Spoilers PIC: No Man's Land by Kirsten Beyer & Mike Johnson Review Thread
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This will provide Memory Alpha and Memory Beta editors with the correct spellings of character names. Apart from that, I don't see any purpose for this. Are there a lot of people interested in reading the script of an audio drama that few people listened to?
Script books have been around for a long time, even if they're something of a niche market. I have a few script books of my own, including Monty Python and the Holy Grail and Buffy the Vampire Slayer's musical episode.
Uhh, Star Trek is one of the hugest franchises in American media history.
Well, yes, that's obviously the point of doing this, isn't it? There are a lot of people who read Trek books but don't necessarily listen to audio dramas. So releasing the audio drama in print form is a way to get the story to more people. That's what adaptations are for, after all. The point of releasing a story in a different medium is to expose it to a different audience, to broaden its appeal beyond the original audience.
Case in point -- The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy began as a radio series, but my first exposure to it was through the novels, the LP version, and then the TV miniseries. They took something released to a relatively niche audience and made it available more widely by adapting it for other audiences. (Oh, and one of the script books I own is for the HHGttG radio series -- I actually bought the script book years before I finally heard the original series.)
True, the analogy would work better if they'd done a novelization of No Man's Land rather than a script book. But I assume there were budget or scheduling reasons why that was unfeasible, so they did the best they could with what they had.
I know that. I was making the point that movies and TV series are watched by a lot of people, while audio dramas, even audio dramas based on a popular franchise, have a much more niche audience. The script of an audio drama is essentially a tie-in to a tie-in.
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Which, again, is the entire point of re-releasing the story in a format that would expose it to a moderately less niche audience. A lot of people will go "Hey, a new Picard book!" and snap it up, or at least take a look at it, even if they never heard of the audio drama. And at least some of them will then buy the audiobook which they didn't know about before.
Star Wars releases the scripts of all their audio dramas as books, and it seems to be working out well for them. So why shouldn't Star Trek?
Besides, it's a Star Trek book release. There really aren't very many of them these days to start asking "why they do this?"
Are you talking about the NPR radio dramas, or have other Star Wars audios received scriptbooks?
Off the top of my head, they released the script to an audio drama which covered Count Dooku's origin story about five years ago. There was also a Dr. Aphra audio drama which had its script released.
Yes, it's like their full cast audio dramas. There's no narration. It's like someone just took the audio from an episode of the show.
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