Hi new to this board. Wondering:in the 1990s it was comminplace for TNG, and Ds9 and so forth to have special eopisodes novelised into books to tie-in to the broadcasted episode or episodes. Why was the Arik Soong three-parter not given this honor when it came along in the early 2000s? Thanks!
Arik Soong Trilogy NOT Novelised?
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There's not as much market for novelizations in the age of DVDs.
Besides, why single out the Soong trilogy? That was just one of several trilogies in ENT's fourth season.
Besides, why single out the Soong trilogy? That was just one of several trilogies in ENT's fourth season.
Perhaps so but I am new to ENT so I did not know the details of its final season. But I have gone and bought the DVDs and plan to immerse myself in them quite soon. 
'cause the cover art could have included Brent Spiner & Scott Bakula together? It could have been like the Picard/Spock cover for the TNG 'Unification' two-parter!
Which is a shame, but by the time the producers caught on the conclusion to the cliffhanger had already long since aired.
They just couldn't find a way to retroactively milk it.
'cause the cover art could have included Brent Spiner & Scott Bakula together? It could have been like the Picard/Spock cover for the TNG 'Unification' two-parter!
That would have only catered to the most diehard(-est) of the fans out there and not even remotely have catered to the mainstream.
I think "The Expanse" was Trek's last episode novelization. Unless you count "The Good That Men Do", the even-worse rewrite of the crappy episode "These Are the Voyages"
Ah, but they did get Peter David to write a hugely-successful sequel: "Vendetta", a giant-sized paperback that had the Borg attempt to defeat the former Locutus of Borg by creating, among other things, Vastator of Borg, a hapless assimilated Ferengi.
I actually liked it very much.
'cause the cover art could have included Brent Spiner & Scott Bakula together? It could have been like the Picard/Spock cover for the TNG 'Unification' two-parter!
That would have only catered to the most diehard(-est) of the fans out there and not even remotely have catered to the mainstream.
I'm thinkin' only the most diehard of fans would buy a novelization, anyway!
I would have loved a novelization of the entire Final Chapter of DS9.
'cause the cover art could have included Brent Spiner & Scott Bakula together? It could have been like the Picard/Spock cover for the TNG 'Unification' two-parter!
That would have only catered to the most diehard(-est) of the fans out there and not even remotely have catered to the mainstream.
I'm thinkin' only the most diehard of fans would buy a novelization, anyway!
Exactly, Unification never really appealed to the mainstream either I bet, but they still did it.
I would have loved a novelization of the entire Final Chapter of DS9.
You mean the final season?
I would have loved a novelization of the entire Final Chapter of DS9.
You mean the final season?
The promos for DS9's final episodes ('Penumbra' to 'What You Leave Behind') used "Final Chapter" to describe the arc, kinda like how fans refer to the first six episodes of the sixth season as the Dominion arc (the episodes showin' Dukat in command of the station instead of Sisko).
Oh ok thanks for explaining!
Huh? The novelization "Unification" sold gangbusters. Spock in "The Next Generation"? Why not? Spock and Picard sharing a cover. A tie-in to ST VI. Jeri Taylor writing.
What "mainstream" do you mean? If anything, novelizations are more "mainstream" than original ST novels.
As for the Arik Soong arc, you have to remember that ENT's ratings were miniscule compared to TNG. The ENT novelizations just got too risky, with one ("The Expanse") getting downgraded from hardcover to trade PB at the last minute.
Well, I would assume that books like that were only of interest to hardcore fans and not the general public who could care less about never having seen trek in its varied forms to date.
You've answered your original question yourself.
Nice.
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