Any new "new ship/crew" books on the schedule?

[Christopher]

^I didn't mean freaky in a good way. The one in your avatar is okay, but those other two are creepy as hell. If I weren't already familiar with the show, I think those billboards would scare me away from it.

 

[JB2005]

The Geordi one is plastered on the wall of one of the Tube Stations in London, my girlfriend (not a Star Trek fan) saw it and asked me, "what the hell kind of programme do you watch?!"

 

[Sho]

If I weren't already familiar with the show, I think those billboards would scare me away from it.

I think they can probably rely on that familiarity, though - the TNG crew has achieved iconic status and brand awareness - and it's precisely why they needed to challenge it with a weird (rather than creepy, imho), new and fashion ad-like visual spin. Seeing this unconventional rendition of elements from a familiar show might just subconsciously trigger the question of how it might feel to rewatch it in today's context and what new aspects that might make apparent, and thus motivate people to tune in for a rerun.

It's better than a safe, boring campaign that triggers a "again? meh" reaction ...

 

[JB2005]

I thought it was more sort of along the lines of "Just because you like Star Trek it doesn't make you a weirdo" Although shaving half your head and wearing half an SF uniform with your work clothes...

Sort of detracts from the message!

 

[Sho]

There's that element too, yeah ... a doctor screams "accomplished person", that surely wasn't chosen by accident. In general the fashion ad-like styling certainly aims to, well, make the show appear hip and fashionable and elevate its design elements to fashion status.

Like most advertising it's designed to brainwash people into believing that an association with the product is desirable, there is nothing noble about it . But while I can see how the notion of TNG needing that help to tune its perception is offensive to us hardcore fans, overall I think it succeeds and so is working for us ...

 

[JB2005]

Not that there's going to be millions upon millions tuning into CBS Action anyway!

 

[Sho]

True . Well for me as a German, it's moot anyway - we have the misfortune of being a wealthy enough country to dub everything into German, and yet the German language sphere is too small to make competitive German-language genre productions economically viable. So while we import US shows like Star Trek and also rerun them endlessly, it's all dubbed, which no real fan wants to watch.

Back before broadband internet, we used to run a mail-based video circulation system where someone would record the show on US television, then had them converted to PAL, and then the VHS tape would get sent from fan to fan via the post office. That way we could watch undubbed audio with only a few weeks or months latency over the original airing (the dubbing on TV was usually trailing a year behind). I caught the end of DS9 and about half of Voyager that way.

 

[JB2005]

You guys do get the awesome book covers, if it's any consolation!

 

[BrotherBenny]

I would also like to see more Titan novels in the pipeline and more Voyager.

How do you know there aren't?

Enterprise is over.

Who says?

Therin, other than the Titan and Voyager books we know about, there's nothing else that's been said. Since Titan is a multi-author series I would have expected something in the way of what was coming after Martin's book. As for Voyager, I know we won't know about another one until after Eternal Tide is out.

And after reading To Brave The Storm, it seems as though the ENT Relaunch is over. The TV series was planning to end with the founding of the Federation, and now the books have fulfilled that. The ship is decommissioned and the crew will likely go their separate ways. We don't need another series like DS9 with stories here and there depicting what happened after. I would be interested in stories done during the series run, but I'm not sure anything should be done post-founding unless it was political like Articles of the Federation: Year One.

 

[JB2005]

Voyager books seem to be announced one at a time...

 

[Christopher]

Therin, other than the Titan and Voyager books we know about, there's nothing else that's been said. Since Titan is a multi-author series I would have expected something in the way of what was coming after Martin's book.

There are several reasons why that's not a realistic expectation. For one thing, Titan is very episodic and tends to be plotted one book at a time (except for the first three). For another, the books in general tend to be mapped out only about a year to a year and a half in advance; the work of developing the schedule for a given year tends to be done in the spring of the preceding year. So it's probably too early for any specific plans for 2013 to have been laid yet. And even if it had, it couldn't be announced until the contracts were signed and the outlines approved.

 

[Therin of Andor]

it seems as though the ENT Relaunch is over. The TV series was planning to end with the founding of the Federation, and now the books have fulfilled that. The ship is decommissioned and the crew will likely go their separate ways. We don't need another series like DS9 with stories here and there depicting what happened after. I would be interested in stories done during the series run, but I'm not sure anything should be done post-founding unless it was political like Articles of the Federation: Year One.

Well, I'm always being told not to present my opinions here as if they were facts. And I haven't seen or heard anything to indicate that the "Enterprise Relaunch" has ended. Just because you don't "need" another series where the crew is dispersed doesn't mean we won't have books that take place in the early days of the UFP formation.

Now, ENT did have the smallest viewer numbers, and presumably that's why we've never sent ENT comic books. But Pocket's license seems to be an all-encompassing one.