Discovery period and novels

[Candleicious Ghost]

I know novels are not considered actual canon but have ships such as the Discovery and things like the spore drive ever been mentioned in novels or other media outside of TV?

 

[Tuskin38]

did you mean to post this in Lit form?

 

[Candleicious Ghost]

did you mean to post this in Lit form?

I posted it here in the tech forum as i assumed it was a tech question and not so much a literary one

 

[Laura Cynthia Chambers]

Lit readers would be more likely to have the answer to your question.

 

[Candleicious Ghost]

Lit readers would be more likely to have the answer to your question.

Ah, ok can always repost there thrn and have this deleted or moved

 

[Unicron]

Moving to Trek Lit.

 

[Greg Cox]

There have been several DISCOVERY novels at this point, and occasionally some of the other novels reference plot points from DISCO (to the occasional annoyance of purists).

Not sure about the tech stuff, specifically.

 

[DGCatAniSiri]

Canon established that a lot of the details about Discovery were made classified after its time jump to after the Burn, including the Spore Drive, in the name of avoiding any more efforts to obtain the Sphere data Discovery housed. As a result, it's not likely to really appear, except maybe in, as examples, references in private discussions between, say, Pike and Spock (who actually interacted with Discovery) in SNW novels, or in Spock's private thoughts elsewhere.

Staying with canon, the only place to really play around with Discovery's tech would seem to be in the 32nd century, and so far, we only have two novels, as well as a short story or two in the Star Trek Explorer anthologies, set in that time frame.

 

[Christopher]

Canon established that a lot of the details about Discovery were made classified after its time jump to after the Burn, including the Spore Drive, in the name of avoiding any more efforts to obtain the Sphere data Discovery housed. As a result, it's not likely to really appear, except maybe in, as examples, references in private discussions between, say, Pike and Spock (who actually interacted with Discovery) in SNW novels, or in Spock's private thoughts elsewhere.

Which was completely unnecessary, because season 1 established that using spore drive endangered the entire multiverse, so there was a built-in explanation for why it wouldn't be used again. Unfortunately season 2 kind of walked that back by having them continue to use the potentially everything-annihilating drive "for emergencies," and then seasons 3-5 just ignored it altogether and kept on using the drive. (My mental handwave is that 32nd-century technology found a way to make it safe to use.)

Staying with canon, the only place to really play around with Discovery's tech would seem to be in the 32nd century, and so far, we only have two novels, as well as a short story or two in the Star Trek Explorer anthologies, set in that time frame.

 

[Candleicious Ghost]

But OK in the novels what about during Kirk's time? Were there any other attempts at exotic propulsion methods that were out of the box in the novels?