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This is all based on the assumption that the registry number of the Discovery means that this series will be another TOS-prequel. But assuming that fact, I'm going to get preliminarily excited because it looks like things in TrekLit will be able to continue on as they have! The Enterprise-to-TOS era is really the only Prime Timeline era that we could set this show and not run into a lot of Lit-verse storylines already in existence. It seems the only novel series at all affected will the Rise of the Federation and that will simply be a case of @Christopher having a closer end point to be moving towards.
Most likely a few Discovery spin-off novels will come out in the next few years. Other than that all the other TrekLit series, especially the 2386 "present-day" series, will be able to continue on with minimal upset. If any continuity hiccups occur, they can most likely be ironed out.
Preliminarily...
The Litverse is safe!
This is all based on the assumption that the registry number of the Discovery means that this series will be another TOS-prequel. But assuming that fact, I'm going to get preliminarily excited because it looks like things in TrekLit will be able to continue on as they have! The Enterprise-to-TOS era is really the only Prime Timeline era that we could set this show and not run into a lot of Lit-verse storylines already in existence. It seems the only novel series at all affected will the Rise of the Federation and that will simply be a case of @Christopher having a closer end point to be moving towards.
Most likely a few Discovery spin-off novels will come out in the next few years. Other than that all the other TrekLit series, especially the 2386 "present-day" series, will be able to continue on with minimal upset. If any continuity hiccups occur, they can most likely be ironed out.
Preliminarily...
The Litverse is safe!
Maybe. But what if, say, the new show portrays Andorians as unambiguously having only two sexes, or depicts the Rigel system in a totally different way than Tower of Babel did, or portrays the Tzenkethi as a race of mini-tyrannosaurs like how Robert Hewitt Wolfe envisioned them? There are lots of ways a series can contradict books without being set in its timeframe. After all, TNG was set a century after The Final Reflection and The Romulan Way, but it still overrode their portrayals of the Klingons and Romulans.
So it's really too early to say anything at this point.
Good points. I hope things work out where a little rationalization and ignoring of contradictions will allow everything to mesh well enough. It worked with Enterprise and the then much smaller Lit-verse. Here's to hoping it can happen again.
Yeah, I like the title -- although it suggests the unfortunate initialism STD. Maybe we'll go for ST: DIS or ST: DSC.
I'm a bit surprised to find that there's no prior canonical ship of that name, even though there are a lot of them in books and games.
I'm a bit surprised to find that there's no prior canonical ship of that name, even though there are a lot of them in books and games.
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Now I see where Fuller is specifically keeping the time period under wraps for now. If the conclusion we can draw from the registry isn't automatically correct, perhaps time travel is involved?
That leads me to a theory. A 200 year old crew emerges from the past to a future where Klingons have joined the Federation. Their past prejudices in an "undiscovered country" would give a thematic explanation to the rumors about having TUC as a jumping off point. Could be a mess for TrekLit after all. I'm dying for more info.
That leads me to a theory. A 200 year old crew emerges from the past to a future where Klingons have joined the Federation. Their past prejudices in an "undiscovered country" would give a thematic explanation to the rumors about having TUC as a jumping off point. Could be a mess for TrekLit after all. I'm dying for more info.
Given that the new ship is named Discovery, I insist on at least one reference to 2001 in every episode. 
OK, I C.
OK, I C.
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And it appears the "Section 31"/"NCC-1031" conspiracy-theories are growing, LOL:
http://www.aintitcool.com/node/75805
http://www.aintitcool.com/node/75805
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I think we haven't done enough overthinking yet: Section 31 is cleeearly part of the Illuminati. The 3 in "31" represents the 3 corners of their triangle while the 1 represents the singularity of the eye in the middle. The 10 in NCC-1031 is meant to be read in binary so it means "two Illuminati eyes"
The novel'verse could just be an alternate timeline *shrug*
Given Section 31 derives its name from Section 31, Article 14 of the Starfleet Charter, you'd think if this ship did belong to them it's registry would be NCC-1431 or some variation on those numbers.
Never mind the fact that a top secret and illegal black ops agency probably wouldn't advertise their name in any manner on any starship they might own.
For that matter, this is just FX test footage, isn't it? We don't know if that's the actual, final registry number, or even if it's the final ship design.
Yes.
^Okay, but the number could be a placeholder. Didn't the early Prometheus CG tests in "Message in a Bottle" use a different number than the final shots, or something?
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