After reading Children of the Storm, I'm interested to hear from any of the authors, or other readers who have picked up on these, about whether they decide to pick up on minor incidents/details from novels written by other authors? I'm sure this probably happens more frequently with recently written novels (like the Children of the Storm/Destiny connection], but are there any instances where leads were taken from minor references in older novels?
Connections between older/newer novels
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When I was writing the Khan books, I lifted a few ideas from Vonda McIntyre's novelization of The Wrath of Khan . . . .
One of the Vanguard novels made a mention of the events in at least one of the Jean Lorrah TOS novels ("The Vulcan Academy Murders" and "The IDIC Epidemic").
^ It also references my TNG novels A Time to Kill and A Time to Heal and my SCE novella "Small World," in addition to several other prose works by other authors.
There are many. See this thread for a near-complete list.
My recent favourite was 2010's "Children of Kings", which took a small tidbit from 1988's "Spock's World" (namely, that the Orions are degenerate remnants of an ancient super race) and ran with it.
Cast no Shadow has the system Qo'noS is in is the Klinzhai system. It also mentions the events from Ashes of Eden.
One of the Vangaurd declassified stories mentions Dr. Tagore from the Final Reflection.
One of the Vangaurd declassified stories mentions Dr. Tagore from the Final Reflection.
I've referenced a number of older books in my novels. Ex Machina, in addition to referencing elements from the TMP novelization, also drew on The Kobayashi Maru by Julia Ecklar and The Captain's Daughter by Peter David, had a couple of nods to Section 31: Cloak by S. D. Perry, etc. My DTI novels include references to earlier time-travel novels like the Millennium trilogy by Judith & Garfield Reeves-Stevens and Invasion!: Time's Enemy by L. A. Graf, and incorporate the character of Heather Peterson from Time's Enemy.
You may be interested in the Charting the Novelverse thread stickied to the top of the page.
That brought/brings back memories ... the segments featuring Bashir treating the aged Dax symbiont in that book were emotionally so powerful and the setpiece so chillingly (literally) atmospheric. High on my list of the most heart-wrenching moments in TrekLit (I read the German translation at the time, so I can't judge the original prose).
In "Before Dishonor", of course, PAD picks up lots of plot points from "Vendetta".
That's great, I can't wait to read this one.
In SCE: Progress, Terri Osborne introduces the character Lolo, of the Belandrid race first introduced in The Pandora Principle.
And in SCE: Ring Around the Sky, Allyn Gibson referenced the Furies from the Invasion! miniseries, and established that Commander Tev had been aboard one of the ships featured in the book The Soldiers of Fear.
And in SCE: Ring Around the Sky, Allyn Gibson referenced the Furies from the Invasion! miniseries, and established that Commander Tev had been aboard one of the ships featured in the book The Soldiers of Fear.
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