What are your controversial Star Trek opinions?

[Tallguy]

I totally agree. That should have been it for all the characters... They go off into the sunset. Certainly gives authors a lot of options after that.

In the early Blish novelizations there are forewords by a retired Captain Kirk. (Right? I don't have copies on hand.)

 

[Christopher]

In the early Blish novelizations there are forewords by a retired Captain Kirk. (Right? I don't have copies on hand.)

I don't recall that. Maybe you're thinking of Alan Dean Foster's TAS novelizations, which open with the notation:

Logs of the Starship Enterprise
Stardates [xxxx-xxxx] Inclusive

James T. Kirk, Capt., USSC, FS, ret.
Commanding

transcribed by
Alan Dean Foster

At the Galactic Historical Archives
on S. Monicus I
Stardate [xxxx.x]

For the curator: JLR​

("S. Monicus I" was a reference to Santa Monica, CA, where Foster was living at the time. JLR is Foster's editor on the series, Judy Lynn del Rey.)

 

[Tallguy]

I'm thinking specifically of Charlie X where a retired James Kirk says that the biggest trouble he ever had was a teenage boy named Charlie Evans.

Kind of like how the initial batch of Captain's Logs were written as if Kirk wrote them down after the fact with full knowledge of what had happened in hindsight.

 

[Christopher]

I'm thinking specifically of Charlie X where a retired James Kirk says that the biggest trouble he ever had was a teenage boy named Charlie Evans.

Checking the book, I see that wasn't a foreword, just the opening paragraph of that particular story -- although that was the first story in the collection.

 

[hbquikcomjamesl]

Makes me think of the "chapter arguments" in my own novel (which range from a few words to provide context, to naked info-dumps, to Biblical quotes).

The novelization of TMP does have a few pages of "Admiral Kirk's Preface" (I would argue that it should have been billed as a foreword).