Oh, how I hate when they do this. Leave the fanwankery in the Prime Universe novels where it belongs. I don't want to open up an Abrams universe novel to discover the hitherto unknown Ensign Herschel Dax, who just happens to be serving on the Enterprise and just happens to enjoy discussing how much he's always liked the name Jadzia.
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Oh, how I hate when they do this. Leave the fanwankery in the Prime Universe novels where it belongs. I don't want to open up an Abrams universe novel to discover the hitherto unknown Ensign Herschel Dax, who just happens to be serving on the Enterprise and just happens to enjoy discussing how much he's always liked the name Jadzia.
Too late. DS9's "Trials and Tribble-ations" already established that Emory Dax had a sexual relationship with Bones when he was in medical school at Old Miss.
Too late. DS9's "Trials and Tribble-ations" already established that Emory Dax had a sexual relationship with Bones when he was in medical school at Old Miss.
I wonder if nuBones also went to Medical School at Old Miss. We may never know.
I cannot imagine Pocket Books winding down TNG novels. Traditionally, TNG novels have had the largest fanbase.
They might stop taking Picard & co forward in an ongoing narrative, if they felt a series would survive with an elderly Picard, but then I suspect they'd go back to the rich period between "Farpoint" and "Nemesis".
But then, I might be making stuff up...
A novel where all Easter eggs are banned? What fun would that be?
I'll keep reading, whatever happens, providing that my wife-to-be doesn't stop me.
Enough already, yes you were called out on possibly making stuff up, but by saying that in a few posts is getting old fast.
He still has the personal opinion disclaimer in his sig from the last time he was criticized, and that was quite a while ago. So don't expect him to stop anytime soon.
Tell me about it.
Do you think I like having to psychoanalyse every post before I press "Submit reply"? A few years ago, I added to my sig "entire post is personal opinion" because I was accused of "making stuff up" - and I couldn't think of any other way to say it. And I thought having it in my sig would be enough. I don't "make stuff up" - it's my opinion, but when it's about the world of publishiong, it's based on things I've heard or read or learned, from conversations with people who do know, from over a decade running a ST club and discussing licensing stuff with licensees and licensors, or extrapolations from my own short stint working as an editor of a professional journal. I don't always have exact quotes that people can run off to check, but it's hopefully interesting. And I don't see why my opinion must be more accurate than other other people's opinions.
If people are convinced I'm full of shit, then no amount of editing is ever going to convince them otherwise. They will read deliberate attempts to misinform the populace into everything I write here.
It's my failure as a writer, I'm told.
Stop doing what?
See, that's just what doesn't make any sense. Why would any book series "replace" another? That's just not a concept that has any meaning. For one thing, there's no reason why TNG books would ever stop coming out, considering that TNG is one of the two most popular Trek series of all time. For another, "replacement" is a word that makes no sense when there are no reserved slots for any series in advance. Over the years, new book series have begun and others have ended, but there's never been any "replacement" involved because publishing slots just aren't assigned that way. Each year's schedule is developed based on its own needs. If one series doesn't get any further books and another series gets more books, it's incorrect to use the word "replacement" for that because that implies that it's a direct substitution, which it just plain isn't.
In other words, "I do not think that word means what you think it means."
Actually, if you'll recall the end of Losing the Peace, the Enterprise was assigned to survey new planets for potential colonization. So its mission in the post-invasion era actually is to explore strange new worlds.
There's also no reason why the occasional future TNG novel couldn't go back and tell a story in the pre-NEM era.
Keeping continuity porn to a minimum was one of our mandates for these books. As I said, the goal is to make them accessible to new audiences whose only Trek is Abrams Trek. Of course, I couldn't resist sneaking in a few Easter eggs, but they're subtle and hopefully unobtrusive. After all, the proper approach to setting up an Easter egg hunt is to make it a challenge to find the eggs, not just stick them right out in the open.
I've thought about how Abrams-Trek might deal with mainline stuff, but what about the other way around?
If the point of divergence was the attack on the Kelvin, then shouldn't Robau have been running around the Prime timeline for at least a while longer? Wonder if he was still in Starfleet by the time of the Five Year Mission, maybe as an Admiral.
If the point of divergence was the attack on the Kelvin, then shouldn't Robau have been running around the Prime timeline for at least a while longer? Wonder if he was still in Starfleet by the time of the Five Year Mission, maybe as an Admiral.
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That is quite acceptable, so I will buy your Abramsverse book. ;-)
Exactly my point. Since TNG is one of the two most popular Trek series, it's probably one of the most profitable book series and therefore one of the least likely book series to be terminated.
All right, I'm on the TNG book "replacement" thing. I don't wish to argue on a point I clearly have no understanding of or proper way of putting it across, so I'll drop it.
As for the end of "Losing the Peace," are we actually going to see the Enterprise exploring, or will we just see them back in the core worlds in "Paths of Disharmony"? Because I want to see some exploring.
As for the end of "Losing the Peace," are we actually going to see the Enterprise exploring, or will we just see them back in the core worlds in "Paths of Disharmony"? Because I want to see some exploring.
^My point is that there's no reason to assume that future TNG books set in the post-Destiny timeframe won't be about exploration. Of course they won't all be about exploration, because TNG was never a series exclusively about exploration; it was at least as much about interstellar politics. But your statement "I know [exploration] won't happen" was erroneous, because there's nothing to preclude it.
What happened in Star Trek: Nero #3? (I haven't read the Nero miniseries.)
Well, it's already been revealed that the plot of Paths of Disharmony revolves around Andor and its ongoing issues, which have been exacerbated by the events of the Destiny trilogy. Plus, it's important to remember that the book, while "starring" the TNG characters, is actually part of the Typhon Pact mini-series, which has its own agenda dealing with the...you know...Typhon Pact.
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