Any crossover between Lit-verse and STO?
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The Needs of the Many is a fantastic book with many Lit references.
The STO book is kind of a weird hybrid. It's written by Michael A. Martin, so it does have the literary references that Charles is talking about. However, there are also lots of areas where the game went in a different direction from the other books, so you will not get full consistency.
Captain Mackenzie Calhoun is at K7.
The Solanae in the Titan novels took their name from STO.
The Path to 2409 took some elements from the novels, eg the Imperial Romulan State. But the timings mismatch. The IRS lasted longer in STO than in the First Splinter timeline.
The Vesta and Luna classes in STO are from the novels. Ezri is captain of the Aventine in STO.
The da Vinci class is named after the SCE ship and has a tech piece that references hiding Troyius.
Captain Deb of the USS Glenn appeared first in STO, then in The Dead Endless (RIP Dave Galanter).
One of Shar’s bond partners was on Memory Alpha.
The NX refit is named the Columbia class.
In The Needs of the Many, the Natasha Miana Riker-Troi is married with children to Picard’s and Crusher’s son.
The Solanae in the Titan novels took their name from STO.
The Path to 2409 took some elements from the novels, eg the Imperial Romulan State. But the timings mismatch. The IRS lasted longer in STO than in the First Splinter timeline.
The Vesta and Luna classes in STO are from the novels. Ezri is captain of the Aventine in STO.
The da Vinci class is named after the SCE ship and has a tech piece that references hiding Troyius.
Captain Deb of the USS Glenn appeared first in STO, then in The Dead Endless (RIP Dave Galanter).
One of Shar’s bond partners was on Memory Alpha.
The NX refit is named the Columbia class.
In The Needs of the Many, the Natasha Miana Riker-Troi is married with children to Picard’s and Crusher’s son.
I wasn't expecting to get consistency, but with Star Trek on hiatus for so long, I expected STO to pick up some stuff from the novels.
The TOS movie style redesign is called Columbia class, not the NX Refit. They didn't give the refit a class name in STO.
And that naming was probably a coincidence, as STO usually names their designs after a ship of the class.
There is a short story where they interview one of the DOTI guys and he talks about the Litverse being a parallel reality.
Needs of the Many explicitly references the novelverse as an alternate reality to itself a la the Kelvinverse, although others have pointed out looking closely this doesn't really work under close scrutiny I still think it's a fun idea.
Well, Litverse is the First Splinter timeline now, so it worked out.
That actually came from a request by editorial when I was writing Sight Unseen - originally I was going to give the "fish monks" a different name, but as an occasional STO player myself, I was happy to put this reference in.
I also wrote STO's Admiral Jorel Quinn into a scene at Starfleet Command in The Ashes of Tomorrow.
Are you allowed to share what your original name was going to be (if you remember)?
I was going to call them the "Ciari", after Brian Ciari, the actor who played one of the "fish monks" in the episode 'Schisms'. I kept the name and used it for the dissident faction of the Solanae who meet the Titan crew in Sight Unseen.
I am not sure of the particulars of how this happened, but KRAD introduced Admiral Masc, a 2370s Denobulan flag officer in Tales of the Dominion War - "The Ceremony of Innocence Is Drowned" and TNG - A Time for War, A Time for Peace.
Star Trek Online would go on to introduce Captain Masc Taggart, a 2400s Denobulan ship commander, who might be their interpretation of the unseen Ensign Taggert mentioned in TNG - "The Host".
https://memory-beta.fandom.com/wiki/Masc
https://memory-beta.fandom.com/wiki/Masc_Taggart
https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Taggert_(Ensign)
Star Trek Online would go on to introduce Captain Masc Taggart, a 2400s Denobulan ship commander, who might be their interpretation of the unseen Ensign Taggert mentioned in TNG - "The Host".
https://memory-beta.fandom.com/wiki/Masc
https://memory-beta.fandom.com/wiki/Masc_Taggart
https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Taggert_(Ensign)
Rather, Keith created Masc without specifying his species, and I established him as Denobulan in Titan: Over a Torrent Sea, because it struck me that Starfleet admirals onscreen were virtually always portrayed as human, except for a few Vulcans, and I wanted to mix it up some.
Last year, Tuskin found this:
I suspect there are references to the novels. I'm playing through the game again from scratch on my PS5, and one of the missions references all of the Hackers from the 90s film of the same name. There has to be a ton of Easter eggs in this game.
Have any of the authors here found references to their works in the game?
Have any of the authors here found references to their works in the game?
I was was only talking about STO lore, nothing else.
STO doesn't call the NX refit Columbia Class. They only call it the NX Refit.
The Columbia Class name in STO only refers to the TOS Movie Era redesign they did.
https://sto.fandom.com/wiki/Legendary_Columbia_Temporal_Operative_Escort
In the game's lore the Columbia isn't a further refit of the NX Class, it's a brand new class inspired by the NX/Refit. Being able to swap parts with the NX/Refit is just for player fun.
Memory-Beta's editors are making connections where there isn't any in the game's lore.
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