Last chance for Books...
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tell me there isn't a big fat reset button?
Crossing the streams would be bad.
How bad?
Try imagining the life of a trekkie as you know it stopping instantaneously and every molecule in his/her body exploding at warp factor 10.
I like something like DC's Earth-1 and Earth-2.
Only call the Original Timeline GR-66, and the New Timeline JJ-09.
But then what do I know.
ncc71877
Not really a question you can give a yes-or-no answer to.
The film creates a new continuity that is definitively and permanently different from the old one. However, the story is structured to make it very clear that the old continuity continues unchanged on a parallel track. So the original status quo is preserved, but the film series will explore a very different status quo that makes radical changes from the old history and is free to make more.
But there is definitely not a reset button in the conventional sense.
The movie is not "changing" Trek history or replacing it, it's coexisting alongside it.[/QUOTE]
Put another way: same multiverse, different timeline.
So long as that stands as the rule, I too will be okay with this as a reader, viewer and customer. That new movie has its own charms, after all, and it would be a shame to toss out either set of toys.
Put another way: same multiverse, different timeline.
So long as that stands as the rule, I too will be okay with this as a reader, viewer and customer. That new movie has its own charms, after all, and it would be a shame to toss out either set of toys.
I like something like DC's Earth-1 and Earth-2.
Only call the Original Timeline GR-66, and the New Timeline JJ-09.
But then what do I know.
ncc71877
You and I are of like mind here.
For that matter, I could live with TV series from both timelines running simultaneously. But that's a topic for another part of this forum...
It's the other way around! 
I suppose I shouldn't be surprised. I've never wanted a hierarchy between the universes, but obviously the filmmakers want to make their version the dominant one.
Fictitously yours, Trent Roman
I suppose I shouldn't be surprised. I've never wanted a hierarchy between the universes, but obviously the filmmakers want to make their version the dominant one.
Fictitously yours, Trent Roman
Is it worth pointing out the when the new Doctor Who premiered, this is exactly what happened? Of course, BBC Books had three novels based on the new series out in May 2005, just weeks after the new series had premiered, which is something Pocket isn't doing. And though they didn't intend to drop the classic series novels, they published their last one in December 2005 because it was clear that the new series stuff was way, way outselling the classic stuff.
The math student in me thinks that's backward, because in math, "x-prime" (x') represents an alternate value of the variable x. So in that sense, it seems to me that it should be the second timeline that's "Prime." Although the Latin student in me can certainly see the logic in using "Prime" (primus = first) for the first timeline.
Spock can't be Prime unless he's got the Matrix. and last time Len got the Matrix, it didn't work out so good...
How long before the first timeline crossover novel appears?
Shat Kirk versus Pine Kirk!
Music from Amok time playing in the background.
Shat Kirk versus Pine Kirk!
Music from Amok time playing in the background.
That may be the way you feel, but I disagree. I like what they have done with the post-series novels and the many series of books that are not based on a series. I would be happy to read a book set after the new movie, but I don't see a reason to get rid of the other books. If you don't like them, don't read them. The books are after all beholden to the laws of supply and demand.
I think many of the current ST authors are pretty freaking good. Some of the other posters seem to think you don't read the books. If that is true I would encourage you to pick up a couple of the recent books and give them a whirl.
I think many of the current ST authors are pretty freaking good. Some of the other posters seem to think you don't read the books. If that is true I would encourage you to pick up a couple of the recent books and give them a whirl.
If Star Trek's only way to evolve is a re-cycling of TOS and it's characters, then Star Trek is in real trouble.
I do have serious doubts about the movie. I find it a lack of imagination to come up with a re-cycled TOS instead of doing what TNG did once, come up with something new, fresh and interesting.
However, if this movie can wake the sleeping beauty and restore it to some of its former glory, then I will be grateful for it.
But stop coming up with TNG, DS9, VOY and original TOS books and products only to produce Star Trek recycled books, that would be insanity.
There are many of us who are dissatisfied with Star Trek books right now and most of all with the Voyager relaunch due to the annihilation of Janeway. But do you really think that we should skip the 24th century and start to worship Recycled TOS instead. No way! In that case, we will write our own stories instead. Even if I'm terribly annoyed with the Voyager Relaunch right now, I have no plans of starting buying Recycled TOS books even if I should find the movie acceptable.
What PocketBooks should consider is to come up with better books when it comes to ALL their series and don't alienate loyal fans which they are doing now.
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