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Shatner always claims he has never seen a TNG episode (or cared)(most 'recently' stated in "The Star Trek Summit", a special on the blu ray movies box set), so I also doubt he has seen any DS9 or VOY episode. So how come in his novels there are so many references to TNG, cameo appearances of guest characters, and so forth?
That's overstating it. Shatner is involved as a collaborator at every stage of the process. He writes Kirk's dialogue and plots his story arcs, he revises what the Reeves-Stevenses write, and he has final say over everything in the books. So he's as much an "actual writer" as they are.
But yes, it is the R-Ses who contribute the broader Trek continuity elements to the collaboration.
The first one, "The Ashes of Eden," is one of my favorite Trek books. I used to buy the audio version of the books, turn off the lights and just listen to the story as Shatner told it. That's as close as I'm going to get to a new Classic Trek episode.
I enjoyed most of them. The only ones I wasn't overly impressed with were the captain's glory trilogy.
The newest Shatnerverse book, Collision Course, I liked. An interesting look at the young Kirk and Spock. There are some similarities between Kirk in that book and Kirk in the new movie. Unfortunately, Shatner and the rest probably won't write the final two books that were to make up the proposed Academy trilogy.
They're well written, thanks to the Reeves-Stevenses. But aside from that... the first one is an interesting take on Kirk late in life. Most of the others are basically superhero comics about a reanimated Kirk running around in the 24th century. They can be fun at times, but they're just preposterously over the top. And so's the young Kirk novel Collision Course.
Thanks for all of the responses. I'll consider reading the first two trilogies, especially the MU one because I love the MU (despite what DS9 did to try and ruin it).
Not to mention being smarter then Spock, Spock apparently having a major brainfart at one time as well, the fact that the story hinges on Kirk's lack of giving serious thought to what laws are, and Kirk dragging Spock into the story by trying to frame him for a crime.
I just wish he hadn't encouraged the authors to write in a mongoloid son that "dies" facing-down "The Totality".
I'd rather keep Kirk retired or teaching at Starfleet Academy after Spock's supposedly assasinated at a Romulan Peace Rally, Scotty's serving drinks & hosting guests @ "The Engine Room" on Risa. The rest have passed on, via natural causes. The Borg have been kicked to the curb after the U.S.S. Monitor has blown the crap out of their homeworld and whatever remained of The Borg have been 'absorbed' by The Caeliar Gestalt after Voyager curbed their transwarp conduits reaching into the Greater Alpha Quadrant area.
I just wish he hadn't encouraged the authors to write in a mongoloid son that "dies" facing-down "The Totality".
I'd rather keep Kirk retired or teaching at Starfleet Academy after Spock's supposedly assasinated at a Romulan Peace Rally, Scotty's serving drinks & hosting guests @ "The Engine Room" on Risa. The rest have passed on, via natural causes. The Borg have been kicked to the curb after the U.S.S. Monitor has blown the crap out of their homeworld and whatever remained of The Borg have been 'absorbed' by The Caeliar Gestalt after Voyager curbed their transwarp conduits reaching into the Greater Alpha Quadrant area.
Yeah, I know but I've gotten my knuckles slapped with a ruler by The Mods for even suggesting Scotty take-on a one-time (emergency) captaincy of a C.o.E. mission in The Next Generation relaunch era in the Trek Lit area.
The first one, "The Ashes of Eden," is one of my favorite Trek books. I used to buy the audio version of the books, turn off the lights and just listen to the story as Shatner told it. That's as close as I'm going to get to a new Classic Trek episode.
By the way, the only one I haven't gone all the way through is Collision Course. I just figured it'd be better to see how the movie handled things before finishing that book.
I've read all of them except the last in the third trilogy, which I've been unable to find. I lvoed every single one to varying degrees, although the lame one set on Bajor was the worst of the bunch. I thought the second trilogy where Kirk faced off against mirror Kirk was TOTALLY AWESOME.
The Totality trilogy was very poor as it seemed very random with story points. The plot on Bajor in Captain's Peril was worthless and didn't, from what I remember, tie into the larger storyline at all. The flashback scenes, which did, were far more interesting and, I wish, could have been the focus.
I really enjoyed Collision Course. It wasn't anything what I was expecting, but that's okay. I enjoyed it nonetheless. It is a shame the follow up Trial Run won't be happening.
