Perhaps Nimoy felt that he had an opportunity to be used more robustly (and frequently) in the TNG era than B&B were willing to contemplate, and threw him a “bone” in the Romulan/Ambassadorial storyline….

As Q is one of my favourite TNG characters, I’d be glad to see him in a ST movie, and the prime and new Enterprise crews meeting each other is a fascinating idea too, but that won’t probably happen, not in the next few ST movies anyway:). But this would be just the kind of a novel that I’d really like to read.

Sure. JJ’s Star Trek was created and successfully implemented in the spirit and style of Star Trek (TOS) TNG was not.
JJ’s Star Trek constatnly felt like Star Trek (TOS). TNG did not.
Perhaps I should rephrase my statement. Rather than say, the way TNG treated TOS was a travesty, I should have said, I feel TNG was a travesty.

You can love TNG all you want, nothing I ever say will change that. But personaly, I can’t stand the show, never could.

I enjoyed the later series, but there is simply no timeless quality to them. They were, sorry to say it, soap opera’s. The stories from TNG’s 5th season to Enterprise’s last were always wrought with secondary plotlines that had nothing to do with the actual story.

I mean, can you imagine if the Doomsday Machine had been done in any of the later Star Trek (colon) series? We would have had a 10 minute briefing room scene from (insert later series techno-babble spewing character here) explaining how the machine is using a theta-matrix compositor to bend subspace to do whatever. We also would have had a 10 minute scene of (insert character here) dealing with a personal matter that has nothing to do with the actual plot.

The later series, sorry to say it, simply have no timeless quality to them.