Missed this as I've been spending most of the spring in Gotham City, but with regard to this topic, this list...
If you're still looking for this:
Star Trek
Harm’s Way (
JAG Vanguard tie in)
Lost to Eternity
Identity Theft (December 2025)
Star Trek: The Next Generation
Pliable Truths
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
Revenant
Star Trek: Discovery
Somewhere to Belong
Star Trek: Picard
Second Self
Firewall
No Man's Land (
Audio/
Script)
Star Trek: Strange New Worlds
The High Country
Asylum
Toward the Night
Ring of Fire (October 2025)
...could find some "asterisk" entries in the case of at least a couple of novels that, while released earlier, were written with foreknowledge of the events of
Coda.
Definitely James Swallow would have known during the writing of
Picard: Dark Veil, and Margaret had briefed me in during the writing of
Picard: Rogue Elements. Released the month before
Coda began, I definitely wrote as if the trilogy's events had already happened — though as you'll see, it's not wholly without First Splinter references.
The planned change put me in the same position I was in when the Star Wars novel I was writing —
A New Dawn, then amusingly under the working titles
Loose Cannons (!) and then
Rogue Elements (!!) — became the dividing line between Legends and the Lucasfilm Story Group era. Since there was no in-universe device like an alternate reality to refer to, we took the approach in
New Dawn that some of the earlier things
may have happened, just probably not like they were presented — and references to characters, locations, ships, etc. from earlier works didn't automatically validate everything that came with them.
(My nickname for that was the Skyfall Option, where the appearance of the specialized Aston-Martin could be taken by the audience to mean that
something like the events of
Goldfinger occurred to Daniel Craig, just not in 1964.)
So I took the same approach in
Picard: Rogue Elements. I was aware the post-
First Contact part of my
Prey trilogy was in the First Splinter timeline, but when I needed Gorkon in Holodeck Sto-Vo-Kor to assuage Rios about how a short career could have value, I knew I had a useful example in Torav, the father of Korgh, who took a disruptor bolt for Kruge, earning his way into Sto-Vo-Kor. So we meet Torav there — and while his life story is totally pre-First Splinter split, Gorkon later remarks that comparatively, Torav's son came to dishonor. Embedded in that line is the suggestion that while the Splinter Universe version of
Prey may not have happened,
something like it could have.
I've never worked out exactly where my headcanon would have reimagined most of the events of those books, but I'm satisfied they could mesh if they had to. (Heck, I'm sure I could find a way to move my Knights of the Old Republic comics into the Clone Wars era if it ever came up!)
