The Disavowed

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

"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

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[]

Connections[]

Short stories published in magazines
TV21 Weekly	TOS stories	"Gateway to the Future"
Stardate Magazine	TOS stories	"Force of Law" • "The Killax Vendetta" • "Planetfall" • "Coronation Presumptuous" • "Boarding Party" • "Roleplaying in the Final Frontier"
Amazing Stories	TNG stories	"Last Words" • "On the Scent of Trouble" • "Life Itself is Reason Enough" • "Bedside Matters"
Amazing Stories	VOY stories	"When Push Comes to Shove" • "A Night at Sandrine's" • "The Space Vortex of Doom"
Star Trek Magazine	STO stories	"Unexpected Honor" • "Shakedown" • "The Gale, Part 1" • "The Gale, Part 2" • "Mirror Image, Part 1" • "Mirror Image, Part 2" • "Chief, Part 1" • "Chief, Part 2" • "Of Chaos and Kal-toh, Part 1" • "Of Chaos and Kal-toh, Part 2" • "Dove" • "Backchannel Negotiations" • "There's No Place Like..." • "Locks Without Keys, Part 1" • "Locks Without Keys, Part 2" • "Hope Remains" • "After the Storm" • "Recruitment Drive" • "Time of the Scotsman" • "An Honorable Frontier"
Star Trek: Explorer	stories	"All That Most Maddens and Torments" • "Q and False" • "A Night In" • "The Offer" • "Seven v Seven" • "Quality of Life" • "Retribution" • "Broken Oaths" • "The Way to Exile" • "Kill Captain Proton!" • "Cumulative Damage" • "Explorers of the Storm" • "Prey" • "Growing Pains" • "Pulaski 2.0" • "The Disavowed" • "By Special Request" • "Paghabi" • "The Expert" • "The Guardian" • "The Mission" • "Things Can Only Get Better" • "Frontier Medicine" • "Control" • "The Victim" • "Scramble" • "You Can't Buy Fate" • "Summer Days Can Last Forever" • "The Kellidian Kidnapping" • "Lost and Founder" • "A Year to the Day I Saw Myself Die" • "See and Seen" • "Work Worth Doing" • "The Trouble with Jones" • "Sundering" • "Academy Acquisition" • "Jack of Diamonds" • "A Dish Served Cold" • "Forewarned and Three-Armed" • "Working Miracles" • "Confirmation Bias" • "Dignified Transfer" • "Attempted Break-in" • "Cat and Mouse"

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" • "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.

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