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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Starbuck: [QB] [QUOTE]Originally posted by Reverend: [qb] The problem is that if they do bring in species from the novels then they'd have to pay the author. And they can't have that now can they. [/qb][/QUOTE]My understanding of the nature of Star Trek novelists' contracts - at least up until the publishing of [i]Probe[/i] by Margaret Wander Bonanno (actually heavily rewritten by Gene deWeese) - was that Paramount owned the novel in its entirety upon completion, and that included all rights to characters, plot threads, races and such. It's very possible that the contract in question has been superceded in recent years, or that I misinterpreted the information I was given. If, however, my understanding is correct, then it opens up a lot of potential sources for little or no cost. I'm not saying that authors don't deserve a payment for the use of their ideas, just that technically it may not be necessary in some cases. Of course, it's all academic and a digression in any case, since it would make the Trekiverse a heck of a lot more complex to start bringing in a bunch of glass spiders who really can change the laws of physics... So, in the absence of novel Trek leaking into filmed Trek, I say... Roll on a good development arc for the Tholians, the Andorians, the Tellarites, the Orions, and of course our old friends the Gorn (who are, quite naturally, [i]gorn[/i] but not forgotten :D ). And any other minor, background or one-shot races from any era who happen to turn up and join the fray (Bynars, perhaps? Anticans and Selay and Antideans, oh my!). [/QB][/QUOTE]
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