Because it was. It was originally intended to be a novel and its sequel, two volumes, therefore, with a gap in between (where other SCE Challenger stories could go.) Nice to hear it's being referred to more recently too.
I am in the pool that thinks no book should be skipped. Yeah, some can be disappointing after the fact, but I'm a completist. I have a chronological spreadsheet that I've been adding to since I started getting into Treklit about a year and a half ago. I started post-Nemesis then made it up to the first DS9 book of Typhon Pact and realized I really, REALLY wanted the backstory of the DS9 relaunch that I skipped (given that I started post-Nemesis and not post-DS9). Instead of jumping back into the Typhon Pact, I read the pre-Nemesis TNG books as well. After all that was finished I worked my way through the current books and am now up to date. In between new releases I try to fill in the TNG gaps with books like Immortal Coil and Battle of Betazed to really fill out the timeline. Anyway, this might be the perfect guide for you! https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1oLoNT8YWzgNNnQ1jt9im04tyMA-okRVp6WGyytK66-k/edit?usp=sharing
The Maximum Warp duology came out before the DS9 Relaunch started, and introduced Tiris Jast as a set up for her role in Avatar. I'm not sure, but I think the stuff that happened in it might have also been referred to either in Articles of the Federation, or another book from around that time. I know, I just wasn't bothered by it. But the way the book was written, I found it was like someone had invited me over for a turkey dinner with all the trimmings, but when I got to the meal, all there was was the turkey's skeleton with just a few scraps of meat hanging on, and portions of the vegetables being like 1 bean, 1 piece of carrot, 1/32 of a teaspoon of dressing. The book reminded me of the old "Where's the beef?" ad campaign.[/QUOTE] I disagree. Spoiler: vague, minor spoilers In the Light Fantastic we see Geordi on leave with Leah Brahms, and it talked about how they had been seeing each other on and off for a while now. I took that as an attempt to reconcile his relationship with Leah in IFM, and his relationship with another woman whose name I can't remember in the books after it. I think either it, or one of the Fall books also referenced what happened to Scotty.
^ I can't recall her name either! Anyway, they're dating both before and after IFM so I believe you are correct that this was to make sense of that.
Tamala Harstad! That's it! Thank you, sir. I kept searching Memory Beta for Kamala and came up with someone completely different. Apparently, Dr. Harstad doesn't have her own page yet.
It is indeed. I built it using some of the above posted lists, cross referenced with Memory Beta for specific years and whatnot. BhoQ...lol, I like that!
Tiris Jast first appeared in the "N-Vector" comic in 2000 from Wildstorm. Her appearance in MW was a cameo.
Oh, right, I totally forgot about N-Vector. I never read it, I did flip through it a couple times on the comics DVD, but I couldn't stand the art.
I looked through it again this morning, and it actually didn't bother me quite as much this time. I've been reading a lot more comics now, and so I've used to some of the more abstract styles. But I'm still not sure if I want to read it, I saw that it's written by KW Jeter, and most of what I've heard about his Trek novels hasn't been very good.
I think K.W. Jeter just wrote 2 DS9 novels. #3 Bloodletter and DS9's first Hardcover "Warped". In both cases they were early novels and you have to accept that there are going to be errors.
Yeah, but Jeter also wrote the last of Pocket's eight Alien Nation novels (which were edited by John Ordover and thus used a lot of Trek authors), and it had the same kinds of continuity issues and odd interpretations of the show's universe as Jeter's DS9 novels. (I don't remember much, but one thing was suggesting that the Tenctonese were descended from humans that were abducted by aliens long ago. Which, granted, would explain their humanoid appearance and such, but not their extremely alien biochemistry that made seawater toxic to them.) I think it's just that Jeter wasn't cut out for writing in licensed universes, though he might be fine at working in his own. It's a specialized discipline.
Jeter's Bounty Hunter Wars Trilogy in Star Wars was similar, in some ways - vivid, widescreen imagination, but interpretations of the characters completely mutually exclusive to previously published appearances of the same ones. Surprising that trilogy made it through editing, really - it could not be clearer that he hadn't read the Tales of the Bounty Hunters collection that introduced all the characters he was working with and their stories.
Anyone read Jeter's trilogy of Blade Runner sequels? They're sitting on my shelf, but I've never read them.
Guys, dont forget about the Prometheus series, it's part of TrekLit too! Only the Almighty Reading List has it on there....