2026 Novel Releases

[Enterprise1701]

The solicitation blurb for The Peacemakers strongly implies it will be different interpretation from IDW's recent Star Trek comic series, which is no great surprise. However, this does serve as an interesting contrast to Firewall, which offhandedly pointed out Harry Kim was off doing something, though I do not know if that was a specific nod to the contemporary IDW comics or to the author's own hope for another novel.

 

[Greg Cox]

What it boils down to is if there are no plans to create new Kelvin TV/film content, then anything a writer may decide to do with the Kelvin characters (for now, and aside from plots similar to non-Kelvin Trek productions) is possible.

No plans can become plans down the road, however.

When I wrote an original UNDERWORLD novel inbetween the first and second movies, I was instructed to do a prequel, in large part to avoid stepping on the toes of the second movie which was still in development. At the time, there were no plans to go backward in time to do a prequel onscreen.

Jump ahead to the third movie, Rise of the Lycans, which was (surprise!) a prequel movie that completely contradicted my earlier novel -- written and approved long before Rise of the Lycans was a gleam in anyone's eyes.

So I ended up in the peculiar position of novelizing movie that rendered my previous novel apocryphal. This resulted in at least one hilarious Amazon review:


"GREG COX: MAKE UP YOUR MIND!"

 

[Laura Cynthia Chambers]

During the writing process, they're free to create without knowing any details of future plans or feeling the weight of the imminence of impending future plans.