Has a continuity error ever been corrected by, or inspired Trek Lit?

[Tracy Trek]

I'm still unsure about the name of Will Riker's mother. Annie? Betty?

And B'Elanna's mother used to be called Prabsa, before they changed it into Miral during the show and stuck with that.

If I recall correctly, she was called Prabsa in the novelization of the episode Day of Honor. I don't recall them ever using Prabsa on the show. Was it in Barge of the Dead she was called Miral for the first time?

Also, I think one of the novelizations had B'Elanna's Klingon grandmother called a name that started with a "B" followed an apostrophe and then the rest of the name. Then in the episode Prophecy they have her called L'Naan.

 

[Christopher]

If I recall correctly, she was called Prabsa in the novelization of the episode Day of Honor. I don't recall them ever using Prabsa on the show. Was it in Barge of the Dead she was called Miral for the first time?

Prabsa was the name Jeri Taylor used for B'Elanna's mother in Pathways, which was presumed at the time to be canonical because it was written by the showrunner. But Taylor's successors on the show ignored Pathways and contradicted a lot of its assertions, including this one. The first time the character was named on the show, she was called Miral.

 

[Tracy Trek]

Ok, you're right, Pathways. Was she even given a name in the Day of Honor book?

 

[Enterprise1701]

Here's a minor inconsistency in canon Trek which a novel rather brilliantly smoothed over. Why didn't we see any Ferengi between ENT and TNG if ENT showed that they were already trained spacefarers who had already reached more or less soon to be Federation space? DTI - Watching the Clock explained that they suffered a severe economic recession around the time of ENT.

 

[Leto_II]

Also, we know from canon TV Trek that they were indeed in contact with Federation elements to some extent decades prior to TNG's "The Battle" -- for example, Curzon Dax was a Tongo-shark against Ferengi opponents back in his youth.

 

[Christopher]

Also, we know from canon TV Trek that they were indeed in contact with Federation elements to some extent decades prior to TNG's "The Battle" -- for example, Curzon Dax was a Tongo-shark against Ferengi opponents back in his youth.

Did they ever say it was during Curzon's youth, as opposed to more recently? And did they say he played specifically against Ferengi opponents, as opposed to members of some other species that might've picked up the game from them?

 

[Extrocomp]

Peter David loves correcting his own and canonical glitches in later installments of "New Frontier". At one point, he has male and female captain siblings of a starship (ie. handing it over) to satisfy a gender specification in the aired canon. Also reference to a canonical use of a "different Shelby".

In the novel Imzadi, Peter David established Riker's middle name as Thelonius, but then the episode Second Chances revealed it was actually Thomas. So in Q-Squared, Riker's full name was revealed to be William Thomas Thelonius Riker. But then why does Riker introduce himself as William T. Riker and not William T. T. Riker?

No other novel has mentioned the Thelonius name, not even Imzadi II, where his name is written as William Thomas Riker.

 

[Klaus]

...on the "parsecs" issue, I recall an explanation [maybe from Brian Daley's pre-SW Solo trilogy?] that the Kessel Run involved making a risky hyperspace jump from inside the atmosphere of a red supergiant star or something similar, and Han was showing his coolness under fire by staying inside longer than most would deem sane, thus cutting the distance [and time] of the jump and evading pursuit. It's been a while, but it was something like that.

 

[Stevil2001]

...on the "parsecs" issue, I recall an explanation [maybe from Brian Daley's pre-SW Solo trilogy?] that the Kessel Run involved making a risky hyperspace jump from inside the atmosphere of a red supergiant star or something similar, and Han was showing his coolness under fire by staying inside longer than most would deem sane, thus cutting the distance [and time] of the jump and evading pursuit. It's been a while, but it was something like that.

It's a black hole cluster, where Han skirts closer to the event horizons than most dare, cutting the distance of the trip. It was

 

[Leto_II]

Did they ever say it was during Curzon's youth, as opposed to more recently? And did they say he played specifically against Ferengi opponents, as opposed to members of some other species that might've picked up the game from them?

Woops, you're right about the Ferengi opponents-thing -- it was a misremembrance on my part (was mentally combining it with dialogue from another episode), as Dax only mentions Curzon's penchant for the game back in the day (in "Rules of Acquisition"). Makes you wonder, though, if Curzon's familiarity with Tongo occurred prior to TNG season one.

 

[ATimson]

...on the "parsecs" issue, I recall an explanation [maybe from Brian Daley's pre-SW Solo trilogy?]...

I'm sure Steve's truncated reply would have mentioned this, but it was actually from A. C. Crispin's Han Solo trilogy.

 

[Stevil2001]

I'm sure Steve's truncated reply would have mentioned this, but it was actually from A. C. Crispin's Han Solo trilogy.

Oh, how did that happen? Yes, that's what I meant to say.