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The PoD reprints are closer to trade paperback size though, irritatingly, the actual printing is still from the MMPB template (so you've got as much margin as content on the page, with the text just swimming in white space).

Yep. As far as I know, "Star Trek" has not used the taller-but-not-wider trade format, which is why I assumed the OP meant the PoD Trek.
 
I think E-Dub was talking about a specific variant MMPB size, that are taller but not wider. According to my very brief google, it seems like this was an attempt to make longer books a bit easier to read in the paperback format by increasing the line spacing. It never quite seemed to catch on as a new standard. Offhand, the Dresden Files series switched their paperback reprints to the taller version. You can see in this photo of a series set, three copies predate the switch and are in the shorter, traditional MMPB size.
I was surprised when I noticed the other day that my copy of Turn Coat (The Dresden Files #11) was slightly taller than the Trek books I have it with in my to read pile (TNG: Double Helix #4: Qurantine, VOY: Gateways #5: No Man's Land, Gateways #7: What Lay Beyond, TNG: Dominion War #1: Behind Enemy Lines).
The one thing that really bugs me with the POD books is that once they came out, the e-books prices went up to match them, even though they were still the same thing. I find it frustrating that they want me to pay $15.99 for a book that originally came out as $7.99, or whatever the price was the time, MMPB.
 
AFAIK, it's from Into Darkness that "Captain's Oath" originates (the in-universe name for the "Space, the final frontier..." speech)

I'm guessing then yours refers to something else?

That may have been a factor in the process that led to that title, for all that I can recall, but it wasn't the specific thing I was referencing. After all, it makes no sense to call that a captain's oath, because it's not even an oath, plus it's a quote from Zefram Cochrane according to Enterprise.
 
Yay! I'm so glad there's going to be another Tos novel by Christopher L.Bennett that's an intriguing title.
 
That may have been a factor in the process that led to that title, for all that I can recall, but it wasn't the specific thing I was referencing. After all, it makes no sense to call that a captain's oath, because it's not even an oath, plus it's a quote from Zefram Cochrane according to Enterprise.

That always bugged me about that, among the many other issues I had with Into Darkness. How is that an oath? A "mission statement," perhaps, but an oath?
 
Happy to see another novel, but I'm also disappointed it's another trade paperback. I was hoping it was just going to be the first ones as a way to make a big deal of the return.

Like I keep saying, mass-market paperbacks seem to be a dying breed. I don't think that trend is likely to reverse itself.
 
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