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As explained by Pocket Books editor Margaret Clark, it was decided to scale back the number of books published not due to low sales or lack of interest in the prequel series, but due to the fact that the televised series often conflicted with planned literary plotlines, or beat the book series to the punch entirely.

The novel Surak's Soul by J. M.

Dillard, includes as a major plot point the aftermath of T ' Pol killing a person during a mission.

Before it was published, however, the TV series aired " The Seventh ", an episode with a similar core plot point, which forced last-minute revisions to Dillard's book.

Later, the novel Daedalus, by Dave Stern, included flashbacks to the early days of the NX Program which needed to be revised to avoid conflicting with the already-broadcast episode " First Flight ", which also featured a look at the early days of the NX Program.

Apparently, things were not expected to change during the fourth season ; in a May 2005 posting at the TrekBBS, Clark explained that the lack of Enterprise novels was intended to avoid any further potential storytelling " land mines " since " Season Four kept doing stuff we wanted / planned to do ".