But, how is the new Trek series with Picard going to change the books? Does this mean the 24th century books have to start over?
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But, how is the new Trek series with Picard going to change the books? Does this mean the 24th century books have to start over?
Honestly, I think the latest three are already a huuuge improvement over the abysmal design that was Desperate Times.
We don't know yet and we probably won't know for the near future as the series is in very early development stages. I'm rather sure that we'll have at least a year or two until we know for certain how strongly the show differs from the books and then the people at Pocket Books and CBS will decide how to deal with it, augment continuity, start over, go back to tie-ins. And then eventually we will know too.
Where do you get this?
That just means rather than commissioning an artist to make new artwork they are using the CBS stock promo photos for the Disco covers so far (and why wouldn't they, while Disco is new character recognition is enough to get people interested). The actual design will still be by Simon and Schuster, but all they're doing is wacking the title over a photo.
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That's true, and you're right that the back cover credit only indicates where the art comes from rather than who chooses to use it. However, I expect CBS would still have final approval on cover design as they do on everything else, and it kind of stands to reason that they'd want the first few tie-in covers to be official publicity art, which is often the case with movie and TV tie-in books.
That image used on the cover of the Tilly novel was also used a week before as a promo image for Star Trek Online’s Discovery themed update. So I think it is a CBS promo image
https://www.arcgames.com/en/games/star-trek-online/news/detail/10962253-star-trek-online:-age-of-discovery
http://trekcore.com/blog/2018/07/mary-wiseman-tilly-star-trek-online-age-of-discovery/
https://www.arcgames.com/en/games/star-trek-online/news/detail/10962253-star-trek-online:-age-of-discovery
http://trekcore.com/blog/2018/07/mary-wiseman-tilly-star-trek-online-age-of-discovery/
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Didn't someone here cite a CrossCult facebook post, that they wanted to do new covers for the Discovery novels (as they often do for so-so US covers), but weren't allowed to?
I did like the Fear Itself cover-- I think just having an interesting background did a lot for the publicity photos.
I did like the Fear Itself cover-- I think just having an interesting background did a lot for the publicity photos.
Does Therin Park have something to do with you, Ian?
That could have been me; I definitely remember that facebook post.
Yeah, I like how there's a theme going on with main character in the foreground, cool space in the background and hope that they can keep that up until we got through all main characters. Come to think of it, I'd be really interested in an Ash Tyler novel.
Oh, me too. Hopefully that will be coming. Actually now that you say that it would be cool to have a Tyler/ Vok novel. Telling a double story about both before they collide at the Battle of Binary Stars.
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Who's left after Tilly? Ash, as you say. (Maybe the novels could do for him something like what they did for Lorca.) Stamets, though the Star Trek: Discovery Annual filled in some of his past already. I guess Pike is a main character now, so they could do him, too.
I think that's about it, unless we take potential season 2 characters into account. A Stamets novel set after the start of the war might be interesting though.
Hm, it does seem like there's some space for a novel or novels chronicling the first six months of the war, on the Discovery or elsewhere.
Nah, I don't think that needs to happen, since we already have Burning Dreams.
I'd love to read that.
I’m hoping that characters like Detmer and Owosekun and Rhys get featured too. I find it weird not knowing much about Discovery’s bridge officers at this point.
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