Would the novelizations be better???

[Stevil2001]

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?

I don't remember if she actually appears, but Mandala Flynn, who was chief of security in The Entropy Effect, is captain of a Galaxy-class starship in The Wrath of Khan and The Search for Spock.

 

[Christopher]

^Which, of course, is not the same as the Galaxy class introduced years later in TNG. It was supposed to be an intergalactic craft, wasn't it?

 

[Stevil2001]

^Which, of course, is not the same as the Galaxy class introduced years later in TNG. It was supposed to be an intergalactic craft, wasn't it?

Yes. I pulled Wrath of Khan up on Google Books; Kirk and Sulu talk about Mandala's success, and the narrator comments, "The new Galaxy-class ships were smaller than the Enterprise, but much faster. They were most efficient around warp twelve. Only three as yet existed: Andromeda, M-31, and Magellanic Clouds. Their purpose was very-long-range exploration."

The Search for Spock elaborates that Magellan is in the Andromeda Galaxy.

Weirdly, Dreadnought! claims Piper and her boyfriend are supposed to be serving on Magellan under Flynn, even though the Wrath of Khan novel is pretty clear that Flynn has only just taken command of the ship, and that the ship has only just launched.

 

[Christopher]

^Finding continuity errors in early Trek novels isn't all that weird in my experience. They still crop up today from time to time, despite everyone's best efforts.

 

[tomswift2002]

Its to bad that we never got a novelization for In A Mirror Darkly, or a noveliation of the Soong episodes or even something in the vein of Diane Carey's Dominion War novels for Enterprise's Season 3. But I also remember, back in 2004, being surprised that Zero Hour/Storm Front wasn't novelized, as up to that point, and for me it was the only way to keep up to date on what was occurring on Enterprise, every season opener and ender for Enterprise had been novelized. We'd had Broken Bow, Shockwave & The Expanse (which was The Expanse & The Xindi novelized together. But after that, there were no more novelizations until The Good That Men Do novelized and expanded These Are The Voyages.

Or I'm just looking on Memory Beta, and Season 4 of Enterprise could've had some killer novelizations with the afore mention Soong and Mirror Universe stories, as well as the Vulcan and Babel story arcs.

 

[aelius]

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."

Actually the Chekov scene is in the movie. The look of sheer happiness on his face as he says admiral is amazing.
And I am pretty sure, but not 100% that Kirk welcomes Gillian aboard as Alice
Pretty sure the white rabbit is not in the movie though.

 

[Idran]

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."

Actually the Chekov scene is in the movie. The look of sheer happiness on his face as he says admiral is amazing.
And I am pretty sure, but not 100% that Kirk welcomes Gillian aboard as Alice
Pretty sure the white rabbit is not in the movie though.

Oh, no, vegaslover was talking about the two followup lines. They were saying that each of those lines in the movie had a followup line in the comic.

 

[Therin of Andor]

At least one novelization was given an ISBN and announced, but subsequently cancelled. VOY's "Unimatrix Zero" two-parter, IIRC.

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?

Farrendahl, a felinoid of the same race as Snnanagfashtalli ("The Entropy Effect", "Uhura's Song", "Time for Yesterday"), appears on the Merchantman (I think?) in the novelization of ST III.

 

[somebuddyX]

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.

I really liked reading the "All Good Things" novelisation for all the extra bits and cameos added: Dr. Pulaski talking with Lwaxana Troi, a scene with Barclay, I'm pretty sure Sam Lavelle is mentioned in the future scene with old Riker after he hangs up on old Picard. Ensign Calan, the Bajoran conn officer, who freaks out when a scar she got during the cardassian occupation disappears. Martha Hackett's deleted scene as a Terrellian. Heaps of cool things.

Also one of my favourite Star Wars stories is a fanfiction written after Empire was out but before Jedi was released called The Jedi Question, with a ruthless Vader. And a guy did a neat alternate future Star Trek fan series called Star Trek: Renegade where the Dominion defeated the Alpha Quadrant, where amongst the minor characters was the return of old man Garak, who was still just as devious as he'd been in "In the Pale Moonlight".