Well, now you have made me want to go back and read the "Bobiverse" trilogy -- sorry, quadrilogy! -- again! I loved the tone of the books and now I can look at them in a different way. For those who have the time, I highly recommend these books to any one here. By Dennis E. Taylor, there are now four books in the set: We Are Legion (We Are Bob); For We Are Many; All These Worlds; Heaven's River
For those on the bleeding edge of Treklit... Spoiler: Coda #2 Lower Decks reference Nog is first officer of the California-class USS Saticoy!
I kinda imagine Lower Decks working as a comic book more, rather than novels. Given that a twenty-five minute cartoon feels closer to a thirty page comic than a three hundred page novel.
Or @David Mack, ever since I read Waiting for G'Doh or, How I Learned to Stop Moving and Hate People, I've wanted to see more comedic stories from him.
It occurs to me that while novels would hardly do the deeply, deeply loopy charm of LOWER DECKS full credit those self-same adventures & misadventures are tailor made for graphic novels that put the 'Comic' back into 'Comic Books'.
Also, I tend to agree that it would be a good deal of fun to see more Live Action characters in the LOWER DECKS art style - it might be even more fun to see DISCOVERY & STRANGE NEW WORLDS characters in the classic Filmation art style!
I saw someone on Twitter suggest that PAD should write Orville novels, and I think that's a good idea, especially if it keeps him from writing any more Star Trek. I loved his comics in the '80s and his early novels but the later New Frontier stuff just left a really bad taste.
I have this mad dream in my head of a Lower Decks/TAS crossover. There's some time travel, end of the universe-type shenanigans, and the two animated crews meet, and they're kept entirely in their style. It's more of "I want to see this" than an actual story. I'm not a comedy writer. I haven't watched The Orville since the first season, but I can see that working. The Orville seemed to me to be what a New Frontier television series would have been like.
It just struck me today that I would absolutely love to see Mr John Scalzi's REDSHIRTS (or at least the lead characters from same) illustrated in the LOWER DECKS art style - it's difficult to think of a more fitting combination!
Hmm... ebook and audio only. It's only novella length, so that may explain the lack of a print edition.
Given those latter developments I'd still want him to lighten up before writing The Orville, to the point he could go back to writing Star Trek as well anyway. D'oh!