TOS "relaunch"

[Thrawn]

Yeah. Certainly there's absolutely no sense whatsoever in reading any more than one of the set of Belle Terre, The Flaming Arrow, and Thin Air, unless you've never experienced deja vu before and you really want to see what it's like. Twice.

 

[Relayer1]

What about The Last Roundup, In the Name of Honor, The Case of the Colonist's Corpse, The Children of Kings, and Garth of Izar?

Can you rule anything out just for being terrible ?

If you can, Last Roundup is out...

 

[Thrawn]

That's pretty much why I ruled out the last three.

 

[Stevil2001]

Oh, I really liked The Children of Kings, but it doesn't really fit into a "relaunch" if that's meant to indicate some kind of continuity-- it's not even really in continuity with the show.

 

[Enterprise1701]

What about The Last Roundup, In the Name of Honor, The Case of the Colonist's Corpse, The Children of Kings, and Garth of Izar?

Can you rule anything out just for being terrible ?

If you can, Last Roundup is out...

.....it's THAT bad?

 

[Christopher]

I reread The Last Roundup just recently, and I had no problems with it.

 

[F. King Daniel]

Hi, all. I know there's not an official 'relaunch' continuity for TOS, but was wondering something: if you were going to sit down and try to create a 'relaunch' continuity for TOS Lit, what novels would be part of it?

I'd start afresh. That's not to say I don't like the references to classic TOS novels that sneak in nowadays (I want to read No Time Like the Past just for the Zar reference!), it's just that the continuity is snarled enough and if a serious ongoing series were attempted it would just end up very messy indeed.

 

[Allyn Gibson]

I'd start afresh. That's not to say I don't like the references to classic TOS novels that sneak in nowadays (I want to read No Time Like the Past just for the Zar reference!), it's just that the continuity is snarled enough and if a serious ongoing series were attempted it would just end up very messy indeed.

If it were up to me, I'd almost start fresh. I'd take Crucible as my baseline and build out from there.

 

[TheUsualSuspect]

If it were up to me, I'd almost start fresh. I'd take Crucible as my baseline and build out from there.

I strongly agree with this! I loved how DRG filled out the personal and professional lives of the characters beyond what we saw in the series and the movies. I was disappointed that the Spock and Kirk volumes did not give any more details about the post-TMP mission laid out in the McCoy book. I'd love to see some novels set in the Crucible continuity that told us more about those years.

 

[ryan123450]

Hi, all. I know there's not an official 'relaunch' continuity for TOS, but was wondering something: if you were going to sit down and try to create a 'relaunch' continuity for TOS Lit, what novels would be part of it?

I'd start afresh. That's not to say I don't like the references to classic TOS novels that sneak in nowadays (I want to read No Time Like the Past just for the Zar reference!), it's just that the continuity is snarled enough and if a serious ongoing series were attempted it would just end up very messy indeed.

Anyone know how Zar is referenced in No Time Like the Past?

 

[Enterprise1701]

Hi, all. I know there's not an official 'relaunch' continuity for TOS, but was wondering something: if you were going to sit down and try to create a 'relaunch' continuity for TOS Lit, what novels would be part of it?

I'd start afresh. That's not to say I don't like the references to classic TOS novels that sneak in nowadays (I want to read No Time Like the Past just for the Zar reference!), it's just that the continuity is snarled enough and if a serious ongoing series were attempted it would just end up very messy indeed.

Anyone know how Zar is referenced in No Time Like the Past?

In non-dialogue text, Kirk recalls "it wasn't long ago" that he, McCoy, and Spock journeyed to the past to retrieve Zar and Zar's eventual return to his era.

 

[ryan123450]

Cool. Thanks!

 

[ATimson]

If it were up to me, I'd almost start fresh. I'd take Crucible as my baseline and build out from there.

I wouldn't; if I had to pick a baseline & start fresh, I'd start with something compatible with the 24th century continuity. Say, Vanguard and Forgotten History.

 

[Skywalker]

If it were up to me, I'd almost start fresh. I'd take Crucible as my baseline and build out from there.

I wouldn't; if I had to pick a baseline & start fresh, I'd start with something compatible with the 24th century continuity. Say, Vanguard and Forgotten History.

Yeah, I have to admit, part of me is really disappointed that Crucible was written as a standalone without having to worry about compatibility. I get why it happened and I'm sure David R. George III liked the creative freedom it gave him, but I prefer reading stories set in the shared continuity.

 

[JD]

If it were up to me, I'd almost start fresh. I'd take Crucible as my baseline and build out from there.

I wouldn't; if I had to pick a baseline & start fresh, I'd start with something compatible with the 24th century continuity. Say, Vanguard and Forgotten History.

I'd agree with this. If they were going to do a TOS series set in the Novelverse, it seems to me it would be best to build off of stuff that is already set solidly in the Novelverse.

 

[Enterprise1701]

If it were up to me, I'd almost start fresh. I'd take Crucible as my baseline and build out from there.

I wouldn't; if I had to pick a baseline & start fresh, I'd start with something compatible with the 24th century continuity. Say, Vanguard and Forgotten History.

I'd agree with this. If they were going to do a TOS series set in the Novelverse, it seems to me it would be best to build off of stuff that is already set solidly in the Novelverse.

My thoughts exactly. That's almost a beauty of the Abramsverse focus by Paramount. Since then the TNG, DS9, Titan, and Voyager novels have set a consistent and mostly wonderful path of their own.

 

[Corran Horn]

The Janus Gate & Errand of Vengeance novels were supposed to be a kind of 'relaunch', I believe--they had just stopped the numbered novels right before them. I don't know why they didn't keep doing them regularly - The Errand of Fury trilogy novels didn't come out until a couple years later and each was spaced out a couple years. (That was around when Pocket stopped the 2 new novels/month schedule)

 

[Christopher]

The Janus Gate & Errand of Vengeance novels were supposed to be a kind of 'relaunch', I believe--they had just stopped the numbered novels right before them. I don't know why they didn't keep doing them regularly...

The idea with those was basically to take a new look at TOS itself with more of a modern, serialized approach, weaving ongoing character arcs (focusing mainly on lower-decks crew) through and around the episodes of the show. But the serialized, lower-decks focus didn't really come together as imagined, so the books weren't different enough from ordinary TOS books to really constitute a distinct series.

 

[Enterprise1701]

The Janus Gate & Errand of Vengeance novels were supposed to be a kind of 'relaunch', I believe--they had just stopped the numbered novels right before them. I don't know why they didn't keep doing them regularly...

The idea with those was basically to take a new look at TOS itself with more of a modern, serialized approach, weaving ongoing character arcs (focusing mainly on lower-decks crew) through and around the episodes of the show. But the serialized, lower-decks focus didn't really come together as imagined, so the books weren't different enough from ordinary TOS books to really constitute a distinct series.

I consider that a bit too bad. If it was a more serialized, coordinated approach, then maybe we could get consistent fleshing-out and characterization of the minor crewmembers of the Enterprise like we have in the TNG, DS9, and VOY relaunches. On the other hand, at least there's something living up to the original Star Trek. Unlike two certain recent films.....

 

[Markonian]

Oh, and throw in Inception. At least I think so. Cute little piece of continuity fluff; lots of people didn't like it, but I thought it was great.

Don't. Standalone, the book is good but Inception isn't even in continuity with the TV series. It posits Spock as the only Vulcan (or even non-Human) in all of Starfleet, which contradicts TOS: "The Immunity Syndrom" and ENT Season 4.