Ha! I doubt it since Michael is supposed to be a secret.
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She's canon, so you'll have to get used to her to appearing in works.
But you'd accept Sybok?
Not really. I can't recall a book or comic he's actually been in beyond the adaptations for the movie.
No, I really don't. There's hundreds of novels out there, plenty of reading material if I never bought a new Trek book for the rest of my life.
IIRC, Sybok does have a cameo in the Myriad Universes tale about Thelin the Andorian in the TOS movie era. There, Sarek and Sybok ended up reconciling.
If I've read it, it has been such a long time that I've forgotten it. Even then, that isn't much of a Lit resume, one alternate universe novella.
I've actually enjoyed a couple of the Discovery books, but either Burnham wasn't there ("Drastic Measures") or it was an altered timeline ("Dead Endless"). I've just never encountered a more uninspiring Trek main character in all the years I've watched the franchise. The character is painful to watch, which is a shame because Martin-Green has some pretty decent acting chops.
I can't remember which writer said It, but I am still waiting on their plan to finish the Relaunch novels.
They're likely dead at this point. Probably lucky we're even getting a final Voyager relaunch novel.
Not yet according to David Mack.
Several years ago, when I wrote an article for Star Trek Magazine on Sybok, I found it interesting in a notable sort of way in doing my research that his appearances, other than the film, all occur in alternate timelines. Besides the MyrU story, he appeared in the alternate timeline of "Convergence" (DC's Star Trek and TNG Annuals #6) as a Federation ambassador in the 24th-century. Places where it was logical (ahem) for him to appear (Vulcan's Forge, Mind Meld come to mind), he was an off-limits character. (I had an email exchange with John Vornholt on this point re: Mind Meld, and I had asked Susan Shwartz about VF shortly after it came out.)
I'd be interested in a Disco project that dealt with Burnham and Sybok. I'm not sure how many other people are, but I'd like it. Drill down into his character, and he's rather fascinating in what he says about Vulcan philosophy and, more broadly, religious history. Sybok is the heir to the heretical traditions, essentially a modern Gnostic to the traditional Vulcan orthodoxy. I could see Sybok having real issues with his father trying to fit Burnham into the traditional Vulcan mold.
That's my soapbox on Sybok.
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If we're talking about whether there will be any more novels in the shared Treklit continuity, all I can say at this time is that there are ideas in the works, but nothing has been approved, so it's too soon to say whether we will or won't get that opportunity. As soon as there is something we can share, we will. For now, it's all just Schrodinger's publishing schedule.
I just always loved the idea that, while Spock and Michael were fighting over who was the bigger disappointment to Sarek, there's Sybok in the background, who clearly must've ran away with the title if they'd ever stopped to think about it (unless, of course, Sarek did some Sarek-style BS where he told the other children that Sybok getting exiled from the planet was the logical end of his path and, thus, laudable).
Also, there's this adorable and hilarious cartoon of the whole family together.
It has to have Burnham in it. It's canon.
Yeah, I really don’t care about canon.
I referenced Sybok in CHILD OF TWO WORLDS, although he didn't actually appear in the book.
Unfortunately for you, the novels do.
Not unfortunate. Lots of things, Star Trek and otherwise, out there to read.
I remain amused by the realization that all three of Sarek's children hijacked Starfleet vessels at one point. Spock stole the Enterprise in "The Menagerie," Sybok stole the Enterprise-A, and Burnham famously staged a mutiny on her ship.
Talk about a track record!
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