22nd Century Licensed Works Before Star Trek: Enterprise

[VulcanMindBlown]

What was said about the 22nd Century before Star Trek: Enterprise came out?

I know that there was "Starfleet: Year One" but was there any others? If so, how did it relate to canon now?

 

[Idran]

I'm pretty sure that's about it, actually. It wasn't an era visited that often pre-Enterprise; at best there were occasional references to things that happened in that century, though even those were pretty rare.

And Year One is basically completely incompatible with the level of tech we saw in Enterprise, so it's been essentially entirely supplanted.

 

[Markonian]

There's a Lives of Dax short story with Tobin Dax. For unfathomable reasons, the Romulans lack warp drive in that story.

 

[Idran]

There's a Lives of Dax short story with Tobin Dax. For unfathomable reasons, the Romulans lack warp drive in that story.

Oh, that's right, I forgot that one.

Not that unfathomable, though; that was a pretty common idea about Romulan War-era Romulans thanks to "Balance of Terror". It wasn't universal, but it'd been used in the fandom for decades. I'm pretty sure I remember Best of Trek articles including that interpretation.

 

[Leto_II]

A couple of chapters in Judith and Garfield Reeves-Stevens's Federation take place in 2119 (depicting Zefram Cochrane's disappearance in the Gamma Canaris region of the galaxy), plus there are several chapters in Diane Duane's second Rihannsu novel (The Romulan Way) which depict Earth's first contact with Romulus and the resulting war.

 

[Csalem]

I'm pretty sure that's about it, actually. It wasn't an era visited that often pre-Enterprise; at best there were occasional references to things that happened in that century, though even those were pretty rare.

And Year One is basically completely incompatible with the level of tech we saw in Enterprise, so it's been essentially entirely supplanted.

I really enjoyed Year One. It was so different from the Starfleet of the 23rd and 24th centuries that it had an interesting premise. Wish it had been able to continue or had come out earlier so we got a few stories before Enterprise stoppped it.

 

[The Wormhole]

The TNG novel The Forgotten War from 1999 briefly touches the 22nd century.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

^ Although it also mentions Commodore Murat being a contemporary of Christopher Pike, so apparently that book doesn't know what century it wants to be a part of...

 

[VulcanMindBlown]

There's a Lives of Dax short story with Tobin Dax. For unfathomable reasons, the Romulans lack warp drive in that story.

The Star Trek: Enterprise: The Romulan War novels have Tobin Dax as a character testing out the telecapture device counter measures and the Warp 7 engines.

Wasn't there a book that went through the Romulan Wars with the Romulans using sunlight craft? I also remember that there was a novel(s) that showed the Mirror Universe Earth-Romulan conflict that had Earth almost losing and then turning back the tides of war to completely (as far as we know) eliminate the Romulan race. It was on Memory Beta.

 

[Jinn]

Wasn't there a book that went through the Romulan Wars with the Romulans using sunlight craft?

Maybe one of the Rihannsu novels. They went with a completely other background for the Romulans.

I also remember that there was a novel(s) that showed the Mirror Universe Earth-Romulan conflict that had Earth almost losing and then turning back the tides of war to completely (as far as we know) eliminate the Romulan race. It was on Memory Beta.

TNG: Dark Mirror

 

[Tuskin38]

Yeah, according to the Dark Mirror novel the Romulans committed mass suicide instead of being conquered in that version of the Mirror Universe.

 

[tomswift2002]

A couple of chapters in Judith and Garfield Reeves-Stevens's Federation take place in 2119 (depicting Zefram Cochrane's disappearance in the Gamma Canaris region of the galaxy), plus there are several chapters in Diane Duane's second Rihannsu novel (The Romulan Way) which depict Earth's first contact with Romulus and the resulting war.

Also in Federation, it is humanity that makes first contact with the Vulcan's, and not the other way around as seen in Star Trek First Contact. But even Strangers From The Sky features a different Human-Vulcan first contact than we saw in STFC or FED, or even (shudders about the horrible episode) Carbon Creek.

But I think Federation might even show the "Terrible" first contact between Humans and Klingons that we never saw in Enterprise.