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Are the New Frontier novels part of the main novelverse?

Only as an unspecific and vague history, where "something like" all the episodes and movies happened, does the universe work as a whole.

Otherwise you're crying over Kirk's dad's ship being bigger than his,

I really don't see why that violates continuity. The Constitution class is much larger than the Defiant class despite being over 100 years older, but that doesn't mean there's a continuity problem.
 
Oddly enough, as long as New Frontier was focusing on characters that didn't appear in other series and set in a region of space no other series ever focused on, it was reasonable easy to fit in with the Trek Lit universe proper.

Now, I just kind of assume the 'crazy' of NF doesn't always happen in the same universe the rest of Trek Lit does.

For example, every time Donatra & Tal'Aura were mentioned doing anything in the novels, I kept thinking to myself... where the hell is Soleta and her ghostship?

Old NF was great, New NF has been kinda kooky.

Still like Calhoun as a character though.
 
I agree, I prefer NF on the frontier, kind of away from main events in the other books. But I did love Calhoun's cameo in "Before Dishonor". He was right that Starfleet needs a commodore rank.

Nechayev's death and that she was an imposter bothered me, but I've accepted crazier things. I enjoyed that Blind Man's Bluff showed the Doctor having feelings for 7. He went through the show with feelings for her and I don't think those feelings were ever resolved.
 
They let Peter David kill off Nechayev?

Damn, with Ross (forcibly retired) and Jellico gone, Janeway Dead, Paris Dead, and Leyton still in prison.

Who the hell is left at Starfleet Command other than Nakamura & Akaar?

must of been another reason Kirk told Picard to never accept promotion. lol.
 
They let Peter David kill off Nechayev?

Damn, with Ross (forcibly retired) and Jellico gone, Janeway Dead, Paris Dead, and Leyton still in prison.
I think that Blind Man's Bluff has Jellico back - maybe he just stood down the CIC position but is still working at Headquarters?

Who the hell is left at Starfleet Command other than Nakamura & Akaar?
Admiral Hayes (First Contact, Voyager)? The two-shot admiral played by Leonard Nimoy's wife on DS9?
 
And these Admirals are AT Starfleet Command in Frisco? I thought many of them where sector admirals or base commanders...

lol.
 
Jellico was still an admiral in BMB, wasn't he? He resigned when, at the end of Destiny?

And sorry for any spoilers about Nechayev. I assumed any NF readers would have read the book by now.
 
I agree, I prefer NF on the frontier, kind of away from main events in the other books. But I did love Calhoun's cameo in "Before Dishonor". He was right that Starfleet needs a commodore rank.

Actually it looks like he is just ignoring that rank no longer being used since he had a commodore in Blind Mans' Bluff.

They let Peter David kill off Nechayev?

Damn, with Ross (forcibly retired) and Jellico gone, Janeway Dead, Paris Dead, and Leyton still in prison.

Who the hell is left at Starfleet Command other than Nakamura & Akaar?

Well DeSoto is an Admiral now.

Jellico was still an admiral in BMB, wasn't he? He resigned when, at the end of Destiny?

I thought it was sometime between Destiny and Losing The Peace.
 
Oddly enough, as long as New Frontier was focusing on characters that didn't appear in other series and set in a region of space no other series ever focused on, it was reasonable easy to fit in with the Trek Lit universe proper.

Now, I just kind of assume the 'crazy' of NF doesn't always happen in the same universe the rest of Trek Lit does.

For example, every time Donatra & Tal'Aura were mentioned doing anything in the novels, I kept thinking to myself... where the hell is Soleta and her ghostship?

Old NF was great, New NF has been kinda kooky.

Still like Calhoun as a character though.
This is part of the reason I tend to think of NF as taking place in an alternate reality. I understand all kinds of stories can fit into the Trek universe, but at times the tone of NF was just so different from the rest that at times it's hard to believe it's in the same universe as DS9 or Titan or TNG or VGR. And there's also the fact that there'd be huge galaxy/Federation changing events in other books, and we'd never hear a thing about it in NF.
 
They let Peter David kill off Nechayev?

Maybe it was just my mind filling in the blanks to make it line up with the other books, but I was left with the impression that the Nechayev in BMB was an impostor, and that the real Nechayev was still out there somewhere.
 
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