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Has any book ever portrayed an event that fits this description? Does anyone plan to?
Bringing the TOS crew together
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Has any book ever portrayed an event that fits this description? Does anyone plan to?
Nothing that fits that description, but I'm a fan of Enterprise: The First Adventure. That's how I imagine the TOS crew getting together in the Prime timeline (despite it's continuity issues)
What continuity issues exactly?
For one thing, Enterprise: The First Adventure posits that Rand is about 16 years old when Kirk takes command at the age of 29, which is hard to reconcile with her being too old for the 17-year-old Charlie Evans just 2-3 years later (and old enough to be a love interest for Kirk). It also disregards Sulu's astrophysicist gig in the second pilot, having him at the helm from the start -- and if you ask me, McIntyre's morose, insecure, brooding characterization of Sulu in all her books is completely unrecognizable as the character George Takei played on TV. It also portrays the Klingons as being unfamiliar with Shakespeare (and generally rather unintelligent), which clashes with TUC, although I suppose you could squint and pretend that it took less than 30 years for the Klingons to go from "Shake-who?" to "Shakespeare in the original Klingon."
I presumed there would be continuity problems with TNG and other series as well as the more modern novels, but it suprises me that it conflicts with TOS. Concerning the Klingons, maybe the works of Wil'yam Shex'pir were becoming popular around the same time the Federation stole them and retroactively integrated them into Earth's culture by the Federation to win the cold war that was going on between the Federation and the Klingons at the time. Or Shex'pir was already popular among the majority of Klingons, but those in Enterprise: The First Adventure were some kind of hipster Klingons. Intelligence and Shex'pir are soo mainstream.
It's probably important to remember that E:TFA hails from a time when continuity and such wasn't as strictly enforced. It was written well before TNG was even announced. That was when the powers that be started taking a much more active role with respect to oversight of stuff like the novels.
Also before there was the Internet or a full-series home-video release, just endless reruns on TV and various reference books that weren't always completely accurate. So it wasn't as easy for authors to fact-check things as it is today, and thus some oddities slipped through.
Maybe Spock in the 09 novel is referring to the reunion of the crew for the V'Ger crisis?
I don't think McIntyre's characterization of Sulu is as bad as you do, Christopher, if we assume all of her adventures (save Enterprise:TFA, which I do recall being a huge let-down) take place after the missions we saw in the TV series. Sulu was ebullient and happy and everything else in the early episodes, but by the series' end was (in my judgment) not much of a character at all - just "the guy at the helm." So we don't get many clues into Sulu's interior life... and, besides, sometimes people's public persona is very different from their real emotional inner life, which is what I feel McIntyre gives us. Just my two quatloos.
I don't think McIntyre's characterization of Sulu is as bad as you do, Christopher, if we assume all of her adventures (save Enterprise:TFA, which I do recall being a huge let-down) take place after the missions we saw in the TV series. Sulu was ebullient and happy and everything else in the early episodes, but by the series' end was (in my judgment) not much of a character at all - just "the guy at the helm." So we don't get many clues into Sulu's interior life... and, besides, sometimes people's public persona is very different from their real emotional inner life, which is what I feel McIntyre gives us. Just my two quatloos.
I don't remember. I read it back when I first got the Comics DVD years ago. The stuff I posted was just based off of looking the series up on Memory Beta. It's kind of funny, the first annual was the first mission, and the second was the last.
Kirk assumes command of the Enterprise from Pike, joining Spock, Kelso, Sulu, and Scotty, who are already part of the crew. Pike's first officer, Number One, suffers a debilitating accident, making her unavailable for duty, and Dr. Boyce retires. Kirk recruits Gary Mitchell as his new first officer and McCoy as his CMO (although McCoy says that he'll need to take some time off soon for his daughter Joanna's college graduation). Uhura also comes aboard as communications officer.
Kirk's first duty is transporting Pike to his new assignment as Fleet Captain. Along the way they encounter some aliens that Pike had a run-in with years before, when he was Robert April's first officer. The aliens abduct Pike and Kirk & co. figure out their secret and rescue Pike, bonding in the process.
It's a very good story with terrific artwork and it's in my personal head canon as how the Enterprise crew first came together.
