"Star Trek Vanguard: Harbinger (spoilers) " Topic

"It was pretty good, but felt more like a pilot episode than a novel. What I mean is, the book mostly established multiple plot threads for the rest of series and didn't really resolve anything except for the destruction of the Bombay by the Tholians.

Can we just talk about for a second? A pre-refit, TOS era (Harbinger is set just after the events of Where No Man Has Gone Before) Miranda-class took on six Tholian heavy cruisers and destroyed four of them out before being destroyed herself. Damn, son! No wonder the Reliant kicked the Enterprise's ass in Wrath of Khan.

Anyways, back to the book. The premise for the Vanguard series is pretty cool: The USS Constellation (you might have heard of it) discovers something called a meta-genome in a sample of mold that they were transporting back from a planet called Ravanar in the Tarsus Reach, a far off sector of space outside Federation territory. Yup, outside Feddie territory and right between the Klingon Empire and Tholian Assembly. What could possibly go wrong? The meta-genome proves to be important because it contains a lot of information; too much, in fact, to be anything but artificial. So, Starfleet fast-tracks the construction of Vanguard, a watch-tower class starbase in Tarsus Reach. They also assign three starships to the base: the already mentioned Bombay, the Constitution-class Endeavor, and the Archer-class Sagittarius. The Archer is a small scout ship that was created specifically for the series and has appeared outside of it as well…"

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I'm going for this for sure.

Amicalement
Armand

actually the whole series is great it gives a real back drop to the tos and ties in the movies like the wrath of khan.

and if you like that check out the fan made film
prelude to axanar

Agreed with Stormspear. I loved the way vanguard filled in a lot of holes in the Paramount continuity. It also had some great battles in it.

As for the Tholians getting thrashed by a single Miranda class, I always pictured those "cruisers" as the little patrol cruisers as seen in "The Tholian Web". If you put it in that perspective, and add in a legendary captain with plot behind her, and you get the battle depicted.

After all, I've never seen a starship combat game that would let you use a tractor beam to force a collision between two enemy ships. :)

Fascinating. Must check this out.

And like stormspear suggests, check out Prelude to Axanar

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