Why have there been no Kelvinverse novels?

[The Wormhole]

I'm not keen on shit-stirring, but posts on this page as well as this one may be of interest.

Well, that's definitely some interesting and eye-opening stuff.

 

[stardream]

Probably marketability. The type of hardcore Trekkie to read a Trek novel tends to also hate the Kelvinverse. Just not enough demand.

I read the novels and I like the Kelvinverse.

 

[Greg Cox]

I read the novels and I like the Kelvinverse.

I write the novels and I like the new movies.

Seriously, the idea that all us old-school fans "hate" the reboot has been wildly exaggerated.

 

[Tenacity]

As a old-school fan I wouldn't say I hate the Abrams-verse movies, that goes too far, I just like all the other Trek movies better. Unless you like all the movies equally, there are going to be movies at the bottom of your personal list.

 

[WARLOCK1965]

As a old-school fan I wouldn't say I hate the Abrams-verse movies, that goes too far, I just like all the other Trek movies better. Unless you like all the movies equally, there are going to be movies at the bottom of your personal list.

So very true each person has their own likes and dislikes but I will give each movie or series respect on it on unverse of being as I do the comic books and novels

 

[fireproof78]

I write the novels and I like the new movies.

Seriously, the idea that all us old-school fans "hate" the reboot has been wildly exaggerated.

And yet it persists.

 

[Greg Cox]

And yet it persists.

It makes for a nice, simple narrative: "Old versus new, classic versus modern, old fogeys versus callow youngsters, 'real' fans versus fake fans, fandom versus the masses, us against them."

Real life is seldom so binary.

 

[Laura Cynthia Chambers]

Whatever happened (or perhaps didn't), what's done is done and we've since learned that those four written novels were rendered unpublishable by events in Into Darkness anyway.

And it would be really reaching if they said, "Oh, this happened in an alternate reality alternate timeline..."

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

Barring a renegotiation of the license agreements, I suppose we can still hope that the novels will eventually be leaked to the public.

They've gotta be out there somewhere, and if they are, they will be found. Hackers will get ahold of them and release them.

Yeah, sure, a bunch of Trek novels may not exactly be the most exciting target, but there's lots of fans who'd love to read these novels, and so there's always a market for things like this.

 

[Captain of the USS Averof]

^^ I'm surprised this hasn't happened already. How long has been? 8 years since they were supposed to come out? Is there still a chance they might be published?

 

[The Wormhole]

Is there still a chance they might be published?

A few of the authors have expressed the opinion that no, they likely won't ever be published.

 

[David cgc]

How long has been? 8 years since they were supposed to come out? Is there still a chance they might be published?

I'm not. The authors and editors all still work on Star Trek, so they wouldn't want to burn the bridge, and the handful of other people with access wouldn't care any more than they would to steal any other unpublished novel.

Also, at this point, the best ideas from the books have almost certainly been recycled into the authors' more recent novels by this point, and several storyline specifics have been said to have been contradicted by Into Darkness or Beyond. They'd be little more than a curiosity at this point.