Star Trek Books For 2015
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New information on several Star Trek books to be released next year has been revealed.
In addition, the cover for John Jackson Miller‘s Star Trek: The Next Generation: Takedown can now be seen.
Takedown will be released in February, after January’s Deep Space Nine: The Missing (Una McCormack). In Takedown, “When renegade Federation starships begin wreaking destruction across the Alpha Quadrant, Captain Jean-Luc Picard and the crew of the U.S.S. Enterprise are shocked to discover that the mastermind behind this sudden threat is none other than Picard’s protégé and friend: Admiral William T. Riker. The newly-minted admiral is on board the U.S.S. Aventine as part of a special assignment, even as the mystery deepens behind his involvement in the growing crisis. But the Aventine is helmed by Captain Ezri Dax — someone who is no stranger to breaking Starfleet regulations — and her starship is by far the faster vessel…and Riker cannot yield even to his former mentor. It’s a battle of tactical geniuses and a race against time as Picard struggles to find answers before the quadrant’s great powers violently retaliate against the Federation.”
Takedown‘s cover was created by the designer of the Aventine, Mark Rademaker.
In March, fans can expect two original series books: Savage Trade (Tony Daniel), and Shadow of the Machine (an eBook by Scott Harrison).
April will bring a book from Christopher L. Bennett, Enterprise: Rise of the Federation: Uncertain Logic; while May will bring the original series book Crisis of Consciousness (Dave Galanter).
Two books will debut in June, A New Frontier book by Peter David, and The Next Generation: Armageddon’s Arrow by Dayton Ward. In Armageddon’s Arrow, “It is a new age of exploration, and the U.S.S. Enterprise is dispatched to the Odyssean Pass, a region charted only by unmanned probes and believed to contain numerous inhabited worlds. Approaching a star system with two such planets, Captain Jean-Luc Picard and his crew find a massive alien vessel, drifting in interstellar space for decades. Sensors detect life aboard the derelict — aliens held in suspended animation. Thought to be an immense sleeper ship, the vessel actually is a weapon capable of destroying entire worlds…the final gambit in a war that has raged for generations across the nearby system. Captain Picard is now caught in the middle of this conflict and attempts to mediate, as both sides want this doomsday weapon…which was sent from the future with the sole purpose of ending the interplanetary war before it even began!”
Taking readers up through August will be Deep Space Nine: Sacraments of Fire (David R. George III), and Seekers 3: Long Shot (David Mack).
More books will follow later in the year, but exact release dates have not yet been set.
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I’ll never understand why they made Ezri Dax a captain. Who on earth has ever been in a career as a psychologist/ counselor and then became captain of a navy ship? These are totally different career paths. In Star Trek everybody just becomes a captain one day.
Indeed. They’ve really FUBAR’d 24th century Trek so much. The DS9 relaunch books, the first dozen or so, oh man where they awesome. It was the first time the book folks got to change things up. But the TNG and Voyager post-series/Nemesis novels just wrecked it all and kept on doing it, and dragged DS9 down with it. It’s all such a gigantic mess now! Makes me angry and sad. The writing itself is good; it’s the over-all direction of things that is bonkers.
That’s one of the things that’s driven me nuts about the Trek “expanded universe”, for want of a better term…. this notion that everybody, even an emotional basketcase like Ezri Dax, rises to a captaincy or even to the admiralty, if they just hang around in the service for long enough. It’s unbelievable, it devalues the notion that only the best of the best obtain these ranks (this is one of the things that made James T. Kirk such a remarkable character), and it sure as hell isn’t the way real-world navies work.
And actually that isn’t a good term, because the last thing the universe seems to do in these books is expand.
In the early post-series DS9 books after a sneak attack on the station Ezri decides to switch to the command track & is made the Defiant’s XO. When she is assigned to Aventine she’s the new 2nd officer. But, shades of Picard, on her 1st mission the capt. & xo are killed & she takes command. Doing well enough that Starfleet promotes her.
Awesome