Old books, new continuity and the foggy window

[Lonemagpie]

And seek out The Tomorrow People, but stick to, like, just the first season of the original show...

 

[Therin of Andor]

I read a suggestion once, in the early days of Psi Phi, that all the licensed ST fiction that doesn't "fit" can be explained similarly to Alan Dean Foster's take in his "Star Trek Log" series of TAS adaptations: that he is transcribing/novelizing from the official officers' logs. (He even alters the as-scripted stardates to match the new order of events as he unfolds them over ten volumes, rather than use airdate or production order.)

As in any historical novel, authors will take some liberties with the material, extrapolating missing bits of information, glamorizing other bits, maybe even adding/changing characters to give readers what the authors and editors think is the best reading experience. Works for me!

 

[Christopher]

^Heck, in Roddenberry's TMP novelization, GR presented himself as a creator in the TOS era who had produced a fictional series dramatizing the real adventures of the Enterprise, and he confessed in his introductory material that he had taken some liberties with the facts and gotten some things wrong, and now that he'd come back to chronicle the Vejur [sic] incident, he was going to try to be more accurate. Which was his way of rationalizing the things about TOS that he wasn't happy with -- the decisions and mistakes that he later regretted, the compromises he'd had to make due to budget or censorship or technological limits, etc.