," which explained just where the Enterprise was located while the Klingon-Federation War erupted in"Discovery’s" debut season."The High Country" will showcase the entire current Enterprise crew as depicted in “Strange New Worlds,” including Cadet Nyota Uhura.
"When I was asked to write the first 'Strange New Worlds' novel, I knew I wanted to tell a story that offered Captain Pike and his companions a real challenge," Miller tells Space.com."They're called upon to understand a place that’s both bizarre and deadly — and they have to do it without their technology, drawing instead upon their own talents and knowledge.
"First Officer Una finds herself fighting to survive an untamed wilderness where dangers lurk at every turn. Young cadet Nyota Uhura struggles in a volcanic wasteland where things are not as they seem. Science Officer Spock is missing altogether. And Pike gets the chance to fulfill a childhood dream: to live the life of a cowboy in a world where the tools of the 23rd century are of no use.
"Yet even in the saddle, Pike is still very much a starship captain, with all the responsibilities that entails. Setting out to find his crewmates, he encounters a surprising face from his past—and discovers that one people's utopia might be someone else's purgatory. He must lead an exodus—or risk a calamity of galactic proportions that even Starship Enterprise is powerless to stop…”
There were plans to remake the Space 1999 series some years ago but it fell through no go. Too bad.