Would the novelizations be better???

[JD]

JD, I just think that most likely those who really liked an episode probably would like it "novelized" with some backstory / added scenes.

I'm everyone has there own Top 10 Worst Trek Episodes and thinks, "there is no friggin' this episode should have a novelization or a prequel/sequel to it.

Whereas everyone has there own Top 10 Kick @$$ Trek Episodes and thinks, "I would love a back story/novelization to this!"

I'm sure some think, "why tamper with a kick @$$ episode but at least SOME of the Top 10 Kick @$$ episodes, a person would want more story/backstory to feed the beast!

I completely understand and like I said in my post, I would love to get that for an episode like The Inner Light, I just don't want that for the episodes you mentioned. I was simply disagreeing with the idea of novelizing the episodes you mentioned, not the idea of novelizing more episodes.

 

[Avro Arrow]

How about the other way around, then? Are there any episodes you hate that you think a novelization could fix?

TATV. Someone should get on that...

 

[vegaslover62]

I've always wanted to volunteer to novelize BOBW and The Drumhead.

I remember quite fondly the comicbook version of The Voyage Home. After Chekov woke up and said, "Name... Chekov, Pavel. Rank... Admiral!" Gillian was quoted as saying, "Don't you guys have any enlisted types?" And then after Gillian was beamed aboard the Bounty and Kirk said, "Hello, Alice. Welcome to Wonderland!" Gillian saw Spock without his headband and said, "If I'm Alice, you must be The White Rabbit."

 

[JonnyQuest037]

But honestly, if she thought that little of the script, it would've been more professional to just turn down the job rather than undercut it at every opportunity.

She'd almost certainly signed the contract before seeing the script, however...

Good point. Getting the job to novelize an unfilmed pilot IS kind of a crapshoot, isn't it?

 

[DimesDan]

I've always wanted to volunteer to novelize BOBW

I think a novel that interlinks all of the early Borg episodes with that of Dark Frontier (the Hansen portions) would be good, especially the behind the scenes prep that Starfleet was doing for the oncoming storm that is the Borg.

 

[Christopher]

I remember quite fondly the comicbook version of The Voyage Home. After Chekov woke up and said, "Name... Chekov, Pavel. Rank... Admiral!" Gillian was quoted as saying, "Don't you guys have any enlisted types?" And then after Gillian was beamed aboard the Bounty and Kirk said, "Hello, Alice. Welcome to Wonderland!" Gillian saw Spock without his headband and said, "If I'm Alice, you must be The White Rabbit."

I believe those were lines from the screenplay that were cut from the final film. A comics adaptation wouldn't have had room to add new lines.

 

[JonnyQuest037]

I remember quite fondly the comicbook version of The Voyage Home. After Chekov woke up and said, "Name... Chekov, Pavel. Rank... Admiral!" Gillian was quoted as saying, "Don't you guys have any enlisted types?" And then after Gillian was beamed aboard the Bounty and Kirk said, "Hello, Alice. Welcome to Wonderland!" Gillian saw Spock without his headband and said, "If I'm Alice, you must be The White Rabbit."

I believe those were lines from the screenplay that were cut from the final film. A comics adaptation wouldn't have had room to add new lines.

It's not likely, but it's certainly possible. I can't speak to those specific lines, but I've seen several comic book movie adaptations that added lines here & there.

 

[Nathan]

that is why I sometimes toy with "fan fiction" I think for the vast majority, fan fiction is just plain shit. Usually, I think it is just some dudes (or lady) fantasy for a specific story line.

But I have come across some decent fan fic where I was thinking, "Dang, that was nice free download, but I would've actually would have paid to read the stuff."

I wonder tho' if my expectation is lowered when I read some fan fiction so I tend to cut it some slack. Whereas books written by DRGIII or Mack, I have a high bar, as I expect (and usually get it), excellent writing from those two.

Not to de-rail the topic to the pros/cons of Fan Fic, but sometimes Fan Fic provides nice backstory (or a sequel) to some characters for instance, Lt Sam Lavelle -- from Lower Decks TNG episode --

Lower Decks is another episode I would've liked novelized.

 

[JD]

I've always wanted to volunteer to novelize BOBW and The Drumhead.

It is rather surprising that BoBW didn't get one.

 

[stardream]

I've always wanted to volunteer to novelize BOBW

I think a novel that interlinks all of the early Borg episodes with that of Dark Frontier (the Hansen portions) would be good, especially the behind the scenes prep that Starfleet was doing for the oncoming storm that is the Borg.

I wish there were 'history' books written a about some events. Things like a comprehensive overall treatment of the Dominion War or the Trip through the Delta Quadrant or even a 'Complete history of the Borg' (but I would want David Mack's origin story) from beginning to end.

 

[Sto-Vo-Kory]

I've always wanted to volunteer to novelize BOBW

I think a novel that interlinks all of the early Borg episodes with that of Dark Frontier (the Hansen portions) would be good, especially the behind the scenes prep that Starfleet was doing for the oncoming storm that is the Borg.

Cool idea. I'd buy it.

 

[JonnyQuest037]

I've always wanted to volunteer to novelize BOBW and The Drumhead.

It is rather surprising that BoBW didn't get one.

I think that's partly because they didn't know how huge/popular BOBW was going to be. And also that Michael Piller had NO idea how he was going to finish it when he wrote Pt. 1.

Had they novelized any TNG episodes besides "Encounter at Farpoint" at that point?

 

[Stevil2001]

No, Unification was the first TNG novelization after the pilot. It must have sold well, because after that, we got Relics, Descent, and All Good Things... in quick succession, and novelizations became a pretty regular thing for Deep Space Nine.

EDIT: What does seem surprising is the lack of a novelization for Scorpion, given what an EVENT the return of the Borg was. (I remember getting the TV Guide issue!) But then Equinox got one for some reason.

 

[Markonian]

But then Equinox got one for some reason.

That novelization was well done, except for the "Maria Gilmore" bit. Still, I would've loved some chapters worth of exploration of the Equinox's five-year journey.

 

[JonnyQuest037]

EDIT: What does seem surprising is the lack of a novelization for Scorpion, given what an EVENT the return of the Borg was. (I remember getting the TV Guide issue!)

That was an event that totally passed me by, as I'd given up watching VOY by then. I assume "Scorpion" was the premiere that introduced 7 of 9, right? But that was after the First Contact movie, IIRC.

 

[trynda1701]

How about the other way around, then? Are there any episodes you hate that you think a novelization could fix?

TATV. Someone should get on that...

I thought that had already been adressed. After all, Trip is still alive in the Novelverse!

 

[Idran]

EDIT: What does seem surprising is the lack of a novelization for Scorpion, given what an EVENT the return of the Borg was. (I remember getting the TV Guide issue!)

That was an event that totally passed me by, as I'd given up watching VOY by then. I assume "Scorpion" was the premiere that introduced 7 of 9, right? But that was after the First Contact movie, IIRC.

Almost exactly a year after, yeah.

 

[Avro Arrow]

How about the other way around, then? Are there any episodes you hate that you think a novelization could fix?

TATV. Someone should get on that...

I thought that had already been adressed. After all, Trip is still alive in the Novelverse!

Yeah, sorry, that was kind of a joke. What "really" happened in TATV is chronicled in The Good That Men Do, IIRC.

 

[JD]

EDIT: What does seem surprising is the lack of a novelization for Scorpion, given what an EVENT the return of the Borg was. (I remember getting the TV Guide issue!) But then Equinox got one for some reason.

Yeah, that one is kind of surprising too. I can see BoBW since they hadn't really done a lot of episode novelizations, but Scorpion would have been after the TNG ones, and at least some of the DS9 ones.

EDIT: I was thinking, I would love to see novelizations that incorporate elements from the novelverse. Like a TNG one that has added scenes with Miranda Kadohata, or one of Undiscovered Country that uses the Federation government structure set up in Articles of the Federation, and Vaerlis's backstory from Cast No Shadow. I think I heard somewhere that one of the later books incorporated Section 31 Into the UC conspiracy, so we could throw that into the mix too.

 

[Idran]

For something kind of along those lines, didn't McIntyre work in some of the recurring characters from her Trek novels into the TWoK and TSFS novelizations? Or am I remembering wrong?