Post by Niemz on Jul 24, 2006 19:32:43 GMT -6
The Star Trek novels typically fill "holes" in the Star Trek story and timeline, with explanations of events which have never been adequately explained through live action productions. The term was first used in 1966 by writer D.C. Fontana to describe information put forth in the backstory of Doctor Leonard McCoy.
The first original Star Trek novel (for adult readers) was published in 1970 by Bantam Books, which held the licensing rights for original Trek fiction throughout the 1970s. However, since 1980 the publishing company Simon and Schuster has been most directly responsible for contributing to the Star Trek Expanded Universe through its license with Pocket Books which has generated a large number of Star Trek novels over the past twenty five years, based upon all of the live-action series.
Many have been accepted by Trek fans as being canon, even though Paramount Pictures, owners of the Star Trek franchise, considers only live-action television and film productions to be canon.[2]
Star Trek: New Frontier is a Star Trek novel series created by John J. Ordover and Peter David and published by Pocket Books. The idea behind it was to create a Star Trek book series with its own continuity and not one that is purely reactionary to the television shows. Nearly every story of the series is written by series co-creator Peter David.
New Frontier may be considered a turning point in the publishing of Star Trek novels. Encouraged by the freedom that this allowed and the popularity of New Frontier, the Star Trek editors started several new series over the years (with varying degrees of succeess), including Diane Carey's short lived Star Trek: Challenger, Michael Jan Friedman's Star Trek: Stargazer, Keith R. A. DeCandido's Star Trek: I.K.S. Gorkon, Star Trek: Vanguard, the e-book series Star Trek: S.C.E. (Starfleet Corps of Engineers), Star Trek: Excelsior a non-related series of books about the USS Excelsior, and a handful of other individual novels not directly based on any series. Similarly, authors have taken advantage of this new freedom for the post-series Star Trek: Deep Space Nine relaunch and Star Trek: Voyager relaunch along with the post-film novels based on Star Trek: The Next Generation, including the spinoff Star Trek: Titan. All of these Star Trek book series in recent years have been written to be consistent with one another and have formed their own Expanded Universe.
The first original Star Trek novel (for adult readers) was published in 1970 by Bantam Books, which held the licensing rights for original Trek fiction throughout the 1970s. However, since 1980 the publishing company Simon and Schuster has been most directly responsible for contributing to the Star Trek Expanded Universe through its license with Pocket Books which has generated a large number of Star Trek novels over the past twenty five years, based upon all of the live-action series.
Many have been accepted by Trek fans as being canon, even though Paramount Pictures, owners of the Star Trek franchise, considers only live-action television and film productions to be canon.[2]
Star Trek: New Frontier is a Star Trek novel series created by John J. Ordover and Peter David and published by Pocket Books. The idea behind it was to create a Star Trek book series with its own continuity and not one that is purely reactionary to the television shows. Nearly every story of the series is written by series co-creator Peter David.
New Frontier may be considered a turning point in the publishing of Star Trek novels. Encouraged by the freedom that this allowed and the popularity of New Frontier, the Star Trek editors started several new series over the years (with varying degrees of succeess), including Diane Carey's short lived Star Trek: Challenger, Michael Jan Friedman's Star Trek: Stargazer, Keith R. A. DeCandido's Star Trek: I.K.S. Gorkon, Star Trek: Vanguard, the e-book series Star Trek: S.C.E. (Starfleet Corps of Engineers), Star Trek: Excelsior a non-related series of books about the USS Excelsior, and a handful of other individual novels not directly based on any series. Similarly, authors have taken advantage of this new freedom for the post-series Star Trek: Deep Space Nine relaunch and Star Trek: Voyager relaunch along with the post-film novels based on Star Trek: The Next Generation, including the spinoff Star Trek: Titan. All of these Star Trek book series in recent years have been written to be consistent with one another and have formed their own Expanded Universe.
