Having recently reread the fantastic "Yesterday's Son" and "Time For Yesterday" by Ann Crispin, I was curious as to whether there have been any mentions of Spock's son Zar or the events of those novels since. Memory Beta turns up nothing.
Zar
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Time For Yesterday was, basically, the last hurrah of the 1980s novel continuity. After that we get the Arnold-era, and then in the mid-90s we start getting things like Invasion!
Crispin was contracted to write a trilogy in the late 90s, in the era when John Ordover had a mad on for trilogies, that would have brought Zar back, circa the events of Sarek. It would have been a time travel-heavy story set largely on Vulcan during the time of Surak. I remember there was a scene in the outline where Kirk gets into a fistfight with Dulmer and Lucsly.
Ordover left Pocket, Crispin was very late in turning in the first book, and Marco canceled the trilogy.
Wow. Neat to finally know more details on that story.
The first book was actually written? Gah, I hate finding out about books I'll never be able to read...
http://www.well.com/~sjroby/lostbooks.html#04ye
Although Crispin mentions in an interview that the trilogy was "virtually finished", I believe only the first (short) installment was submitted to Pocket. There were some beta readers who saw that part.
It would be nice if she put it up for download like Margaret Wander Bonanno did with her version of Probe.
I take it there's no legal problem with doing that - it's effectively fanfiction ?
I'd love to read the draft of the Zar-trilogy 
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And speaking of Crispin: I know it's off-topic (because it's not ST) - but does anyone know what happened to Crispin's "The Exiles of Boq'urain"? The first book out of what I think was meant to be a trilogy came out in 2006... didn't it sell well enough to warrant a publication of the other parts? I'd appreciate any info.
.And speaking of Crispin: I know it's off-topic (because it's not ST) - but does anyone know what happened to Crispin's "The Exiles of Boq'urain"? The first book out of what I think was meant to be a trilogy came out in 2006... didn't it sell well enough to warrant a publication of the other parts? I'd appreciate any info.
I'd love to read the draft of the Zar-trilogy
I understand it's only Part 1 of the three projected books.
It was sent to Pocket way after the original contract had lapsed, so I guess that places it in a different situation to "Probe" and "A Flag Full of Stars", ST novels that authors were paid for, but their submissions were changed so much by other authors/editors that MWB (garamet) and Brad Ferguson wanted to share their original submitted manuscripts with fans.
Ann Crispin did share her draft of the first volume of the trilogy with a few fans. I was lucky enough to get to read it.
It's very short -- can't be much more than 50,000 words. It ends on a wicked cliffhanger, and mostly takes place in Sarpiedon's distant past. I called it "Star Trek on Darkover" when I first read it a decade-ish ago.
I recommended to Crispin that she hang onto the manuscript, stop distributing it to fans, and see if she could interest a different editorial regime at Pocket Books some time in the future, after the Clark/Palmieri editorship was a thing of the past. New editors might be more receptive.
Like now, for instance. Ann? Are you listening...?
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