By GustavoLeao / 11:43, 16 January 2010 / Trek Books

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Journalist Edward Gross posted an article at SciFiTVZone.com called "Star Trek: Lost Voyages of the Reimagined Universe," which has new interviews with authors Alan Dean Foster, Christopher Bennett, David Mack and Greg Cox regarding their cancelled Trek novels set in the new timeline of the new Star Trek movie. Here are a few excerpts.

"Writing the ‘voices' of the new incarnation required me to watch the new movie a few times in order to be able to ‘hear' them in my head while I was writing the dialogue," says Mack, whose novel was More Beautiful Than Death. "The characters whose voices had changed the most, in my opinion, were Montgomery Scott and Nyota Uhura. Scott has become much more verbose, and Uhura has become feistier and more assertive.

Seek a Newer World author Bennett muses, "It helps that I have a good ear for voices and speech patterns. I saw the movie three times in the early phase of writing the novel, and I'd already seen the trailers and preview clips plenty of times before then, so I had a good sense of the new actors' voices as I wrote, and that guided me in writing their dialogue. In particular, there's no way the Kirk in this novel could possibly be mistaken for the Kirk of the original show and movies. However, I still see these as the same characters at the core despite their surface differences. After all, Spock Prime recognized Kirk and Scotty on sight, so these are still the same people in-universe even though they look and sound different to us moviegoers. I tried to approach it both ways; I wrote the first draft with the movie cast's voices in mind, but then I went through it again imagining the original actors delivering these lines. I'd like to think the readers could imagine it either way and it would still work, though of course my priority was fidelity to the movie's tone and style."

The full article is here.