Bryan Fuller is the new showrunner! Given he worked on 24th century trek, maybe this means a 24th century show - I find myself really sad about the future of treklit 
Bryan Fuller showrunner for new trek...consequences?
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I have tremendous doubt that Fuller would do something like set the show in the Prime timeline. Memory Alpha has a nice rundown of his comments from 2009 and 2013 about what he would do if he was running a new Star Trek series: http://memory-alpha.wikia.com/wiki/Bryan_Fuller
We'll be getting a lot of reprints under the Star Trek: Legends banner 
It's likely not going to gave any established characters. Maybe some locations that blew up in Destiny, but that's the worst thing I could see being contradicted.
It's likely not going to gave any established characters. Maybe some locations that blew up in Destiny, but that's the worst thing I could see being contradicted.
And now I feel even better about it. Thanks for that link, Stevil!
I'm very hopeful for the future of the Litverse. I'd be very dissapointed if it is derailed by this series.
Hopefully the consequences will be the beginning of another 50 years of Star Trek thriving in all it's various forms.
That, like with NuTrek, the fanbase continues growing to gargantuan proportions eventually making Trek something which causes the Mouse to shiver in fear at the news of another new Star Trek beginning production.
Okay, maybe I've had enough coffee for today.
Why the trepidation over the new show for Trek lit, wouldn't it only add to the body?
That, like with NuTrek, the fanbase continues growing to gargantuan proportions eventually making Trek something which causes the Mouse to shiver in fear at the news of another new Star Trek beginning production.
Okay, maybe I've had enough coffee for today.
Why the trepidation over the new show for Trek lit, wouldn't it only add to the body?
I find myself really sad about the future of treklit
Why? I see no reason why it would be affected. No matter what timeline the show is set in, lit writers could continue to use the prime timeline as if nothing had changed. I don't see why they couldn't, anyway.
Now it may be true that if the new show is set in yet another timeline, novels won't be allowed to use THAT one, similar to how Bad Robot refuses to allow any Abramsverse novels. But the prime timeline will go on as normal.
The main concern people have around this is that, as the novels have to stick to what's shown onscreen regarding the Prime timeline, a show set in the Prime timeline that contradicted significant aspects of the novels would force ongoing storylines to end early rather than reaching some form of resolution and end the current Trek Litverse (or at least the 24th century portion of it). So if, say, it was explicitly a Captain Worf series meant as a followup to TNG set in 2380 in the Prime universe or something, that would mean that now that had to be the status quo in the books and would always have to have been the status quo in the books, and anything previous that went against it would either have to be retconned around it when referenced, or just not referenced at all. And so on thusly.
The trepidation isn't that there won't be any more books set in the Prime timeline at all, but that what's currently been going on in the Trek Litverse would have to be wiped clean similarly to what happened to the 80s book continuity when TNG came out. A lot of people really want to see what's going to happen next in DS9, or Voyager, or Titan, or DTI, or Section 31, or etc. etc., and a clean slate would mean we never get to actually see continuations or conclusions of these novel lines.
But! As Stevil pointed out, the new show almost certainly won't be set in the Prime timeline and so it doesn't matter anyway.
But if the new show isn't set IN the prime timeline, the novels don't have to stick to it or mention it at all, and will not be constrained by it.
Has Bryan Fuller expressed his dislike for Star Trek literature? If not, I wouldn't be worried about it.Bryan Fuller is the new showrunner! Given he worked on 24th century trek, maybe this means a 24th century show - I find myself really sad about the future of treklit
I dunno, if we had enough advance warning, we might be able to bring closure to the series in progress.
And who knows? Maybe I could do a DTI novel event showing how history gets reset. Call it Crisis on Infinite Enterprises.
Yeah, I'd be surprised if it were. The whole reason Bad Robot went with a reboot is because it gave them more creative freedom and left them less constrained by continuity baggage. The creators of a new TV relaunch would have the same considerations in mind.
It's got nothing to do with like or dislike. Trek novels are read by thousands of people; TV series are watched by millions of people. Thus, the makers of a TV series can't be constrained by what's done in the tie-in books. They're just too small a piece of the pie for that to make any sense. Look at what happened with Star Wars. For all that the book publishers claimed that their books were canonical, they were disregarded whenever a new production came along (and contrary to what many people believe, that's happened multiple times with Star Wars tie-ins in the past, not just recently). It's the normal order of things that a revival of a film or TV series will not be bound by the continuity of its tie-ins.
AS always, should something come up to invalidate the current novelverse, I'd only hope to see some closure to the ongoing story arcs prior to the rebooted novels appearing.
I dunno, if we had enough advance warning, we might be able to bring closure to the series in progress.
And who knows? Maybe I could do a DTI novel event showing how history gets reset. Call it Crisis on Infinite Enterprises.
I will start a Secret Wars against everyone who tries to bring closure to the Voyager Relaunch.
On a more serious and not comic-book-ending-and-or-soft-rebooting note I am generally one of these people who are.. Let's say critical towards new stuff, but from the quotes on Fullers MA page I am pretty not-pissed. I probably can't watch it due to it being showed in german television in about 2 after the original airing but I think it's better to not be able to watch something for multiple years after the original airing that you would like than not being able to watch something that you would hated because it killed off the Voyager Relaunch.
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I don't like the thought of written literature needing to be canon to other mediums. It's not necessary in order to enjoy the writing from a novel or a comic book. Separate is better so it doesn't interfere with creative sources but it should be approved just in case it interferes with a TV or movie idea. The main sources are from visual mediums not literature books.
I'm more worried about what this means for that American Gods series Fuller was working on.
Well, that really is the trick, isn't it? And, as far as I know, no has yet done that successfully. Why it is so I have no idea, you'd think it'd be in their interest to wrap up one iteration of Trek well before starting the next but I'd be amazed if that happened.
Why? Because it doesn't. DC's pre-New 52 wrap-up was a clusterbomb of screw-ups, with writers practically getting two months notice to wrap things up. The Ultimateverse with Secret Wars looming? Seems to have been the same given how fast Miles' tale suddenly concluded and bang! Secret Wars cliffhanger... Star Wars? Again, Del Rey might have known a little in advance, Dark Horse didn't.
It makes little sense but that's the way it tends to be, I'd love for something to break the damn pattern.
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