Kirsten (MFing) Beyer writing for the new Star Trek series!!!
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Great news for Kirsten -- and hopefully it bodes well for the relationship between the new show and the novels.
As for the rumors about where and when the show will take place, those are still just rumors. I'm not going to worry about anything that hasn't been officially announced.
As for the rumors about where and when the show will take place, those are still just rumors. I'm not going to worry about anything that hasn't been officially announced.
I'm hoping for this, too.
Just to clarify, I'm not expecting anything along the lines of "canonical novels" or the show respecting the existing novel continuity. Naturally the show will have to put its own continuity first. (When Judith & Garfield Reeves-Stevens joined the Enterprise staff in season 4, for example, they didn't try to bring in continuity elements from their earlier Trek novels. Heck, long before then, when Rick Sternbach was on the TNG staff, that didn't prevent the show from completely contradicting the Spaceflight Chronology book that he'd contributed art to.) It just hopefully bodes well for the chances that Pocket will get to do tie-ins for the new show at all.
Damn, this is pretty cool news!
I guess it may come down to someone else taking over the Voyager novels, though they may or may not work from Kirsten Beyer's plot line for the various story threads.
That is the rub, isn't it? I guess we should expect a bit of a delay on the next one, but then I'm not sure if there were any plans announced for the next one or indeed any 2017 Trek novels in general.
I guess it may come down to someone else taking over the Voyager novels, though they may or may not work from Kirsten Beyer's plot line for the various story threads.
True, but I did notice little things from the novels did seep into the show. For example, the episode Terra Prime was the only time on screen in any Trek that Starfleet Intelligence was referred to as "SI" but the novels use that abbreviation all the time.
If by that you mean a novelization, I think the fact that Beyond isn't getting one makes less likely for the pilot episode of the new series getting one. Hell, I can't even imagine how they'll convince anyone to buy a novelization of an episode released directly to a streaming service anyway.
Because it's STAR TREK?
Heck, they published novelizations of the Saturday morning cartoon.
Doesn't seem to be enough of a reason for Beyond, though.
Actually, during the early phases of hammering out (I think it was) the "Terra Prime" arc on ENT, the Optimum Movement from their novel Federation was going to get canonically reconciled with the filmed continuity (Malcolm Reed's great-grandfather would've been revealed as a high-ranking member of the Optimum alongside Colonel Green, leading up to World War III), but this later got changed to directly involving just Colonel Green himself instead:
http://memory-alpha.wikia.com/wiki/Undeveloped_Star_Trek:_Enterprise_episodes#Colonel_Green_story
Okay, so they did try, but it still ended up going in a different direction, because they were part of a larger team. Even an idea that started out drawing on ideas from the novels could get changed into something unrecognizable by the time it reaches the air.
She had two more books in the works for next year. A duology. One was to be titled 'The Architect of Infinity'. Not sure about the other one.
Hopefully Bryan Fuller and Rod Roddenberry plan to lock her in a room, only allowing her to see her children if she meets her quota of Star Trek writing, and there will be no delay in her Voyager novels while she writes for the new series.
Rod Roddenberry's plans probably have little bearing on anything. He works as a producer in the business/financing sense, not the creative sense. His company is most likely just a financial partner in the production. He'll probably be giving notes on the scripts and such, but he'll be one of many.
Oh, and I suspect anyone who tried to lock Kirsten in a room and keep her from seeing her daughter would quickly learn to regret it.
Let's make it a complete ST novel authors "school trip" and see how that would work out.
I'd love to see the new series being adapted from various novel series, like the DS9 Relaunch, DTI, SCE, VOY Relaunch, ENT Relaunch, Vanguard or other Fancy 3-letter abbreviations but this isn't going to happen anyway so.. Kirsten Beyer will write some of it therefore it will be great anyway.
Someone on reddit said that they read on twitter that Beyer is going to continue with the Voyager books. I've looked around can't find anything that confirms this but then my searching skills aren't the best. The last I heard she didn't have an online presence except for this forum.
This sounds like great news for Kirsten and for the show! As I think someone has already said, I never really enjoyed Voyager until Kirsten MF Beyer took the reins. Congratulations Kirsten!
I think that so many of TrekLit's authors would bring something special to the new show, but as well as Kirsten, I'd like to see Christopher L. Bennett in the mix - in particular because I really get a kick out of his exacting, thoughtful, continuity-woven writing.
I think that so many of TrekLit's authors would bring something special to the new show, but as well as Kirsten, I'd like to see Christopher L. Bennett in the mix - in particular because I really get a kick out of his exacting, thoughtful, continuity-woven writing.
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