If there is any self-respect for Star Trek, there won't be a tie. JJ Abrams would have to be a dummy to do so, and I don't think he is.
TGTD - Possibly tie in to Star Trek XI???
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Considering how popular the book was, he'd be a dummy not to.
Are you kidding me? The book was not that popular. Not even in the top ten Star Trek books. Enterprise books, unfortunately, don't sell well.
How about some facts and evidence to back this up?
... what, because including some casual allusion to Enterprise would make people stay away from the movie? A reasonable reference would excite most fans, be basically neutral for the average person. I suppose some of the folks who want Enterprise stricken from the record could boo when the allusion is made, but that's going to be about as effective in changing people's minds as pointing out that it was Romulans, not Klingons, seen near Gamma Hydra IV before the Kobayashi Maru test.
A few nods and tips of the hat to other parts of the franchise wouldn't hurt, considering how many people are worried about whether or not the Abrams movie is a reboot and will deliberately ignore some longstanding, accepted canon about Starfleet and Enterprise history just to tell a "sexier" story that's more accessible to non-fans.
Nebusj. not because it references Star Trek: Enterprise, no. I think the writer/director/producer would be insane to accept TGTMD because it was crap. (Sorry, no two ways around that.) Trip living another day is fine, but the connection to TGTMD is a bad choice -- poorly written, poor use of characters, etc.
I can think of ten million better and more effective ways. Even having Kirk mention Archer's name would be a homage of sorts.
I can think of ten million better and more effective ways. Even having Kirk mention Archer's name would be a homage of sorts.
If J.J. Abrams gives two shits about general franchise continuity he'd mention something from the other shows and films. Archer is supposed to be an established historical figure by the time Kirk is at the Academy and it'd be a real downer to go an entire two or two and a half hour movie without at least one brief reference to 22nd century Starfleet history. The Xindi probe attack. Archer. Something.
it's more likely to be a broad reference to Ent, at best, rather than something specific from a tie-in novel.
To be fair, elements from the novels have made it into the canon before. Sulu's first name of Hikaru was first established in a Trek novel from the early 80s before they canonized it in Star Trek VI, for instance, and the producers of TOS Remastered recently decided to replace the space station from "The Ultimate Computer" with a version of the Watchtower-class starbase from the novel series Star Trek: Vanguard.
And we can add the names of Kirk's parents, George and Winona as well.
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