Voyager‘s resident Vulcan Tuvok crosses over from Janeway’s command to Riker’s in a prime example of how the Litverse shuffled up crews to great effect. First Officer Christina Vale is a name from the Enterprise relaunch novels, although I only know her from James Swallow’s Picard novel The Dark Veil, which shows a different canon for the Titan‘s voyages. Obviously you have Riker in the captain’s chair, and Deanna Troi gets far more to do in this single book alone than she did for much of her tenure on the Enterprise. Titan‘s crew is in-universe acknowledged as the most diverse crew Starfleet has put together, and that diversity alone makes this a great piece of Star Trek.īut not all of the crew are new faces.
There’s an alien you never would have had in the 90s, but in Taking Wing, he’s not even the weirdest member of the crew.
Titan‘s doctor, for example, is a dinosaur in all but name. But with a book, the only limit is imagination, and we get a truly diverse crew for the new ship. these limitations are of course budget related, and while some species like the Cardassians still look good today, others don’t hold up. Star Trek‘s history with aliens tends to go one of two ways. Titan takes full advantage of it’s literary nature right from the get go. Great standalone adventures, darker instalments, and crossovers with every crew imaginable. With nine main novels, and many others that cross into series such as Typhon Pact and The Fall, Titan‘s journey mirrors the development of Pocket Books’ post- Nemesis timeline. If any novel series is representative of Star Trek‘s shift from television to literature, it’s the voyages of Titan. The Romulan Star Empire, reeling from the assassination of its senate, is in disarray, and only Riker and his untested crew are equipped to stop the crisis spiralling into full-blown war. But Titan’ s maiden voyage is not one of discovery, but of mercy. William Riker is captain of the USS Titan, the first in a new class of exploration vessels. – click here for a full index of all my Star Trek reviews–
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