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Originally Posted by teh603
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?
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Or the crew of the Excalibur?
With a bunch of ex-guest star characters aboard.
Worked out pretty well when they gave it a try:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Trek:_New_Frontier
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First published in 1997 as a serial consisting of four short novels, New Frontier is set in the Star Trek: The Next Generation universe, but in the wholly unexplored Sector 221-G, home of the recently fallen Thallonian Empire.
Starting the series with a combination of new characters and former Next Generation guest stars, this gave David the opportunity to create his own corner of the Star Trek Universe. Over the years the series has become very popular and critically well-respected to the point that other authors have begun to reference characters and events from the New Frontier continuity, and New Frontier has even been involved in several major crossover events with novels based on the television series (the Gateways, Double Helix, Captain's Table and mirror universe novel series). The series even inspired its own action figure (one of Mackenzie Calhoun), something no Star Trek novel has done before.
Although Peter David has authored nearly all stories in the New Frontier continuity, since he does not own the rights to the series, Pocket Books could theoretically give the series to another author, or even to a rotating series of authors. However, they have shown no indication of doing so, and at last announcement David is scheduled to be the author of any upcoming New Frontier novels.
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Doesn't sound too different from the Kindle Worlds deal.
Mr David writes (very well, too) and gets paid for working with (mostly) other people's characters, fans get to experience a different side of one Trek universe, Paramount and Penguin make a few bucks. (And Amazon, too.)
Take out Penguin, insert Alloy-and-Amazon Publishing.