A bunch of details from Chakotay's backstory in the books have shown up in Prodigy's second season. IIRC, his home planet and names of his parents.
What is happening with Star Trek literature?
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Prodigy's first season also mentioned Janeway's sister from Mosaic.
Jeri Taylor's choice of home planet for Chakotay in these books...
has just been canonised by "Star Trek: Prodigy", Season Two.
Ah, I go over a page here and... beaten to the punch, I see.
It's your good intention that counts!
Nice to see anyway. Maybe we won't have so many contradictions then.
But all this with planets where Native Americans have settled is sometimes confusing.
It looks like there are three such planets, Dorvan V in the TNG episode Journey's End, Chakotay's home planet Trebus and the planet Amerind in the TOS episode The Paradise Syndrome.
Nothing wrong with that, but still a bit weird with thre such planets, two of them in the DMZ.
They heard about it and decided to check it out
Maybe not.
But still a bit odd.
So that's the reason!They heard about it and decided to check it out
Wait till you find out how many planets humans in general have settled.
There are a few, I guess.
Study human migration and you'll find people don't go randomly. They usually go together.So that's the reason!
That's true.
But I remember that when I started to watch Voyager and was told about Chakotay and how he left Starfleet to fight for his home planet, I assumed that it was Dorvan V, the one we saw in TNGs Journey's End. I was a little surprised when I found out about another planet in the DMZ inhabited by Native Americans.
And there was also a 1980s "LitVerse" continuity. It didn't run for decades, and it was killed off after only a few years by Richard Arnold, but it existed. And I mourned its passing.
Pliable Truths is a DS9 prequel.
Planets in Star Trek are more akin to cities or states on Earth not giant locations capable of supporting massive populations.
Thanks for asking. There are longer descriptions available at all the usual outlets, but, briefly, LOST TO ETERNITY alternates between three different time periods: 2024, where a true-crime podcaster is investigating the mysterious disappearance of a certain blonde whale expert back in the eighties; the five-year-mission where Kirk and Co. are trying a recover a missing Federation scientist; and the movie era, where Saavik plays a crucial role in trying to establish diplomatic relations with a reclusive alien race; with these three seemingly separate plotlines converging and intersecting in (hopefully) surprising ways.
It's a big book. 130,000 words. 388 pages.
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I requested that my local library system buy it.
I await its release with a worm on my tongue.
I'm reading it now. Like your juggling of three timeframes, but that's all I'm going to say about it now.
One thing about the old books that I miss is the short fiction. The single series collections, like "Constellations", the themed collections like "Myriad Universes", etc. Heck, even the SNW series had some true standouts.
On the subject of Myriad Universes, I recently reread "A Less Perfect Union" and will confess there were parts the brought a tear to the eye. Are we likely to see this sort of thing in the future?
Thanks for the kind words. I'm guessing you got an advance review copy?
Regarding short fiction, note that STAR TREK EXPLORER magazine publishes plenty of Trek short fiction these days, and that the stories from the magazine have been collected in three hardcover collections so far, with a fourth coming out this Fall.
Full disclosure: I've written several short stories for the magazine at this point, and actually have a Saavik story in issue #12, due out next month.
(And, yes, the fact that I have a new Saavik novel and a new Saavik short story coming out at roughly the same time is not a coincidence. Trying to get some synergy going here, with the short story hopefully helping to promote the novel.)
Regarding short fiction, note that STAR TREK EXPLORER magazine publishes plenty of Trek short fiction these days, and that the stories from the magazine have been collected in three hardcover collections so far, with a fourth coming out this Fall.
Full disclosure: I've written several short stories for the magazine at this point, and actually have a Saavik story in issue #12, due out next month.
(And, yes, the fact that I have a new Saavik novel and a new Saavik short story coming out at roughly the same time is not a coincidence. Trying to get some synergy going here, with the short story hopefully helping to promote the novel.)
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