I just rewatched that episode last week; it's one of my favorites also. I wasn't aware the novelization existed. I just requested it from ILL (I'm moving this summer and must observe the no new books rule) and then sent amazon some feedback. thanks for the info on all counts!
Wouldn't be the first time that Canada does the right thing first and better than its neighbor to the south. :-)
I do have a wholly speculative theory about why Amazon.com lists Behr and Beimler, having to do with overenthusiastic fanboys doing their own "product info update bombing," wanting to make sure that credit goes to the "real" creators of Deep Space Nine. Doing so, of course, without realizing that writing the novel itself from source material was creative work, or that Barnes took on the project as a labor of love - meaning that they never read the novel, or Barnes' afterword to it.
I wonder if this has happened to any of the other movie or TV novelisations, though.
I just checked, and Vonda McIntyre is credited for her movie novelisations - I don't recall off-hand any other episodes that have been novelised, aside from the classic James Blish TOS episode novelisations, of course.
Well, there's Diane Carey's novelization of "Trials and Tribbleations," another DS9 ep; oddly, though she wrote the novel, David Gerrold got top billing for writing the intro:
Other Trek episodes that were adapted for novelization were TNG's All Good Things and Unification, Voy's Caretaker, Day of Honor, and Endgame; probably others I can't remember.
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I do have a wholly speculative theory about why Amazon.com lists Behr and Beimler, having to do with overenthusiastic fanboys doing their own "product info update bombing," wanting to make sure that credit goes to the "real" creators of Deep Space Nine. Doing so, of course, without realizing that writing the novel itself from source material was creative work, or that Barnes took on the project as a labor of love - meaning that they never read the novel, or Barnes' afterword to it.
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I just checked, and Vonda McIntyre is credited for her movie novelisations - I don't recall off-hand any other episodes that have been novelised, aside from the classic James Blish TOS episode novelisations, of course.
Now I'm curious.
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http://www.amazon.com/Trials-Tribble-Ations-Star-Trek-Space/dp/0671009028/ref=pd_sbs_v_1
Even so, Carey at least got an author's credit.
Other Trek episodes that were adapted for novelization were TNG's All Good Things and Unification, Voy's Caretaker, Day of Honor, and Endgame; probably others I can't remember.
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