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Editor Margaret Clark Talks About Post-Nemesis TNG Novels

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By GustavoLeao / 19:04, 23 October 2007 / Trek Books

The latest issue of Star Trek Magazine features an interview with Pocket Books editor Margaret Clark, in which she talks about the relaunch of the post-Nemesis Star Trek The Next Generation novels. The novels feature the return of the Borg and Q and celebrates TNG 20th anniversary. Here are few excerpts.

"The idea is that the Enterprise has recovered from its battle with Shinzon in Nemesis, and we have to deal with what the Federation is right now. Starfleet is still rebuilding from the Dominion War where so many officers were lost, so many people devastated and so many ships destroyed that we have a fleet that is fighting under-strenght. But luckily the Romulan threat is slightly reduced, although not in one fell swoop, because the entire Empire has sort of stabilized. It's a rebuilding period for Starfleet and the Federation, and hopefully a period of going back to exploration, which is what has been happening with the Titan books."

"In each of the subsequent books I'm asking the writers to plant the seed of doubt and despair in Picard's head: "Will I never be free of the Borg ? Will they never stop coming after us ? Have I actually helped them ?" [...] He realizes he has to come up with a way to stop them. Admiral Janeway thinks she's found a way to stop them, but the Borg keep flipping the rules !"

"We're at the end of 2380 at the end of Before Dishonor, and then we have another storyline that will go into next year, which will come out in 2008. We have made a conscious decision in 2008 to stay away from the 23rd Century, and let the vision of the 23rd Century be J.J.'s"

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You can find a TrekWeb review of Before Dishonor here.

To read the full article, get the new issue of Star Trek Magazine at your local newsstand.



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By: GustavoLeao (Odo's file, contact, web site) @ 19:40:38 on Oct 25, 2007

So Clark says Pocket Books will stay away from the 23rd Century in 2008 because of the Abrams reboot movie. I wonder how this will affect the next Shatner novel, coming next year.

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By: JD (Odo's file, contact) @ 06:49:56 on Oct 24, 2007

This all sounds great but wouldn't these ideas be better served by a television show?

I guess I'm just not one of those people that ever felt the TNG universe had a been there, done that feel. Except with that Naked Time episode, and the one with the spiky ball that killed Yar but didn't. Those felt like good ol TOS cheese.


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