the USS Aventine. The reason behind this is that this would give the characters the opportunity to warm to me a bit more, since they have mostly been only bit players in the novels, and haven't been given the chemistry that the TNG relaunch, Titan, Voyager-relaunch etc. have been given, and therefore always feel 'boring' to me.

I was scanning through Gods of Night the other day, and realising how much more than bit players the Aventine crew really were. I mean Sam and Tarses and others had POV pieces, in which Mack wrote more than just exposition, but characterisation. They were rather well introduced and developed (or re-introduced and re-developed in the case of Bowers, who seems very different from the old smiling days of Mission Gamma, but at least is given good characterisation in Destiny). I guess it would be nice if we did have more with them, and I hope they - that is not just Ezri, but Bowers, the security girl, the engineer, Tarses, etc - are more than bitplayers in Brinkmanship this year.

 

[Thrawn]

Yeah, the Aventine was as much a part of Destiny as the other three. Lonnoc Kedair was one of my favorite characters in the trilogy, actually. And after that kind of depth, I found the Aventine crew's lack of characterization in Zero Sum Game to be totally bizarre. In Destiny, they had a unique feel; in ZSG, that ship could've been any ship. And it was the same author!

 

[Jarvisimo]

Yah, that was a bit of a shame after Destiny and A Singular Destiny (although even then, the reduction had already set in).

 

[Thrawn]

ASD had another nice subplot for Kedair, at least, though. There were a lot of random appearances in ASD; I didn't feel like Aventine was any less well used than the rest. ZSG was strangely bland.

 

[Jarvisimo]

I did love all the cameos in A Singular Destiny, it did feel like a response to the trauma that had occured on a massive scale. And of course Sonek Pran was a wonderful, odd character - though a cliche too.

Though this raises a gripe of mine, in the depiction of all university situations in treklit. I do wish universities in the future were not just written from an american college perspective, but with more international flavours to reflect different postgraduate forms and education styles.

 

[captcalhoun]

clearly a case of writing what you know...

 

[ToddPence]

How did Doc Savage find time to save the world 181 times? (And that was just in the original pulps!)

At least three different chronologists have attempted to answer that particular question: Phillip Jose Farmer, Rick Lai, and Jeff Deischer.

 

[Greg Cox]

How did Doc Savage find time to save the world 181 times? (And that was just in the original pulps!)

At least three different chronologists have attempted to answer that particular question: Phillip Jose Farmer, Rick Lai, and Jeff Deischer.

I devoured the Farmer book as a kid. That and Tarzan Alive!

 

[Relayer1]

Just rereading this thread it occurs to me that the argument regarding 'if there are no other character or plot drivers to set a story in the TMP era, you might as well set it in the TOS period and have a younger crew' works the opposite way too - why set it in the TOS if you could set it in the TMP and have more seasoned characters ?

It comes down to the likes and dislikes of the author, and there's absoloutley NOTHING wrong with that. Greg likes TOS, Christopher likes TMP. We're all individuals (mentally hears a chorus of hundreds saying in unison 'yes, we're all individuals' .

My point is, there's room for both, but that's not what we're getting. Let a happy, creative and motivated Greg write TOS by all means, but who is writing the TMP novels ? Christopher is heading off into his own universe (good luck, but come back occasionally !) - is anyone else pitching TMP novels ?

If setting SOME original crew stories in the TMP period or after would not adversely affect sales (do we know if that's the case ?) why not ? It's certainly less crowded...

 

[Ian Keldon]

I don't have a definitive 12 item list, but in general terms I'd go for the following:

• new series based on Original Characters set in the TOS and/or Movie era
• new series based on OCs set in TNG centered around the crew of a "lesser" ship (not a Galaxy, Soveriegn, Luna, etc) having to deal with the nuts and bolts of reconstructing the shattered Federation
• one or more new books featuring the Federation President, her staff, and her Bajoran "troubleshooter" (whose name I can't recall at the moment) fighting to keep the Federation together and fend off the threat of the Typhon Pact
• one or more books written from the PoV of either the Klingons or Romulans (my dream project would be Diane Duane picking back up with Ael)
• lastly, more books that are not tied into the shared "relaunch" universe that prevails currently and that will not share it going forward so that writers can, if they wish, abandon silly concepts like 4-gendered Andorians, or otherwise "do their own thing" without having to be concerned about stepping on other author's toes

 

[Christopher]

(mentally hears a chorus of hundreds saying in unison 'yes, we're all individuals' .

"Look, you've all got to work it out for yourselves!"

"Yes! ... Tell us more!"

My point is, there's room for both, but that's not what we're getting. Let a happy, creative and motivated Greg write TOS by all means, but who is writing the TMP novels ? Christopher is heading off into his own universe (good luck, but come back occasionally !) - is anyone else pitching TMP novels ?

Don't worry, my Trek work is still what pays my bills, so I'm not going anywhere anytime soon. At this point I still don't know whether my original novel will succeed or not.

And finding people to pitch TMP novels isn't the problem. Convincing Simon & Schuster's sales department that they can be profitable is the problem. The only reason I got Forgotten History published is because half of it is in the 5-year mission.

 

[Relayer1]

The only reason I got Forgotten History published is because half of it is in the 5-year mission.

Ah, that's a shame - is it proven that TMP sells less than TOS or just caution from S&S ?