What I mean is I would like to see what the movie writers views are on things they would like to see happen in the Abramsverse.
Which is something they're naturally not going to give away in advance, because that would spoil future movies. Abrams & co. keep very, very tight security on their productions. Even Alan Dean Foster didn't get brought in to do the novelization until two months after the film was completed, which made things very difficult for Pocket because of the extremely compressed production schedule that was necessary to get the novel out in time for the premiere. So if you're saying you want the filmmakers to let the novelists in on their plans for the film series, you'd have just as much luck wishing for a Vulcan ship to land in Central Park and deliver actual Federation history records to the Pocket Books offices.
Not just things they would like to do in the next movie. Basically I would like to see them give more depth to the overall framework in which the movie's will be set in. As a rule I figure this movies will mostly be told from the "Enterprise" crew. I wouldn't want alot of canon books. I proably should have mentioned that as well. Maybe 5 at most. You don't want to many of these because you don't want to start getting corned when it comes to the movies of having to keep track of all these books. These 5 books would more or less explore how this Federation different, what life is like for Vulcans etc.
Based on what we've seen so far, if the filmmakers did do anything like that, they'd probably do it in comics rather than prose. And even thought Kurtzman & Orci co-plotted the
Countdown comic, Orci is on record as saying that he does
not consider it part of the canon. Tie-ins are supplements. The canon is the core work in its original medium, by definition. Everything else is secondary. As I said, even if you slapped the word "canon" on a book, that wouldn't prevent it from being contradicted in the next film if the filmmakers had a better idea in the meantime, so it would be a meaningless designation.
And filmmakers do change their minds all the time. Just this morning, I read a post on another BBS pointing out that in George Lucas's original outline for the third
Star Wars film, Luke met his sister, and it was a new character instead of Leia. Clearly, between the outline and the script, Lucas changed his mind. That's how the creative process works. It's not all carved in stone before the writers even begin work. They revise and rethink a lot of it as they go. So even if they put out books or comics in 2009 or 2010 that represented their plans for the film universe
at that time, there'd be no guarantee that they wouldn't change their minds a year later as the film development process led them in a very different direction.
So what you're asking for is impossible. Anything that
anyone put in a book today, whether the idea came from novelists or the filmmakers themselves, would still be subject to contradiction in the next film. The only way you could ever get a definitive, inviolable set of books filling in the continuity gaps is if they came along
after the series had finished once and for all. What you're seeking would only be viable if there were never any more
Star Trek on film, if the screen franchise died completely and there were nothing left but books.
Once again I use the "Countdown" comic as a example. I felt that was a perfect example of how to aproach these books. Something that is canon(well it might not be but most of us thought it was) that more or line matches up to what we see in the movies but also doesn't hold back the movies.
Except that Orci himself has said that
Countdown is not canon, and there's absolutely nothing preventing the filmmakers from contradicting it in their next project.
