“What was most difficult, though, was portraying Pike as a Bad Guy, because he comes across as so squeaky-clean in The Cage. When you operate inside an Evil Empire, it doesn’t seem evil to you, so you’re able to rationalise your behaviour, particularly if you’re ambitious like Kirk, and think you’d be a better captain (thus the title). “In a novel, you’ve got time to explore what makes a character tick here I had to be consistent with what was onscreen, but also explain why. “What was funny was just how difficult it was to write these characters as Bad Guys, especially in a short story,” she reveals.
It was an honour, and a lot of fun.” But despite her intimate knowledge of those characters, transferring it to their Mirror Universe counterparts wasn’t that easy.
Marco Palmieri, who edited the collection, knew this, and asked if I’d like to do this one. Margaret chose the Original Series part of the Mirror Universe for her story, because “the TOS characters have always been my favorites. Boyce,” and adds, “I also – without giving too much away – threw in a couple of the characters from Dagger of the Mind, to tell the story of how Kirk managed to assassinate Pike and become captain of Enterprise.” Enterprise through assassination of Captain Christopher Pike’.” Asked about the main characters of the story, she mentions “Kirk and Marlena, as well as Pike, Spock, and Dr. “If you remember, there’s a line in the episode Mirror, Mirror where the library computer describes how Kirk ‘succeeded to command I.S.S.
“It’s essentially the story of how the Mirror Universe Kirk became a starship captain,” Margaret explains. The most recent addition was the short story The Greater Good, in the Mirror Universe anthology Shards and Shadows. Her Original Series novels from the eighties, Strangers from the Sky and Dwellers in the Crucible, still come up regularly whenever fans online discuss their favourite novels, and she made a triumphant return to Trek literature (following a fall-out with the former powers that be at Pocket Books over the re-writing of her novel Probe) with her Lost Era story, Catalyst of Sorrows.īut Catalyst was only the beginning, and since her return Margaret has added quite a few new titles to her Star Trek bibliography. Margaret Wander Bonanno has been something of a household name in the world of Star Trek literature for the last quarter-century.
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