Maybe Beyer pushed to get this show made precisely because she wanted litverse continuity to be made on screen canon.
Anyone think of that?
First off, I'd say that's not the way Kirsten thinks. She puts the good of the story she's telling first and continuity with other stories second. I'm well aware of that because she chose to ignore my depictions of Species 8472 and the Tamarians in her own
Voyager work, and she explained to me her reasons for doing so. (Although she did consult me about the DTI and time-travel stuff for her more recent VGR novels.)
And second, just because Kirsten had the initial idea that led to this show, that doesn't mean she has total creative control over it. She's the co-creator, but she isn't high enough in the producer ranks yet to be the showrunner. This will mainly be Alex Kurtzman's show, with Patrick Stewart probably having a lot of creative input as well. If, hypothetically, Stewart wants to play a Picard who, say, regrets that he never married or had a child, or who's haunted by the knowledge that the Borg are still out there assimilating worlds, then nobody is going to tell him "No, you can't do that because of something in some books that most of the TV audience has never heard of." Kirsten may be able to inject some novelverse concepts into the mix if she thinks they're useful to the show, but they'd be just one ingredient in a creative process that would have ideas coming from Kurtzman, Stewart, Michael Chabon, James Duff, and others as well, so they'd probably come out somewhat altered.
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