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Old 09-20-2008, 07:41 AM   #21
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Originally Posted by pilotbob View Post
While there are novelizations of the Trek movies, there are over 600 original Star Trek novels written. Yes, the characters and universe is established but the stories are still new and original.

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Granted. But those characters and that universe were from the beginning a playground for many writers. Roddenberry made it a point to bring in established SF writers. That's a different situation from a Nero Wolfe or a Hercule Poirot, the creations of a single mind.
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