Avatar book 2 question

[Stephen!]

Something I've been wondering. In book 2 of "Avatar" Ro states that she hasn't seen Picard since she betrayed him ("Preemptive Strike") Are the the events of books 1 and 3 of the Dominion War (The mission to destroy the artificial wormhole) generally just ignored by Trek Lit continuity? Or did S.D Perry most likely just forgot about those events?

 

[Deranged Nasat]

Generally just ignored. Certainly the DS9 Relaunch contradicts them and everything else is more inclined to match with the relaunch, which is one of the earliest staples of the current continuity.

 

[Christopher]

The Vornholt Dominion War novels came out before the modern book continuity was solidified. Books before about 2001 are sometimes retroactively counted as part of that continuity, but sometimes disregarded or contradicted.

 

[Turtletrekker]

FWIW, the Dominion's plan to create an artificial wormhole from the Dominion War books was mentioned in one of the Shatner/Reeves-Stevens books (Spectre?), conceivably putting them in the Shatner-verse continuity rather than the novel-verse proper.

 

[toughlittleship]

Was Avatar the beginning of the current continuity?

 

[Christopher]

Was Avatar the beginning of the current continuity?

No, since the SCE series predated Avatar by nearly a year, and there are other, earlier books that are retroactively considered part of the continuity. There's no single starting point for the current continuity; it's something that emerged gradually. But the DS9 post-finale series is considered a core part of the novel continuity. I guess you could say that it and SCE together represent the emergence of a new, more serialized approach to ST prose storytelling.

 

[Thrawn]

Lives Of Dax was the first fiction Marco Palmieri edited (as far as I know), and that's referred to in the DS9 relaunch a lot. Also, Andrew Robinson's A Stitch In Time was retroactively part of the continuity. And SCE and New Frontier had been going for a while before that.

(Christopher beat me to it )

 

[Turtletrekker]

^
And the TNG novel Diplomatic Implausibility pre-dated the DS9-R, but was definitly part of the novel continuity as it has some New Frontier cameos and foreshadows the DS9-R.

 

[JD]

^And it set up the IKS Gorkon/Klingon Empire series.

 

[F. King Daniel]

Is it just me who lumps most incompatible books into the same continuity, without a care for little conflicts like the one the OP described? All this "X happened but Y didn't because of conflicting point Z" stuff strikes me as incredibly pointless considering the sorry state of TV/film Trek continuity. What's a discontinuous line from Ro next to 2001's retroactive invention of another, prior, Starship Enterprise?

That's not to say I don't notice these things and comment on them myself - SCE "Interphase" was just begging for Scotty to make a crack about his having previously stolen the fleet museum's USS Yorktown from spacedock in "Crossover".

 

[DS9forever]

Were the events of Diplomatic Implausibility not sort of contradicted by The Left Hand of Destiny.

 

[Christopher]

Were the events of Diplomatic Implausibility not sort of contradicted by The Left Hand of Destiny.

Not that I know of. DI takes place shortly after TLHoD ends. The only thing I can see that would be considered an inconsistency is that DI contains no mention of TLHoD's events -- but if that were a dealbreaker, pretty much any tie-in set between episodes or films would be off the table.

 

[RonG]

Were the events of Diplomatic Implausibility not sort of contradicted by The Left Hand of Destiny.

I don't think so. AFAIK they're pretty much consistent with each other.

 

[Therin of Andor]

Marco Palmieri also organised for the Bolian, Tiris Jast, to be introduced to her DS9 colleagues in the WildStorm comic mini-series, "n-Vector", which sets up her participation in "Avatar".

 

[Christopher]

That was Tiris Jast, wasn't it?

 

[Corran Horn]

Marco Palmieri also organised for the Bolian, Tirius Jast, to be introduced to her DS9 colleagues in the WildStorm comic mini-series, "n-Vector", which sets up her participation in "Avatar".

I still remember Marco's d'oh when the preview chapter to "Avatar" revealed Jast's fate.

 

[Therin of Andor]

That was Tiris Jast, wasn't it?

One little typo over breakfast... Fixed.