Star Trek: New Frontier

Star Trek: New Frontier is a Star Trek novel series created by John J. Ordover and Peter David and published by Pocket Books. The idea behind it was to create a Star Trek book series with its own continuity and not one that is purely a reaction to the television shows. Nearly every story of the series is written by series co-creator Peter David. New Frontier centers on the adventures of Captain Mackenzie Calhoun and his crew aboard the USS Excalibur.

According to David, "The basic concept was John Ordover's, as was the notion of using several already existing characters. I fleshed out the concept and created the original characters."

First published in 1997 as a serial consisting of four short novels, New Frontier is set in the Star Trek: The Next Generation universe, but in the unexplored Sector 221-G, home of the recently fallen Thallonian Empire. Starting the series with a combination of new characters and former Next Generation guest stars gave David the opportunity to create his own corner of the Star Trek Universe. Characters from New Frontier have been involved in several crossover events with novels based on the television series (the Gateways, Double Helix, Captain's Table and mirror universe novel series).

Star Trek.com announced in March 2015 that a trilogy of eBooks called The Returned would be released in July, August and September of the same year, continuing the New Frontier story.

Unless otherwise noted, all of the following novels, short stories, and comic books were written by Peter David.

Several of these stories have also been reprinted elsewhere.

Other novels have included or even focused on characters that star in the New Frontier universe. Because some of the characters originated in Star Trek: The Next Generation, some of these novels were actually released months or years before the first New Frontier book. Some of these books include:

The characters in the New Frontier novels are a combination of characters that had already appeared in Star Trek: The Next Generation: (Elizabeth Shelby, Dr. Selar, Robin Lefler, and Edward Jellico), characters from Peter David's Star Trek: The Next Generation: Starfleet Academy books (Soleta, Zak Kebron, Mark McHenry, and Tania Tobias), characters from Star Trek: The Animated Series (Arex and M'Ress), and newly created characters (such as Mackenzie Calhoun, Burgoyne 172, Si Cwan and Kalinda).

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