Star Trek: New Frontier

New Frontier
Production
Abbreviation:	NF
Original media:	novels
Other media:	short stories, comics
Creator(s):	Peter David
In-universe
Setting:	late-24th century
Location:	USS Excalibur, USS Excalibur-A & USS Trident
The USS Excalibur

Star Trek: New Frontier is a series chronicling the adventures of Captain Mackenzie Calhoun and the crew of the USS Excalibur. Created by Peter David in 1997, it was the first Star Trek book series to prominently feature characters created directly for print rather than for the screen.

Series History

New Frontier was created in 1997 by Pocket Books Editor John Ordover and writer Peter David. It was considered to be an experiment, to see how readers would react to novels which did not center on major characters or the settings featured in the television series.

Ordover conceived of New Frontier as an analogue to the post-Soviet USSR, where numerous forces once kept in check by the central government began to battle to fill the power vacuum, and old conflicts begin to resurface. (Voyages of Imagination)

David created three original characters for New Frontier novels: Mackenzie Calhoun, formerly known as M'k'n'zy of Calhoun, leader of the Xenexian rebellion against the alien Danteri; Si Cwan, a former Thallonian nobleman now out of power; and Burgoyne 172, the Hermat Chief Engineer of the USS Excalibur. Three more characters -- Soleta, Zak Kebron, and Mark McHenry -- were created by David for his trilogy of Starfleet Academy Young Adult novels featuring Worf, and brought back to the new series as adult officers. Elizabeth Shelby, Robin Lefler, and Dr. Selar were also included due to their status as "one-shot favorites" of Star Trek: The Next Generation fans.

The first four titles were released as shorter (and cheaper) "chapbooks", in much the same manner as Stephen King's The Green Mile was originally published the year prior. These four books were later re-released in a single hardbound omnibus.

The New Frontier series has been quite successful, and includes some of the best selling of the recent Star Trek novels. Its success is directly responsible for other similar lit-only Trek series, such as Star Trek: Starfleet Corps of Engineers and Star Trek: IKS Gorkon.

New Frontier stories regularly appear in crossover miniseries and short story anthologies. The series has also expanded into the realm of comics; In 2000 WildStorm Comics published the first New Frontier comic and approached David about creating a second but lost the license before that came to fruition. In 2008 the new comics licenser, IDW Publishing, approached David about a new New Frontier comics project, resulting in the publication of a five-part miniseries. ^[1]

Characters

• Mackenzie Calhoun
• Elizabeth Shelby
• Burgoyne 172
• Soleta
• Zak Kebron
• Mark McHenry
• Robin Lefler
• Selar
• Si Cwan
• Janos
• Morgan Primus
• Katerina Mueller
• Xyon of Calhoun
• Kalinda Cwan
• Arex
• M'Ress
• Tania Tobias
• Romeo Takahashi
• Mick Gold
• Xy
• Moke

Media

Published order

Title	Author(s)	Format	Published	Cover
Excalibur #3 #11 Restoration	Peter David	novel	Hardcover: November 2000 Paperback: November 2001
Double Time	Peter David Art by: Mike Collins & David Roach	comic (reprinted in Other Realities)	November 2000
Gateways #6 Cold Wars	Peter David	novel	October 2001
Gateways #7: What Lay Beyond: "Death After Life"	Peter David	novella	Hardcover: November 2001 Paperback: October 2002
#12 Being Human	Peter David	novel	November 2001
Gods Above	Peter David	novel	October 2003
Stone and Anvil	Peter David	novel	October 2003
No Limits	Editors: Peter David, with Keith R.A. DeCandido	anthology	October 2003
Tales of the Dominion War "Stone Cold Truths"	Peter David	short story	August 2004
After the Fall	Peter David	novel	Hardcover: November 2004 Paperback: December 2005
Tales from the Captain's Table "Pain Management"	Peter David	short story	June 2005
Missing in Action	Peter David	novel	Hardcover: February 2006 Paperback: January 2007
Mirror Universe: Obsidian Alliances "Cutting Ties"	Peter David	novel	March 2007
Turnaround	Peter David Art by: Stephen Thompson	Five-part comic miniseries	Issues: March-July 2008 Omnibus: October 2008
Mirror Universe: Shards and Shadows "Homecoming"	Peter David	short story	January 2009
Treason	Peter David	novel	Trade paperback: April 2009 Mass market paperback: March 2010

Chronological order

• Pre-dating main series setting
  • 2354:
    • No Limits: "A Lady of Xenex"
    • No Limits: "Lefler's Logs" (Logs run through to 2364)
  • 2356: No Limits: "Turning Point"
  • 2361: No Limits: "Waiting For G'Doh"
  • 2362: No Limits: "Revelations"
  • 2363:
    • No Limits: "Out of the Frying Pan"
    • No Limits: "Alice, on the Edge of Night"
  • 2366:
    • No Limits: "All That Glisters..."
    • No Limits: "Performance Appraisal"
  • 2368:
    • No Limits: "Oil and Water"
    • No Limits: "Singularity"
  • 2369: No Limits: "'Q'uandary"
  • 2370: No Limits: "Loose Ends"
  • 2371: No Limits: "Through the Looking Glass"
• 2373
  • No Limits: "Making a Difference"
  • House of Cards
  • Into the Void
  • The Two-Front War
  • End Game
• 2374
  • Martyr
  • Fire on High
  • The Captain's Table #5: Once Burned
  • Double Time (Story begins after Once Burned and concludes at the beginning of Double or Nothing)
• 2375
  • Tales of the Dominion War: "Stone Cold Truths"
  • Double Helix #5: Double or Nothing
• 2376
  • The Quiet Place
  • Dark Allies
  • Excalibur
    • Requiem
    • Renaissance
    • Restoration
  • No Limits: "The Road to Edos"
  • No Limits: "A Little Getaway"
  • Gateways #6: Cold Wars
  • Gateways #7: What Lay Beyond: "Death After Life"
  • Being Human
  • Gods Above
  • Stone and Anvil
  • No Limits: "Redemption"
• 2377: Tales from the Captain's Table: "Pain Management"
• 2379
  • After the Fall
  • Missing in Action

Omnibuses

• New Frontier - Collector's Edition Hardcover of Books 1-4.
• Prometheans - Exclusive book club hardcover omnibus of Martyr and Fire on High.

Related Works

• Starfleet Academy - Trilogy featuring Kebron, Soleta, and McHenry as classmates of Worf at Starfleet Academy.

1. Worf's First Adventure
2. Line of Fire
3. Survival

• Vendetta - Features Korsmo and Shelby, referenced in House of Cards.
• Imzadi II - Cameo by Shelby and Excalibur.
• Q & A - Cameo by Shelby on Space Station Bravo.
• Before Dishonor - Cameo by Calhoun and the Excalibur.

Connections

• Star Trek: New Frontier article at Memory Alpha, the wiki for canon Star Trek.
• Star Trek: New Frontier article at Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

Star Trek: New Frontier publications and stories
Novels	House of Cards • Into the Void • The Two-Front War • End Game • Martyr • Fire on High • Once Burned • Double or Nothing • The Quiet Place • Dark Allies • Excalibur (Requiem • Renaissance • Restoration) • Cold Wars • Being Human • Gods Above • Stone and Anvil • After the Fall • Missing in Action • Treason • Blind Man's Bluff
Short stories and novellas	"Death After Life" • No Limits ("Loose Ends" • "All That Glisters..." • "Waiting for G'Doh, or, How I Learned to Stop Moving and Hate People" • "Lefler's Logs" • "Alice, on the Edge of Night" • "Revelations" • "Turning Point" • "'Q'uandary" • "Oil and Water" • "Singularity" • "The Road to Edos" • "A Lady of Xenex" • "Making a Difference" • "Performance Appraisal" • "Redemption" • "Out of the Frying Pan" • "Through the Looking Glass" • "A Little Getaway") • "Stone Cold Truths" • "Pain Management" • "Cutting Ties" • "Homecoming"
eBooks	The Returned, Part 1 • The Returned, Part 2 • The Returned, Part 3	Comics	Double Time • Turnaround ("Part I" • "Part II" • "Part III" • "Part IV" • "Part V")
Omnibuses	New Frontier • Prometheans • Turnaround	German omnibuses	Kartenhaus • Zweifrontenkrieg