Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman have stated in interviews how much they value the Star Trek literature that has been produced over the decades. I was thinking, for future sequels to the new film, maybe they could have a go at trying to adapt some of the novels to the screen? There are some fantastic stories out there that could be used; I reckon Diane Carey's Invasion!#1: First Strike would make a pretty good storyline. What does everyone else think?
How about adapting some of the TOS novels?
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Vonda N. McIntyre's The Entropy Effect, however, not necessarily as Star Trek XII on the big screen... well, perhaps as Star Trek IV or Star Trek V (I myself always saw it as some kind of bridge between TMP and TWoK).
I myself am not so convinced of the Invasion! story as a whole. While I liked it in the beginning, it got weirder and more and more forced and un-Trek-like with every volume until I finally wrote it off as a complete waste of my time and money...
I myself am not so convinced of the Invasion! story as a whole. While I liked it in the beginning, it got weirder and more and more forced and un-Trek-like with every volume until I finally wrote it off as a complete waste of my time and money...
Well they'd only have to do the first book, and it needn't be exactly the same. I'd like an ending where it's left up to the viewers' imagination whether the Furies ever return or not.
What other novels do you have in mind?
I must admit, although I read a couple of them (Pocket Books, up to, perhaps, Greg Bear's Corona) in my days (early to mid-1980s), none of them were really good enough to stick in my mind*... I tried to rekindle my interest in the books in the late 1990s (My Brother's Keeper, New Earth, Invasion!), but it didn't work.
* Except, of course, The Entropy Effect.
I must admit, although I read a couple of them (Pocket Books, up to, perhaps, Greg Bear's Corona) in my days (early to mid-1980s), none of them were really good enough to stick in my mind*... I tried to rekindle my interest in the books in the late 1990s (My Brother's Keeper, New Earth, Invasion!), but it didn't work.
* Except, of course, The Entropy Effect.
How Much For Just The Planet?
Rules of Engagement
The Rihanssu Saga
Memory Prime
Rules of Engagement
The Rihanssu Saga
Memory Prime
trevanian
Rear Admiral
PRIME DIRECTIVE is fantastic, though there is a bit of an unavoidable letdown at the end. But I'd never want to see these news guys playing it.
Wouldn't work for their silly NU universe anyway, not enough opportunity for lens flare in the story except when all the nukes go off and the ship goes to warp while in the atmosphere.
Wouldn't work for their silly NU universe anyway, not enough opportunity for lens flare in the story except when all the nukes go off and the ship goes to warp while in the atmosphere.
Uh, no.
Whether you like it or not, TOS or any Trek era novels is just sanctioned fanfic. That is to say it's made by fans for fans. When was the last time you've read a glowing review from a mainstream literary critic about a Trek novel? I can't remember either. Because they're pretty much created in a vacuum. Let a screenwriter who has their eye on the mainstream audience create something original.
Whether you like it or not, TOS or any Trek era novels is just sanctioned fanfic. That is to say it's made by fans for fans. When was the last time you've read a glowing review from a mainstream literary critic about a Trek novel? I can't remember either. Because they're pretty much created in a vacuum. Let a screenwriter who has their eye on the mainstream audience create something original.
Spock's World was a New York Times bestseller.
And is a new episode of Star Trek not just a sanctioned fanfic put on TV? The fact that it's being sanctioned, or, in other words, paid for with intentions to make a profit as opposed to for personal amusement separates it from fan fiction.
The overall literary value of Star Trek books is a completely different argument.
RobertScorpio
Pariah
I like that idea. Or maybe JJ should take control of the TREK writing camp and lay out some kind of 'canon' trail to follow. I know some of our esteemed writers have POOOED POOOED this idea before, but so what? I as a fan would like to see them do that, and....GASP...stop putting out books with Picard and Sisko and the rest of the post NEMESIS stuff...it should only be JJ's future, for now at least. If it fails, then yeah, go back to TITAN and CORP OF ENGINEERS...Just not now...let JJ get his time whether you like it or not...
Rob
Yes but that would crapon New frontier, and if anyone craps on me being able to look forward to new New Frontier books bad things will happen.
Only when Manny Coto took over ENT. And we all know how that turned out. Lauded by fans but largely ignored by everybody else. And it's that "everybody else" crowd that decides the fate of any new filmed Trek project. I like JJ's MO of finally shedding the deadweight fans and aiming for everybody else.
It's interesting to note that the films and TV series have utilized elements of the literature before. The TNG episode Where No One Has Gone Before was a semi-adaptation of Diane Duane's TOS novel The Wounded Sky. And when the Day of Honor books came out, VOY did the episode Day of Honor based on them.
I understand Orci and Kurtzman are reading through some of the novels for inspiration.
Personally, I think the best thing is a new planet in the federation story, but of course there is a local faction that doesn't think that's a good idea and somebody who just doesn't like Kirk and hopes to score some points by offing him.
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Personally, I think the best thing is a new planet in the federation story, but of course there is a local faction that doesn't think that's a good idea and somebody who just doesn't like Kirk and hopes to score some points by offing him.
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