I may be misremembering, but I think there was some kind of EV reference in TOS: A Child of Two Worlds.
Yup -- Early Voyages' helm-officer Sita Mohindas plays a decent-sized supporting role throughout the novel.
Moves-With-Burning-Grace was named in Margaret Wander Bonanno's Pike novel Burning Dreams, but it was really just a quick mention.
I've been meaning to get back into Trek novels for quite some time. Now I know which ones I'm going to look for this weekend! Kor
I corresponded a few times with Ian Edginton over the years - the last time around the publication of the omnibus - and, yes, they still had their notes for how they would have concluded the series. They even held out hopes for a conclusion via Pocket Books at one point, IIRC.
Marco Palmieri suggested I include Moves-With-Burning-Grace. I hadn't read the Corps of Engineers books, so I wasn't familiar enough with the character to do more than mention him.
Good way to avoid contradicting anything about him. Nevertheless, I appreciated the shout-out to the character.
I similar thing happened to me as a kid when I chose Super Friends as one of the four titles I subscribed to from DC Comics. The Super Friends title was canceled right after I subscribed to it, so DC sent me All-Star Squadron instead, starting with issue #7. It all turned out OK, since All-Star Squadron gave me a love for DC's Golden Age heroes and the 1940s as a period of history. It also introduced me to the work of Jerry Ordway, one of my favorite artists. I've occasionally wondered why All-Star was the title they chose to send me instead. Did they consciously choose to substitute one superhero group title for another, or was it totally random? Were they just trying to push All-Star, one of their relatively new titles at the time? I should email one of the folks working at DC at the time and see if he might know...