I was doing some research today on the Star Trek Enterprise novels and was struck by a question: of the plethora of novels out there, which ones from each of the different series would best fit together into a consistent continuity?
A consistent novel continuity
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Short Answer: For the most part anything from ~2001 one despite a few glitches here and there.
Long Answer:
A Time To Series, TNG Relaunch, DS9 Relaunch, VOY Relaunch, ENT Relaunch, Titan, Vanguard, Destiny, Upcoming Typhon Pact, IKS Gorkon/Klingon Empire, Stargazer, Articles of the Federation, A Singular Destiny, most TOS novels post 1994, various random TOS/TNG/DS9/VOY/ENT novels
Long Answer:
A Time To Series, TNG Relaunch, DS9 Relaunch, VOY Relaunch, ENT Relaunch, Titan, Vanguard, Destiny, Upcoming Typhon Pact, IKS Gorkon/Klingon Empire, Stargazer, Articles of the Federation, A Singular Destiny, most TOS novels post 1994, various random TOS/TNG/DS9/VOY/ENT novels
Well, it depends on how picky you want to get. Are you talking about anything that has had references to it made in future books, or just the ones that play a bigger role in definning the universe? Either way it's going to be a very long list. I think the quickest answer would be pretty much everything published since the DS9R started, but there are still alot of elements from books older than that being used in the modern continuity.
EDIT: I forgot to mention the fact that there are several comic books, including TNG:The Gorn Crisis, DS9/TNG: Divided We Fall, DS9:N-Vector, NF: Double Time, NF: Turnaround, and TOS: Klingons: Blood Will Tell that can also be included on the list.
EDIT: I forgot to mention the fact that there are several comic books, including TNG:The Gorn Crisis, DS9/TNG: Divided We Fall, DS9:N-Vector, NF: Double Time, NF: Turnaround, and TOS: Klingons: Blood Will Tell that can also be included on the list.
Over a year ago I started a thread dedicated to this very subject that covers books and comics going all of the way back to The Entropy Effect, and includes over 300 novels. I hope it helps you...
http://trekbbs.com/showthread.php?t=77619
Basically, I tried for the intent of consistancy rather than the actual success of it, and the continuity isn't perfect as the books have always been at the mercy of later established canon and sometimes inconsistancies just happen.
When I first started this thread it was suggested that it be incorporated into the FAQ, but I haven't had the time to clean it up enough since then. Volunteers?
http://trekbbs.com/showthread.php?t=77619
Basically, I tried for the intent of consistancy rather than the actual success of it, and the continuity isn't perfect as the books have always been at the mercy of later established canon and sometimes inconsistancies just happen.
When I first started this thread it was suggested that it be incorporated into the FAQ, but I haven't had the time to clean it up enough since then. Volunteers?
There's no single answer to that. Most of the novels in the past decade cross-reference each other to a greater or lesser degree, but there's room for individual interpretation. There are plenty of books from earlier times that you might feel are compatible with the 2000s books, but others would probably disagree with your choices or mine. And even the books that do cross-reference each other aren't always entirely consistent with each other, and some are more loosely tied in than others.
So, basically you would have to build up your own personal continuity. When I was first interested in this question several years ago, I bought Voyages of the Imagination, the Star Trek fiction companion, and figured out which novels, and later, comics which I would include in that personal continuity. And then you have years of reading ahead of you. It's been fun though.
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