Chronological questions

[ryan123450]

Working on timeline-y stuff and wanting to double check some info and hopefully fill in some blanks. I'm not trying to get uber specific, but this is my broad understanding of things so far...

2381
FEB- Destiny
MAR- TNG: Losing the Peace
APR- A Singular Destiny
MAY- VOY: Full Circle (Part 2)
JUL- TTN: Over a Torrent Sea
?- VOY: Unworthy
?- VOY: Children of the Storm
?- VOY: The Eternal Tide

2382
JAN- Rough Beasts of Empire (ending)
FEB- Watching the Clock (ending)
MID- Zero Sum Game
JUL- Seize the Fire
?- Paths of Disharmony
?- Fallen Gods

2383
FEB- Forgotten History
?- Indistinguishable From Magic
?- Plagues of Night
?- Raise the Dawn
?- Brinkmanship
?- Cold Equations

Is my order right? What are the missing dates? Also, would you call Plagues of Night/Raise the Dawn DS9 books with TNG cameos or a DS9/TNG crossover. I've not read them yet to see how heavily the TNG crew features. Thanks for everyone's help!

[Christopher]

ryan123450 wrote:

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2381
FEB- Destiny
MAR- TNG: Losing the Peace
APR- A Singular Destiny
MAY- VOY: Full Circle (Part 2)
JUL- TTN: Over a Torrent Sea

That's mostly right for the core portions of each book, but there are various overlapping prologues, epilogues, and such.

?- VOY: Unworthy
?- VOY: Children of the Storm
?- VOY: The Eternal Tide

Unworthy is May-June, CotS is mostly June-July with flashbacks overlapping roughly the last 2/3 of Unworthy, and TET is August.

2382
JAN- Rough Beasts of Empire (ending)
FEB- Watching the Clock (ending)

Both these books span pretty much the entire year following Destiny, but they tend to fall into each other's gaps:

RBoE Ch. 1-17: Feb-Mar '81
WTC Ch. 1: Mar
RBoE Ch. 18: Apr
WTC Ch. 3-8: Apr-Sep

And then the rest of both books spans October '81 through February '82, with both books ending in the last week of February.

MID- Zero Sum Game
JUL- Seize the Fire
?- Paths of Disharmony
?- Fallen Gods

2383
?- Indistinguishable From Magic
?- Plagues of Night
?- Raise the Dawn
?- Brinkmanship
?- Cold Equations

This needs more work.

Zero Sum Game Ch. 1-2 and Plagues of Night Prologue-Ch. 3 are in mid-April. The rest of ZSG takes place in August '82 between Ch. 6 & 7 of PoN. Seize the Fire is also in August, Paths of Disharmony is in October, and The Struggle Within, which you left out, is in November to early December '82. I don't know when Fallen Gods takes place.

The rest of PoN spans another year and ends in August '83. Indistinguishable From Magic takes place in Jan-early Feb and late Mar-early Apr '83. Raise the Dawn is mainly in September. I don't know about Brinkmanship.

The main body of Cold Equations: The Persistence of Memory is in mid-January '84, but it has tons of flashbacks. I don't yet know where the other two parts fall.

Also, would you call Plagues of Night/Raise the Dawn DS9 books with TNG cameos or a DS9/TNG crossover. I've not read them yet to see how heavily the TNG crew features. Thanks for everyone's help!

There's more TNG crossover in PoN than RtD. I think overall it makes more sense to call it a DS9 duology.

[ryan123450]

You're the man, Christopher. Thanks for the help! I'll digest all that and see if it answers all my questions.

[WarsTrek1993]

Christopher wrote:

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I don't know about Brinkmanship.

Brinkmanship takes place (according to the Historian's note) in October 2383, while Raise The Dawn ends in September 2384, so my guess is Brinkmanship happens in the middle of RTD. Just guessing, though.

[lvsxy808]

WarsTrek1993 wrote:

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Brinkmanship takes place (according to the Historian's note) in October 2383, while Raise The Dawn ends in September 2384, so my guess is Brinkmanship happens in the middle of RTD. Just guessing, though.

If so, that would explain why the Aventine didn't show up at the rather momentous events in the Bajoran system during that book, as she was otherwise occupied. It would not, however, likewise explain why the Enterprise could show up during the same time period.

Unless there is an explanation for that and I just haven't read it yet, because I'm only partway through Brinkmanship.

Also, is that Sep 2384 end date for RtD referring to the main part of the story, or the coda, which was stated to be a year after the main events?

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[Christopher]

^Right. Raise the Dawn is mostly in September '83, with the epilogue coming a year later. So that would put Brinkmanship shortly after the main story of RtD.

[ryan123450]

So going with the 'not getting too specific' version I had started with, I arrive at this...

2381
FEB- Destiny
MAR- TNG: Losing the Peace
APR- A Singular Destiny
MAY- VOY: Full Circle (Part 2)
JUN- VOY: Unworthy
JUL- TTN: Over a Torrent Sea
-VOY: Children of the Storm
AUG- VOY: The Eternal Tide

2381/2382
- Rough Beasts of Empire
- DTI: Watching the Clock

2382
AUG- Seize the Fire
- Zero Sum Game
OCT- Paths of Disharmony
NOV- The Struggle Within
- Titan: Fallen Gods

2383
FEB- DTI: Forgotten History
MAR- TNG: Indistinguishable From Magic
AUG- Plagues of Night
SEP- Raise the Dawn
OCT- Brinkmanship

2384
TNG: Cold Equations

I know I'm making this overly simple. I guess the only bit missing then is the date of Fallen Gods. Anyone have a clue on that one? Thanks again to everyone for their help, especially Christopher.

[WarsTrek1993]

I haven't read Fallen Gods yet, but the historians note says it takes place in November 2382, two weeks after Paths of Disharmony.

[ryan123450]

Ok thanks! I'm gonna edit that in.

[ryan123450]

Another timeline question. Anyone have an idea when exactly That Which Divides takes place?

[cdgodin]

Memory Alpha says 2269.

[ryan123450]

I was thinking anything more specific than that.

[ronny]

Forgotten History is a 24th century book? With Kirk on the cover I just assumed it was some sort of prequel to Watching the Clock. I'm half though through the Cold Equations trilogy and when that's done the only 24th century books left for me to read are the 2 DTI books. And they are at the top of my list after Cold Equations. I just had a different expectation for FH. I guess the cover blurb would tell me but I tend not to read those.

[Sci]

ronny wrote:

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Forgotten History is a 24th century book? With Kirk on the cover I just assumed it was some sort of prequel to Watching the Clock.

I mean, it's kind of a 24th century book and kind of a 23rd century book. It is both a sequel and a prequel to Watching the Clock.

[Christopher]

Forgotten History is mostly about the 23rd-century origins of the DTI, but has a 24th-century frame story that (since we are dealing with time travel) ends up converging with the 23rd-century story.