Undeveloped novels and reference books Numerous undeveloped novels and reference books were written based on various " Star Trek " series , but for myriad reasons were never produced , as was the case with several other undeveloped " Star Trek " projects . Novels . " A Time to . . . " . The nine - book series was originally devised as twelve , divided into six duologies . Dafydd ab Hugh ' s " A Time to Create " / " A Time to Destroy " was cancelled ( having originally been scheduled after the " . . . Love " / " . . . Hate " duology ) , and Keith R . A . DeCandido ' s " A Time for War " / " A Time for Peace " duology compressed into a single volume to close out the storyline . " Academy : Trial Run " . " Trial Run " was the intended follow - up to William Shatner ' s " " . The title was teased at the end of " Collision Course " , and would have been written by Shatner with his usual collaborators , Judith and Garfield Reeves - Stevens . " Crucible " omnibus . A hardcover collection of the three books making up the " Crucible " series was planned for release in . Author David R . George III had written additional material for the omnibus release – five short stories and a preface . However , just short of completion , with the additional material finished , the compilation was cancelled – the official announcement coming on . L . A . Graf " Millennium " duology . In discussing the development of their Pocket TOS trilogy , " The Janus Gate " , L . A . Graf collaborators Julia Ecklar and Karen Rose Cercone recalled that they " " had originally been supposed to write a two - book set in honor of the millennium , but the schedules and proposals didn ' t quite work out for that one " " , leading to their commissioning for " The Janus Gate " in its place . ( ) " Music of the Spheres " . The novel that was ultimately released as " Probe " began life as an almost - entirely different story , entitled " Music of the Spheres " . The author , Margaret Wander Bonanno , details the full story of how the novel was ultimately taken out of her hands and rewritten to conform to the requirements of the " Star Trek " office at Paramount in a document at her website . Bonanno has completely disclaimed the released version of " Probe " , noting that only 7 % of her original manuscript ended up on the book that carried her name . " The God Thing " . After unsuccessfully pitching " The God Thing " to Paramount Pictures as the first " Star Trek " film , Gene Roddenberry announced he was adapting the screenplay into a novel , to be released by Bantam Books . Despite several iterations , including after Roddenberry ' s death , the novel remains unpublished . " The Last Round - Up " . As the Pocket TOS numbered novels approached the one hundred mark , it was decided that this method of releases would be phased out , to avoid reader confusion . Editor John Ordover tentatively announced that following # 97 , " In the Name of Honor " , a three - book trilogy by Diane Carey , entitled " The Last Round - Up " would close out the numbering . This ultimately did not materialize , and an unrelated book by Christie Golden was released under a similar title as a hardback . " The Millennium Bloom " . " The Millennium Bloom " was a planned Pocket TOS novel , to be written by Mike W . Barr , and feature Robert April during his tenure as captain of the . Tentatively announced for the schedule in , it was not included in the full schedule a year later , and the project never went beyond the outline stage . " The War Virus " . " The War Virus " was originally announced as the third book in the " " trilogy in the acknowledgements for the first book , " The Lost Years " . The novel was to be written by Irene Kress and released in . It was never released , with later Pocket Books editor John Ordover noting that the novel " " didn ' t work out for reasons I can ' t really get into " " . The " Yesterday Trilogy " . After the retroactive creation of " The Yesterday Saga " in , more books in the series were planned . According to an interview given in 2003 , a third book was being written " " focusing on Zar , the son of Spock and Zarabeth . " " The basic plot of this unwritten third book would be that is destroyed and someone has altered the past , forcing Kirk , Spock , and McCoy would have to travel back in time to fix the situation . According to another interview with Crispin , this would be the first book of a trilogy with the titles of " Return to Yesterday " , " Yesterday ' s Vulcan " , and " Yesterday ' s Destiny " , and that Zar would also travel to ancient Vulcan . However , a message on TrekBBS in mid - 2004 from Marco Palmieri , then - editor of the Pocket Books line , announced that the project would not be continuing forward , and Crispin ' s death ultimately ended any possibility . " The Lost Era " – Tzenkethi War . A further book in " The Lost Era " series had been mooted by editor Marco Palmieri for several years . It would have been set aboard the , featuring Benjamin Sisko and then - Captain Leyton , during the Tzenkethi War . With Palmieri ' s departure from Pocket Books , it was believed that the title was now cancelled . Elements of the novel appear in the " " novel " Rough Beasts of Empire " , with scenes featuring Sisko and Leyton aboard the " Okinawa " during the war . " Walking Wounded " . A novel by Bradley Thompson , one of the writers of the series , that was to focus on veterans of the Dominion War and be part of the " DS9 relaunch " novels . First proposed in 2001 by Marco Palmieri , it was announced in 2005 it was not going forward , probably due to Thompson being a writer on " Battlestar Galactica " at the time . " Alternate Reality " novels . Four books were commissioned by Pocket Books , written , and paid for , but were put on hold by early 2010 . Reference books . " Star Trek : The Motion Picture " tie - in reference books . In Gulf + Western requested that its subsidiary Simon & Schuster develop a " Star Trek " book line as a promotional tie - in for the first " Star Trek " film , . A total of sixteen titles , both novels and reference books , were intended to coincide with the 7 December 1979 premiere of the film . ( " Playboy " magazine , January 1980 , p . 310 ) However , due to the film ' s mixed reception , only about half of these were ultimately released . Reference books that did not come to fruition included , " U . S . S . Enterprise Officer ' s Date Book " . U . S . S . Enterprise Officer ' s Date Book was the title of a book mentioned for release in " Playboy " magazine . ( January 1980 , p . 310 ) Aside from the mention in the magazine , nothing else is known about the unrealized book , though the title suggested it was aimed at an adolescent readership . " The Making of the Special Effects of Star Trek : The Motion Picture " . The Making of the Special Effects of Star Trek : The Motion Picture was the tentative title given by Susan Sackett , Gene Roddenberry ' s personal assistant for seventeen years , to the intended spin - off companion book publication of her " " book , which was published by Pocket Books . The title was canceled due to disappointing sales of other book titles on " The Motion Picture " . ( " Enterprise Incidents ; special edition on the technical side , " p . 50 ) . Sackett was planning to expand on her series of " Star Trek Reports " she wrote for " " magazine in the years 1977 - 1979 , during which she closely followed the production of " The Motion Picture " . Charles Washburn ' s reference book . Around , assistant director Charles Washburn planned to write a book detailing the production of and some of his other television projects . However , this book never materialized . That same year , he submitted a preliminary feature article to the magazine " Starlog " ( issue 112 ) , detailing his career . " Star Trek : The First 25 Years " . Slated for release in 1991 on the occasion of " Star Trek " s 25th anniversary , Star Trek : The First 25 Years was intended to be a coffee - table sized hardcover book , priced at $ 45 , 00 , celebrating the franchise . Written by Susan Sackett , the book was to be filled with exhaustive interviews with the creative staff and actors of both and , heavily illustrated throughout with pictures garnered by project assistant Richard Arnold . Originally , Sackett wanted the book released for the 20th anniversary , but protracted negotiations between Pocket Books and Paramount Pictures delayed the release for five years . The book came very close of being actually released , as solicitation dust jackets were already printed and distributed to booksellers and sales representatives alike , as well as a few press review copies . It also received listings , complete with assigned ISBN number , in the inventories of booksellers ( for example , Amazon . com lists the book , even though it was cancelled four years before the company began trading ) . At the very last moment however , the project was canceled . As to the reasons why the book was canceled at the very last moment , Sackett later elaborated that Leonard Nimoy was responsible for the book ' s cancellation . He was late in signing off on photos of him in the book , and subsequently he wanted editorial changes made to the text of the book . A closed - doors meeting was held with Roddenberry , his lawyer Leonard Maizlish , Nimoy and his attorney , but excluded Sackett , who was afterwards informed by Maizlish " that the book was on hold because Leonard Nimoy didn ' t think the prose ' lofty enough , ' as Maizlish put it , and wanted it more in the style of someone like Bill Moyers . " It should concurrently be noted however , that Nimoy had by then an extremely strained relationship with Roddenberry , and that he was far from being of a mind to further contribute to what former Desilu executive Herb Solow had dubbed , " The Roddenberry Myth " . Yet , that did not prevent Pocket Books from using large parts of Sacket ' s manuscript to be utilized in the later " Star Trek - Where No One Has Gone Before " book . " " An extensive amount of the copy was taken from my manuscript ( which Paramount owned outright , since I was paid as a writer for hire ) . When I learned of the proposed book , I contacted Pocket Books , and they hastily cut me a small check and added my name on the front page in the first space under ' Additional Material by " " , Sackett commented . ( " " , pp . 181 , 190 ) " Jim Rugg ' s Special Effects Book " . Slated for a release after 1993 , an as of yet untitled book covering the involvement of special effects artist Jim Rugg with " The Original Series " was conceived by his son Tom . When announced in February 1993 , he related that he hoped to talk his father into doing the book as well as work with him on it together . Yet , as he had stated four years later , " " The book was never written . However , I gathered raw material for the book . I taped several hours of interviews with my father , getting details about the effects on each show . I also taped an interview with Al Jones , one of the other effects guys on the show . And I ' ve transcribed most tapes , and my father has edited the transcriptions . Then I got busy with other things , and that ' s where the book sits . Will the book ever be written ? I don ' t know . I hope so , but I ' ll need to find some time to do some more interviews ( with other participants ) , or else decide to put together the book using what I have now . " " Intervened by his father ' s death in 2004 , the book has yet to materialize . " Starship Enterprise " . Starship Enterprise was the tentative title of a book proposed in 1999 , slated for a 2000 release , to Pocket Books by would - be authors Mike and Denise Okuda , and would have featured artwork by Doug Drexler . The intent was a reference book that showcased the historical lineage of all starships that had carried the name " Enterprise " , or as then Chief Editor Margaret Clark put it , " " The millennium art book will be " Starship Enterprise " , that ' s Mike Okuda , and Denise Okuda , and Doug Drexler . Every " Enterprise " - from no letters to E , and all its cousins in between . " " ( ) Another prospective contributor to the book was Gary Kerr , with whom Okuda had become acquainted three years earlier when the former provided Gregory Jein with detailed construction blueprints for his build of the 5 . 5 foot " Enterprise " studio model for the fifth season homage episode episode . Impressed by his work , Okuda invited Kerr to participate by providing the orthographic blueprint views of all the respective " Enterprise " s . Okuda even arranged for Kerr to make his second visit to the original eleven - foot " Enterprise " studio model , to get measurement data he was still missing . Kerr spent three days documenting the model at ' s Suitland , Maryland Garber Preservation , Restoration and Storage Facility , where the model was stored after its 1992 - 1993 " Star Trek Smithsonian Exhibit " and prior to the permanent display in the museum ' s gift shop in 2000 . Kerr spent months , working in his own time , on the orthographic blueprints , and he was working on the last of these , those of the , when the book project was canceled . Okuda though , arranged Kerr to be paid for the work he had already done . Also involved on the project was Kerr ' s friend , Petri Blomqvist , who was brought in as well by Okuda , on recommendation of Kerr . Blomqvist , a Finnish " Star Trek " fan and digital modeler was to provide some CGI beauty shots of the various ships . He too had already done work on the project , though not yet as extensive as his friend had , when the project was canceled . Despite being canceled , Blomqvist reveled in the experience , " " The model " [ remark : of the original " Enterprise " he had been working on for years in close cooperation with his friend ] " was actually nearly finished in late 1999 , and an update was supposed to happen , but then a strange thing took place – I was given the task of creating 40 renderings of the original Enterprise for a book called " Starship Enterprise " . Being part of that project was one of the most enjoyable experiences I ' ve had ; unfortunately , the book seems to have been put on hold . I ' m still hoping it ' ll be published some day . " " Still , out of his own pocket , Okuda bought Blomqvist the software packet for his own personal use . A grateful Blomqvist , who up till then had to make do with antiquated and obsolete CGI software , has been " going gung - ho with it ever since " , as his friend has fondly put it . ( " Sci - fi & fantasy modeller " , Vol . 26 , pp . 40 , 44 ) Okuda ' s act of kindness would repay itself six years later , when the remastered version of the " Original Series " came along . The proposition was however nixed by Clark , due to perceived lack of interest because of the price tag the work would entail . Drexler has commented on the subject , " " I wrote up some notes for them , and was in discussion about providing some images … but haven ’ t heard from them in some time . " " A more modest book , conceived along similar lines , " USS Enterprise Owners ' Workshop Manual " , was published in 2010 by Haynes Publishing on which Mike Okuda served as a technical consultant . " Unseen Frontier " . Unseen Frontier , or Star Trek : The Unseen Frontier Declassified Images from the History of the Federation as the full title of the work read , was the brainchild of Adam " Mojo " Lebowitz and Robert Bonchune , which they came up with while working on the CGI version of the Utopia Planitia Fleet Yards sequence for in 1999 . " " In fact , the whole time we were working on the episode , we thought it was a shame that the people at home would only see this stuff on blurry TV screens , and not in the high - resolution glory we had created them in " " , Lebowitz said . ( ) Thought at the time to be a potential offshoot of the highly successful calendar , it was actually the other way around , since the book was already announced in that publication , as was explained by Lebowitz in the " Star Trek : The Magazine " article . The intent was the publication of a coffee table book filled with high - resolution , high - gloss CGI images , based on the existing CG - models actually used for the " Star Trek " productions . With the assistance of Bonchune , Lebowitz produced a portfolio of images to clarify his intent to then chief editor of Pocket Books , Margaret Clark . Clark , not convinced of the viability of a book in this format , coming hard on the heels of the dismal performances of the likewise conceived books " " ( a project of Clark herself ) and " New Worlds , New Civilizations " , proposed a calendar format instead , as a testbed for a book to be potentially produced later . While awaiting the verdict of Clark , Lebowitz was confident enough to start preliminary work on the project . Lebowitz drew up a list of ships , that either did not previously exist in digital format or , for already existing ones but deemed by him unsuitable for print publication , were slated for replacement with new ones . To this end Lebowitz commissioned the construction of new CGI starship models to outside contractor Ed Giddings and had him start on these , as Lebowitz himself was still working on at Foundation Imaging at the time . . Aside from Giddings , Lebowitz had " Star Trek " fan Mark Nguyen working on the project as consultant and who provided technical and creative input as well as gathering ( photo ) reference material for the build of the new models . Giddings had already completed the models of the and the , among others , when the project fell through . Nevertheless , much of Gidding ' s work was yet to be featured in later officially licensed " Star Trek " print publications including the " Star Trek Fact Files " , , the " " calendars , and their book derivatives , though usually uncredited . Praised by Lebowitz for their high level of detail , his " Centaur " and " Excelsior " models were deemed as ready - made for publication in the even later , 2013 , " " partwork series . For that publication , Giddings went on to provide additional digital starship models . However , the second outing in the calendar series , , was not nearly a commercial success as the previous one , and convinced Clark not to go ahead with the project . " " As a large , coffee table book , it would have carried a price tag approaching $ 50 . During production , their sales staff found it to be a very tough sell to the various book chains ' buyers . Invariably , they elected to halt the book rather than risk spending a lot of money they weren ' t sure they ' d recoup . Pure economics . " " , Lebowitz stated Consequently , all references to the book were dropped after the 2002 calendar . Clark herself , however , took a slightly different view on the matter as she put the blame squarely on the shoulders of the authors . In a posting of 6 March 2003 on the TrekBBS blog , Clark stated , " " " Unseen Frontier " was bought when we were selling a respectable number of non - fiction books . It had a healthy advance and there was some money in the budget for additional plant ( book ) costs . But , one thing or another and the author / s could not make the first delivery date , then the second . When it looked like the third date ( three years later ) was possible , I had to run the numbers on the worksheet again . Not good , our sales had dropped to the point were the book would maybe , after two or three years , make back the advance . But then there were additional plant costs that was wanted , to pay for more art , yet to be delivered . The book numbers dropped into the negative numbers . We tried to see if there was anyway to save the book . No go . " " A far less ambitious book entitled " Ships of the Line " was published instead in 2006 for " Star Trek " s 40th anniversary , where ( cropped ) images from all the calendars ( with the exception of the 2002 calendar ) were collected , with a brief description of each by Mike Okuda . The first printing of that title , according to Editor Clark , in Co - editor Doug Drexler ' s Trek Radio Q & A interview session of 22 January 2011 , sold out in four days , and somewhat belied Clark ' s earlier assessment for " Unseen Frontier " . " Star Trek : Voyager Technical Manual " . Slated for publication around 2001 , the project was proposed by would - be author Rick Sternbach and would - be illustrator Tim Earls . Sternbach stated optimistically in October 2000 , " " Tim Earls and I proposed an all - inclusive Voyager technical manual to Pocket Books some time ago , but we and the publisher have not yet come to an agreement on the project . I ' m hopeful that eventually a detailed manual will come out of the seven years we ' ve spent developing new technology and starship systems ; in the meantime , we ' ll work up a few articles on these issues for , " " the latter eventually becoming the " Starfleet Technical Database " articles for that publication . Conceived along the lines of its predecessors , " " and " " , the manual was to have as starting point the like - wise titled internal document used for the series , " " . A year later , however , Sternbach ' s enthusiasm was substantially dampened as he observed , " " Since Pocket Books / Simon & Schuster has the license for Star Trek books , they ' re the only ones who could publish a potential Voyager TM . I ' m not inclined at the time to work with them , due in part to the editorial differences of opinion I had with them over the 1701 - D blueprints and DS9 TM . With ENTERPRISE now on the front burner and Pocket Book ' s publishing directions changed to mostly fiction and a few specialty items like the calendars , I rather doubt the Voyager TM will ever see daylight . I would not be at all interested in taking on a private press effort because of the license infringement issue and the costs involved ; likewise I will not be able to lend my name or expertise to any fan - originated TM , web - based or not . ( . . . ) Not having my finger on the pulse of the fan viewing community , I couldn ' t honestly say what the level of interest in Voyager became , or what steered Pocket Books away from the tech books . It may have been a combination of waning interest and the harsh economic realities of doing big flashy publications . " " In regard to the " harsh economic realities " , Sternbach referenced to , Clarke herself has stated in Doug Drexler ' s Trek Radio Q & A interview session of 22 January 2011 , that the previous manual outing , the " " , never broke even . As to the " editorial differences " , Sternbach referred to , he went into some more detail when elaborating in 2009 , " " As for not doing a Voyager TM , I had a contract in hand from Pocket Books but decided not to go ahead because the advance was simply not adequate to do what could have been the best TM ever . Tim Earls was set to do some kick - ass Illustrator and art , but I thought it would have been better to walk away than to slave over the project for diminishing returns . I was also not entirely pleased with what Margaret Clark had done with the editing on the DS9 TM ; I may be in the minority , but I believe her text changes dumbed down the tech nature of the book ; e . g . , where I had written an entry like " 150 + troops " the text was changed to " 150 plus troops " which to me altered the meaning . The TNG TM came across much better . " "