2010 books set in the alt. timeline of JJ Abrams Star Trek movie

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First Details On Novels Set In New Movie Universe + Star Trek Online Novel Tie-In Announced

four books for Summer 2010 set in the alternative timeline of JJ Abrams Star Trek movie. We now have the first (brief) details on those four books, plus the announcement of a novel tied to the Star Trek Online game coming in early 2010.
the title "Star Trek Online: The Needs of the Many " except it is being written by Michael S. Martin and it is a mass market paperback of 320 pages.

Pocket Books (already announced)
"Star Trek: Refugees " by Alan Dean Foster (May 25, 2010)

"Star Trek: Seek a Newer World " by Christopher Bennett (June 29, 2010)


Ambassador Sarek is in this one
"Star Trek: More Beautiful Than Death " by David Mack (July 27, 2010)

"Star Trek: The Hazard of Concealing " by Greg Cox (August 31, 2010)

These books will be stand-alone episode-like stories. The four books will not tie-in to each other and no changes will be made to the characters. There will also not be any ‘retconning’ to events during the film itself.

http://trekmovie.com/2009/11/29/fir...erse-star-trek-online-novel-tie-in-announced/

 

[KirkSpockTOSFan]

I can't wait for those books to come out. I hope they plan to do more books after these four. I would like to see this as on going like they do with the rest of Star Trek tv shows and so on.

 

[Clancy_s]

The Hazard of Concealing sounds best, but all are attractive!

 

[EJA]

^Definitely!

 

[bbailey861]

Can't wait. Must wait. Can't wait.....

 

[Julio Angel Ortiz]

Ah, fandom. "Isn’t the novel 'More Beautiful Than Death' basically TOS 'Journey to Babel' and half as sweet?"

Sure, let's judge an unreleased novel based off of 1 or 2 lines.

EDITED TO ADD: I'm looking forward to this "mini-season" of nuTrek.

 

[Thrawn]

I'm surprising myself at how excited I am for everything next year, actually. TOS usually isn't my thing, but all three of the books seem to have unique directions and holes to fill, and I love Bonanno and Perry to begin with. The 4 nuTrek books sound awesome (even though I'm not really an ADF fan), and then of course Typhon Pact is brilliant. I like the sound of the seven deadly sins and myriad universes anthologies, too. It might be an unbalanced year, but I think I'll be pretty much buying everything, and happy about it.

 

[Agenda]

The Hazard of Concealing sounds best, but all are attractive!

Quite frankly, I wish they would just leave Spock Prime alone. He had his "riding off into the sunset" moment in the last movie. Of course, he could come back in XII, but I'm doubting it.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

As long as Keenser's in these books, I'll be happy. Go Keenser!

 

[Broccoli]

Whether or not the books turn out awesome or sucky, I am kind of excited at the prospect of these tales being a bit of a throwback to how Pocket did things in the past, where everything was an one-off adventure and all the toys had to go back into the box in the same condition the author found them in.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

Whether or not the books turn out awesome or sucky, I am kind of excited at the prospect of these tales being a bit of a throwback to how Pocket did things in the past, where everything was an one-off adventure and all the toys had to go back into the box in the same condition the author found them in.

I bet Richard Arnold's laughing his ass off right about now...

 

[Sci]

Whether or not the books turn out awesome or sucky, I am kind of excited at the prospect of these tales being a bit of a throwback to how Pocket did things in the past, where everything was an one-off adventure and all the toys had to go back into the box in the same condition the author found them in.

I bet Richard Arnold's laughing his ass off right about now...

Not really. It's always been Pocket's policy not to take the creative lead when a series is in production; the books released when ENT was on the air were mostly standalones, too. Arnold's thing was that he didn't want the novels doing anything new or original even when the series were no longer in production; Pocket's getting to take the creative lead on every part of the Trekverse other than the Abramsverse, so he's still not getting his way.

Plus:

Arnold's probably aghast at the idea of restoring J.J. Abrams's status quo, which he probably thinks is a horrible perversion of the Prophet Roddenberry's One True Vision (TM).

 

[Admiral_Young]

I'm looking forward to these as much as any of the other book announced for next year. I think these and the Aventine novel are the books i'm most eager to get.

 

[RookieBatman]

Sorry, I'm not a fan of nuTrek, but I take the "live and let live" approach. It's only fair that the people who are fans will have some novel tie-ins. Maybe I'll amuse myself by reading one or two and picturing the original actors.

 

[Greg Cox]

Sorry, I'm not a fan of nuTrek, but I take the "live and let live" approach. It's only fair that the people who are fans will have some novel tie-ins. Maybe I'll amuse myself by reading one or two and picturing the original actors.

Fair enough.

 

[Icemizer]

These books will be very hard to read. We and the authors just dont know enough about these characters yet to really have a handle on them. I am afraid the voices in my head as I read the book will still sound like the TOS crew.

 

[seigezunt]

These books will be very hard to read. We and the authors just dont know enough about these characters yet to really have a handle on them. I am afraid the voices in my head as I read the book will still sound like the TOS crew.

I'm on the fence. I love continuity porn, and didn't enjoy the Arnold Era, but did like some of the early by-the-seat-of-your-pants trailblazing Trek lit.

And there are elements of Prime Trek's characters back stories that have been wiped out in this continuity, elements that I've come to like. So I'll read them with an open mind, but not sure...

 

[RookieBatman]

You know, I think in a lot of ways, there's no way for these early books not to be trailblazing. Because they're based on one movie and not eighty episodes, they're gonna have to make some assumptions and chart their own courses on some things.
I think what will be more exciting is looking back on them in twenty years or so, or even just after they've done a couple more movies. I think there's something pretty thrilling about reading the really early Trek books when authors were making up all kinds of stuff (most of which ended up being non-canon). It wasn't wrong in an artistic sense, they just had no way of knowing how such things would actually go.
So, maybe these books get the big reset button at the end; that's not such a big deal. I think pretty much even Trek book did, prior to the DS9-R. We're just spoiled now, in that with the shows off the air, the Lit can boldly go it's own way. But it doesn't mean that movieverse books are gonna be Arnold-era restrictive. There are still a lot of strange new worlds that can be explored even within that framework. And if the next movie overwrites some of that, so what? First Contact's different spin on Zephram Cochrane doesn't make Federation any less awe-inspiring.

 

[Christopher]

Maybe I'll amuse myself by reading one or two and picturing the original actors.

Nothing wrong with that. Remember, in the movie, Spock Prime recognized Kirk and Scotty on sight. In-universe, these people look and sound exactly the same as their counterparts in the Prime timeline. Just like Saavik presumably looked the same on the mission to the Genesis Planet as she'd looked prior to Spock's death. A change in the actors isn't meant to represent a change in the way the characters actually look and sound to each other.

So it's perfectly valid if you want to imagine the original actors in these books. Indeed, I kind of did it that way myself. On the first runthrough, I imagined the movie cast in order to get the voices right, but then I went through it again and imagined the original cast to see how it played with their voices and mannerisms. I was going for something that could work both ways. And really, the only one whose speech pattern is significantly different in the new timeline is Kirk.

 

[Therin of Andor]

These books will be very hard to read. We and the authors just dont know enough about these characters yet to really have a handle on them.

Such lack of faith...