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I very much doubt it - it would not have the name of a major star universally identified with the role on the cover as author, and it would probably confuse a casual reader. There's a difference between Kirk being used 80(ish) years after his era and having two versions of the same era, one without and one with Janeway.
I also doubt sales would be strong enough to justify it.
Actually, the only way I would support bringing back Janeway would be if there was a guarantee that she would be publicly prosecuted and jailed for her actions in "Endgame." We've learned since her death that her actions led directly to the Borg's decision to invade and kill 60 Billion people. She is directly responsible for the devastation that befell the Federation. She died before the events of Destiny, so it was thought that she paid a price for he criminal behavior. However, if she is alive, there is no reason for her to walk free. She would have to be punished for her actions.
Janeway committed serious breaches of Federation law. There is no way you can justify her walking free after what she's done. My favorite part of "Watching the Clock" was Lucsly's absolute disgust at Janeway's behavior and anger at the uptime agents for letting her off the hook. Clearly they knew that Janeway would pay the ultimate price for her arrogance so there was no point in punishing her or undoing what she did (especially since they benefitted from her crime). But if she were to return, she would still need to face a severe penalty and own up to her role in the death of billions.
What bias? I loved the character of Janeway and I loved Kate Mulgrew's performances. But I also enjoyed watching Admiral Janeway forfeit her life to help defeat the Borg in "Endgame" - and "Before Dishonor"!
And Kirsten Beyer's books are doing extraordinarily well. The prologue to "Full Circle" brought tears to my eyes, and it was only starting!
Actually, the only way I would support bringing back Janeway would be if there was a guarantee that she would be publicly prosecuted and jailed for her actions in "Endgame." We've learned since her death that her actions led directly to the Borg's decision to invade and kill 60 Billion people. She is directly responsible for the devastation that befell the Federation.
That's bull. Let's say that a jury convicts a murderer, and then years later the murderer escapes and kills the jurors' families. Does that make the jurors directly responsible for the deaths of their families? Of course not! It would be ridiculous to think that! A different murderer, one who felt remorse or wasn't as good as escaping or just wasn't as depraved and ruthless, wouldn't have killed them. So it was the murderer's own choices and actions, not the jurors', that made the ultimate difference in whether the families lived or died. So the responsibility lies with the murderer.
The Borg had been waging an unrelenting war against all other life in the galaxy for thousands of years. They'd slaughtered or assimilated uncounted trillions well before Janeway ever met them. They had already tried to assimilate the Federation at least twice and we know they had ongoing plans to try again. What they did in Destiny was merely the continuation of their own ongoing aggression against all other life. They and they alone are responsible for that.
The only way it would be remotely rational to suggest that Janeway was responsible for Destiny would be if the Borg had been a completely passive race, keeping to themselves and minding their own business, and Janeway had spontaneously decided to destroy their transwarp hub out of sheer malice, prompting their retaliation. But of course you know as well as the rest of us that that isn't even close to what happened. The Borg started it. The Borg were actively hostile toward the Federation and every other civilization in the whole damn galaxy. Janeway acted in defense of those civilizations. She did the right thing by trying to stop the beings who were doing wrong. The fact that those wrongdoers retaliated by choosing to inflict a greater wrong doesn't change the fact that she did the right thing. Because it was the Borg's choice to retaliate. The responsibility lies with them.
By your logic, nobody should ever take any action to stop a criminal or a warring nation, because then they'd be responsible for any retaliation the criminal or nation chose to inflict. By your logic, having police and courts and defensive armies is an immoral act, and we should all just sit back passively and do nothing to resist the predators and monsters because it's somehow our fault if they choose to direct their pre-existing predatory behavior into retaliation against our acts of self-defense. Is that seriously what you believe?
Janeway committed serious breaches of Federation law. There is no way you can justify her walking free after what she's done. My favorite part of "Watching the Clock" was Lucsly's absolute disgust at Janeway's behavior and anger at the uptime agents for letting her off the hook. Clearly they knew that Janeway would pay the ultimate price for her arrogance so there was no point in punishing her or undoing what she did (especially since they benefitted from her crime). But if she were to return, she would still need to face a severe penalty and own up to her role in the death of billions.
As the person who wrote that scene, I have to disagree emphatically with your interpretation. Lucsly wanted Janeway prosecuted for tampering with history, but he wouldn't have been so incredibly misguided as to think Janeway was somehow responsible for an act of genocide committed by a species that's already been committing genocide on an ongoing basis for thousands of years. That was never, ever, ever a factor in Lucsly's objections (and not just because that scene happened before Destiny).
Besides, you're forgetting the part where
the time agent from the future revealed that the events of Destiny had to happen so that the Borg would be defeated for good. If Destiny hadn't happened, the Borg would've eventually gone on to assimilate or destroy all other civilizations in the whole galaxy. So Janeway's tampering with history ultimately saves millions or billions of times as many lives as were lost in Destiny (since assimilated drones are as good as dead anyway if there's nobody left to liberate them). So really, you should hate Watching the Clock because its actual message is that Janeway's actions in "Endgame" were even more necessary and beneficial than anyone could've imagined.
Only in the separate continuity of the Shatnerverse, and that's because William Shatner wanted it to happen. If Kate Mulgrew came to Pocket and said "I want to write books about Janeway so would you let me resurrect her?" then the folks at Pocket would eagerly say "yes" because they'd welcome having a celebrity's name on their book covers. It's about fame, not gender.
But for certain, 3 of your 5 characters who died were brought back.
And if you'd follow the link I posted in my first reply, you'd see that the books have killed off numerous other male and female characters from canon who have not been brought back, including, most recently,
Scotty.
Besides, given that the vast majority of the regular Trek characters killed in canon have been male (Tasha and Jadzia are the only females, and they were both already "brought back" after a fashion), it inevitably follows that the list of canonically dead characters brought back in the literature must be dominated by males. It couldn't possibly be otherwise. So that cannot be used as evidence of a gender bias on the part of the tie-in creators.
So why then do you insist that we're so out of line to say we want to see Kathryn Janeway back?
That's not what he said. He said you're out of line to blame her death on sexism. It's valid to express your own wishes and opinions. It is not valid to make unsupported accusations about the motivations and beliefs of the people you disagree with.
Having read "Watching the Clock", I wonder if, in a reality where Janeway didn't die in "Before Dishonor", there are "Get Janeway out of jail!" petitions?
Actually, the only way I would support bringing back Janeway would be if there was a guarantee that she would be publicly prosecuted and jailed for her actions in "Endgame." We've learned since her death that her actions led directly to the Borg's decision to invade and kill 60 Billion people. She is directly responsible for the devastation that befell the Federation. She died before the events of Destiny, so it was thought that she paid a price for he criminal behavior. However, if she is alive, there is no reason for her to walk free. She would have to be punished for her actions.
Janeway committed serious breaches of Federation law. There is no way you can justify her walking free after what she's done. My favorite part of "Watching the Clock" was Lucsly's absolute disgust at Janeway's behavior and anger at the uptime agents for letting her off the hook. Clearly they knew that Janeway would pay the ultimate price for her arrogance so there was no point in punishing her or undoing what she did (especially since they benefitted from her crime). But if she were to return, she would still need to face a severe penalty and own up to her role in the death of billions.
I really wasn't sure how to react to this, so I'm going to instead link to another post here on the TrekBBS forums as answer to your words. In the thread "Before Dishonour...seriously?!", the author of the recent Voyager novels points out the flaws in that line of reasoning. Kirsten Beyer's words far outshine anything I could say to counter it, so instead I'll link to her post now, and let her answer stand for me instead
But those novels were done in such a way that a Kirk fan could easily slot them in to the shared novel continuity, ignoring the minor continuity issues that arise between the books. They even use the same USS Titan crew invented for the Star Trek: Titan spin-off novels.
But those novels were done in such a way that a Kirk fan could easily slot them in to the shared novel continuity, ignoring the minor continuity issues that arise between the books. They even use the same USS Titan crew invented for the Star Trek: Titan spin-off novels.
Sure, but when you read "New Frontier" (and a few other novels), you encounter stray dialogue that suggests - and sometimes reveals - that Kirk is still dead.
So? Over the decades, PAD has often gone out of his way to find ways to rectify any errors that have appeared in NF, eg. the canonical gender of the captain of the Repulse, the other Shelby's promotion, Robin's incorrect rank pips, Janos's appearance, planet Neural, etc.
His "Kirk is still dead" was explicit and deliberate.
So are some of the discontinuities between the TV shows. It doesn't mean fans can't ignore them and pretend everything's in one big, happy universe, if they so choose.
We could always arrange a tag team cage fight between PAD and parner of his choosing vs. the Reeves-Stevenseseses to settle this once and for all....
Janeway fans who never read licensed tie-in novels before, and preferred to download free online fanfics where Janeway is happily coupled with Chakotay, could also ignore the licensed tie-in novels where she's dead, too.
^Actually we did see that yeoman character in the first few issues of Marvel's Early Voyages comic. He was named Dermot Cusack and was a good friend of Pike's, which is why Pike took his death on Rigel VII (an event depicted in issue 3) so hard and was initially hostile toward Cusack's replacement, Yeoman Colt. (In "The Cage" and "The Corbomite Maneuver," it was treated as unusual for a captain's yeoman to be female -- oh, how things changed later on.)
