Comments on: EXCLUSIVE: Pocket Books Announces 2010 Star Trek Books – Includes 4 ‘JJ-verse’ Novels

By: Melissa

Melissa — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 22:51:52 +0000

“JJ verse” all the years of Star Trek we know wiped away becuase they couldn’t come up with a plot. Let’s just throw in some time travel by “Romulans” and we can do whatever we want! The characters don’t even have to be in character because everything changed! Actually, let’s even make the history of the characters different while we’re at it. JJ, stick to the great TV you make.

I’m glad GR is not here to see what was done to ST. Now books to follow up with that stinko movie? – uggg! If you want different time lines/universes read AU fanfiction. That’s about the level of the movie and I would expect the novels to be just as stupid. Call me a traditionalist, whatever…I’ve been a fan since TOS was first aired. Please put AU Star Trek at the top of each book in big letters.

Whew!

Was hoping the follow up to Enterprise’s Romulan War would be this year. Maybe they will add another Enterprise novel for this year.

By: Shannon

Shannon — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 12:58:16 +0000

Hmmm…. I’m interested in some of the quests and missions that the Enterprise has post-Countdown. Of course, since everyone’s split up to do their own thing, I think most of the crew would be OCs… unless everyone is required to pull together for some major quest or something… *sigh*

I have a post-countdown story in the making (in my mind, LOL) but it won’t meet the requirements that Pocket Books has for publishing. Oh well! Time for shameless fanfic….

And finally, for anyone who’s curious and looking for a list of star trek novels:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Star_Trek_novels

I believe it lists the novels in order of publication year, so they SHOULD be in some sort of consistent understandable order. I’ve just started to pick up the novels myself, so I’ve found this resource really helpful.

By: steve solomon

steve solomon — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 19:20:46 +0000

Where can I find a full chronological list of all star trek books by series inclusie of the forthcoming 2010 releases. NO COMIC PLEASE

By: Joey

Joey — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 07:02:08 +0000

The Enterprise “Romulan War” books should have a follow up soon, I’d hope!
Vanguard was awesome, I’d hope to read more soon!

At first I didn’t think I’d like Destiny, I only tried it because it was a 3 way mix of ENTERPRISE, NEXT GENERATION, and DEEP SPACE NINE (DS9 thainks to Ezri Dax) it turned out to be pretty good… I’m hoping for more follow ups soon,. and am now quite interested in the Typhon Pact.

Pumping out titles based on the original series will appeal to soft-core fans whom know of the series and don’t really follow it, but it dilutes the over all quality…
Look at Star Wars, the guy next to Star Trek in the book store, I’m not a big Star Wars fan, but I can see they are expanding their universe, with common continuity and more than “just an other story about some guys in a movie”

I thought the new movie titled only “Star Trek” was a horribly dumb story, like disgustingly ridiculous, …that said, I like the idea of two time-lines existing side by side, and think the new universe (no matter how idiotic the original story may be) has potential for a lot of interesting stories to be told …so I am interested books based on STAR TREK THE NEW MOVIE SERIES, but shouldn’t they be called something other than Star Trek the Original Series, because it’s not the Original Series just because it has Kirk and Spock, the Original Series would be stories in time-line 1… Has a name ever been chosen for the new movie series?
Something like STAR TREK THE NEW SERIES? or STAR TREK NEW MOVIES SERIES? maybe STAR TREK TIMELINE 2?

By: craig

craig — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 03:13:33 +0000

Wow i have to spend months now trying to find something good to read until the fall. why are they spending so much time on the first star trek?

By: Rattweiler

Rattweiler — Fri, 25 Dec 2009 15:23:16 +0000

#83 I agree that the Voyager series has a new storyline that needs to have a new novel out sooner than “maybe 2011″. If I would have known that no new book was planned, I wouldn’t have bothered getting Unworthy until 2011.

#55 You like the Iconic original characters. Well the new Voyager book brings back most of those characters: Chakotay, Seven of Nine, Tom Paris, B’Elanna, The Doctor, Harry Kim, Reg Barclay (TNG & VOY), as well as Neelix. Seems like only a couple missing (Tuvok and a dead Janeway).

By: kasie

kasie — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 08:55:21 +0000

same here. Just finished Unworthy and there is definetly a lot that needs to be finished. I just thought they might have some plans sooner than “maybe” 2011.

By: Sue W

Sue W — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 00:59:21 +0000

very disapointed that tere are no enterprise or voyager novels for 2010!

By: Pat Prevenas

Pat Prevenas — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 19:32:31 +0000

Also… can I just protest these planned JJ-verse novels? Please? Totally unnecessary. The new movie was great fun, but it’s been set off in an alternate timeline for “reboot” purposes. I am not interested in following TWO takes on The Original Series. The Abrams reboot will deliver a few really fun movies, but there won’t be any longevity to it because that crew’s story has already existed for 40+ years. I’d rather that the JJ-verse was ignored in a literary context. Really.

By: Pat Prevenas

Pat Prevenas — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 05:22:03 +0000

Am I the only person saddened by the lack of aesthetic continuity with these books anymore? I kind of hate that Pocket stopped numbering them (and just before TOS hit #100, too!), cheapened all the cover art dramatically, and no longer follow a sort of recognizable design pattern from novel to novel. I think the decision to stop numbering the novels has been especially disastrous for those of us who fell out of their Trek book collecting for a few years; suddenly now there are large, ongoing stories for TNG and DS9, and it takes an unnecessary amount of work to determine which novels come before or after the other novels so that we can read them in order and not miss any beats. On top of that, Pocket does NOT seem to be reprinting previous books like they used to; it’s been a monstrous chore for me to go back and build the collection I’ve been missing these last several years; I’ve mostly had to do it online because all the local bookstores (and I live in L.A. … there are a LOT of local bookstores!) seem to have drastically thinned their Star Trek sections down from what they used to be. :( Oh, and the current $7.99 cover price on these paperbacks is outrageous. Okay, I can stop complaining now. Pocket, get with it! Let’s get more of these books on the shelves, and a LOT more of the older series that are now undeservedly out of print (tihs I request from a selfish standpoint; I lost probably 40 of my old TNG books and a few Voyagers to a termite invasion last year, and rebuilding THAT collection on top of all the ones I’ve simply missed these last few years has been a near-impossible task!).