Admirals of Starfleet

[JD]

Have the NF books ever fully lined up with the Novelverse stuff? I'm pretty sure there have been other discrepancies over the years, but I can't think of any off the top of my head.

 

[Enterprise1701]

Have the NF books ever fully lined up with the Novelverse stuff? I'm pretty sure there have been other discrepancies over the years, but I can't think of any off the top of my head.

Well at least till Stone and Anvil either Peter David or everbody else or both must have been keeping a good eye on the other's stuff since the Gateways crossover series has an NF entry and Articles of the Federation mentions the Federation-Selelvian War. And Peter David put in a cameo appearance by Calhoun and the Excalibur in Before Dishonor. David Mack mentioned the Excalibur's activity in Destiny - Mere Mortals. William Leisner briefly had Shelby in Losing the Peace.

But inconsistencies? Off the top of my head I think of Gateways: Cold Wars. It's inconsistent with itself regarding Shiboline M'Ress and Arex Na Eth's time travel. Admiral Gulliver of the Starfleet Department for Temporally Displaced Officers states that records indicate that M'Ress disappeared over 80 years ago (by 2296) while Arex disappeared 71 years ago (2305). And Admiral Gulliver says that James T. Kirk learned of M'Ress and Arex's misfortunes and made recommendations to Starfleet that if M'Ress and Arex were ever found again, then they were capable officers deserving good positions. But Kirk died in 2293 before M'ress or Arex disappeared.

Later, M'Ress later tells Shelby (who wants to know if the "gateway" she encountered was Iconian) of how "shortly" after she transferred off the Enterprise, she was part of a landing party from the Einstein exploring Ceti Alpha VI. The gateway generator (an unattended new-to-Starfleet device whose builders are unknown) apparently activated for a self-diagnostic and when M'Ress used a tricorder, the tricorder interfaced with the gateway, caused it to activate, and she was sucked through the gateway and transported to Dublin, Ireland on 2376 Earth. M'Ress asks if the Trident can go investigate Ceti Alpha VI at which point Shelby explains that it no longer exists because M'Ress's interface with the gateway destroyed Ceti Alpha VI. Starfleet suspects that the alarm triggered a chain reaction that happened in more equipment beneath the planet surface, ripping the planet apart. But Ceti Alpha VI exploded "shortly" after "Space Seed" (and the later Vanguard novel Storming Heaven (in 2268) says that it was Carol Marcus and Ming Xiong's experiments with Tkon technology that destroyed it). How could M'Ress have been the one who screwed Khan's people over circa 2296?

 

[Sci]

It's probably best to take a "broad strokes" approach to reconciling NF with the rest of the Novelverse. Let Peter David do his own thing on NF in its own continuity, and then just assume that in the novelverse continuity, something broadly akin to what happened in the NF series is what happened there.

 

[Stevil2001]

Later, M'Ress later tells Shelby (who wants to know if the "gateway" she encountered was Iconian) of how "shortly" after she transferred off the Enterprise, she was part of a landing party from the Einstein exploring Ceti Alpha VI. The gateway generator (an unattended new-to-Starfleet device whose builders are unknown) apparently activated for a self-diagnostic and when M'Ress used a tricorder, the tricorder interfaced with the gateway, caused it to activate, and she was sucked through the gateway and transported to Dublin, Ireland on 2376 Earth. M'Ress asks if the Trident can go investigate Ceti Alpha VI at which point Shelby explains that it no longer exists because M'Ress's interface with the gateway destroyed Ceti Alpha VI. Starfleet suspects that the alarm triggered a chain reaction that happened in more equipment beneath the planet surface, ripping the planet apart. But Ceti Alpha VI exploded "shortly" after "Space Seed" (and the later Vanguard novel Storming Heaven (in 2268) says that it was Carol Marcus and Ming Xiong's experiments with Tkon technology that destroyed it). How could M'Ress have been the one who screwed Khan's people over circa 2296?

I think this just has to be disregarded because it's entirely inconsistent with the very source it is designed to reference, unless we assume the Einstein crew forgot to write down that Ceti Alpha VI exploded.

 

[Enterprise1701]

^Yep.

It's probably best to take a "broad strokes" approach to reconciling NF with the rest of the Novelverse. Let Peter David do his own thing on NF in its own continuity, and then just assume that in the novelverse continuity, something broadly akin to what happened in the NF series is what happened there.

*sigh* I guess there are no better options.