Kelvin timeline Starfleet Academy YA novels

[Laura Cynthia Chambers]

I read all four of these and I actually found the plots to be quite good.

Plenty of canon nods,

Spoiler: [I]Beyond [/I]- haven't seen it but I [I]do [/I]know this.

including Finnegan's AR counterpart, who later appears in Beyond

. I think I smiled (and still do) at the Chateau Picard reference.

Kirk is his usual, relationship-of-the-week self, and gets into lots of trouble.

 

[Markonian]

Do you know the chronological order the novels take place?

 

[Leto_II]

Did Kelvin Universe Finnegan™ resemble Chunky Greg Grunberg™?

 

[ryan123450]

Ive not read any of them but I seem to remember researcing the order of them for my Kelvin timeline @Markonian.

http://startreklitverse.yolasite.com/simple-kelvin-timeline-reading-list.php

 

[faustian]

I read The Assassination Game a few weeks back and found it to be a solid YA addition although I would have liked a little more character depth. The benefit of novels is that they give an opportunity to get inside the heads of characters, but I felt like this was a bit too fluffy. But then, that can be fun too and in this instance it was enjoyable enough for me to breeze through the book in a day.

 

[Laura Cynthia Chambers]

I read The Assassination Game a few weeks back and found it to be a solid YA addition although I would have liked a little more character depth. The benefit of novels is that they give an opportunity to get inside the heads of characters, but I felt like this was a bit too fluffy. But then, that can be fun too and in this instance it was enjoyable enough for me to breeze through the book in a day.

The storylines are well composed. You have

Spoiler: Spoilers

Borg scouting Earth, Starfleet academic scandals, the first whispers of the re-unification movement, and near-death intrigue. The Varkolak were interesting too. I wonder who would win in a fight against a Klingon?

 

[tomswift2002]

Do you know the chronological order the novels take place?

"The Edge" "The Delta Anamoly" "The Gemini Agent" & "The Assassination Game".

"The Edge" was suppose to be published first, as such there are references to it in "The Delta Anamoly".

 

[Laura Cynthia Chambers]

It's too bad the series didn't continue, though I guess there are only so many ways you can keep Spock and Kirk from meeting until the '09 film.

(Is it okay that I resurrected my own old thread?)

 

[Enterprise1701]

(Is it okay that I resurrected my own old thread?)

For my part, I have never been sympathetic to the sheer venom some people have against necro-ing threads. I like to keep things organised!

 

[Avro Arrow]

(Is it okay that I resurrected my own old thread?)

Due to the nature of this forum, we're a little more lax on that rule than elsewhere on the board. That is a long-standing tradition that long predates my time here as mod.

https://www.trekbbs.com/threads/mod...ules-of-behaviour.280025/page-4#post-13309785

(I know 2020 isn't that long ago, but the policy existed before then, and was just written down for reference at that time. )

 

[F. King Daniel]

Wasn't there a 5th one which was written but never released?

I really liked how these YA books embraced the Kelvinverse's differences to Prime Trek. And I loved their version of a Borg scout. They fearlessly reimagined, rather than the usual novel thing to reconcile every little difference.

 

[Laura Cynthia Chambers]

Wasn't there a 5th one which was written but never released?

Where did you hear that? I cant find anything on it.

 

[Lord Hierarch]

There’s four? I thought there were 3. Seems I have to buy 1.

 

[Laura Cynthia Chambers]

Which one are you missing?

 

[Lord Hierarch]

Which one are you missing?

I dunno, I got to find The Box.

The Box is a The Box of old Trek novels that someone donated to my local library, the librarian saw this and was a friend to me and set them aside for me to take home.

I am half way done with the series. Its been years but I am have way done. I dunno what to do with them. I want to keep them, at the same time I want to pass them along...

Ooorr..... *To The Google*

I got Delta and Gemini. Edge. Huh. I actually have that but neve read it. Weird. Assassination Game. And it was released in 2012? Weird.

And there were 2 novels set in the Kelvinerse? Weirder!!

 

[Laura Cynthia Chambers]

Put them in a Little Free Library somewhere, when you're done with them.

(You can find a location near you here: https://littlefreelibrary.org/)

 

[Lord Hierarch]

Put them in a Little Free Library somewhere, when you're done with them.

(You can find a location near you here: https://littlefreelibrary.org/)

I'm not a socialist, I'm a capitalist, I'm for profit .

.

I'm surprised, to add to my tangent, the Kelvinerse got 2 more novels and fairly recently.

I wonder why.

 

[Laura Cynthia Chambers]

There were 4 books planned, but there were some plot issues (similarity to film plots, etc.) 2 got partially reworked into Prime universe novels, the other 2 stayed Kelvinverse and finally came out recently after revisions.

 

[Christopher]

There were 4 books planned, but there were some plot issues (similarity to film plots, etc.) 2 got partially reworked into Prime universe novels, the other 2 stayed Kelvinverse and finally came out recently after revisions.

The cancellation of the novels had nothing to do with their plots -- I'm amazed that myth persists after all the times we debunked it. It's a misconception that makes no sense, because plot problems are easy to fix with rewriting. The novels were cancelled for more global business reasons; Bad Robot and Pocket simply had different ideas of how to approach tie-ins, and Bad Robot decided it would rather create tie-ins in-house, something it was more feasible to achieve in comics or games. We wouldn't have reworked the books into Prime if they'd only been postponed rather than cancelled outright. As far as we knew, they were dead and we were free to salvage what we could in a different form. But eventually, something changed and Pocket was free to release the two remaining ones.

 

[Laura Cynthia Chambers]

What about the third note in background info here? https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Seek_a_Newer_World

Was Beyond not novelized for the same reason you gave above?

But eventually, something changed and Pocket was free to release the two remaining ones.

I hope there'll be more: lots of plot wiggle room in a new reality. I'm looking forward to reading the two that did get published.