So I love TOS just like any Trekie but I grew up on TNG and DS9 IMO was the best. I was looking at what is coming out and it seems to be mostly TOS novels.
That's actually not the case. 2011's release schedule included seven new stories set in the 2370s-80s (three TNG, one NF, one DTI, one VGR, one Mirror Universe) and only five set in earlier eras (one ENT, two
Vanguard, one TOS, and one in the Lost Era). So far from being mostly TOS, 2011 had hardly any TOS at all. As for 2012, it opens with a strong 23rd-century focus, with two TOS novels, the final VNG novel, and a DTI novel with both TOS and 24th-century elements; but the rest of 2012, as far as we know, will be entirely 24th-century: a Typhon Pact duology, a new
Titan novel, a new
Voyager novel, and a TNG-era trilogy. So again, TOS constitutes only a fraction of the schedule, and even if you include
Vanguard it's still less than half.
1. Why so many are people losing interest in the 24th century.
Clearly they aren't, since 24th-century books still make up the majority of the schedule.
2. Why have TOS novels not shifted to JJ Trek?
J.J. Abrams's Bad Robot Productions makes the decisions about tie-ins to their film continuity, and for whatever reason, they've chosen to focus on comic books and young-adult books for now.
Besides, the movies may have had to recast and restart things in order to revitalize the Kirk era, but in the books we're under no such restriction, and can still tell new stories within the original TOS continuity. So why shouldn't we?
Really a film the contradicted years of Trek I find that funny lol thanks I never knew that.
The film didn't contradict anything, at least no more badly than any prior Trek film has, because it's explicitly in a parallel timeline.
