Star Trek: Voyager (Literary Sequel)

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Kirsten Beyer at San Diego Comic-Con in July 2019

Star Trek: Voyager is an American novel series that has continued the plot of the television series Star Trek: Voyager (1995-2001) since 2003 . So far, 12 novels have been published for the first time in English by Simon - & - Schuster -Imprint Pocket Books (as of July 2016). The German publisher Cross Cult has been publishing the novels as a German translation since 2013 . The first four novels were written by Christie Golden , all subsequent ones by Kirsten Beyer . From the fifth novel in the series, the action takes place again in the delta quadrant of the Milky Way , in which the spaceship Voyager is on the way in an expedition fleet for research purposes.

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The plot of the novel series begins at the end of 2377, the calendar year in which the final episode Endgame of the television series takes place. Until the beginning of the fifth novel, Project Full Circle , the main story takes place until 2378. That novel takes place in the period from 2378 to 2381, in which the plot of the novel Heldentod (2380) from the series Star Trek: The Next Generation and the crossover novel trilogy Star Trek: Destiny (2381) are set. The events told there are also significant for the continuity of the Voyager novels from the novel Project Full Circle .

Shortly after Voyager returns to Earth from the Delta Quadrant, Janeway is promoted to Admiral. A mysterious disease breaks out on Earth and viruses are increasingly infecting people , turning them into Borg. Before Voyager officers can end the epidemic, it turns out that an employee of the Starfleet Intelligence Service was responsible for its spread, who admired the Borg based on personal experiences and wanted to rise to the Borg Queen (→ novels "Homecoming" and "Far Shores" ) . A little later, Chakotay is given permanent command of Voyager as the new captain. During Voyager's first mission with Chakotay in this role, he confronts a Cardassian scientist who, with the help of Chakotay's upgraded DNA and driven by greed for recognition, wants to create a new, superior race (→ two-part novel "Geistreise") .

In 2380, Admiral Janeway is captured by the Borg on a cube and made their new queen, as she lets the cube attack the Federation and the solar system. With the help of Seven of Nine, the cube is destroyed and Janeway is killed (→ novel " Heldentod " from the series Star Trek: The Next Generation) . When thousands of Borg cubes invaded Federation territory in the following year (2381), the Voyager was the only spaceship in the fleet it led to survive the attack by the Borg, with Chakotay seriously injured. All Borg are finally destroyed (→ novel trilogy Star Trek: Destiny) .

As part of the Starfleet Full Circle project , the Voyager set out again later in 2381 as the flagship of a fleet of Starfleet spaceships in the Delta Quadrant. The aim of the expedition is to further explore the Delta Quadrant, including what was once Borg territory, and to re-establish contact with the species that Voyager once encountered. The novel "Project Full Circle" and the following novels in the series deal with this expedition and take place in the Delta Quadrant.

In 2381 Janeway was brought back to life by a representative of the species Q. Janeway then takes over the management of the full-circle fleet as admiral .

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Crew members of the spaceship Voyager:

  • Commander: Captain Chakotay
  • First Officer: Lt. Cdr. Tom Paris
  • Security officer: Lt. Harry Kim
  • Ship advisor: Counselor Hugh Cambridge (from 2381)
  • Chief Engineer: Lt. Nancy Conlon (from 2381)
  • Science Officer: Lt. Devi Patel (from 2381)

Other figures:

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The lines highlighted in yellow do not represent novels in the Star Trek: Voyager series , but rather other novels that take place in the Star Trek universe and whose plot is significant for the continuity of the Voyager novels.

language English German
publishing company Pocket Books, Gallery Books Cross Cult
author title Publ. Miniseries No. in
miniseries 		No. title Publ. Miniseries Year of
action 		comment
Christie Golden Homecoming  June 2003 1 Homecoming  Oct. 2013 2377/78
Christie Golden The Farther Shore  July 2003 2 Distant banks  Nov 2013 2378
Christie Golden Old Wounds  Nov 2004 Spirit Walk 1 3 Old wounds  May 2014 Spirit journey 2378
Christie Golden Enemy of My Enemy  Dec 2004 Spirit Walk 2 4th The enemy of my enemy  June 2014 Spirit journey 2378
Kirsten Beyer Full circle  March 2009 5 Full Circle project  Oct. 2014 2378-81
Kirsten Beyer Unworthy  Sep 2009 6th Unworthy  March 2015 2381
Kirsten Beyer Children of the Storm  May 2011 7th Children of the storm  Sep 2015 2381
Kirsten Beyer The Eternal Tide  Aug 2012 8th Eternal tides  Apr. 2016 2381
Kirsten Beyer Protectors  Jan. 2014 9 Keeper  Oct. 2016 2381/82
Kirsten Beyer Acts of Contrition  Oct. 2014 10 original sin  Apr 2017 2382
Kirsten Beyer Atonement  Sep 2015 11 atonement  Jan. 2018 2382
Kirsten Beyer A pocket full of lies  Feb 2016 12, 13 Small lies keep enmity  Jan. 2019,
 Mar. 2019		 2382 Divided into two volumes for German publication.
Kirsten Beyer Architects of Infinity  March 2018 14, 15 Architects of Infinity  Feb 2020,
 May 2020		 2382 Divided into two volumes for German publication.
Kirsten Beyer To Lose the Earth

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