Legal situation concerning the new TV series
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I'd be surprised if it were another prequel. That seems limiting, especially if it's close to TOS.
Idle thought: Even if the ship is pre-TOS, that doesn't necessarily mean the story is. Maybe it's an old ship that's pulled out of mothballs for some reason.
Idle thought: Even if the ship is pre-TOS, that doesn't necessarily mean the story is. Maybe it's an old ship that's pulled out of mothballs for some reason.
The CG ship and the interior sets displayed different registry numbers because each team independently came up with one.
Or perhaps it's something silly for the sake that the producers like it, like how the U.S.S. Defiant never got its registry switched to "NCC".
Something similar happened in Future's End regarding the name of Henry Starling's company. The sign outside the building says Chronowerx while the sign in Starling's office is Chronowerks.
It could mean something similar to what happened to the Star Wars Expanded Universe concerning the Star Trek ongoing lines, or nothing at all.
More thoughts I've had...
Despite the ships registry, and due to the fact that they specifically won't comment on the era, lets say this is set post Nemesis. Now if I were the producers I might set it in Trek "present day", which would be 2393 that would allow me to easily bring in past Trek regulars as guest stars.
It would be possible, given a 7 year gap, that Pocket would be allowed to continue the Litverse, filling in that gap and moving the story closer to Discovery. Any changes in continuity the show neccessitates could just be went with, letting the "erroneous" continuity point from past books just be ignored. We could retcon things in our head. The only big exception that really couldn't be overwritten would be the return of the Borg, I suppose.
And one pro to a post-Nemesis setting, if the Litverse could somehow continue, would be the possibility that Discovery could at some point reference the destruction of Romulus and dissapearance of Spock, thereby removing that legal obsticle from the equation.
So much speculation can be had at this point, with so little to go on.
Despite the ships registry, and due to the fact that they specifically won't comment on the era, lets say this is set post Nemesis. Now if I were the producers I might set it in Trek "present day", which would be 2393 that would allow me to easily bring in past Trek regulars as guest stars.
It would be possible, given a 7 year gap, that Pocket would be allowed to continue the Litverse, filling in that gap and moving the story closer to Discovery. Any changes in continuity the show neccessitates could just be went with, letting the "erroneous" continuity point from past books just be ignored. We could retcon things in our head. The only big exception that really couldn't be overwritten would be the return of the Borg, I suppose.
And one pro to a post-Nemesis setting, if the Litverse could somehow continue, would be the possibility that Discovery could at some point reference the destruction of Romulus and dissapearance of Spock, thereby removing that legal obsticle from the equation.
So much speculation can be had at this point, with so little to go on.
Possibly not, though -- while the new TV show might itself be theoretically allowed to reference the destruction of Romulus in 2387, that wouldn't necessarily mean an instant lift of the contractual restrictions against Prime Universe fiction from Pocket Books also. That might be a totally separate licensing-issue, and would probably have to be revised on a separate basis.
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Yes I am assuming that there won't be the same contractual difficulties surrounding Discovery as there are around the KT movies. That really seems to be about some specific behind the scenes events which took place between Pocket and Bad Robot.
Boy is that going to get needlessly convoluted, if Discovery is set post-2387 and Pocket is allowed to do Discovery novels but still can't touch 2387.
"As you know Captain, relations with the Romulans have been spotty at best every since that...thing happened in the late 2380s."
"I do remember the news reports/history books, Lieutenant."
"As you know Captain, relations with the Romulans have been spotty at best every since that...thing happened in the late 2380s."
"I do remember the news reports/history books, Lieutenant."
Okay. According to this interview (of which I'm not 100% convinced that it's legit) "There’s a big clue in the number of the ship [NCC-1031] that indicates when we’re set" This means that either it will indeed be set before TOS or the option that we all have missed: The Discovery is actually a time ship and travels to 1031. Either way it seems like this won't have much direct impact on the post-Nemesis novels and judging by all all the stuff that's already known (Kirsten Beyer will write for it, it is no anthology series, 13 episodes per season, the name, it is (kinda) set in both timelines, Fuller wants to include an LGBT character and available on Netflix interationally in January 2017) I'm
TNG was set a century after TOS, but it still contradicted the '80s TOS-era novel continuity massively in the way it portrayed the Klingons and Romulans, and in what later films and shows established about Federation history. A show is never just about the events of its own time period, because present events are always shaped by the past, and by the constants of their setting that would be relevant in any era. Regardless of when Discovery is set, it could contradict the novels in any number of ways. It's just a question of whether the inconsistencies are minor enough to reconcile or gloss over, as post-ENT novels have done in reconciling ENT-style Andorians with novelverse Andorians.
That was just because of all the stock footage they wanted to reuse.
I don't remember hearing that one, but all that could mean is that it takes place prior to 2233.
The timeline thing was based on the registry number. It has not been explicitly stated, unless you count the "There’s a big clue in the number of the ship [NCC-1031] that indicates when we’re set" line from the interview.
That quote, which I hadn't heard, leads me to belive one of two things. It's either pre-TOS or set in 3048, 1031 years from now. Perhaps a post-fall of the Federation rebuilt Starfleet has only got up to 1031 in tgeir registry nimbers. Either option is alot more workable for TrekLit than a post Nemesis setting.
Maybe 1031 is a clue that the first episode takes place on Halloween.
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