Team Abrams, canon and novels

[Therin of Andor]

My bad, I should have been more clear. I meant canonizing the idea that Vulcans of the pre-TOS era were not as 'perfect' as they later seemed be.

When were they ever perfect?

T'Pring, who cheated on Spock and lt him fight to the death with his own captain so she could keep bonking Stonn? T'Pau, who treated humans with disdain? Sarek, who refused to talk to Spock for 18 years for choosing the wrong career path? Young Spock's Vulcan tormentors in "Yesteryear" (TAS)? The Vulcan Masters who coldly pronounced Spock a failure in his kolinahr? DS9's serial killer? The Vulcan baseball team in "Take Me Out to the Holosuite"?

 

[Timewalker]

Although the subsequent films changed the backstory, I think my favorite Reeves-Stevens novel was Federation. To me, it was a far better meshing of two generations of Trek than Generations was, and crafted a more noble version of Zefram Cochran, IMO.

We think alike. I absolutely loved Federation. And the ending sent chills up my spine... when the far-future captain of a ship named "Enterprise" sets off on a voyage beyond the Milky Way, after the Federation receives an invitation from an alien race, and off they go into "sidewarp"...

There were parts of that novel that had me nearly in tears.