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Kirsten Beyer:\\nProtectors.

Since leaving television, Star Trek: Voyager has grown into the\\nrich story that it always had the potential to deliver. Through the\\ndeft pen of author Kirsten Beyer, the characters have evolved, the\\nstakes have been raised, and the overall depth of Voyager\'s world\\nhas grown. Her latest novel, Protectors, picks up after the\\ndestruction of four fleet vessels at the hands of the Omega\\nContinuum. In the story, the U.S.S. Voyager and the U.S.S. Demeter\\nset course for a region of the Delta Quadrant far beyond anything\\npreviously explored. But it isn\'t just space that is explored. Upon\\nher return from the dead, Janeway must face the consequences of her\\npast actions.

In this episode of Literary Treks hosts Matthew Rushing and\\nChristopher Jones are joined by Kirsten to discuss the writing of\\nProtectors, the process of tearing down Janeway and building her\\nback up, the evolution of Chakotay and Paris, and what it is like\\nto write Star Trek stories that are displaced in time from the rest\\nof the 24th-century literature. Plus, in our news segment, we learn\\nabout a new Department of Temporal Investigations story and two new\\nEnterprise novels\\u2014all coming to us from Christopher L. Bennett\\u2014and\\nwe review Star Trek Ongoing #29, Parallel Lives, Part I.