Where's the new Star Trek (2009) novels?
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Not so strange. When ST:TMP came out, many Pocket novels had TMP-inpired covers but the stories were set in the 5YM. Ditto when the uniforms changed in ST II. Some books reflected the new uniforms, but were not set during that period. (Check out "Yesterday's Son", the cover of which has Spock in a blue ST II-style costume.)
JJ Abrams' team wanted to explore the new timeline on film first. The four postponed, sequel novels will probably turn up some time down the track (perhaps with some tweaking), since the authors have all been paid for their work, and Pocket will want to get a return on their investment.
The DC Comics set between ST III and IV attempted to anticipate Kirk and crew on the USS Excelsior, but they had to return Spock to an amnesiac before their ST IV adaptation. When the TNG movies were coming out, the comics were requested to keep their stories to the previous movie's time period.
Meanwhile, there is a line of Young Adult prequel novels set during the crew's Academy years. Two out so far.
*WARNING! THE FOLLOWING IS A JOKE RESPONSE! AUTHOR HAS NO INSIDE KNOWLEDGE!*
The novels are currently residing in a vault at Pocket Books, under a 24 hour armed guard, awaiting the day that JJ Abrams has moved on to some other shiny bauble from our collective childhoods to rape and pillage and he has released his deathgrip on that part of the franchise.
The novels are currently residing in a vault at Pocket Books, under a 24 hour armed guard, awaiting the day that JJ Abrams has moved on to some other shiny bauble from our collective childhoods to rape and pillage and he has released his deathgrip on that part of the franchise.
I really hope that, with the STXII script being finished next month, that there's some communication between Pocket and Bad Robot regarding those four post-STXI novels. Tweaked a little to fit between the movies and released as the STXII hype machine gets into high gear (when the trailer's released, for example), they'd be huge. I'd hate to see another huge oppertunity wasted like when STXI was released and we got a novelization and nothing else.
Bob Orci collects the novels. He's a fan. Whoever's running the Trek novel line needs to be spamming his inbox and clogging his twitter over this.
Bob Orci collects the novels. He's a fan. Whoever's running the Trek novel line needs to be spamming his inbox and clogging his twitter over this.
Not quite. They're shelved and their fate is indeterminate. Getting released as they are is one possibility, but not the only one. For all we know, the events of the second film might contradict them (which is apparently the reason the filmmakers didn't want us novelists getting ahead of them). So they might not be viable in their present form, or at all. It's too early to know.
And they're doing that with the comic-book and YA prequels. The folks in charge of the movie franchise now are a different group from the folks in charge of ST before, and they seem to be less comfortable with contradictions among the tie-ins, so they evidently don't want to risk publishing sequel tales that might end up clashing with the next film. Or so I've gathered.
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