101 Things We've Learned From TrekLit
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139) Except that even with authors working together, there are still two different climates for Boreth, Ogawa's child is both a son and a daughter, Rager is serving on two different ships, Miles and Keiko had two mutually exclusive conversations about Keiko going to work in Cardassian eco-recovery, Kadohata both hated and was attracted to Leybenzon, etc.
139a) Oopsie.
139a) Oopsie.
141. Miles O'Brien did not attend Starfleet Academy and managed to go some forty years before learning what the Kobayashi Maru scenario was.
142. The Great Bird of the Galaxy really does bless your planets, except the one he hatched out of.
143. Cadet Piper's secret first name is... Mary Sue.
143. Cadet Piper's secret first name is... Mary Sue.
144. Captain Kirk didn't know what a vampire was until the events of "Bloodthirst".
145. Captain Kirk has been haunted by vampire myths and stories since he was a child ("Death's Angel").
145. Captain Kirk has been haunted by vampire myths and stories since he was a child ("Death's Angel").
147 The Kinshaya actually intimidated the Klingons and are a joke to them over 100 years later.
149: The USS Defiant NCC-1764 was recovered by an SCE ship over a century after she was lost in a spacial rift. The ship had been drifting alone in interphase since the NCC-1701 was forced to abandon her.
150: The USS Defiant was recovered in the Mirror Universe, repaired and put into service. This set in motion a series of major political changes.
150: The USS Defiant was recovered in the Mirror Universe, repaired and put into service. This set in motion a series of major political changes.
^ SCE Interphase books I and II. it's a very good story.
152. clearly the Defiant that wound up in the MU was from another near-identical parallel universe to the regular trek one.
152. clearly the Defiant that wound up in the MU was from another near-identical parallel universe to the regular trek one.
^There were at least two other post-"Tholian Web" Defiant stories. A TNG novel whose name escapes me (negotiating with Tholians on the Enterprise-D, they weren't crystalline), and a movie-era comic called "Raise the Defiant!"
That ship gets rescued a lot.
That ship gets rescued a lot.
Well, obviously the interphase effect softens the barrier between universes and all these alternate versions of the Defiant keep falling into the same reality.
Somewhere there's a spacedock with a dozen of them...
"Admiral! We just rescued the USS Defiant from the interphase!"
"What, again? Oh. Just park it over there next to the others."
I'm not aware of any such TNG novel, and neither is Memory Beta. The only "Tholians on the Enterprise-D" story I know of is "War and Madness" from DC's TNG comic, which didn't involve the Defiant and in which the Tholians were crystalline with humanoid bodies. There's also an interaction between Commander Loskene and the E-D in Vendetta, but I think it's fairly brief, and again, no Defiant. The only book I'm aware of featuring non-crystalline Tholians was the TOS novel The Lost Years: Recovery, which explained the Tholians' familiar "face" as a helmet worn by a more conventionally fleshy creature. No Defiant there either.
I really remember a TNG Tholian/Defiant novel. A delegation of Tholians boarded the E-D. They were conducting territorial negotiations, which included getting the Defiant back. There was a lot of Troi/Tholian stuff and I think one of the Tholians (that were always on the other side of thick glass because of their atmospheric requirements) died or was killed.
I guess it's possible I'm confusing several old novels, but I really don't think so. I'll have a look through VoI when I get the chance.
I guess it's possible I'm confusing several old novels, but I really don't think so. I'll have a look through VoI when I get the chance.
So...eventually that reality will be filled entirely with Defiants. And you thought "Parallels" was scary...
It sounds almost like you've combined the Lost Era novel 'The Sundered' with the Next Generation novel 'Sins of Commission.'
Nice.
153. The Mirror Universe got started when Earth lost the war with the Romulans. No, wait, it diverges at least as far back as Shakespeare. No, wait, it started in response to the threat of the Borg after First Contact. No, wait... what did the show say? OK, it started when Zephram Cochrane phasered a Vulcan. No, wait... what is that in the opening credits? Is that the freaking moon landing with a Mirror Universe emblem on the flag? F*ck.
