STO has had Kelvin stuff before, though, hasn't it? As has IDW. So I doubt it's connected. Remember, when the license renewal was being negotiated a couple of years ago, we heard talk that Pocket was finally going to get a license to publish Kelvin stuff as part of it. It's not surprising that it might've taken a year or two to sort out the last details, decide on a publishing strategy, get the old books reapproved and re-edited, etc. Publishing is a slow business. Comics tend to move faster than prose, too, and other media like games surely move at their own pace too (I'm still waiting to see the publication of Star Trek Adventures campaigns I wrote a year and a half ago). So you can't read anything into simultaneity of release dates.
Well for the last few years the STO team has said they weren't allowed to use anything from Beyond, so something changed with them. Also I forgot that the announcement about the change in the novel rights was a couple years back whoops.
Probably not, he used some of the material for that one to make No Time Like The Past. Seven of Nine plays the same role in it that Spock Prime was originally going to play.
Sorry for butting in, but I had always wondered about that. I had (wrongly) assumed his contract was cancelled to the kelvinverse movies. I remember collision course having a really weird disclaimer on it about it not being connected to 09's Star Trek.
Which, IIRC offended Shatner. Specifically, he objected to the wording of the disclaimer saying the novel was "the work of the author's unique imagination." To which he replied "isn't every novel ever written the work of its author's unique imagination? Why don't they all have such disclaimer?"
My guess is that that was just clarification that it wasn't a tie-in to the movie, because they came out close together and were both about Kirk at the Academy.
Just like the omnibus edition of Starfleet Year One included a disclaimer stating it was unrelated to Enterprise, having been released during the show's first season.
Or the infamous one in "Vendetta" that was added because of the shocking, scandalous idea that the Borg might assimilate a woman (despite BoBW2 having Locutus explicitly state the Borg intended to assimilate the population of Earth "as Picard ha[d] been," and at least one of the Borg drones in "Q-Who" being played by a woman).
No, that's different -- that was one of the disclaimers from the Richard Arnold era, when he was hyper-protective of "Gene's vision." When the books were too far along for Arnold to demand that they be rewritten to remove anything he didn't like, he insisted on the disclaimer. (And to hear Peter David tell it, Arnold often imposed arbitrary restrictions on him specifically that he didn't apply to other authors.) The Starfleet: Year One and Academy: Collision Course examples are from much later and were simply about clarifying that the books were not connected to the very similar screen productions that were coming out at the same time.
Also, the drone that grabs Picard and beams him off the Enterprise's bridge in TBOBW does look kind of feminine.
Quick question, is Kirsten Beyer’s Voyager relaunch To Lose the Earth still coming out? Or has it been cancelled?
Well it was announced at the STLV Con last month (on 8/1) that Ms. Beyer's next new Voyager novel is supposed to come out in 2020, and seems like that would be To Lose the Earth.
On Memory-Alpha it is listed as planned for 10/2020 (it has a question-mark so I imagine that means the month is tentative).
Amazon has ‘untitled stv’ listed for 10/2020 so I guess they got it from that and are assuming that it’s To Lose the Earth.
So with the Picard show coming out, I do wonder how the voyager series will come to an end. It’s chronologically behind the rest of the litverse, so I wonder where the writers will find a good stopping point for it.
No. It’s not even confirmed that TLTE is the title coming out in a year. But as assumptions go, it seems quite plausible.