Star Trek: Titan

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Star Trek: Titan is an American science fiction -Romanreihe that the fictional Star Trek - universe plays and has been published since of 2005. At the center of the plot, which is set towards the end of the 24th century, is the eponymous star fleet spaceship USS Titan, which is mentioned for the first time at the end of the tenth Star Trek movie Nemesis . In the Titan series , eight novels have been published in English and seven of them in German. In other Star Trek novel series such as The Next Generation , to which there are crossovers , the Titan is also a theme.

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In the movie Nemesis , William T. Riker , until then in the rank of commander and first officer on the Enterprise-E , is promoted to captain. He is given command of the starfleet spaceship USS Titan NCC-80102, which belongs to the Luna class and is mainly on research missions in the Beta Quadrant, far from the center of the Federation area. He starts his service on the Titan together with his wife Deanna Troi , who from then on acts as ship advisor and senior diplomat and also comes from the Enterprise. In 2381 their daughter Natasha Miana was born. The human woman Christine Vale is first officer in the rank of commander. The Vulcan commander Tuvok , previously active on the Voyager , is the second and tactical officer. The chief medical officer on board is Lt. Commander Dr. Shenti Yisec Eres Ree , a male individual of reptilian species pahkwa Thanh. Head of security on the Titan is the ununited, male Trill (Lt.) Cdr. Ranul Keru . The chief engineer is the Efrosian Xin Ra-Havreii . The Elaysian Lt. Cdr. Melora Pazlar works as a science officer.

Titan- related stories are also included in the three Star Trek novel miniseries Destiny, Typhon Pact, and The Fall , which are crossovers between several series of novels . In The Fall , Riker is promoted to admiral.

Title overview

The novels are arranged according to the main plot time.

language English German
publishing company Pocket Books Cross Cult
Author (s) title Publ. No. title Publ. Time of
action 		comment
Michael A. Martin ,
Andy Mangels 		Taking Wing  Apr. 2005 1 A new era  Nov 2008 2379/80
The Red King  Oct 2005 2 The red king  March 2009 2380
Christopher L. Bennett Orion's Hounds  Jan. 2006 3 The dogs of Orion  May 2009 2380
Geoffrey Thorne Sword of Damocles  Dec 2007 4th Sword of damocles  Aug 2009 2380
Christopher L. Bennett Over a torrent sea  Feb. 2009 5 Stormy seas  Dec 2010 2381
James Swallow Synthesis  Oct 2009 6th synthesis  Aug 2011 2381
Michael A. Martin Falling Gods  July 2012 7th Fallen gods  July 2014 2382
John Jackson Miller Absent enemies  Feb. 2014 Absent enemies  July 2016 2385 Individually only as an e-book. Also printed as part of the 3 Captains, 3 Stories volume .
James Swallow Sight Unseen  Oct. 2015 From the darkness  Nov 2017 2386
David Alan Mack Fortune of War  Nov 2017 War luck  Aug 2020

Origin background

With the Titan series, Pocket Books publisher Marco Palmieri pursued the goal of giving Starfleet's original mission - consisting of peaceful exploration, diplomacy and knowledge expansion - a new dimension , after the previous Star Trek television and novel series were last released War events were dominated, including the Dominion War in Deep Space Nine and the conflict with the Romulans in Nemesis .

See also

literature

  • Jeff Ayers: Voyages of Imagination. The Star Trek Fiction Companion , Pocket Books, New York 2006, ISBN 978-1-4165-0349-1
  • Julian Wangler (Ed.): Maximum Warp. The guide through the Star Trek novel worlds , Cross Cult , Ludwigsburg 2013, ISBN 978-3-86425-199-3 , section 4.4

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ What is meant is the main plot, d. H. Flashbacks and are not included
  2. ↑ Ayers 2006, p. 404 f.