The Disavowed

This article is about the TNG short story. You may be looking for the Star Trek: Section 31 novel Disavowed.

"The Disavowed"
Attribution
Series:	The Next Generation
Author(s):	Christopher Cooper
Publication information
Printed:	20 September 2022, in Star Trek: Explorer, Issue 4
Pages:	6
Omnibus:	The Mission and Other Stories
Chronology
Date:	2365

"The Disavowed" is a TNG short story published in Star Trek: Explorer magazine. It was written by Christopher Cooper, edited by Jonathan Wilkins, and published in September 2022 in the subscriber digital supplement to Explorer, Issue 4. It first saw print publication in Titan Magazines' "The Mission" and Other Stories omnibus in 2024.

Description

The crew of the Enterprise loses all memory of William Riker!

Summary

Log entries

Commander William T. Riker, Personal log

Counselor Troi's assessment of the political discord on Piividen was bang on the money: tensions are riding high, to the point where it's hard to imagine either side reaching a compromise, let alone making a joint argument in support of their world's application for admission to the Federation — if they can even agree that's what they really want!

We'll see if anything changes in the next session, but right now I'm inclined to recommend we leave them to settle their differences in their own time.

References

Characters

Beverly Crusher • Data • Geordi La Forge • Jean-Luc Picard • William T. Riker • f'Savian • Deanna Troi • b'Yornsyn

Starships and vehicles

USS Enterprise-D (Galaxy-class explorer)

Locations

Piivedan (Amorphan • Division Hall)

Races and cultures

Android • Betazoid • Human • humanoid • Relkan

Referenced only

Ferengi

States and organizations

Federation • Starfleet

Science and classification

combadge • biobed • biology • positronic brain • quantum resonator • sensor • technology • transporter • transporter pad • tricorder

Occupations and titles

ambassador • arbiter • captain • commander • conciliator • counselor • delegate • doctor • first officer • lieutenant commander • mediator • officer • orator

Other references

altar • atom • away team • brain • coup • crystal • decade • diplomacy • engineering • first officer's personal log, USS Enterprise (NCC-1701-D) • history • log entry • mafia • memory • military • month • neuron • personal log • politics • quantum resonance signature • robe • sickbay • stone • synaptic pathway • transporter room • uniform • year

Appendices

Related media

• TOS - Waypoint - Special 2019 comic: "Unfathom" – A prototype space saver generated a dimensional bubble aboard the freighter Orpheus, but when Beverly Crusher was inside it, the rest of the crew forgot she existed.

Background

• Supporting imagery suggested a placement in 2365, during Star Trek: The Next Generation season 2. The digital supplement also featured "Pulaski 2.0", set in the same year.

Images

Story image.

Connections

Star Trek: The Next Generation collected short stories, novellas and short novels
Strange New Worlds	I: ("What Went Through Data's Mind 0.68 Seconds Before the Satellite Hit" • "The Naked Truth" • "The First" • "See Spot Run" • "Together Again, for the First Time" • "Civil Disobedience" • "Of Cabbages and Kings") • II: ("I Am Klingon" • "Reciprocity" • "Calculated Risk" • "Gods, Fate, and Fractals" • "I Am Become Death") • III: ("Whatever You Do, Don't Read This Story" • "A Private Victory" • "The Fourth Toast" • "One of Forty-seven" • "A Q to Swear By" • "The Change of Seasons" • "Out of the Box, Thinking") • IV: ("Flight 19" • "The Promise" • "Flash Point" • "Prodigal Son" • "Seeing Forever") • V: ("Bluff" • "The Peacemakers" • "Efflorescence" • "Kristin's Conundrum" • "The Monkey Puzzle Box" • "The Farewell Gift" • "Dementia in D Minor") • VI: ("The Soft Room" • "Protecting Data's Friends" • "The Human Factor" • "Tribble in Paradise") • VII: ("Life's Work" • "Adventures in Jazz and Time" • "Future Shock" • "Full Circle" • "Beginnings" • "Solemn Duty") • 8: ("Morning Bells Are Ringing" • "Passages of Deceit" • "Final Flight") • 9: ("Staying the Course" • "Home Soil" • "Terra Tonight" • "Solace in Bloom") • 10 ("Wired" • "A Dish Served Cold" • "The Very Model") • 2016 ("A Christmas Qarol" • "The Sunwalkers" • "The Seen and Unseen")
The Sky's the Limit	"Meet with Triumph and Disaster" • "Acts of Compassion" • "Redshift" • "Among the Clouds" • "Thinking of You" • "Turncoats" • "Ordinary Days" • "'Twould Ring the Bells of Heaven" • "Friends With the Sparrows" • "Suicide Note" • "Four Lights" • "'Til Death" • "On the Spot" • "Trust Yourself When All Men Doubt You"
Misc. short stories	"The Captain and the King" • "Last Words" • "Bedside Matters" • "On the Scent of Trouble" • "Life Itself is Reason Enough" • "What Dreams May Come" • "Twilight's Wrath" • "Eleven Hours Out" • "Darkness" • "The Sacred Chalice" • "For Want of a Nail" • "Q and False" • "Quality of Life" • "Broken Oaths" • "Prey" • "Growing Pains" • "Pulaski 2.0" • "The Disavowed" • "Paghabi" • "The Expert" • "Scramble" • "Dignified Transfer" • "Attempted Break-in"
Misc. novellas & short novels	"The Other Side" • "The Worst of Both Worlds" • "Brave New World"

Timeline

published order
Previous story: Pulaski 2.0	Short stories Star Trek Explorer	Next story: By Special Request
Previous story: The Guardian	The Mission and Other Stories	Next story: Paghabi
Previous story: Pulaski 2.0	TNG short stories	Next story: Paghabi
Previous story: Quality of Life	Stories by: Christopher Cooper	Next story: latest story

Publication history

20 September 2022

First released in the subscriber digital supplement to Star Trek: Explorer magazine. (Titan Magazines)

8 February 2024

Excerpt published at TrekMovie.com.

13 February 2024

Collected in the "The Mission" and Other Stories omnibus. (Titan Magazines)

External links

• The Disavowed excerpt at TrekMovie.com.