I wanted to ask a question will there be any Book news for new Star Trek books coming out next year at the Star Trek Las Vegas convention this week like they used to do in years past . I was hoping there would be some news about some books like Strange New worlds or one of the other star trek tv series.
I certainly don't mind it.
If I were to guess, with the understanding that I am in no way making claims about the thought processes of any of the authors, I can see a couple reasons for it that go beyond the basic "this time frame fit the story best." One being the obvious aspect of how, with the first two seasons of Discovery and SNW being set so close to the classic five year mission in the timeline, setting TOS stories set in the movie era allows there to not be much stepping on the toes of any stories being told under those series' label, not oversaturing the time frame or minimizing how much new canon information will override anything established (not that it prevents the possibility entirely, re: Living Memory's back story for Uhura getting contradicted like not even a year after it was publsihed, but...).
There's also the fact that, in terms of the novels, the movies, particularly the post-TFF-pre-TUC period, are a more untapped period of the timeline in comparison. I know that the DC comics in particular did a fair amount with the period, but different mediums, and particularly with the fact that those comics are a good (and uncomfortable...) thirty plus years out of print, the period is ripe to be tapped anew.
Either way, like I said, I like the difference from the classic five year mission entries. It's a nice change of pace, and, for me, my earliest memories with the TOS crew came from watching the movies more than TOS, so that's where I personally tend to think of them as their "classic" incarnations.
William Shatner's hardcover Star Trek: Academy novel, "Collision Course", was published in 2007.
It's been a while since I visited my local HPB, but I remember they had a whole shelf of Shatner Trek books for a time in the paperback section of Sci-Fi and a row of Trek hardbacks in the oversized section.
I liked it too. I wish Shatner hadn't have gotten into that fight over the audio so that the second novel in that series could have been published. It was even advertised at the back of the first novel.
My main memory of Collision Course was that it read like it was written by someone who'd done no thinking at all about how life and school might be different in a couple hundred years.
HBP?
And briefly popped up on release lists a couple of years ago before vanishing again. Likely a glitch or whatever.
I loved Collision Course, same way I love SFA.
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