Stargazer style Robau series....
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I've been saying that for ages.
In fact, I wanted a USS Kelvin novel before the movie. It could have been any old Trek adventure, giving us the chance to meet Captain Robau, George and Winona Kirk (with as much of their background as possible salvaged from Diane Carey's novels, coz I'm weird like that), Anchloss, the Bug Eyed (Cygnian?) Nurse and the rest, ending in the Kelvin being diverted to the Klingon border to investigate the "lightning storm in space". It would have been such a cool tie-in. All they'd have had to do is show a writer the start of the script, or a rough cut of the scene, and the concept art for the USS "Iowa".
In fact, I wanted a USS Kelvin novel before the movie. It could have been any old Trek adventure, giving us the chance to meet Captain Robau, George and Winona Kirk (with as much of their background as possible salvaged from Diane Carey's novels, coz I'm weird like that), Anchloss, the Bug Eyed (Cygnian?) Nurse and the rest, ending in the Kelvin being diverted to the Klingon border to investigate the "lightning storm in space". It would have been such a cool tie-in. All they'd have had to do is show a writer the start of the script, or a rough cut of the scene, and the concept art for the USS "Iowa".
To be honest, I'd be very surprised if we never got at the very least a Kelvin novel. After all:
-A background extra from DS9's Rapture became a key player in the post-finale novels.
-The Temporal Investigations agents from Trials and Tribble-Ations got their own novel despite a total of 5 minutes screen time.
-Admiral Nogura is mentioned in dialogue only a handful of times in TMP, and he became a key player in the Vanguard series.
-Seriously, what was established about the Stargazer on screen? The design, name, it was commanded by Picard, and there was an officer named Vigo serving aboard. That was enough to fuel a short series.
-The crew of the USS Saratoga are only seen in the opening scene of Emissary, but there was a DS9 novel written about them.
I'm sure there must be plenty of story ideas for a ship which Captain Kirk's parents served on, so really there is no reason why we can't someday have a Kelvin novel. Hell, it would be set before Trek XI thus evading the problem that got those post-XI novels cancelled/postponed/whatever.
-A background extra from DS9's Rapture became a key player in the post-finale novels.
-The Temporal Investigations agents from Trials and Tribble-Ations got their own novel despite a total of 5 minutes screen time.
-Admiral Nogura is mentioned in dialogue only a handful of times in TMP, and he became a key player in the Vanguard series.
-Seriously, what was established about the Stargazer on screen? The design, name, it was commanded by Picard, and there was an officer named Vigo serving aboard. That was enough to fuel a short series.
-The crew of the USS Saratoga are only seen in the opening scene of Emissary, but there was a DS9 novel written about them.
I'm sure there must be plenty of story ideas for a ship which Captain Kirk's parents served on, so really there is no reason why we can't someday have a Kelvin novel. Hell, it would be set before Trek XI thus evading the problem that got those post-XI novels cancelled/postponed/whatever.
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Since the Romulans were out of the picture until "Balance of Terror" or STXI, just the Federation and the Klingons. However, Enterprise left a lot of threads dangling with regards to the Suliban and the Xindi (both of whom are really terrorists and not major powers).
Although rendered somewhat moot my later canon, The Final Reflection mentions many Klingon sneak attacks on civilian Federation ships during the era.
The Early Voyages comic series established an ongoing conflict the Tholians which extended from some point in the early 23rd century to a conclusion in the series in the 2250s.
How about the Nalori? It's been mentioned several times they "clashed" with the Federation in some undefined manner, and this has to have happened prior to Vanguard.
Although I dislike the idea of the Abramsverse taking up book slots, I suppose for Captain Robau it would be acceptable. 
Black skin, black teeth, black eyes (almond shaped if I recall correctly), purple hair (often braided), ritual scarring in males.
Kelvin novels wouldn't be Abramsverse, since the timeline split isn't until about thirty minutes before it's destroyed.Although I dislike the idea of the Abramsverse taking up book slots, I suppose for Captain Robau it would be acceptable.
Nalori villain (hushed tone of awe): "It's said he has a rare and unnatural power - the power...of reflection".
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Kelvin novels wouldn't be Abramsverse, since the timeline split isn't until about thirty minutes before it's destroyed.Although I dislike the idea of the Abramsverse taking up book slots, I suppose for Captain Robau it would be acceptable.
Solid point, but what about the high-tech gadgetry?
Kelvin novels wouldn't be Abramsverse, since the timeline split isn't until about thirty minutes before it's destroyed.Although I dislike the idea of the Abramsverse taking up book slots, I suppose for Captain Robau it would be acceptable.
Solid point, but what about the high-tech gadgetry?
What about the NX-01's high-tech gagetry?
I mean, to be honest--I'd say the Kelvin's interior designs look like a pretty good modern-taste touch-up of the TOS style.
What about it? The only reason there's a difference in the apparent advancement of the technology is because the cinematic technology used to simulate it on a soundstage was more advanced in 2009 than in 1964-9 (and because the budget for the more recent work was far, far higher). It's no different from recasting a role with a new actor and asking the audience to accept that the character still theoretically looks and sounds the same. Or, conversely, reusing stock footage or a pre-existing prop or spaceship model in a new context (or recasting the same actor in a different role) and asking audiences to accept the conceit that it's actually not the same as the other thing it looks like. In a lot of ways, we need to keep in mind that what we see is just the best attainable approximation of the conjectural reality the creators of the shows and films are trying to convey. In return, we suspend our disbelief about the imperfections and inconsistencies in that approximation.
Kelvin novels wouldn't be Abramsverse, since the timeline split isn't until about thirty minutes before it's destroyed.Although I dislike the idea of the Abramsverse taking up book slots, I suppose for Captain Robau it would be acceptable.
Solid point, but what about the high-tech gadgetry?
You think a Gorn really looks like a guy in a rubber suit? You think a spaceship 250 yearsin the future really looks like 1960's plywood sets?
Besides, I thought the Kelvin had an awesome retro look, with all the push buttons, dials, levers and even a few radio antenna on the bridge.
For that matter, the size of the Kelvin (457m vs. the 289m TOS Enterprise) doesn't need explaining either.
^Perhaps not. But just in case... 
Kelvin, I'd wager, was a deep-space exploration vessel--or else was something that required the larger size.
(Side note: was Winona Kirk a Starfleet officer? Because if not, that could well provide an explanation for the Kelvin's size: like the Enterprise-D, it carried civilians on board on a regular basis!)
Kelvin, I'd wager, was a deep-space exploration vessel--or else was something that required the larger size.
(Side note: was Winona Kirk a Starfleet officer? Because if not, that could well provide an explanation for the Kelvin's size: like the Enterprise-D, it carried civilians on board on a regular basis!)
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The movie's mum either way (though if she's in Starfleet you'd think they could come up with a more exotic assignment to explain her absence from the farm than Africa!), while I believe that she's almost certainly not in Starfleet in the various novels.
