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I honestly think one reason why Seven has been included in Picard is precisely because she is such a popular character. If anything had happened to Patrick Stewart during filming, she might well have been in a position to take over. Seven still has another season of Picard. It may well be too...

This like to an Instagram comment I left two years at Jeri Ryan's page is one of the high points of my online life.

True. I think it does need to be said, both because some people might not get it and because it does indicate the general direction of the difference. Quite frankly, a point of divergence only leading to major divergences in a half-dozen years—the difference between a Romulan Star Empire that...

DS9 also seems to have concluded the same way in the two universes. The Prime timeline and the Litverse seem to have ended in the same ways, with the same Dominion War that we know and with Ezri replacing Jadzia and with Sisko joining the Prophets after learning of Kasidy's pregnancy.

The litverse timeline apparently lacked a supernova that would destroy Romulus and devastate the core of the Star Empire in the late 2380s. (There would have been signs aplenty, and it is very deeply unlikely that any of the prominent Romulan leaders we got to know—Tal'Aura, Donatra, Gell...

I do not think so. I have made the argument upthread that the supernova of the Romulan sun did not happen in the novelverse. We have seen no signs of it, after all, definitely not from the Romulans. Thus, the JJverse branches off not from the First Splinter but from the Prime timeline.

Quite. But, also: VOY established that not only were the Q potentially mortal and definitely not actually omnipotent, but that mortals equipped with suitable technology could in fact intervene in the affairs of the Continuum. A recurrent theme in TNG, meanwhile, was the idea that humans (and...

Are you talking about the exchange between Data and Lal where Lal reveals her anxiety about the possibility that, in the Prime timeline, she and her father are not revived? If so, that Data-Lal exchange is an altogether different dialogue from that. In at least one way, the Prime timeline...

IIRC you wrote in The Buried Age that Maxis Zeta took its name from the Berengarian constellation of Maxia. Berengaria, IIRC, did not have an indigenous population, but rather one of colonists.

I can imagine that colonists on worlds distant from their homeworld, with few if any of the constellations of their homeworld's skies being recognizable, might try to come up with new constellations. Why not?

The Prime Splinter may have been the only timeline where they realized what was going on and what had to be done.

IIRC the Greg Cox novella exploring the Borg in Glass Empires did feature a young Wesley as someone who Picard knew, as a sort of starport rat who ran errands for Picard. https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Glass_Empires

DS9 and Voyager also seem to have had the same experiences in the two timelines.

Interesting. The Dark Veil does describe a Titan that has ponts of similarity and points of difference with litverse Titan. Riker is captaining and is alongside Troi, Vale is his XO and Keru is on the bridge; however, key personnel are also different, and the litverse's mission of exploration...

I was thinking of Essof IV, which by the 32nd century was colonized by people who brought Burnham's mother to the Qowat Milat. That implies to me Romulan connections. Agreed. For all we know, the Romulans (or someone else) may be able to resettle devastated worlds sooner or later; hell, there...

The Last Best Hope mentions one Romulan world being evacuated where things were complicated by ongoing terraforming. Core Federation space does seem to be different from core Romulan space in that key worlds are more widely scattered. If Sol was going to face the same star-death as Eisn, with a...

What would be the point of resettling refugees on worlds that are bound to become uninhabitable in a very short time? It would seem costly and time-consuming just when money and time would be things everyone would be running short of. On top of this, Romulan civilization was falling apart under...

I am not sure this is how Trek has worked. There are plenty of Trek timelines that are notably divergent—timelines where Picard was killed with the Borg cube, where the Borg overran the Federation, where the Bajorans became an aggressive power, where Romulus was occupied by the Klingons, where...

^ The problem is that the chronologies of the Prime universe's narrative of Eisn going supernova and the STO narrative of distant Hobus exploding simply do not match up. Both supernovas took the Romulans and their neighbours by surprise, but in the Prime universe they had years of advance...