Star Trek: Year One:
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Bob, as you may know, was the editor who launched the two ongoing DC Trek comics in...hmmm...'89, I guess. And a damned fine editor he was.
One of the things he had to deal with was approval rights -- some of the actors could put the kabosh on a page of art because they didn't like the way they had been drawn. Patrick Stewart, for instance, used to say our Next Gen artist gave him too much hair. So every month, another artist used to come into the DC offices and give Patrick a haircut.
One of the things he had to deal with was approval rights -- some of the actors could put the kabosh on a page of art because they didn't like the way they had been drawn. Patrick Stewart, for instance, used to say our Next Gen artist gave him too much hair. So every month, another artist used to come into the DC offices and give Patrick a haircut.
I enjoyed SFYO, particularly the tension between the military and the scientists and I wish that ENT had picked up that element and developed it for their series. I thought SFYO felt much more like a prequel, with a less polished version of Starfleet than ENT provided us.
I read the novel years ago and I'm not sure what is so incompatible between it and ENT since it took place after the Earth-Romulan War ended. In any event, I'm glad the ENT novels are incorporating some elements of the series, from what I've gleaned from some of the posts. I have the Romulan War book but I haven't finished reading it yet, and I wonder how many references to SFYO are in it?
I read the novel years ago and I'm not sure what is so incompatible between it and ENT since it took place after the Earth-Romulan War ended. In any event, I'm glad the ENT novels are incorporating some elements of the series, from what I've gleaned from some of the posts. I have the Romulan War book but I haven't finished reading it yet, and I wonder how many references to SFYO are in it?
They did, to an extent, when the MACOs were introduced in season 3.
Thanks for the plaudits, CE, Laughing Vulcan, Blamo, DarKush...they're very much appreciated.
Valin: Actually, his name was Starr, appropriately enough.
DarKush: Maybe the biggest element of incompatibility is Earth's relationship with Vulcan. In SF:YO, the two species are equals in the Federation, and Terrans were never the Vulcans' proteges. The young T'pau is also the "ruler" of Vulcan, not a rebel trying to buck the Vulcan establishment.
Of course, anything can be rationalized if we try hard enough. But my inclination, if I ever get a chance to extend the Starfleet series, would be to stay away from Enterprise continuity. A separate timeline, as it were, more or less as described above.
Valin: Actually, his name was Starr, appropriately enough.
DarKush: Maybe the biggest element of incompatibility is Earth's relationship with Vulcan. In SF:YO, the two species are equals in the Federation, and Terrans were never the Vulcans' proteges. The young T'pau is also the "ruler" of Vulcan, not a rebel trying to buck the Vulcan establishment.
Of course, anything can be rationalized if we try hard enough. But my inclination, if I ever get a chance to extend the Starfleet series, would be to stay away from Enterprise continuity. A separate timeline, as it were, more or less as described above.
^However, ST:YO is set in 2161, right? By that point in Enterprise, T'Pau is the head of the Vulcan government (or at least she is as of the most recent novel, set in 2156). And Earth and Vulcan have achieved a more equal relationship in the Coalition than they had previously.
I just want to say for the record, since the author is present, that I thought SF:YO was pretty good too. And I would be all for a sequel (or a series of them). I wouldn't have any problem with them being set in an alternate timeline. I kinda like speculations on "how it might've been."
(Which is why I'm disappointed that the nuTrek books were canceled. They would represent a sort of time capsule of artistic interpretations of the new universe. Just like the classic world-building novels of the old days before the new series' filled in the alien races more, it would have been interesting to look back on those books and enjoy each individual viewpoint on a strange new world.)
But that's all beside the point. Basically, I just wanted to express my enjoyment of the book.
(Which is why I'm disappointed that the nuTrek books were canceled. They would represent a sort of time capsule of artistic interpretations of the new universe. Just like the classic world-building novels of the old days before the new series' filled in the alien races more, it would have been interesting to look back on those books and enjoy each individual viewpoint on a strange new world.)
But that's all beside the point. Basically, I just wanted to express my enjoyment of the book.
Yeah, I don't see that lasting long unless the Vulcans really make up for screwing Earth over by dropping out of the war in a pretty major way, I mean I could have seen their relationship surviving had the warp detection grids they gave Earth had actually worked and gave the Romulans a major set back but since they didn't I just don't see it happening now.
I would also like getting sequels to this book.
Just seen this thread and felt I should drop in ana djust say that while I don't really see much of a chance of tiying this into Ent I enjoyed it more and would have loved to have seen a series of this. It summed up for me everything I was hoping for in Ent, the unploished less sofisticated tech, the unsure nature of Starfleet.
Granted I don't hold any hope of actually getting the rest of the series, what with Ent and now JJ.
Granted I don't hold any hope of actually getting the rest of the series, what with Ent and now JJ.
I thoroughly enjoyed ST:YO as a novel (with its expanded new bits in the omnibus), and felt it worked much better than one-chapter-per-month over a year, where I seemingly to hit all-new characters and events every time and just couldn't keep the thread going.
Gosh. Think positively! They're postponed. On hiatus.
Not canceled.
Gosh. Think positively! They're postponed. On hiatus.
Not canceled.
I'll get my Kill Bill list ready just in case.
I very much hope you're right, and it does certainly to be possible, since they've got (as I understand it) four essentially complete manuscripts that they've already paid for. Still, stranger, less practical things have happened in the business world. I'll try to withhold expectations either way.
"Postponed" isn't much more accurate than "cancelled," because it's too optimistic. It implies that they will definitely be published eventually, and though we're all hoping for that, it's premature to assume it will be the case. It's more accurate to say they've been shelved, or that they're in limbo.
Well when reading The Romulan War: Beneath The Raptor's Wings I noticed a considerable difference between the book and Starfleet: Year One in that in the Romulan War Bryce Shumar (poor bastard) is already a Captain and in command of the Essex when in Starfleet: Year One he was a Commander in charge of one of Earth's bases.
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