2019 Releases

[JD]

Keith has clarified on Facebook that his unannounced tie-in projects are NOT Star Trek-related.

Please be Firefly.

I wasn't sure how that all works. I didn't know if anyone can comment on anything not announced today. Glad you have something coming out though and I hope to see a new Enterprise book on the horizon at some point



I'd love to see more for next year, though I suppose with the long layover it may take a little time to get things flowing again (assuming they return to doing them once/month). I have to say I'm shocked and thrilled that they have something coming out in January already. I thought it'd be spring or summer at the earliest for the next books.

If there were more books that people could talk about they would have been included in the announcement. The authors can't talk about books before they've been officially announced, that's why you see so many references to books they can't talk about yet, because they're waiting until they actually allowed to talk about them.

BTW, did anyone say anything about Kirsten Beyer's Voyager book. I know that's still under the old contract but I didn't see any references to it and was wondering if I missed it somewhere. I mean, that could be a February book...you know, just saying. But all joking aside, last thing I read is that it is definitely being written and if I remember correctly she had started working on it.

I'm pretty sure if they talked about it at the panel, it would have been included in the articles on Trek Core or StarTrek.com. I can't really see them ignoring what would have been a pretty major announcement.

Nope.

Damn.

I wondered if this means the rumoured future Picard tv series is officially off the table now

Why would you say that?

 

[Reanok]

I'm looking forward to a new Enterprise novel to followup the events of Section 31 in Patterns of Interference I really been wanting to see how the story arc for Trip&T'Pol will be dealt with and another Ds9 novel too please.

 

[Damian]

Please be Firefly.
If there were more books that people could talk about they would have been included in the announcement. The authors can't talk about books before they've been officially announced, that's why you see so many references to books they can't talk about yet, because they're waiting until they actually allowed to talk about them.

I'm pretty sure if they talked about it at the panel, it would have been included in the articles on Trek Core or StarTrek.com. I can't really see them ignoring what would have been a pretty major announcement.


Damn.

Why would you say that?

I just didn't know if there was anything they could talk about but just didn't at the panel. I wasn't sure how exhaustive it was. It seemed like they only mentioned novels that had release dates. I didn't know if anyone could talk about things they are working on but don't have a release date yet. Re: To Lose the Earth I was just wondering if I missed something and I didn't know if someone mentioned something minor that maybe wasn't thought important enough to comment on (I know, nothing is usually left out here but you never know).

 

[ATimson]

Why would you say that?

Because if CBS Licensing thinks that the books are going to impinge on an upcoming project, they wouldn't approve it?

 

[Christopher]

Because if CBS Licensing thinks that the books are going to impinge on an upcoming project, they wouldn't approve it?

I think that whatever new TV projects are being developed are in a very early stage and it'd still be well over a year, maybe two or more, before they appeared. So the existence of a book slated to come out 9 months from now doesn't say anything about future TV plans.

 

[ATimson]

That may well be the case.

 

[JD]

I just didn't know if there was anything they could talk about but just didn't at the panel. I wasn't sure how exhaustive it was. It seemed like they only mentioned novels that had release dates. I didn't know if anyone could talk about things they are working on but don't have a release date yet. Re: To Lose the Earth I was just wondering if I missed something and I didn't know if someone mentioned something minor that maybe wasn't thought important enough to comment on (I know, nothing is usually left out here but you never know).

I'm pretty sure the panel talked everything that Pocket wants talked about at this point. You have to remember CBS and Pocket are the ones who in charge of the books, not the authors, so they're the ones who decide what gets announced when.
For a while we did the authors were announcing new books here and/or on their blogs, but these days they seem to have gone back to making big announcements at STLV and Star Trek.com, so I have a feeling if we don't see an announcement at one or the other, then it probably can't be talked about yet.

 

[Burning Hearts of Qo'nos]

Well, at least that gives us plenty of room to speculate wildly. I for one have enjoyed the ongoing 2018 thread, laughed at the joke of the 2019 thread, then laughed again when that joke became a cruel reality.

 

[Christopher]

Well, at least that gives us plenty of room to speculate wildly. I for one have enjoyed the ongoing 2018 thread, laughed at the joke of the 2019 thread, then laughed again when that joke became a cruel reality.

What's cruel about it? The first new book's only 5 months away.

 

[Burning Hearts of Qo'nos]

It was cruel up until the announcements. The joke here is that the 2018 thread popped up in summer of 2017 with no real announcements well into 2018 when the 2019 announcements should have appeared. Then this thread was created with the thinking that...well since there aren't any 2018 announcements yet maybe we better move onto 2019... to which I thought, 'Well that's both funny and pessimistic!' Then the months went on and it became clear that it wasn't pessimism, but a reality that we'd have to wait for 2019. And then the announcements were made.

This thread is hilarious. And I love it.

This guy gets it!

 

[Leto_II]

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[Enterprise1701]

In the future, when Discovery is over, I am thoroughly looking forward to the ongoing litverse series, STAR TREK: SHENZHOU.

Have Michelle Yeoh reprise her role in the Kelvin Timeline films!

 

[Enterprise is Great]

I'm glad the books are coming back. I'm looking forward to the Tilly Discovery book the most.

 

[Paul Weaver]

Because if CBS Licensing thinks that the books are going to impinge on an upcoming project, they wouldn't approve it?

That was my thought

Shows what I know.

Huzzah!!

 

[David cgc]

Dear left hand, it would be my great pleasure to introduce you to right hand...

Though, it may not be so irreconcilable. The JJ-verse rights issue may have ended up being a blessing in disguise, if this new show takes place twenty years after Nemesis and, thus, thirteen years after the present day in the novelverse, that's plenty of gap to tie everything together if anyone is so inclined, assuming that's possible (which, let's be honest, everyone who gets to make Star Trek is positively thirsty when it comes to the Borg, so probably not). No, I'll be saving my, "Tough break, buckos" for the STO writing team, though their endless time-fuckery probably makes it easier for them to continue as a going concern, even if the contradictions are more overt.

 

[indianatrekker26]

With Patrick stewart returning as picard in a new show set 20 years after nemesis, I wonder what effect if any will that have on the books? The tv writers shouldn't be hampered down by boOKs that I'm sure less than 10% of trek fandom read. Could we be in line for a reboot similar to what happened to the star wars novels a few years back? It will be interesting to see how this reverberates through the novel line.

 

[Dayton Ward]

All I can probably say at this point without getting into trouble is that this wasn't a surprise.

 

[OCD Geek]

All I can probably say at this point without getting into trouble is that this wasn't a surprise.

That's really reassuring actually. Corporate synergy for the win!

 

[ATimson]

Could we be in line for a reboot similar to what happened to the star wars novels a few years back? It will be interesting to see how this reverberates through the novel line.

If we were in line for that, the time to do so would have been with the 2019 novels. Given Dayton's comments, it sounds like this was actually considered when they chose to keep forging ahead.

(And good point on the timeframe, @David cgc. I'd forgotten just how far behind real time the books had gotten!)

 

[OCD Geek]

Also, Kirsten motherfucking Beyer is a member of the creative team!

...said Kurtzman, who leads a creative team that also includes James Duff (The Closer, Major Crimes), Akiva Goldsman (Discovery), Michael Chabon (the John Carter writer who is also penning one of the recently announced Star Trek: Discovery shorts) and Kirsten motherfucking Beyer (Discovery).

Source (minus the added "motherfucking"): https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/l...r-trek-role-new-cbs-all-access-series-1132262