Episodes that would've made good novels...

[WarsTrek1993]

I've been thinking, there are quite a few good novelizations out there, and wanted to ask, which episodes do you think would've been good if novelized? (And which authors would you select?)

I had in mind:

"Trouble With Tribbles (TOS)" by Peter David
Scorpion (VOY) By James Swallow
Shattered Mirror (DS9) by David Mack
The Visior (DS9) by David R. George III
Tears of the Prophets by David Mack

 

[Sho]

"Firstborn" is an episode that probably could have been a lot more in novel form.

 

[WarsTrek1993]

"Firstborn" is an episode that probably could have been a lot more in novel form.

I can see DeCandido writing that one!

 

[Christopher]

I've been thinking, there are quite a few good novelizations out there, and wanted to ask, which episodes do you think would've been good if novelized? (And which authors would you select?)

I had in mind:

"Trouble With Tribbles (TOS)" by Peter David

James Blish adapted that already in Star Trek 3 (Bantam, 1969). And Diane Carey re-novelized substantial portions of it in her novelization of "Trials and Tribble-ations." (I always kinda wished she'd done a book incorporating full adaptations of both episodes.) Not to mention that the full script is reprinted in David Gerrold's 1973 making-of book entitled The Trouble With Tribbles.

 

[Therin of Andor]

James Blish adapted that already in Star Trek 3 (Bantam, 1969). And Diane Carey re-novelized substantial portions of it in her novelization of "Trials and Tribble-ations." (I always kinda wished she'd done a book incorporating full adaptations of both episodes.) Not to mention that the full script is reprinted in David Gerrold's 1973 making-of book entitled The Trouble With Tribbles.

And it was a Fotonovel!

 

[Mysterion]

James Blish adapted that already in Star Trek 3 (Bantam, 1969). And Diane Carey re-novelized substantial portions of it in her novelization of "Trials and Tribble-ations." (I always kinda wished she'd done a book incorporating full adaptations of both episodes.) Not to mention that the full script is reprinted in David Gerrold's 1973 making-of book entitled The Trouble With Tribbles.

And it was a Fotonovel!

And then there is this version: http://granades.com/2007/05/02/loltrek/

 

[bok2384]

Oh, so many that I'd love to see expanded and I mean expanded. Not like some of the novelizations that were released later on with no additional material whatsoever.

• The Best of Both Worlds by David Mack (TNG)
• The Wounded by Una McCormack (TNG)
• The Inner Light by David R. George III (TNG)
• Basics by Christie Golden (VOY)
• The Q and the Grey by Keith R.A. DeCandido [ideally Peter David, but that'd never happen] (VOY)
• The Void by Kirsten Beyer (VOY)
• Unimatrix Zero by Kirsten Beyer (VOY)

 

[WarsTrek1993]

I'd also like to add that, from what I've heard about "In the Pale Moonlight", that'd be Mack material!

Bok2384-Those are neat ideas!! Mack writing BoBW would've been intense!

 

[Mysterion]

Would like to have seen Diane Duane do some Deep Space Nine stuff. If not adaptations of episodes (the Circle trilogy, perhaps), then something original in the setting. I think her writing style would mesh with DSN quite well. I especially would like to see her take of Bajor and bajoran culture/religion.

 

[PKS8304]

Captain's Holiday written by Janet Evanovich

The First Duty written by Orson Scott Card

Arena written by Terry Goodkind

Elementary Dear Data
The Big Goodbye
Fistful of Data's by Keith R. A. DeCandido

The Outrageous Okana by Peter David

off the top of my head

 

[Christopher]

^Shouldn't it be "'Arena' written by Fredric Brown"?

(I found a link to a download site for the original story itself, but I'm not sure if it's there legally so I didn't post it. Here's a list of all the places it's been published/collected.)

 

[WarsTrek1993]

More add-ons:

Homefront/Paradise Lost (DS9) By Michael A. Martin and Andy Mangels.
Q-Who? (TNG) By Christopher L. Bennett
Yesterday's Enterprise (TNG) by Michael Jan Friedman

 

[JD]

Scorpion (VOY) By James Swallow

I'm honestly quite shocked this one was never done.
I would love to see someone do adaptations of the final DS9 arc. My top choices for author(s) would be SD Perry, David Mack, or James Swallow.

 

[Cybersnark]

Not so much "episodes," but I would love to see someone tackle the (better) Star Trek video games --the Millennium Trilogy serves as a good adaptation of The Fallen, but I want more. (And I want Ens. Korban brought into the novelverse, but that's a side-effect.)

I could see Kristen Beyer and/or David Mack making the Elite Force series even more awesome than it is. And after DTI (a time-travel series written by someone who doesn't like time-travel [and thus feels the need to justify how it works]), I wouldn't mind seeing Christopher's take on Invasion (a starfighter story by someone who doesn't like starfighters [and feels the need to justify why they'd be useful]).

 

[DS9forever]

I don't know if it would make a good novel, but DS9's "Shadowplay" almost seemed like a novel to me, due to it having three different stories within it, but all with the theme that appearances are deceiving.

 

[WarsTrek1993]

Not so much "episodes," but I would love to see someone tackle the (better) Star Trek video games --the Millennium Trilogy serves as a good adaptation of The Fallen, but I want more. (And I want Ens. Korban brought into the novelverse, but that's a side-effect.)

I could see Kristen Beyer and/or David Mack making the Elite Force series even more awesome than it is. And after DTI (a time-travel series written by someone who doesn't like time-travel [and thus feels the need to justify how it works]), I wouldn't mind seeing Christopher's take on Invasion (a starfighter story by someone who doesn't like starfighters [and feels the need to justify why they'd be useful]).

Didn't Mr. Swallow help write that game? He could also help write the novel.
As for other games-I could see Martin writing a Shattered Universe book (Sulu).

 

[JD]

I could see Kristen Beyer and/or David Mack making the Elite Force series even more awesome than it is.

I would read this in an instant. I love the EF games, and would be very happy if they were incorporated into the Novelverse.

 

[Sakrysta]

Chain. Of. Command. First thing that popped into my head. Especially since we've kept up with Necheyev and Jellico in the current continuity. Give it to either Mack or KRAD and let 'em run loose.

 

[Sho]

Hmm. I guess I'd be more interested in novelizations of episodes that were conceptually interesting, but subdued in their execution, or where I felt curious about what went on between scenes or was going through characters' heads - generally, eps that I feel would have room to grow on the page. Like the aforementioned Firstborn. With Chain of Command, the television version is already so powerful, and Stewart's performance so iconic, that I feel a novelization couldn't help but be a pale shadow of it.

 

[tomswift2002]

"Unimatrix Zero" was apparently going to be novelized, and it would've been interesting to have seen that.

But "Future's End would made an interesting story, along with "The Warlord".