Episode follow up stories

[Laura Cynthia Chambers]

Can we create a list of novels with the episodes they follow up on?

I don't mean throwaway name drops of characters and species; I mean revisiting episode guest characters/featured species as main characters/featured species in the story.

So it would include:

The Higher Frontier - Medusans, Miranda Jones, Kollos ("Is There in Truth No Beauty?") Espers ("Where No Man Has Gone Before")

Living Memory - Nomad ("The Changeling")

(These are the ones I've read recently)

 

[Laura Cynthia Chambers]

Asking because it might be helpful to have a list of episodes that have book sequels and determine those don't yet have one.

 

[ryan123450]

I’ve wanted to do this for my website. Alas one of a hundred projects I’d love to get to.

 

[Avro Arrow]

Double, Double, in addition to being a coffee order, is also a follow-up to "What are Little Girls Made of?".

The Cry of the Onlies is a follow-up to "Miri".

Ex Machina is a follow-up to "For the World is Hollow and I Have Touched the Sky".

I'm sure there are many more...

 

[Extrocomp]

One Small Step is a follow-up to "That Which Survives" featuring the Kalandan outpost.

Serpents in the Garden is a follow-up to "A Private Little War" featuring Neural.

Foul Deeds Will Rise is a follow-up to "The Conscience of the King" featuring Lenore Karidian.

Savage Trade is a follow-up to "The Savage Curtain" featuring the Excalbians.

Imbalance is a follow-up to "The Big Goodbye" featuring the Jarada.

The Face of the Unknown is a follow-up to "The Corbomite Maneuver" featuring Balok.

 

[Christopher]

Ex Machina is a follow-up to "For the World is Hollow and I Have Touched the Sky".

Although it's primarily a direct sequel to Star Trek: The Motion Picture. Few, if any, of my novels are follow-ups to only one thing.

The Face of the Unknown is a follow-up to "The Corbomite Maneuver" featuring Balok.

Okay, that one mostly is, but it's also a prequel to TAS.

 

[Laura Cynthia Chambers]

I asked because it'd be nice to identify which episodes have not been touched on in any great way (i.e. return of main characters, new understanding of old events, or conclusion to unfinished business forming a large part of the story) so writers would see what hadn't been covered yet.

 

[DGCatAniSiri]

Corps of Engineers’ Out of the Cocoon is a followup to TNG’s Up The Long Ladder.

DS9’s Wrath of the Prophets features Varis Sul, from the subplot in The Storyteller, am episode that also was a major piece of backstory for the Bajor World’s of DS9 entry (though having nothing to do with Wrath, the two books’ portrayals of Ro Laren being incompatible).

 

[DonIago]

It would help to have all of these titles collated (partly to avoid redundancy), perhaps in the first post organized by name, or by series/name?

Yes, I realize that in theory I just threw myself under the bus.

 

[Christopher]

I asked because it'd be nice to identify which episodes have not been touched on in any great way (i.e. return of main characters, new understanding of old events, or conclusion to unfinished business forming a large part of the story) so writers would see what hadn't been covered yet.

In that case, it would make sense to organize the list by episode, followed by whatever books, comics, or short stories have followed up on each one. (There'd be a huge number of books and stories listed after "Mirror, Mirror" -- and practically nothing after "The Alternative Factor," as it should be.)

 

[Laura Cynthia Chambers]

In that case, it would make sense to organize the list by episode, followed by whatever books, comics, or short stories have followed up on each one.

Absolutely. I love completely new stories not based on anything that's been covered before, but revisiting things is great too if you can put a new twist on it, or bring out the depths of a character we didn't get to mine.

(There'd be a huge number of books and stories listed after "Mirror, Mirror" -- and practically nothing after "The Alternative Factor," as it should be.)

Interesting that both revolve around the idea of more than one universe.

 

[KRAD]

A bunch of the Starfleet Corps of Engineers novellas were followups to episodes:

• Interphase by Dayton Ward & Kevin Dilmore was a followup to "The Tholian Web"
• Caveat Emptor by Ian Edginton & Mike Collins and Foundations Book 2 by Ward & Dilmore were both followups to "Return of the Archons"
• Past Life by Robert Greenberger was a followup to Insurrection
• Where Time Stands Still by Ward & Dilmore was a followup to "The Time Trap"
• Out of the Cocoon by William Leisner was a followup to "Up the Long Ladder" (as stated upthread)
• Progress by Terri Osborne was a followup to "Pen Pals"
• The Future Begins by @Stevil2001 & Michael Schuster was a followup to "Relics"
• 10 is Better than 01 by Heather Jarman was sorta kinda a followup to "11001001"
• Many Splendors by me was a followup to pretty much all of TNG seasons 2-5
• Signs from Heaven by Phaedra M. Weldon was a followup to "The Cloud Minders"

 

[Smiley]

Lesser Evil and Unity follow up on "Conspiracy."

 

[Laura Cynthia Chambers]

Thanks, so far, for the information. In what ways do they follow up? (Which character, society's development, issue up for debate, relationship, etc)

Have writers ever challenged each other/themselves to redeem a particularly cringe-worthy episode and succeeded?

Oh, and incidentally, this guy oughta be worth a story or two: https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Jon_Daily

Just why did he owe Kirk all those favors?

 

[Markonian]

VOY: A Pocket Full of Lies - it features the time-displaced Kathryn Janeway from the season 7 episode "Shattered" and provides a new context for the events of the episode. It also is a sort-of sequel to "Year of Hell", in that the First Splinter timeline Voyagers learn about the events and deal with the Krenim.

 

[Avro Arrow]

DS9’s Wrath of the Prophets features Varis Sul, from the subplot in The Storyteller, am episode that also was a major piece of backstory for the Bajor World’s of DS9 entry (though having nothing to do with Wrath, the two books’ portrayals of Ro Laren being incompatible).

Didn't The Soul Key also follow-on from "The Storyteller"?

 

[hbquikcomjamesl]

Double, Double, in addition to being a coffee order, is also a follow-up to "What are Little Girls Made of?".

Coffee order? I thought it was In-N-Out's signature hamburger.

When I took four semesters of Short Story Workshop, one opus was a fanfic sequel to "The Man Trap." In the form of a newspaper interview, about a Captain Sulu adventure. Which would certainly be a case of redeeming an episode that's not so much cringe-worthy as nightmare-fodder.

 

[Smiley]

Didn't The Soul Key also follow-on from "The Storyteller"?

It did, and so did the story Fragments and Omens in the Worlds of Deep Space Nine books.

 

[DonIago]

Technically (almost?) the entire Iliana Ghemor arc ties back to that episode...

 

[Avro Arrow]

Coffee order? I thought it was In-N-Out's signature hamburger.

Had to Google that place. Seems to be a south-western US thing, and there aren't any in my country. (Although it looks like they have had a couple of temporary "pop-up" instances in Toronto over the years.)



Tim Hortons, on the other hand, is ubiquitous here!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_coffee_drinks#Double-double