A question about SCE

[Jinn]

I'm trying to compile stardate timeline for the SCE ebooks and feel like: .The Reason: According to Memory Beta some stardates from the SCE series were changed in the print realese, like Home Fires having stardates 53904.8 to 53909.2 in the original release and 53704.8 to 53709.2 in the (re)print. Changing these stardates however would place it (stardate-wise) before Wildfire which's stardarte didn't get changed (according to MB). Is Memory Beta right and the stardate in Wildfire didn't change or is it just missing from the article and why were these stardates changed in the first place?
Edit: Also I've just consulted Voyages of Imagination: Apparantly Aftermaht is set shortly before Lesser Eveil and therefor riughly in early August while Wildfire accoring to its stardate takes place in October. I really begin to hate these 4 and 5 digit numbers.

 

[Stevil2001]

I can't speak to these specific dates, but I believe the necessity of fitting books 6-29 in between Avatar and Lesser Evil/Unity is what caused the rejigging. That's 24 books in what the Deep Space Nine novels established as a six-month period!

 

[Christopher]

I can't speak to these specific dates, but I believe the necessity of fitting books 6-29 in between Avatar and Lesser Evil/Unity is what caused the rejigging. That's 24 books in what the Deep Space Nine novels established as a six-month period!

Although I think that was more a choice than a necessity. I remember witnessing a conversation at Shore Leave where Keith DeCandido explained that he'd done it to avoid spoiling things from DS9 stories that hadn't come out yet, and Marco Palmieri basically said "You didn't have to do that, I wouldn't have minded."

 

[Jinn]

I agree. I haven't read Aftermath, does anyone know in what form if at all Lesser Evil was mentioned?

 

[Christopher]

I agree. I haven't read Aftermath, does anyone know in what form if at all Lesser Evil was mentioned?

Actually it's more that they both mention the same thing, although I think it's more Aftermath and Unity. I knew that Keiko would be joining a relief mission to Cardassia in the DS9 books, so I wrote a scene in Aftermath that had Keiko tell Miles about that decision -- and then in Unity there was a different, incompatible scene showing the same thing. Just one of those glitches that slip under the radar from time to time. The fact that Marco Palmieri and S.D. Perry were both dealing with newborn babies around that time was part of the reason it got overlooked, though I could certainly have made more of an effort to coordinate things from my end, rather than just assuming it'd work out.

 

[Jinn]

That's 24 books in what the Deep Space Nine novels established as a six-month period!

I just realised that these 24 books are more like 14 SCE missions if you count Invincible and Cold Fusion as one, since they took place at the same time, Foundations as one, since those are only framing stories, completly disregard War Stories, which doesn't involve the SCE in this time period, count Wild Fire as one since it tells one story and then Home Fires, Age of Unreason, Balance of Nature and Breakdowns as one since they are all set at the same time.

 

[Jinn]

Actually it's more that they both mention the same thing, although I think it's more Aftermath and Unity. I knew that Keiko would be joining a relief mission to Cardassia in the DS9 books, so I wrote a scene in Aftermath that had Keiko tell Miles about that decision -- and then in Unity there was a different, incompatible scene showing the same thing. Just one of those glitches that slip under the radar from time to time. The fact that Marco Palmieri and S.D. Perry were both dealing with newborn babies around that time was part of the reason it got overlooked, though I could certainly have made more of an effort to coordinate things from my end, rather than just assuming it'd work out.

Maybe O'Brien is suffering from some kind of memory-loss-illness.
I still don't understand how that sets Aftermath immediately before Lesser Evil as Voyages of Imaginations suggest.

 

[Christopher]

Maybe O'Brien is suffering from some kind of memory-loss-illness.
I still don't understand how that sets Aftermath immediately before Lesser Evil as Voyages of Imaginations suggest.

Because Lesser Evil is right before Unity and is the book where the O'Briens return to DS9. Aftermath was meant to set up that return. In fact, in my chronology, Aftermath takes place between Chapters 1 and 2 of Cathedral.

 

[Jinn]

Because Lesser Evil is right before Unity and is the book where the O'Briens return to DS9. Aftermath was meant to set up that return. In fact, in my chronology, Aftermath takes place between Chapters 1 and 2 of Cathedral.

Okay, thanks. That makes sense. I think I'm just gonna stick to the timeline published in Wounds.

 

[Stevil2001]

I just checked the print version of Wildfire, and Gold's closing captain's log indicates stardate 53781.3.

 

[JWolf]

Just go with the original stardates in the original eBook editions. They didn't need to be changed and the changes only bugger things up.