Spoilers Coda: Book 1: Moments Asunder by Dayton Ward Review Thread

[Charles Phipps]

According to Frakes, she disowned Star Trek and her character. I heard him say so at a convention

From Memory Alpha:

https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Robin_Lefler

In April 2002, ZENtertainment (a now-defunct Hollywood news source) reported, "Ashley Judd was on Letterman the other night to promote her new movie, High Crimes. Dave surprised her with a clip of her appearance on TNG, where she went on a date with Wesley Crusher (Wil Wheaton). Judd mentioned that she was reprising the role (of Robin Lefler) in Star Trek Nemesis as Wesley's wife."

Obviously she didn't. As for what Ashley Judd thinks of her role:

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[Charles Phipps]

I feel like Ezri Dax's death was too sudden to be something that sticks. I wouldn't be surprised at all to find out she wasn't killed-killed unlike others in this book.

 

[SolarisOne]

My hypothesis is that they were either all "killed-killed" or none of them were.

 

[thribs]

Did anyone else imagine the Buffy vampire kills for the Snake kills?

 

[Allyn Gibson]

Did anyone else imagine the Buffy vampire kills for the Snake kills?

No, I thought of what happened to Walter Donovan in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade but in seconds instead of over a minute

 

[thribs]

No, I thought of what happened to Walter Donovan in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade but in seconds instead of over a minute

That’s basically the same thing, only faster

 

[Airmandan]

Given they're going to probably be bouncing around the multiverse, we may see those that are dead pop back up, only to get killed again. I just want to know where the Q are in all this. The explanation that they couldn't be found seemed odd.

 

[Charles Phipps]

Given they're going to probably be bouncing around the multiverse, we may see those that are dead pop back up, only to get killed again. I just want to know where the Q are in all this. The explanation that they couldn't be found seemed odd.

They've presumably moved over to the new timeline already. I mean, he was already seen on the Cerritos.

 

[Tuskin38]

Regarding Dax, if she wasn't killed, wouldn't the witnesses know? I mean, everyone who is killed is literally aged away in front of them everything rotting away and turned to ash. If that didn't happen they would notice.

 

[Extrocomp]

They've presumably moved over to the new timeline already. I mean, he was already seen on the Cerritos.

Do we know if each timeline has its own Q Continuum or if there is only one in the whole multiverse?

 

[Charles Phipps]

Do we know if each timeline has its own Q Continuum or if there is only one in the whole multiverse?

I have always had the headcanon that many of Q's weirder stories are just him talking to himself or creating constructs to further test humanity.

Sort of a reverse that Q in Encounter on Far Point is actually dozens of Q played by John De Lancie.

But in this case, the Q continuum of the Novelverse is probably the same Q continuum of the canon show. It'll just be changed from one to the other.

 

[VDCNI]

Regarding Dax, if she wasn't killed, wouldn't the witnesses know? I mean, everyone who is killed is literally aged away in front of them everything rotting away and turned to ash. If that didn't happen they would notice.

In the chaos they might not have noticed. It's interesting that we didn't get to see the POV from anyone else on the bridge not even in the aftermath. And the description of what happened could just as easily been the Prophets/Rebecca saving her.

 

[F. King Daniel]

Halfway though. Devidians!

Calling the ending now:

Spoiler: mad theory

If the Devidians are creating enture timelines just to harvest their whatever energy, it's gonna turn out the novelverse is the initial branch they created to begin their work from and to stop them will mean to end it.

Also I'm getting lots of physical destruction but not really getting the scope of whole timelines being destroyed. If anything these seem like small-scale local attacks around temporal anomalies, affecting only nearby ships or planets.
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[Josh Kelton]

But in this case, the Q continuum of the Novelverse is probably the same Q continuum of the canon show. It'll just be changed from one to the other.

Q: "Do you recall what I said, Jean-Luc, when last we parted ways. Oh, wait, you don't actually remember that."

 

[VESATI]

I have always had the headcanon that many of Q's weirder stories are just him talking to himself or creating constructs to further test humanity.

Sort of a reverse that Q in Encounter on Far Point is actually dozens of Q played by John De Lancie.

But in this case, the Q continuum of the Novelverse is probably the same Q continuum of the canon show. It'll just be changed from one to the other.

I'm convinced that there is just the one Q Continuum for the multiverse.
Q, being Q, would be perfectly capable of manifesting and tormenting countless Picards across infinite realities simultaneously.

 

[DarrenTR1970]

I'm somewhat reminded of Hypertime from DCs 'The Kingdom', where everything/every story happened in one way or another.
It's possible at the end of this, we'll still have those stories, they'll just be 'closed off' from the main timeline.

 

[Allyn Gibson]

Calling the ending now:

Spoiler: mad theory

If the Devidians are creating enture timelines just to harvest their whatever energy, it's gonna turn out the novelverse is the initial branch they created to begin their work from and to stop them will mean to end it.

Also I'm getting lots of physical destruction but not really getting the scope of whole timelines being destroyed. If anything these seem like small-scale local attacks around temporal anomalies, affecting only nearby ships or planets.
[/spoiler]

I was thinking...

Spoiler: A thing

Rene Picard does something to sacrifice himself, knowing that if he does so he'll never exist in order to save his parents and the universe, and he does it anyway, and the timeline reboots.

But how we get there, I don't know. I like @DarrenTR1970's Hypertime/The Kingdom comparison, too.

I'm convinced that there is just the one Q Continuum for the multiverse.

Isn't that explicit in both Q-Squared and Q & A? I feel like it is, but it's been a good number of years since I've read either.

 

[Ronald Held]

Heading in mind I have not finished reading it, the noncorporials went to another universe?

 

[Charles Phipps]

I'm convinced that there is just the one Q Continuum for the multiverse.
Q, being Q, would be perfectly capable of manifesting and tormenting countless Picards across infinite realities simultaneously.

I have the analogy that Picard is a favorite book of Q's and he opens it up and reads spin offs of it.

 

[David cgc]

Heading in mind I have not finished reading it, the noncorporials went to another universe?

Or they were destroyed. It's ambiguous. The upshot was they were already gone when people started looking to them for help with the crisis.