Star Trek (literary sequel after Nemesis)

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This article gives an overview of those in the fictional Star Trek - universe acting novels that in the aftermath of the plot of the movie Star Trek: Nemesis play. The novels have appeared in various series and mini-series, including The Next Generation and Star Trek: Destiny . Some of them take place against the background of a framework story that spans novels and series or forms crossovers . This part is essentially those volumes whose plot is located in the fictional alpha and beta quadrants of the Milky Way . The other part of the novels, however, follows a largely independent plot.

The main time of the action is the late 24th century, beginning in the year 2379. The United Federation of Planets is initially confronted with a conflict that consists in the division of the Romulan Empire into two warring states. Somewhat later, in 2381, thousands of Borg cubes were invaded into the areas of the Federation and neighboring powers. As a result, over 60 billion individuals die in these areas and numerous spaceships, space stations and planets are destroyed. As a result of the changed political situation as a result, the six-power alliance "Typhon Pact" emerged as an opposition to the Federation and its allies. As part of this conflict, the space station Deep Space Nine is destroyed and important officials are murdered.

In many novels elements from the previously published Star Trek television series, cinema films and novels are adapted or reused; but new species and alliances are also being introduced.

Since 2005, over 80 volumes have been published in English by Pocket Books and in some cases other imprints from the Simon & Schuster publishing group . The German publisher Cross Cult has already published at least 50 of them in German.

Overview of novels and novel series

Based on the book by Ayers (2006), a distinction is made between main series and mini-series. A main series is usually - equivalent to the Star Trek television series - only focused on a crew of a spaceship or a space station, while certain novels and miniseries that did not appear in such main series are usually focused on several crews or other people and to that extent mostly form crossovers across the main series .

Main rows

Title overview 
language English German
publishing company Pocket Books, Gallery Books Cross Cult
author title Publ. Miniseries NiM No. title Publ. Miniseries Year of
action 		comment
Michael Jan Friedman Death in winter  Sep 2005 1 Death in winter  Sep 2009 2379
JM Dillard Resistance  Aug 2007 2 resistance  Nov 2009 2380
Keith RA DeCandido Q&A  Sep 2007 3 Quintessence  Jan. 2010 2380
Peter David Before Dishonor  Nov 2007 4th Heroic death  March 2010 2380
Christopher L. Bennett Greater than the sum  July 2008 5 More than the sum  May 2010 2380/81
William Leisner Losing the Peace  June 2009 6th Lose the peace  March 2011 2381
David A. McIntee Indistinguishable From Magic  March 2011 7th Indistinguishable from magic  Dec. 2013 2383
David Mack The Persistence of Memory  Oct. 2012 Cold Equations 1 8th The persistence of memory  June 2015 Cold calculation 2384 u. a.
David Mack Silent weapons  Nov. 2012 2 9 Silent weapons  July 2015 2384
David Mack The Body Electric  Dec 2012 3 10 Diabolus ex Machina  Aug 2015 2384
James Swallow The Stuff of Dreams  March 2013 The stuff dreams are made of  Dec 2016 2384 Individually only as an e-book. Also printed as part of the 3 Captains, 3 Stories volume .
Jeffrey Lang The Light Fantastic  June 2014 11 The light of the imagination  May 2016 2385
Rudy Josephs Q are Cordially Uninvited  Oct. 2014 Q are cordially invited  Feb 2017 2380 Only as an e-book.
John Jackson Miller Takedown  Feb. 2015 hunt  March 2017 2386
Dayton Ward Armageddon's Arrow  June 2015 The arrow of fate  June 2017 2386
Dayton Ward Headlong Flight  Feb 2017 crash  May 2019 2386
Dayton Ward Hearts and Minds  May 2017 Heart and mind  Dec 2019 2386
Dayton Ward Available light  Apr. 2019 Available light  Sep 2020 2386
David Mack Collateral Damage  Oct. 2019 collateral damage  Oct. 2020 2387
Title overview 
language English German
publishing company Pocket Books Cross Cult
Author (s) title Publ. title Publ. Year of
action 		comment
Paula M. Block , Terry J. Erdmann Lust's Latinum Lost (and Found)  Sep 2014 2385 Only as an e-book.
Una McCormack The Missing  Jan. 2015 mistrust  Jan. 2017 2385
David R. George III. Sacraments of Fire  July 2015 Sacraments of fire  Sep 2017 2385
David R. George III. Ascendance  Jan. 2016 supremacy  March 2018 2385/86
Jeffrey Lang Force and Motion  June 2016 2386
Paula M. Block, Terry J. Erdmann The Rules of Accusation  July 2016 2385 Only as an e-book.
David R. George III. The Long Mirage  March 2017 2386
Una McCormack Enigma Tales  June 2017
Title overview 
language English German
publishing company Pocket Books Cross Cult
Author (s) title Publ. No. title Publ. Year 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

Series of novels without essential reference to the general history of the series:

Novels outside of main series

Title overview 
language English German
publishing company Pocket Books, Gallery Books Cross Cult
author title Publ. Miniseries NiM title Publ. Miniseries Year of
action 		comment
Keith RA DeCandido Articles of the Federation  May 2005 The laws of the Federation  June 2010 2380
David Alan Mack Gods of Night  Sep 2008 Destiny 1 Gods of the night  June 2010 Destiny 2381
David Alan Mack Mere Mortals  Oct 2008 Destiny 2 Ordinary mortals  July 2010 Destiny 2381
David Alan Mack Lost Souls  Nov 2008 Destiny 3 Lost souls  Oct 2010 Destiny 2381
Keith RA DeCandido A singular Destiny  Jan. 2009 Individual fates  Oct 2010 2381
David Alan Mack Zero Sum Game  Oct 2010 Typhon Pact 1 Zero sum game  June 2013 Typhon Pact 2382
Michael A. Martin Seize the fire  Nov 2010 Typhon Pact 2 Fire  July 2013 Typhon Pact 2381/82
David R. George III. Rough Beasts of Empire  Dec 2010 Typhon Pact 3 Beasts  Aug 2013 Typhon Pact 2381/82
Dayton Ward Paths of Disharmony  Jan. 2011 Typhon Pact 4th discord  Sep 2013 Typhon Pact 2382
Christopher L. Bennett The Struggle Within  Oct 2011 Typhon Pact struggle  Oct. 2013 Typhon Pact 2382 Only as an e-book.
David R. George III. Plagues of Night  May 2012 Typhon Pact 5 visitation  March 2014 Typhon Pact 2382/83
David R. George III. Raise the dawn  June 2012 Typhon Pact 6th shadow  Apr. 2014 Typhon Pact 2383
Una McCormack Brinkmanship  Sep 2012 Typhon Pact 7th risk  Sep 2014 Typhon Pact 2383
David R. George III. Revelations and Dust  Aug 2013 The Fall 1 Findings from ruins  Sep 2015 The Fall 2385
Una McCormack The Crimson Shadow  Sep 2013 The Fall 2 The crimson shade  Oct. 2015 The Fall 2385
David Alan Mack A ceremony of losses  Oct. 2013 The Fall 3 At a losing point  Nov 2015 The Fall 2385
James Swallow The Poisoned Chalice  Nov 2013 The Fall 4th The poison cup  Dec 2015 The Fall 2385
Dayton Ward Peaceable Kingdoms  Dec. 2013 The Fall 5 Kingdoms of Peace  Jan. 2016 The Fall 2385
David Alan Mack Disavowed  Oct. 2014 Section 31 Denied  Dec 2016 Section 31 2386
John Jackson Miller Hell's Heart  Oct. 2016 Prey 1 The heart of hell  July 2018 Prey 2386
John Jackson Miller The Jackal's trick  Nov 2016 Prey 2 The jackal's trick  Aug 2018 Prey 2386
John Jackson Miller The Hall of Heroes  Dec 2016 Prey 3 The hall of heroes  Sep 2018 Prey 2386
David Alan Mack Control  May 2017 Section 31 control  Sep 2019 Section 31 2386

action

prehistory

In 2379, Shinzon , who is a clone of Jean-Luc Picard , assassinated a large part of the government of the Romulan star empire in order to give themselves and the Remans , a Romulan caste long suppressed by the government , more power. With the help of the Romulan opposition, the Enterprise-E prevents Shinzon from destroying the earth and conquering the Federation territory in order to extend Romulan rule; Shinzon dies (→ main article: Star Trek: Nemesis ) .

Division of the Romulan Empire

In 2380 the Imperial Romulan State, led by the Romulan Donatra, splits off from the Romulan Star Empire. For the star empire led by Praetoress Tal'Aura, the split represents a weakening of its power, which it later co-founded the Typhon Pact to compensate. In contrast, the Imperial Romulan State is politically close to the Federation.

Even under the diplomatic influence of the Federation, the Klingon Empire declares its readiness to provide the Remans who have been living on a prison planet with a Klingon planet on which the Remans can lead a free and self-determined life under Klingon protectorate.

The division of the Romulan Empire did not last long. After Tal'Aura had her opponent locked in prison as part of an intrigue, where Donatra subsequently committed suicide, the Imperial Romulan State was reintegrated into the star empire in early 2382.

Borg crisis and campaign of destruction

In 2380 the Borg faced the Federation again. Here is Captain Picard temporarily assimilated by the Borg again. In the same year, a cube separated from the collective aims to permanently assimilate Seven of Nine and Picard into their collective. In addition, the Borg on this cube, which are led by Admiral Kathryn Janeway , who was recently assimilated to the Borg Queen, threaten the destruction of the earth. The cube is more developed than the other Borg and is not only capable of assimilation , but also of absorption , by means of which the cube destroys the planet Pluto, for example . Due to the defense efforts of Enterprise and Seven of Nine, the cube's plan fails, Janeway dies.

In early 2381, the Borg invaded the Alpha and Beta Quadrants with thousands of cubes through subspace tunnels once created by the Caeliar species. Their goal is no longer assimilation, but annihilation. Within a few weeks the Borg destroy and devastate numerous planets, space stations and spaceships; Over 63 billion beings die on the side of those attacked. Eventually all Borg are destroyed by the Caeliar, a peace-loving species that also has a collective consciousness. In a flashback, the reader learns that the Borg emerged as a species many years ago because a chain of unfortunate circumstances mixed the negative characteristics of Caeliar and humans.

Conflict with the Typhon Pact

While the powers of the Alpha and Beta Quadrants are threatened with annihilation by the Borg, six powers that are at home in those quadrants join forces in 2381 to form the so-called "Typhon Pact". They do this out of the desire to unite in the fight against the Borg without having to join the Federation. The six powers or states are the Romulan Star Empire , the Breen Confederation , the Tzenkethi Coalition, the Gorn Hegemony , the Tholian Assembly and the Holy Order of the Kinshaya. The name model for the pact is the space region "Typhon Expansion".

Most of the six powers were not friends of the Federation even before the Typhon Pact was founded. Because the Federation and its allied Klingon Empire see themselves threatened by the Typhon Pact, and in order to form a stronger opposition to the Typhon Pact, the two allies extended the Khitomer peace agreement between them to other powers in 2381. These include the Imperial Romulan State, the Ferengi Alliance , the Talarian Republic, and the Cardassian Union .

The powers of the Typhon Pact use their alliance to benefit from each other's technological achievements in order to increase their military strength. The Romulan Star Empire, for example, shares its knowledge of the cloaking device of its spaceships, which has been kept strictly secret, with the other members of the pact. In addition, agents of the Typhon Pact spy on the Federation and steal construction documents for the new Slipstream drive from Federation property.

The Tholians weaken the Federation by betraying secrets and sowing discord between Andorians and the Federation government to ensure that Andor, a founding member of the Federation, leaves the Federation in 2382. The Tzenkethi ensure with their own intrigue that the Typhon Pact against. The Khitomer powers are strengthened: To do this, they have Tal'Aura, the leader of the newly reunited two Romulan states, murdered and replaced by the Romulan Kamemor, which is better suited to her strategy.

interpretation

The novelist David R. George III. said in an interview that the rivalry between the Khitomer powers (including the Federation) and the Typhon Pact allows the authors to explore today's political and social problems in a futuristic setting. He compared this power-political constellation with the relationship between the real, opposing organizations NATO and the Warsaw Pact . Among other things, in afterwords to the novels, the rivalry was referred to as the " Cold War ".

For the novel Kampf, from the miniseries Typhon Pact , author Christopher L. Bennett was also inspired by the resistance movement that was involved in the 2011 revolution in Egypt .

Further contents

This section contains synopsis of novels that did not appear in any particular major series or miniseries.

The laws of the Federation

In addition to Nemesis , the novel is based on the novel Eine neue Ära from the Titan series and on the 9-part novel series A Time to ... , which has not yet been published in German . Set in the year 2380, it tells of the work of the recently elected human Federation President Nanietta Bacco and her chief of staff Esperanza Piñiero. After Riker had diplomatically achieved that the Remans were granted protectorate status under the Klingon Empire, a group of 29 Remans, who are pursued by their conspecifics as well as by the Romulans, drive their spaceship to a Federation outpost and ask the Federation for asylum. After talking to Federation officials, the Remans undertake a kamikaze flight against the outpost, killing them and three Federation members. In the further course of the plot, the Klingons assign the other Remaners the planet Klorgat IV as a new settlement area. After they get there, one of the planet's moons explodes, leading to an investigation into a possible terrorist attack. Another storyline in the novel tells of Bacco's efforts to establish diplomatic relations with the Trinni / ek species. At a state banquet on Earth there is a scandal when the Trinni / ek leave the venue in anger. Bacco organizes another meeting with some representatives of the species. Other storylines deal with the sudden death of one of Bacco's predecessors in office and a legal dispute over the question of whether the Android B-4 can be dismantled for study purposes. Bacco also finds out that her predecessor, Min Zife, did not resign voluntarily, but was forced by Admiral Ross to keep Zife's mistake secret. For this reason, Bacco uses blackmail to get Ross to resign and the matter not to become public.

Individual fates

The novel takes place two months after the end of the Destiny trilogy. Professor Sonek Pran, who worked on Mars and previously served as advisor to the Federation President, is hired by the current Federation President Bacco to mediate a dispute between the two factions of the Romulans. These two factions are the Romulan Star Empire, led by Praetorin Tal'Aura on Romulus, and the Imperial Romulan State, led by Empress Donatra on the planet Achernar Prime. The attempt by Dax and Pran to convince Tal'Aura that she lets Donatra help her with food for her people, but fails; Tal'Aura also ended ties with the Federation. During his mission, Pran discovers connections between certain strange events. These incidents include the crippling of one of the Federation's Dilithium mines, a refinery exploding on the Federation planet of Capella, and the attack of a small fleet led by Kinshaya spaceships against Klingon planets, killing Martok's son. Independently investigating this matter, Pran discovers with some helpers from the Aventine that the female Ferengi Sekki is partly responsible for these incidents, who was apparently paid for it. You find her murdered on the planet Thalezra. On her corpse they discover precious stones with the "Typhon Pact" engraved on them. It now turns out that the Typhon Pact is a new union of six powers founded in the Typhon Expansion, which are the Romulan Star Empire, the Gorn, the Breen, the Tzenkethi, the Kinshaya and the Gorn Assembly acts. The ambassador of the Gorn makes it clear to Bacco that with her decision not to make the Gorn an ally in the fight against the Borg, she was personally responsible for the fact that the Gorn were defenselessly at the mercy of the Borg and therefore adhered to the Typhon Pact connected.

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 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ David R. George III - New Trek Novels, Part 1 , in: StarTrek.com, May 27, 2012, accessed April 17, 2017
  2. ↑ cf. Epilogue to the novel Struggle