*shudders*No, here's the real scoop: They're going to use a time machine to resurrect Gene Roddenberry to write the novelization, complete with all his sloppy stylistic techniques like overused italics* and excessive preoccupation on the disturbingly erotic anatomy of the female leads.
*And gratuitous, conversational footnotes in which I, Admiral James T. Kirk, address the reader in the first person. Hey, how about that female anatomy on Rachel Nichols?
What's Friedman doing these days?
Maybe it'll be a non-ST writer, like that guy who did the nuBSG pilot novelisation, Jeffery A Carver.