Spoilers Discovery and the Novelverse - TV show discussion thread
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Yeah, I get that she's obviously just one person and a lower tier in the whole machine, but still surprised more hasn't been made of her input in terms of Novel verse consequences.
As I said, she may draw on some novelverse ideas, but they'd just be one element in the mix and would probably show up in a different form if at all. At most, I'd expect something similar to how Star Wars Rebels incorporated Thrawn, Quinlan Vos, and other characters and ideas from Legends continuity -- same basic characters, but reworked and reinvented to fit the show's own reality. On the other hand, she may not draw much on the novels at all, instead focusing on creating something new. As I've mentioned before, the Reeves-Stevenses didn't try to incorporate their novel ideas into Enterprise when they joined its staff. If you're hired to work on a show, your priority is to serve the stories and continuity of that show, not try to make the show subordinate to some earlier project. This is a job, a profession, and when you take a new job, you leave your old job responsibilities behind.
I'd certainly like it if there were some way for the new shows to maintain consistency with the novel continuity -- I've put 15 years into that continuity, after all -- but I think it would be naive to expect that.
True, but until I hear anything definitive otherwise I'm all about the hope
(side note - I haven't read the Reeves-Stevenses novels, did they just not mention their own stuff, and/or did they do anything which specifically contradicted it?)
I'm pretty sure the stuff about Col. Green and WWII in "Demons"/"Terra Prime" is incompatible with Federation, although of course First Contact had already superseded that book.
On the plus side, I personally would have a shot at actually catching up with the novelverse if they reset it. I'd just hope it ends properly rather than stops with a shit-ton of plot threads left unresolved forever.
Seriously, the Andorian transporter clone thing drives me nuts.
Yep, the seventh Titan book, methinks.
It was a very DUN DUN DUNNNNNN.... sort of ending, with no resolution lol. No one has seemed interested in touching that thread. Honestly, it wasn't even a really great idea or anything, just the way they ended it demands a resolution...good or not .
Perhaps something went wrong and the entire universe was cloned... one ended up the novelverse we all know and love, and the other The Picard Show.
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I had a thought about Available Light after the Picard series announcement that could be a bad sign for the Novelverse.
When the was announcement for Available Light was made it was specifically mentioned that it will be dealing with stuff from Control, and after I heard about the Picard series I got thinking, could AL be specifically be tying off those left over story threads as the first step in bringing the Novelverse to an end. I'm really hoping it's not the case, but it does seem like it could be a possibility.
When the was announcement for Available Light was made it was specifically mentioned that it will be dealing with stuff from Control, and after I heard about the Picard series I got thinking, could AL be specifically be tying off those left over story threads as the first step in bringing the Novelverse to an end. I'm really hoping it's not the case, but it does seem like it could be a possibility.
I don't see why you'd think that. I mean, this is the first TNG novel since Control, so it's only natural that it would deal with the fallout of that book's ending. This is probably the same book Dayton would've done a year or so ago if the license renewal hadn't been delayed, which may be why he's able to get it done so quickly.
Oh, yeah, I guess Hearts and Minds was the first TNG novel since Control.
It's been so long since we've last had a TNG book if I didn't have them on my bookshelf in order I probably wouldn't remember which was the last one either.
Dayton Ward is probably going to have to give us a brief synopsis of where we are at this point, kind of like teachers after summer vacation. "Ok Kids, this is where we left off last year....
Dayton Ward is probably going to have to give us a brief synopsis of where we are at this point, kind of like teachers after summer vacation. "Ok Kids, this is where we left off last year....
I thought I was the paranoid one. Ha-ha. But I didn't get that sense here. Picard's involvement with the forced resignation of President Zife was bound to have some consequences.
As far as the relaunch books I think we're safe at least until the nu-TNG show comes on the air--and I think they will take us at least as far as the destruction of Romulus, which is only months away in the universe.
Now after that, well that's the question. If nu-TNG makes it that the current relaunch novels can't exist in the same continuity I suspect they'll quietly disappear. I honestly don't see S&S continuing to release books that don't jive with on screen canon.