I am not eager to see any references to Sybok in future novels. Now if Spock and Saavik had children...
James T. Kirk in 24th century novels
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They've got about two years to get busy, before Spock has his appointment with a magic black hole.
I'm hoping we will get a final Spock novel detailing the Hobus event, and heavily featuring Saavik. We'll have to wait and see...
Why can he have children with Saavik, but can't have a half brother?
As Greg said, the main reason for avoiding mentions of Sybok was general distaste for The Final Frontier, not because Roddenberry declared it apocryphal. Hell, Roddenberry spent half of 1982 going to cons urging fans not to support The Wrath of Khan, saying it wasn't really Star Trek. See how well that worked.....
I'll actually quote Ronald D. Moore, when discussing the writing of the TNG episode "The Nth Degree." The earlier drafts had the Cytherian (the big giant head who made Barclay a sooooper genius in the episode) be much more malevolent, but they realized that made the whole thing too similar to The Final Frontier, and as Moore said, “The absolute last thing that we wanted to remind anyone of was Star Trek V.”
I'll actually quote Ronald D. Moore, when discussing the writing of the TNG episode "The Nth Degree." The earlier drafts had the Cytherian (the big giant head who made Barclay a sooooper genius in the episode) be much more malevolent, but they realized that made the whole thing too similar to The Final Frontier, and as Moore said, “The absolute last thing that we wanted to remind anyone of was Star Trek V.”
There's also a subplot about he origins of Nimbus III, aka The Planet of Galactic Peace, running through the last few Vanguard books.
I'm not sure they were entirely successful, then, since I recall a fair amount of speculation about "God" being a Cytherian (presumably a criminally insane one).
Now sounds like a good time to plot out that story with flashbacks of his life.
We had something similar with Star Trek: Spock Reflections.
Exactly.
Especially if Spock and Saavik have a child - Sybok's daughter would be their child's only Vulcan relative wouldn't she ?
I don't know about you, but I've been itching to find out what became of the Morg and Eymorg in the 24th century.
I can just see it now...NuTrek3 with Idris Elba as Sybok.
"Today I am cancelling your pain!"
They repurposed the underground computer to produce a fantasy-style roleplaying game. Or in other words, a MMP-MORG.
They also opened a line of grocery stores selling MORG-anic health food.
However the "Brain and brain?" lady escaped and began crashing sporting events, where she was known as MORG-anna.
That was an interesting idea - that "cousin Silek" from "Yesteryear" was a real person who looked just like adult Spock. I read it with an older Nimoy in mind.
No, the cousin Spock impersonated in "Yesteryear" was named Selek, not Silek. After all, Sarek's brother would be Spock's uncle, of course, not his cousin. And Spock-as-Selek identifies himself as a cousin to Sarek as well as to Spock -- not to mention posing as a cousin sufficiently distant that Sarek had never met him before.
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