Or... has it already been awesome?
I'm just waiting for someone to complain about Small Universe Syndrome because Dulmer and Lucsly will keep meeting so many known identities.
Announcing STAR TREK: DTI and other CLB news
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I'm just waiting for someone to complain about Small Universe Syndrome because Dulmer and Lucsly will keep meeting so many known identities.
"The Hub of the Matter" has been republished in the Russian SF magazine Esli (If). Details at my blog, including a nifty illustration:
http://christopherlbennett.wordpress.com/2011/02/14/russia-is-where-the-hub-is/
http://christopherlbennett.wordpress.com/2011/02/14/russia-is-where-the-hub-is/
Great news. In the TNG era onwards, did the TV shows (TNG, DS9, Voy etc.) contradict each others approaches to time travel? They also seemed to do time travel at some point(s). Also, I imagine TOS' time travel concepts may have been slightly different, and ENT added the whole Temporal Cold War mythos.
If you had been handling the Temporal Cold War from Enterprise... I'd have so been there.
I'll just point out that by its very nature, the Temporal Cold War is not limited to a particular era. And the DTI's job is to deal with anything and everything pertaining to time travel.
That seems promising. I imagine based on the glimpses into a few different DTI staffer files, there may be hints/nods to past Trek in addition to advancing a new story too.
This books sounds like lots of fun that could cross all the ST franchises. Sweet.
There's usually a tendency in time-travel stories to bend the rules to fit the dramatic necessity of the work in question, but there are generally certain overall assumptions in common. There were some things that were tricky to reconcile or explain, particularly in VGR and ENT.
But I found as I researched the theoretical physics of time travel and alternate timelines that there's more physical justification for a lot of things in Trek time travel than one would expect.
By the nature of the DTI's work, one can't expect its focus to be limited to a single time.
Thanks. How does/would Myriad Universes play into all this? From what I understand, a divergent event can cause a new timeline to occur. And even in a Myriad Universe, another divergent event can split off and create another Myriad(-Myriad
)timeline? Or is it generally accepted that the main timeline stemming from Kirk's TOS is the "main timeline" and Myriad Universes split from it alone?Not sure how the new ST movie relaunch would play in, but it could be a Myriad Universe / alternate timeline and one that I would expect DTI could visit in some form.
Anyhow, there lots of possibilities with DTI and I am really excited to read it. DTI can cross any and all ST tv/movie/lit series. THAT seems pretty cool.
Christopher has said that the DTI would have no knowledge of alternate universes unless the barrier between them was breached. Or something like that.
Thanks. How does/would Myriad Universes play into all this? From what I understand, a divergent event can cause a new timeline to occur. And even in a Myriad Universe, another divergent event can split off and create another Myriad(-Myriad
Not sure how the new ST movie relaunch would play in, but it could be a Myriad Universe / alternate timeline and one that I would expect DTI could visit in some form.
Anyhow, there lots of possibilities with DTI and I am really excited to read it. DTI can cross any and all ST tv/movie/lit series. THAT seems pretty cool.
Christopher has said that the DTI would have no knowledge of alternate universes unless the barrier between them was breached. Or something like that.
Thanks. How does/would Myriad Universes play into all this? From what I understand, a divergent event can cause a new timeline to occur. And even in a Myriad Universe, another divergent event can split off and create another Myriad(-Myriad
Not sure how the new ST movie relaunch would play in, but it could be a Myriad Universe / alternate timeline and one that I would expect DTI could visit in some form.
Anyhow, there lots of possibilities with DTI and I am really excited to read it. DTI can cross any and all ST tv/movie/lit series. THAT seems pretty cool.
Doesn't that breach comment explain all of the alternate universe stories done across all of the ST tv series? Well except for Enterprise which were solely set in the MU. Otherwise, it was always about a given crew breaching by accident or deliberately (e.g., in DS9 being pulled into the MU) another timeline?
How does/would Myriad Universes play into all this? From what I understand, a divergent event can cause a new timeline to occur. And even in a Myriad Universe, another divergent event can split off and create another Myriad(-Myriad
First off, there's no such thing as "a myriad universe." "Myriad" means "uncountably many," or occasionally "ten thousand." Either way, it's profoundly plural. Myriad Universes is the name of the book series that explores various alternate histories of the Trek universe.
As for the rest, all those questions are discussed in the book. None of the specific timelines from Myriad Universes are visited or referenced by the book's characters; indeed, aside from the "Yesteryear"/Chimes of Midnight timeline, it's unlikely the Prime-timeline DTI would even be aware of them. The book does deal with the concept of parallel timelines, but the focus is more strongly on alternates created by time-travel events than on spontaneously generated quantum parallels like the MyrU timelines.
Given how my Abramsverse novel was shelved late in the game, I figured it was best to avoid dealing directly with that timeline until the filmmakers'/studios' intentions for the tie-ins are clarified. However, there are things in the book that will implicitly address some of the temporal-physics questions raised by the film, and maybe one or two other issues as well.
Sorry Christopher. I know there isn't one Myriad Universe and understand the concept. I was just trying to be clean in my post as time travel posts as stories can be confusing some times. Looks like I could have been cleaner, but I do get the concept.
I also appreciate your additional context for DTI. I haven't looked forward to a "new" kind of ST book since the DS9 relaunch with Avatar years ago (and before that NF). I do hope it does well and we get more DTI.
It seems like a real winner from what I'm reading around here.
I also appreciate your additional context for DTI. I haven't looked forward to a "new" kind of ST book since the DS9 relaunch with Avatar years ago (and before that NF). I do hope it does well and we get more DTI.
It seems like a real winner from what I'm reading around here.I can't wait for this book to come out! Books with the potential to span all Trek's series and generations don't come along too often.
IMO, William Leisner set the bar very high with his DTI story in SNW II - a sustained level of wit we don't often see in Trek stories. I'm hoping that you're able to maintain that sense of fun in the book. Either way, it's on the must-have list for this year.
IMO, William Leisner set the bar very high with his DTI story in SNW II - a sustained level of wit we don't often see in Trek stories. I'm hoping that you're able to maintain that sense of fun in the book. Either way, it's on the must-have list for this year.
Oooh, nice. A potential reference to Star Trek: The Next Generation/X-Men: Second Contact?So, since Dulmer and Lucsly must know about him from reports, will DTI include any mentions of Kang the Conqueror?
Oooh, nice. A potential reference to Star Trek: The Next Generation/X-Men: Second Contact?So, since Dulmer and Lucsly must know about him from reports, will DTI include any mentions of Kang the Conqueror?
So that's who Future Guy was...
That's what I had in mind. Picard and crew surely must have filed reports about their experiences in that story, right?Oooh, nice. A potential reference to Star Trek: The Next Generation/X-Men: Second Contact?So, since Dulmer and Lucsly must know about him from reports, will DTI include any mentions of Kang the Conqueror?
Timothy you do know that there were Star Trek/X-Men crossovers right? That's what they were referencing above. I've stated before that I'm truly looking forward to DTI's release. Out of the Trek releases this year so far, DTI is the one I'm really jazzed for.
