Old Books That Could Be Rebranded

[Stevil2001]

A couple years ago, BBC Books reissued a bunch of old Doctor Who books as "the Monster Collection": http://merchandise.thedoctorwhosite.co.uk/doctor-who-bbc-books-the-monster-collection/

They slapped images of (mostly) new-series versions of monsters on (mostly) old-series tie-in novels. So, like, you got a 2008-style Sontaran on a 1995 Sontaran novel, a 2010-style Silurian on a 1996 Silurian novel, and so on.

I feel like the reboot movies and Discovery offer some possibilities for rereleasing old Star Trek novels along these lines. Here are some ideas:

• Vulcan's Glory and/or Burning Dreams, with Anson Mount or Bruce Greenwood on the cover
• Mudd in Your Eye, with Rainn Wilson on the cover
• The Final Reflection, with a Discovery-style Klingon on the cover
• Faces of Fire, with Alice Eve on the cover

I think it would be fun. (Whenever I find a Monster Collection reprint of a novel I don't already own, I pick it up.) Any other ideas? The more sacrilegious, the better.

 

[Jinn]

All TOS novels, but the Enterprise looks like in Discovery and Spock is replaced by young flashback Spock from the next season

 

[Stevil2001]

All TOS novels, but the Enterprise looks like in Discovery and Spock is replaced by young flashback Spock from the next season

No, even better: all TOS novels with the Discoprise on the cover and Zachary Quinto as Spock.

 

[Jinn]

And lense flares and blue filters!

 

[Tim Thomason]

All the mirror universe novels with the characters wearing sunglasses on the cover.

 

[Allyn Gibson]

When the 2009 movie came out, I thought Pocket missed a beat by not reprinting some backlist titles with the film's cast on the covers.

I'd have done Best Destiny with Pine and Prime Directive with Quinto, since I seem to recall that the writers said they were inspired by those two novels. I also would have done Uhura's Song with Saldana and Burning Dreams with Greenwood. And, for the crazy one? Federation with Pine and Patrick Stewart 'shopped into a recreation of the original Birdsong cover.

In short, I'd totally be on board for a Monster/History Collection style reprint line.

 

[F. King Daniel]

Final Frontier with Chris Hemsworth, Collision Course with Pine and Quinto. Enterprise: The First Adventure with the classic crew but a tagline about "how the crew came together the first time"

Children of Kings was basically a Disco!TOS novel before there was a Disco

 

[Jinn]

Children of Kings was basically a Disco!TOS novel before there was a Disco

The first disco was opened during WW2, does that make Children of Kings the first Star Trek novel?

 

[Kor]

Novelizations of the "Prime" TOS movies with JJVerse actors on the cover, suitably aged.

Kor

 

[Stevil2001]

Final Frontier with Chris Hemsworth

This one is my favorite.

 

[Desert Kris]

A reprint of Strangers From the Sky, with the ST: First Contact's meeting between humans and Vulcans on the cover.

Spock's World, with Ben Cross, Zachary Quinto and Winona Ryder on the cover in a kind of family portrait image.

My Enemy, My Ally with a picture of Nero's second in command, Ayel on the cover.

Dreadnaught! with the image of the Enterprise facing off with the Vengeance from Into Darkness.

 

[Stevil2001]

James Frain on the cover of Sarek.

 

[caseylee4ts]

Spock's World, with Ben Cross, Zachary Quinto and Winona Ryder on the cover in a kind of family portrait image.

Spock's World with Leonard Nimoy, Mark Lenard, and Jane Wyatt, family portrait style, with blurry/dim images of Sybok (Laurence Luckinbill) and Michael Burnham (Sonequa Martin-Green) in the background... even though they aren't in the book...

 

[Tim Thomason]

The Captain's Table with Lorca and Georgiou arguing at a table in the back.

 

[JD]

Doctor's Orders with Karl Urban and Zachary Quinto

 

[Leathco]

Reprint the Star Trek / X-Men crossover, with Patrick Stewart on the cover twice!

 

[tomswift2002]

Or how about the Shatner novels with the Kelvin verse characters aged appropriately to the TNG era.

 

[Stevil2001]

Reprint the Star Trek / X-Men crossover, with Patrick Stewart on the cover twice!

Ooh, this is good. Put one of those stern-looking photos of Patrick Stewart as Professor X, and another of him as Picard (like on the Nemesis poster).

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

The Captain's Table with Lorca and Georgiou arguing at a table in the back.

Ooh, I like this. I would LOVE Captain's Table novels with those two.

Especially since we know more about their damn Mirror counterparts than their Prime versions...

Although I also admit I would love a MU Captain's Table novel. Don't care who it's about, really. In the context of that series, can the Captain's Table itself actually receive people from the MU? Or any other alternate universe?

 

[caseylee4ts]

can the Captain's Table itself actually receive people from the MU? Or any other alternate universe?

I love that idea! It would be cool to see a Lorca tale of his discovery (pun sort of intended) of the Defiant and the hatching of his plan to go to the prime universe. Maybe even his interpretation of his experiences in season 1 of Disco.