The commendadtion bit is straight from Wrath of Khan. Because Kirk Prime did get a commendation for cheating on the Kobayashi Maru. But so much of the novelisation felt like padding to me, extending sequences that were tense and sharp on screen, and making them muddy and over-long on the page. And the dialogue didn't coem clsoe, except for maybe some of Uhura's OH SNAP bits from the first scene in the bar with Jim.
I mostly bought it in the hopes there would be more of the cut scenes material, but aside from the one Sarek and Amanda scene, that was about it that I could see. Gaila doesn't even have a name, the 7 ships destroyed at the Battle of Vulcan are never named, and most of why I buy novelisations is to check canon as I write, yet this one was so different from the film itself that I skimmed bits and have never reread since. But novelisations have always been considered fanon--I've been going off the film itself as the only canon that's actually binding, for when I'm writing.
I am genuinely looking forward to the DVD in part becasue I can't wait to see the arguments in some of the nerdier parts of the fandom for DECADES TO COME about the canoncity of the deleted scenes, writer interviews, and commentaries. Because I'm a dork that way.
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I mostly bought it in the hopes there would be more of the cut scenes material, but aside from the one Sarek and Amanda scene, that was about it that I could see. Gaila doesn't even have a name, the 7 ships destroyed at the Battle of Vulcan are never named, and most of why I buy novelisations is to check canon as I write, yet this one was so different from the film itself that I skimmed bits and have never reread since. But novelisations have always been considered fanon--I've been going off the film itself as the only canon that's actually binding, for when I'm writing.
I am genuinely looking forward to the DVD in part becasue I can't wait to see the arguments in some of the nerdier parts of the fandom for DECADES TO COME about the canoncity of the deleted scenes, writer interviews, and commentaries. Because I'm a dork that way.