Best and the Brightest
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Never seen nor heard from again, I'm afraid 
As well as those, I'd also love to see the cast of Diane Carey's videogame adaptation "Starfleet Academy" in future TOS movie era novels (but there might be legal issues with Interplay?)
As well as those, I'd also love to see the cast of Diane Carey's videogame adaptation "Starfleet Academy" in future TOS movie era novels (but there might be legal issues with Interplay?)
Never seen nor heard from again, I'm afraid
As well as those, I'd also love to see the cast of Diane Carey's videogame adaptation "Starfleet Academy" in future TOS movie era novels (but there might be legal issues with Interplay?)
Wow, haven't heard of this one in a while, I may still have it. I liked it, involved the characters PKS listed up to & just after Generations IIRC. Didn't one die, trapped in the stardrive section? It was an emotional scene from what I remember.
Nope. CBS Consumer Products can and do allow inclusion of characters from any other licensed ST tie-in. The only areas of grey would seem to be the kzinti (still owned by Larry Niven; only lent to TAS and LA Times Syndicate's comic strip) and, according to Harlan Ellison a few years ago, anything pertaining to his original characters and dialogue from "City on the Edge..."
^I'm not sure Ellison's legal claim was about the characters so much as about the quoting of specific lines from the script. The two particular things he went after, Crucible and a Hallmark talking ornament, both included dialogue taken from "City on the Edge." Whereas other works that have used the Guardian without quoting from "City" directly don't seem to have provoked his ire. I think his position was that he's entitled to royalties for the use of excerpts from his script, just as he would be if clips from the episode were used in another program. I'm not certain, though.
I think it was the Guardian.
Harlan Ellison has made a career out of being "set off." He thrives on the attention he gets from ranting and raving about things and stirring up controversies, and he's been doing it for most of his life.
Fortunately for him, he has the advantage of usually being right.
Supposedly, PAD asked Harlan if he'd heard the rumour that JJ Abrams' first ST movie was going to use the Guardian of Forever as part of Spock Prime's solution to the Nero problem.
Why? Because Harlan felt that Paramount/CBS/Pocket/Hallmark owed him some money for decades of cashing in on his material.
Some of the characters were stationed on Deep Space 9 weren't they? I was pleasantly surprised to see Heather Petersen from Time's Enemy make an appearance in Watching the Clock. I never thought we would see any characters from the 1990s novels again.
Indeed they do allow it: I just spotted Vanda M'Giia on the first page of "The Tears of Eridanus". Cool.
Exactly.
The thing is, of course, unless the current editor has read every ST tie-in ever written, or the author deliberately points it out, many cameos, homages and guest roles can be slipped into a licensed tie-in.
"Starfleet Academy" CD-ROM game; M'Giia is the Andorian by Therin of Andor, on Flickr
The main characters are on the cover, but I can only identify one of the woman - Moll Enor (the Trill woman) - are the other two women Jayme Miranda and Starsa Taran?
^^ This is correct. IIRC, Starsa is on the right, Jayme is on the left, in front of Moll.
I too remember liking this story, especially given its similarity to the Interplay game and its novelization. Said game was one of my first forays into Trek tie-in products, and it still holds a special place in my heart.
I too remember liking this story, especially given its similarity to the Interplay game and its novelization. Said game was one of my first forays into Trek tie-in products, and it still holds a special place in my heart.
