The Return was a lot better before First Contact came out

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Comments: : : I read my fair share of novels and have enjoyed most of them ;-) : : There are even a few that would great canon Trek. : : However, I still agree with the books remaining non-canon. : : And here are the reasons- : : There are way to many books for a writer to keep up with, Four books a month, last time I checked. Thats a lot of stuff! : : Not all of the books are that great, or handle the charecters real well. For instance, a book I just started chewing on "The Return" by Shatner (thanx Mike!) is really interesting, but almost completely wrong. Lots of great ideas, excellant stories, fascinating charecters, but uh, wait, it just doesn't fit. : : For instance, i was reading along and they are talking about the Borg, okay, touchy subject. Then it is stated that they (Starfleet) will "go after the head" of the Borg and let the arms and stuff whither and die. : : Uh, no. : : The Borg does not a have a central consciousness. Its everywhere it wants to be. Anyone who read my posting about the Borg Queen knows my views and they are backed up but intense thought and canon material. : : And this just happens to be the major moving part to the book. : : So as you can see, it is better to leave the books and novels to the realm or "What if..?" then to make them canon. : : Would you as a writer like to know that your script was rejected be cause some book written by some guy said something differnat already? : : And thirdly, the books role as "what if..?" is very important to trek lore. It allows stories to be told that have a greater scope and more stuff happen than would be allowed if theyhad to have follow up events and effects. The books are supposed to be the fantasy side of Trek, a vent for great ideas that simply wouldn't fit into the consistant science fiction that canon Trek requires, and that we bitch about when they deviate. : : Beyond that go and read "Ghost Ship" by Mike Wrihgt. Its at the Trek Writer's Guild. : : Go now. : : No really, : : Why are you still reading this? : : Which part do you not understan? The point of the click? ;-) : No prob dude. The novel would be a whole lot better if you had read it before First Contact. That's kind of the other end of having it all canon as you say. The only thing is the book seems to copy a lot of lines out of other movies. Like Riker says "Don't worry, I plan to live forever." And Data swears alot. Oh, by the way, the beginning is pretty dull. And once you get to the part where Spock returns to Romulas, skip that part all the way to where he is captured by the Borg. It is totally boring and not relevent to the story. But the end absoloutly kicks ass, once they get Kirk and remove the Borg implants. It's totally cool. : PS- Thanks, I hope somebody comments on it soon so I can finish it...

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