Future Of Titan

[acappellasaurus]

I have yet to finish "Sword", but I was just sitting here thinking about futre plotlines. Will Titan follow suit as almost all other Trek series have and do something with time travel? What about Q? Any hints as to if any of these or other familiar plot themes might be coming?

 

[LightningStorm]

acappellasaurus said:
I have yet to finish "Sword", but I was just sitting here thinking about futre plotlines. Will Titan follow suit as almost all other Trek series have and do something with time travel? What about Q? Any hints as to if any of these or other familiar plot themes might be coming?

I don't understand the question. Because of the "almost all other Trek series" part.

Vanguard, Voyager Relaunch, DS9 Relaunch, and the one book that comprises the Enterprise Relaunch, don't have Q or Time Travel. And TNGs relaunch has only had Q (but that seems only natural there). Even expanding the TNG/Titan stuff to include the A Time To and Articles there is no Time Traveling to be found.

I haven't read the Gorkon/Klingon Empire books but something tells me no Time Travel or Q in those.

But I too am making my way through Sword of Damocles, and from what I hear about it:

Spoiler: Sword of Damocles

Time travel is involved?

But not at the point that I'm up to.

 

[Smiley]

Spoiler: Sword of Damocles

Time travel has been involved in SoD from the beginning, but the how and why is not clear until the second half or fourth quarter of the book.

 

[LightningStorm]

Smiley said:
Minor SOD Spoiler

Perhaps, however that is not evident at the point in the book I'm at. The only indication is the Epilogue being at the beginning of the book, but even that doesn't make it absolutely clear that that is what's happening.

 

[Aaron McGuire]

Spoiler: Minor spoile-ish thing

The Prologue is at the end, too.

Also, it should be noted that October brings David Mack's Destiny trilogy, which moves the Titan and TNG-R storylines forward in some unknown way.

Aaron McGuire

 

[General Martok]

My prediction is that Titan will continue to explore space in some manner. I do take your point, that Trek almost inevitably throws in a time travel story no matter what the incarnation.

And Sword was a great read. I'm about to start on Forged in Fire! I always wondered about the Albino...

 

[ClayinCA]

General Martok said:
My prediction is that Titan will continue to explore space in some manner.

Well, now you're just talking crazy talk!

 

[Emissary of the Prophets]

I tore through Taking Wing & struggled to get through Red King. When Sword arrived I thought I'd better plough on. I lapped up Red King in a few days(can't have been in the right frame of mind to read it the first time around) and I am rattling through Orion's Hounds like a good 'un.

I hope the series keeps changing authors and using different types of stories. It was because the old 'ptb' insisted that the same authors kept telling similar stories way back when, that I didn't read a Trek book for nearly 4 years. Then, along came KRAD... As long as the stories are interesting and the characters keep evolving, I'm in for the long term.

 

[regemet]

One thing I would like see in the 5th Titan book is a picture of her crew.

 

[Therin of Andor]

Emissary of the Prophets said:
It was because the old 'ptb' insisted that the same authors kept telling similar stories way back when, that I didn't read a Trek book for nearly 4 years.

Which PTB insisted on that?

I can recall only one such memo: the one from the Star Trek Office of Gene Roddenberry, dated 1989, which requested that the licensed tie-ins stop referencing each other. And that memo become invalid with Roddenberry's death.

It said nothing about "the same authors... telling similar stories", although many authors found that proposing isolated stories with Enterprise landing parties (TOS) and away teams (TNG) visiting all-new planets gave them an easier time, usually, of getting their manuscript past Richard Arnold.

 

[tenmei]

I have to second what regmet said, it would be nice to get a group picture of the main Titan crewmembers on the next cover, kinda like how we got the group shot of characters in NF.

 

[JD]

As long as they continue to use the current style for the covers we should hopefully get to see everybody. We've already gotten most of the on screen characters, namely Riker, Troi, Pazlar, and Tuvok, so now they should start moving on to more of the new characters. In fact there have already been two of them on the covers already, Ree on Orion's Hounds and Admr. Akaar on The Red King.

 

[Therin of Andor]

tenmei said:
kinda like how we got the group shot of characters in NF.

Well that NF group shot was serialized over two novels to it them all in, remember, and it was a fold-out mini-poster in the hardcover #1-4 omnibus reprint.

When DS9 relaunch did a cast cover ("Mission: Gamma"), it had to stretch across four novels. "The Captain's Table" mini-series needed six books to squeeze 'em all in.

 

[tenmei]

Then I don't see why they couldn't plan ahead a little and have it arranged so that we get the full poster spaced across the next three novels, for example.

 

[Therin of Andor]

They probably haven't commissioned three more Titan novels yet. (Nor does the artist know which cast members get killed off in "Destiny". Tee hee.)

 

[Allyn Gibson]

Ian, Pocket has commissioned three more novels with the Titan, though -- the Destiny trilogy.

Whether there's a Titan after that, however, is something we don't yet know.

 

[Therin of Andor]

Allyn Gibson said:
Ian, Pocket has commissioned three more novels with the Titan, though -- the Destiny trilogy.
Whether there's a Titan after that, however, is something we don't yet know.

Exactly what I was inferring.

 

[tenmei]

I'd feel a bit robbed if the Titan series came to a close with the Destiny trilogy. Hopefully the trilogy will just shake the crew composition up a little and not have the ship destroyed and everyone dead.

 

[Therin of Andor]

^Unexpected (and even expected) deaths are supposed to make us feel robbed. Even in real life.

 

[DS9Continuing]

Have you noticed how every novel in the series so far has "killed off" at least one character? So we should expect to lose at least three more.