nuTREK vs oldTREK sales...

[JustKate]

Well, I do think it's a useless topic of conversation.

1) nuTrek books have already been announced, so if he's arguing that nuTrek books should be published, reality has already beaten him to the punch.
2) Even disregarding nuTrek, there would have to be *huge* variation between sales numbers within the different Trek series we already have, and that hasn't stopped them publishing all of them. It's like making a poll for TNG-R outselling DS9-R. Sure, probably so, but it doesn't affect anything, so who cares?
3) Regardless of our suppositions, they don't release sales numbers, so we'll never have a definitive answer.

And most importantly:

4) This is the guy who has made a huge grandstanding deal out of saying that they should cancel everything and just publish nuTrek (http://trekbbs.com/showthread.php?t=90234), and since we all know what's coming, why play?

Yeah, exactly. Robert's a nice guy, but he has this bee in his bonnet re. nuTrek vs. oldTrek in which he seems to think that it's one vs. the other, and I just don't buy it. No doubt things will change with the debut of books based on the new timeline...but I just don't believe the new timeline will completely usurp the old one, at least not in the foreseeable future. And why should it? There are still people, quite a few, I'd say, who want to read about the characters they've become fond of or interested in through TV or through previous book series, and some of those people still buy books.

 

[JWolf]

Since oldSpock is in both timelines, does it really matter? We can have a book about oldSpock in the JJ timeline.