2387 Canon
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We'll either find out soonish, or the whole thing will be disappointingly skipped over.
Right. It can't be that far off because The Fall ends in late-2385, and with no plans for another novel series, it's a good bet we'll get there soon.
--Sran
When you say "no plans for another novel series", do you mean they haven't announced another novel series or that they said there won't be one?
Does anybody know any sites where they have discussed what effect the Hobus Supernova would have on the novel verse?
A third option is that the next few years could be spent with novels that stretch out the remaining two years. Remember how DS9-R's Season 8 dealt with 2376? Another example is the current VOY-R with 2381.
There's been a great deal of speculation here on the TrekBBS about it. There are a couple of things we can say about the year 2387 in the Trek Litverse:
- Barring unforeseen circumstances, the Federation President in 2387 will be Kellessar zh'Tarash of Andor
- As of 2385, Chancellor Martok still does not have political opposition significant enough to threaten his position
- Neither does Grand Nagus Rom
- Cardassian Castellan Garan was in office as of 2381, implying that that newly-elected Castellan Elim Garak's term of office will last at least into 2387
- Romulan Praetor Gell Kamemor, who favors a moderate and conciliatory foreign policy, has as of 2385 consolidated her power base and views her position as no longer being vulnerable to threats from hard-liners
- As of 2385, the newly-created second incarnation of Data does not seem to have rejoined Starfleet, and Picard still seems hellbent on keeping command of the Enterprise
- Spock has ended his day-to-day involvement in the Romulan Unification movement, viewing his time as having past and the health of the movement as depending upon younger leaders taking over, and undertook a mission for the Federation as liaison to the Romulan vessel during the joint mission of exploration the Enterprise undertook with the IRW Electrix
- Contention within the Typhon Pact seems to have developed, with the Romulan government under Kamemor joining with the Gorn government under Imperator Sozzerosz in favoring a more Federation-friendly foreign policy, and with a more belligerent faction led by the Breen and Tzenkethi
- The Tzenkethi Autarch seems not to be facing significant political opposition, but the Kinshaya government was recently toppled, and the Breen Domo responsible for several attacks on the Federation replaced in 2384
- Starfleet is preparing to launch a massive new deep-space exploration program as of late 2385
- As of 2385, Chancellor Martok still does not have political opposition significant enough to threaten his position
- Neither does Grand Nagus Rom
- Cardassian Castellan Garan was in office as of 2381, implying that that newly-elected Castellan Elim Garak's term of office will last at least into 2387
- Romulan Praetor Gell Kamemor, who favors a moderate and conciliatory foreign policy, has as of 2385 consolidated her power base and views her position as no longer being vulnerable to threats from hard-liners
- As of 2385, the newly-created second incarnation of Data does not seem to have rejoined Starfleet, and Picard still seems hellbent on keeping command of the Enterprise
- Spock has ended his day-to-day involvement in the Romulan Unification movement, viewing his time as having past and the health of the movement as depending upon younger leaders taking over, and undertook a mission for the Federation as liaison to the Romulan vessel during the joint mission of exploration the Enterprise undertook with the IRW Electrix
- Contention within the Typhon Pact seems to have developed, with the Romulan government under Kamemor joining with the Gorn government under Imperator Sozzerosz in favoring a more Federation-friendly foreign policy, and with a more belligerent faction led by the Breen and Tzenkethi
- The Tzenkethi Autarch seems not to be facing significant political opposition, but the Kinshaya government was recently toppled, and the Breen Domo responsible for several attacks on the Federation replaced in 2384
- Starfleet is preparing to launch a massive new deep-space exploration program as of late 2385
It is possible that novels will skip the event jumping over it and referring to its effects in flashbacks?
I don't think the novels would just skip over a giant story like that.
You know. Again.
You know. Again.
Again?
I have to imagine this is a reference to the Ascendants storyline...
But anyway, I would hope it's not skipped over, BUT god only knows if this would create issues with this general business of the Abrahams camp not wanting any novelizations in the new timeline.
There will be a giant cop out with Old Spock and Nero mistakingly assuming that Romulus got destroyed when it wasn't.
As I've posted elsewhere, with THE remaining major 23rd century character 'leaving the building' soon, a major focus on Spock, his relationship with Saavik, his surviving human and Vulcan family family and his ambassadorship should permeate the 24th century novels until the Hobus event...
Honestly, I'd prefer that be limited to one book at most. I mean, Spock's a major character and all, but one of the things we've seen with him in RBoE, PoN, and RtD is that he's mostly bowing out, letting the new generation take the reins, and retiring. So I'd be content with getting, perhaps, the Hobus event told as a Spock-focus novel, showing him in the last few weeks of Romulus and leading to his encounter with the red matter and Nero. But I don't think this should be an ongoing thread over the course of the novels leading up to the point of divergence.
I think you mean novels. We've gotten novelizations of both movies.
Since the destruction of Romulus is confined to the original timeline - there's no reason to suspect it would happen in the Abramsverse - there's no reason Bad Robot would ever have any reason to try to get it 'squashed' in terms of novels. They may have forbidden any novels taking place in the Abrams timeline, but they have no sway over anything that happens in the original one, and the supernova that destroys Romulus is definitely part of the latter.
^And haven't we already gotten references to some elements from the new movies that would cross universes, like the bald tattooed Romulans. So we know that they are allowed to use content that was introduced in the Abramsverse. Now that destruction of Romulus is a lot bigger element that the little bit on the Romulans, but I don't see why the Novelverse wouldn't be allowed to use it. IMO it's too big of an event to simply skip over. Although I guess the same could be said about the Acsendants conflict, and we saw how that turned out (the event being in the books, no the event itself).
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