2: Continuing Voyager with Kirsten Beyer
Kirsten Beyer.
After Voyager completed its television run, the story of Captain
Janeway and her crew was continued in literary form beginning with
Christie Golden’s Homecoming in 2003. The four novels from Golden
took Voyager in new directions. But after the Spirit Walk duology,
that continuing voyage appeared to have come to an end. Five years
later, Kirsten Beyer picked up the baton with Full Circle and
brought her own changes to the story. In this episode of Literary
Treks we’re joined by Beyer to discuss how her novels have kept
Voyager alive, about writing Voyager in general and The Eternal
Tide specifically, and why some of the elements that didn’t work so
well on-screen are perfect when it comes to the literary
universe.
In our news segment we cover books including James Swallow’s The
Stuff of Dreams, Dayton Ward’s From History’s Shadow, David A.
Goodman’s Federation: The First 150 Years, David R. George III’s
Revelations and Dust, and a Star Trek craft book. In comics we
cover Countdown to Darkness, Ongoing #16, #17, and #18, and we
discuss our thoughts on Ongoing #15, Mirrored, Part I.
# Full CircleA novel by Kirsten Beyer that serves as a continuation of the Voyager storyline, reviving the franchise after it ended on television.
