That's what I found great about the early Trek novels. They expanded so much the Trek universe and made it entirely three-dimensional. Novels like ST:TMP went behind the psyche of James Kirk, to the point that the prologue to the book was SIGNED by "James T. Kirk". That was a rather nice touch. :)I didn't know this but I'm not surprised. However, there's a lot of people who think the ST novels are SUPERIOR to the tv/movie franchises. I've read a few including THE ROMULAN WAY, SPOCK'S WORLD, THE PANDORA PRINCIPLE, and STARFLEET: YEAR ONE. All were pretty good in terms of Genre novels, especially Spock's World. I recently picked up IN THE NAME OF HONOR which had good reviews so I'm looking forward to it (into a big genre novel kick...just read GHOST WAR for Mechwarrior: Dark Age and am about to read A CALL TO ARMS for same). The comments I've read is that the ST novels stick much more to internal consistency than the tv/movies do (Enterprise seems to be breaking the continuity bugbear and they don't care...)
Novels like "Return to Yesterday", "Yesterday's Son" and "Sarek", by AC Crispin explored in depth the reality of Spock, while "Dreams of the Raven" by Carmen Carter dealt so much with the motivations behind the character of Bones. I don't mean to ramble, but I was rather dismayed when I found out Gene Rodenberry's "verdict" that stated the Trek novels were *not* part of the Trek continuum. After that, the Trek novels somewhat lost me, and I don't follow them with the same enthusiasm that I did until then. (This would've been.. '92 thru '95?). I've picked up the books occasionally, and I know what they're about, but I don't really go into them with the same energy.
However, I also heard that George Lucas has approved the SW novels as part of the "canon" of the Star Wars universe. Was this true?Never heard this but I don't think I care anymore; I thought the Dark Force Rising trilogy to be mediocre and Truce at Bakuraa not very SW. Plus the fact that so far GL has dissappointed me wrt the SW franchise (Original trilogy special editions and the new movies). Too bad too...
Damon.
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