Charting the Novel-verse

[bok2384]

Another couple from me. I'm a quarter of the way into DTI: Watching the Clock and already I've found references to:

• Christopher's own Orion's Hounds and an appearance by Riker, Troi and the USS Titan
• References to the Orishan tesseract incident in Sword of Damocles
• References to the Aegis, including the events of the TOS comic two-parter The Peacekeeper with rogue Aegis agents stealing a protomatter weapon. I'm sure reference to an interspatial parasite infestation on Benecia was a comic reference as well, but I can't place it at the moment.

[Christopher]

The parasite infestation on Benecia doesn't come from any pre-existing work of Trek Lit. I wanted to work in at least an oblique reference to every time-travel episode of ST, and since ENT: "Twilight" was erased from history, leaving no way any character in the book could know about it, I decided to include mention of another interspatial parasite infestation so that at least something from that episode would get a nod.

[Thrawn]

Christopher wrote:

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The parasite infestation on Benecia doesn't come from any pre-existing work of Trek Lit. I wanted to work in at least an oblique reference to every time-travel episode of ST, and since ENT: "Twilight" was erased from history, leaving no way any character in the book could know about it, I decided to include mention of another interspatial parasite infestation so that at least something from that episode would get a nod.

I'm sure this is me just having a brain freeze, but what episode/book/comic has the story about the Defiant making several loops through time to retrieve crewmates, after seeing reality change around them? It's referenced in Chapter 3.

[Deranged Nasat]

Thrawn wrote:

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I'm sure this is me just having a brain freeze, but what episode/book/comic has the story about the Defiant making several loops through time to retrieve crewmates, after seeing reality change around them? It's referenced in Chapter 3.

Past Tense, I think. Kira and O'Brien making several trips through time to find Sisko, Bashir and Dax? They realize something went screwy in time when they can't pick up any Federation signals in their present, only a Romulan transmission from Alpha Centauri, but they of course remember the "real" history.

[Christopher]

Yup, it's "Past Tense."

[Thrawn]

^ Cool, thanks.

[ryan123450]

Since the Errand of... books are included in this list, do they make any reference to The Janus Gate trilogy? I know those books were erased from time at the end, but do the characterizations of anyone continue into the Errand trilogies, or is it only the 'lower decks' concept that they build upon?

[Turtletrekker]

I do not believe that there was any crossover of characters or situations from Errand... to Janus...

[timothy]

with children of the storm coming in a few weeks. I was wondering if it is set before the typhon pact or after? all so I love this thread so helpfull on my reading aspect of star trek. wish you would start one for marvel universe especially there graphics.

[Sci]

timothy wrote:

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with children of the storm coming in a few weeks. I was wondering if it is set before the typhon pact or after?

Well, it'll be set in the Delta Quadrant, so it probably won't matter any one way or the other. But I would be surprised if it didn't overlap some with Rough Beasts of Empire, just because that novel encompasses so much time.

[Christopher]

Well, pretty much everything after Destiny and before Typhon Pact overlaps RBoE. Heck, Destiny Book 3 overlaps RBoE, and maybe some of Book 2 does as well. RBoE starts on the same day as the Battle of the Azure Nebula and spans just about exactly one year thereafter. So it overlaps most of Full Circle Part 2 and the entirety of Losing the Peace, A Singular Destiny, Unworthy, Over a Torrent Sea, Synthesis, and the non-flashback portions of DTI: Watching the Clock.

[timothy]

cool thanks for that chrfs and sci.

[timothy]

timothy wrote:

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cool thanks for that chrfs and sci.

big fuck up on my part chris sorry.

[Odo]

Quick question about the Pocket Book Universe. Will it's continuity follow along with STXI, in the sense that Spock is set to disappear and Romulus is set to be destroyed in 2387 (only a few years from where the current 24th cent. novels are)?

[JD]

JJ Abrams' Star Trek movie is canon, so they have to follow the movie once they get to that point, but they do not have to follow Countdown or STO. After I finished Rough Beasts of Empire, I couldn't help but wonder if perhaps some of the stuff in that book happened in order to set up Abrams' movie.