Is there any interest in a Lower Decks book?

[JD]

I really think comics are almost guaranteed, most of the other animated series like this have gotten comics, The Simpsons, Bob's Burgers, and Rick & Morty, all have them. I'm kind of amazed we've never gotten any for Archer, or any of the Seth McFarlane shows.

 

[Valin]

Dare I admit to rereading an old PARTRIDGE FAMILY tie-in just a few weeks ago? And I positively devoured the GET SMART novels when I was a kid.

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Yes, I remember reading the Get Smart novels in the back seat of the car when my father would drive us to the Adirondacks for vacation.

 

[Greg Cox]

Yes, I remember reading the Get Smart novels in the back seat of the car when my father would drive us to the Adirondacks for vacation.

I remember being scolded in school for laughing out loud while reading a GET SMART book during "silent reading" period.

I couldn't help myself!

 

[Valin]

I remember being scolded in school for laughing out loud while reading a GET SMART book during "silent reading" period.

I couldn't help myself!

You should have written "LOL" on your notebook instead. ;-)

 

[Greg Cox]

You should have written "LOL" on your notebook instead. ;-)

Sadly, "LOL" had not been invented yet! . (Yes, I'm older than "LOL.")

For the record, I remember having the same issue reading a Dorothy Parker story in junior high or high school. Uncontrollable attack of the giggles right in the middle of an English class.

 

[Valin]

^^^I am, too. That's why I suggested writing it in a notebook. (I don't think students write or use notebooks any more.)

 

[Jinn]

^^^I am, too. That's why I suggested writing it in a notebook. (I don't think students write or use notebooks any more.)

German chemistry student here, and most of us at my uni only make paper notes. I'd imagine that's mostly because you just can't make efficient notes on Greek letters, or chemical and mathematical equations, but still.

 

[NCC-73515]

We're even supposed to keep lab notes in paper form, and they're stored for years... might call them my Captain's Log now that I've seen Boimler do that XD

 

[Oz Trekkie]

Dare I admit to rereading an old PARTRIDGE FAMILY tie-in just a few weeks ago? And I positively devoured the GET SMART novels when I was a kid.

LOWER DECKS would actually be easier to turn into a novel than the average family sitcom or workplace comedy because the set-up still involves exciting missions in space, strange missions, alien visitations, the ship in jeopardy, etc. You just have to put a slapstick spin on it while poking fun at the usual STAR TREK tropes -- and keeping the focus on the Lower Decks folks instead of the bridge crew (who can be dealing with some major crisis in the background).

There are Get Smart novels!!! I'll need to find a copy of them.

 

[Greg Cox]

There are Get Smart novels!!! I'll need to find a copy of them.

There was a whole bunch of them. By William Johnston.

https://www.goodreads.com/series/45335-get-smart

 

[Mysterion]

I nominate Peter David.

Please, no. His "humor" is vastly over-rated.

 

[dupersuper]

Please, no. His "humor" is vastly over-rated.

Diff'rent strokes...

 

[David Weller]

There was a whole bunch of them. By William Johnston.

https://www.goodreads.com/series/45335-get-smart

He also wrote a number of Happy Days novels https://www.goodreads.com/series/178125-happy-days

 

[Corran Horn]

Wardimore, please and thank you.

 

[CaptVader]

Not sure about a prose format but I can see it more as comics or graphic novels. David Mack would be a good choice to write them since he's consulting on Lower Decks as would Kirsten Beyer with her involved in about 2 of the shows, and Peter David is pretty good with comedy and has written comics before.

 

[XCV330]

I would read the bejeezus out of a Lower Decks novel

 

[Tuskin38]

I think Lower Decks would be better suited for for comics/graphic novel format.

Could a novel convey the humour of the series? I've never read a comedic novel before.

 

[Christopher]

Could a novel convey the humour of the series? I've never read a comedic novel before.

There have been many comedic novels throughout history. Perhaps the most famous comedy science fiction novels today are the Hitchhiker's Guide series by Douglas Adams, but Adams's style was largely a pastiche of SF novelist Robert Sheckley. In Star Trek, many of Peter David's novels have been largely comedic, and John M. Ford's How Much for Just the Planet? was a musical comedy in prose form.

 

[F. King Daniel]

Lycia Naff confirmed she's bringing Sonya Gomez back in season 2 of Lower Decks.

I wonder if they'll reference SCE in some way?

 

[JD]

I would love it if there was. I don't think we ever got any references to what became of her on later TNG or any of the other shows, so it wouldn't contradict anything.