I’m guessing J.M. Dillard will be writing the novelization of Star Trek X<\/b>. Doesn’t have to be, but I’d very much prefer it not be written by Diane “The Seven-Day Wonder” Carey. Leave her to the episode novelizations where readers don’t expect quality.<\/p>\n
I wouldn’t mind, though, if someone other than Dillard wrote the next film novelization. I think her novelizations started off well, with her novelizations of V<\/b> and VI<\/b> really making the most of the material by fleshing out the background events. Especially on V<\/b> where she portrayed the critical history of the Spock\/Sybok relationship, something I wish other novelists had picked up on. (I’ve mentally edited Sybok’s presence into Vulcan’s Forge<\/i>, so all is right with the world.)<\/p>\n
Her NextGen<\/b> film novelizations, though, have been by-the-numbers with little beyond what we saw on screen. Maybe that’s a virtue, maybe not. With her Classic Trek<\/b> novelizations Dillard gave us insight into the characters and what they were doing in the periods before the film we didn’t get to see. In her NextGen<\/b> novelizations there isn’t that kind of development. Instead, the story happens, and that’s all there is.<\/p>\n
Perhaps I’m asking for too much. It’s just a novelization after all. You don’t expect art (or in Diane Carey’s case, time) from them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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