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Originally Posted by DuaneAA
Back in the 1970s and 1980s I read the first 150 Star Trek tie-in novels. And when they started publishing the Buffy tie-in novels I read the first 30-40.
But after awhile they all started to seem too predictable and stale.
Then I discovered fan fiction and realized what the problem was with the 'published' tie-in books. They were all forced to stay within canon. Meaning the main central characters had to be exactly the same at the end of the story as they were at the beginning of the story and weren't allowed any growth. So the better writers started to focus on the 'guest of the week' character because they could grow and change or even die over the course of the book. However that regulated the central characters to a secondary role and they were the whole reason you bought the book. So the 'published' writers were trapped in a catch-22 position.
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How would you have felt about "other ship" Star Trek novels? Instead of using the canon crew, what about having something staring the crew of the Constellation, or the Farragut, or another ship? Or even some Klingon or Romulan fic?