DS9 storyline?

[GalaxyClass1701]

I'm a little confused I read all the relaunch except the one about Rugal and there is a 5 year gap between those and Destiny. But in Rough Beasts of Empire they talk about the stuff with the Acendents as being part of what made Kira become a Vedict. That last I read was Elianna was in the Gamma Quadrant and the Accendants were planning something????

Did I miss a book or did they just never do that Assendant stuff?

 

[F. King Daniel]

You haven't missed anything - they've jumped ahead five years. We'll probably be filled in on all the important stuff that happened during that time via flashbacks in books to come.

 

[Deranged Nasat]

I'm a little confused I read all the relaunch except the one about Rugal and there is a 5 year gap between those and Destiny. But in Rough Beasts of Empire they talk about the stuff with the Acendents as being part of what made Kira become a Vedict. That last I read was Elianna was in the Gamma Quadrant and the Accendants were planning something????

Did I miss a book or did they just never do that Assendant stuff?

You haven't missed anything; for now the actual details of the period between "The Soul Key" and the Typhon Pact books are a mystery. The revelations in "Rough Beasts..." present us with an outcome (or pieces of it) and offer a few little clues as to what happened. But the story has yet to be told (I'm sure it will be filled in at some point).

EDIT: KingDaniel beat me to it.

 

[GalaxyClass1701]

Thanks I wonder why they chose to do this?

 

[Christopher]

Thanks I wonder why they chose to do this?

When the Destiny trilogy came out, it included just about every other 24th-century series but mostly had to avoid DS9 because that series was still several years behind the rest. So when Margaret Clark took over editing the DS9 novels, she decided to move them forward into the timeframe of the other series so that DS9 wouldn't have to be left out of future crossovers or the like.

 

[GalaxyClass1701]

Thanks I wonder why they chose to do this?

When the Destiny trilogy came out, it included just about every other 24th-century series but mostly had to avoid DS9 because that series was still several years behind the rest. So when Margaret Clark took over editing the DS9 novels, she decided to move them forward into the timeframe of the other series so that DS9 wouldn't have to be left out of future crossovers or the like.

Why do you think they got so far behind didn't relaunch
Start with DS9?

 

[Christopher]

Why do you think they got so far behind didn't relaunch
Start with DS9?

The DS9 books followed the precedent of the TV series in telling an interconnected, rather serialized narrative. It proceeded at its own pace as determined by the needs of the specific stories it was telling. Other series that began in the post-Dominion War setting, including SCE/Corps of Engineers and IKS Gorkon/Klingon Empire, also proceeded at their own pace from their beginnings in early 2376, and so they were spread out across '76 and '77. Meanwhile, the Voyager post-finale novels started after "Endgame" and thus were set in 2378. By the same token, after Nemesis came out and moved the "present day" of screen Trek forward to late 2379, the books that spun out of it -- Titan, the TNG relaunch, and Articles of the Federation -- naturally took place in 2380. In short, all the series' different timeframes were a function of what parts of the TV/movie franchise they branched off from.

So when it was decided to do a big, galaxy-shaking crossover trilogy (Destiny), the natural place to put it was after 2380, so it could have real consequences. Most everything was jumped forward to its 2381 timeframe (or at least characters from dormant series like CoE and G/KE were shown in the trilogy), but DS9's editor Marco Palmieri wanted to keep its involvement to a minimum since he still had a complicated ongoing storyline he was developing and preferred not to jump it forward. Although at the same time, he was willing to let Voyager get jumped forward to the post-Destiny timeframe, because it was in the process of being revamped and restarted under a new author anyway. It was simply a question of what, in the editors' judgment, worked best for each individual series.

 

[JD]

Actually, the CoE and KE characters were in A Singular Destiny, not the trilogy.

 

[Christopher]

^Well, they were at least mentioned in the trilogy, weren't they? There was something about the da Vinci crew making a planet disappear, for one thing.

 

[JD]

Oh yeah, I forgot about that.